the owners and managers run a karaoke lounge. we issued them a seven-day suspension of their place of entertainment permits based on an extensive gun battle that happened minutes after they closed. it comes under entertainment. we imposed a new security plan. this was also attached to this memo. this is a brief note old permits forward to your note -- bringing old permits forward to you. again, this is something we just received. we sat down at the venue. we came up with a variety of ways, a security plan, which essentially becomes part of that permit. we said that by email and hand delivered to the manager at the karaoke lounge, and that would take effect 10 business days from date sent, which was friday, july 23. again, the actual section is attached. because the permit was issued in april of this year, -- this area. i wanted to adjust quickly to update you on the file number that came before you in may. this was heard on july 19. i do not know what the outcome was. it was on the calendar. that is as quickly as that is going to

bring this up recently, doing the standard permit check, and checking in on the clubs, bars, and lounges in the area. we have got compliance issues in that area. this is something that i will keep the commission updated on. singling out one particular club or block. we are getting more and more complaints. again, and bring it up because i want to keep the commission informed. you will probably hear about it. commissioner joseph: mr. granelli, do we know these folks of come into compliance. amsterdam cafe, and so on and so forth? >> that is a hard question. some have, but some of not. they will come in compliance for the time being. the time being.

. >> i'm general manager of the lounge. behind me are the owners of the lounge. just to get approval for the application of -- of place of entertainment. >> could you talk about the document? >> it tells you what are the positions we're going to hire. also it tells you the chain of command -- what the functions are. and who has the authority and who doesn't. >> commissioner? >> have you had a chance to look over the recommended conditions from southern station? >> we have and we accept all of the s. >> i see, okay thank you so much. my only question was going to the heart of the matter of authority and to ask the question of the general manager, yourself who would be on staff during an event, correct? >> correct. and maybe absent both of the -- of the managing members or owners, you would be there operating soley -- solo or would there be manage be -- managing member owners. >> one of the managers would be present, this is only in case of emergencies only. any other days there shouldn't be no owners present. there should be an owner there at all times. >> great t

in the philippines they have the art of the lounge singer down to a science.arissa ward has more. ♪ mamma mia does it show again ♪ >> reporter: travel a bit around asia and you start to notice some similarities in the hotel entertainment. whether it's shanghai or seoul, jakarta or kuala lumpur. the songs are always cheesy. ♪ >> reporter: the dance moves dodgy. the outfits skimpy. ♪ >> reporter: and the performers almost always are filipino. >> where are you from? >> philippines! >> reporter: 27-year-old anna lisa in western beijing has been singing her way across asia for years. >> india, malaysia, and then china, shanghai, here. taiwan. >> reporter: the philippines, it seems, is the world's leading supplier of lounge singers. and it's not exactly a surprise when you consider that singing is practically a national sport here. this is the homeland of the new lead singer of journey, discovered on youtube. ♪ i'm forever yours faithfully ♪ >> reporter: it can be soul or rock or pop. good or bad or just plain ugly. ♪ >> reporter: but someone here is always singing.

applicants will apply for an extended hours per met to open a comedy club and restaurant lounge at the corner, basically. she sought conditional use authorization from the planning department and received it in august of 2009. for all the uses described in the application. they expressed concerns regarding the extended hours permit application and she can tell you she agreed to what i think amounts to a six month continuance of that part of this application. so we will be required, if that comes to pass and the commission dirac's, it will be required to post mid january. to bring that application back to you. the business plan describes the local and national comedians, tableside breakfast service, there is an abc license, an occupant limit of 273. the security plan includes a hiring a universal protection service, the applicant has also submitted numerous letters in support for the business from residents and neighbors recommending approval with a set of conditions that you should find behind this memo. staff at the time, based on information, we are recommending conditional plans and

commission has been told already in the past, once again, i want to cite a few different clubs, bubble lounge, hustler club, butterfly, pier 23, to name a few which why i bring them up is these are clubs we recently had to kind of -- an increase of incidents of violence that security was directly involved. and i know this officer mathias at the last meeting talked about incidences that happened at butterfly and why i'm bringing it up is i think it shows once again one of the jobs of the commission is education. i think we really need to just as during the safety summit, commander crenshaw and commissioner joseph are meeting about safety that we need to push kind of education for club security more out there. i think these are problems that can be very easily solved and think it's something we've addressed in the past and we need to readdress again and start to really try to get more education for club security out there. which is why i'm bringing it up. moving on this year pride was -- i know it seems slow but we haven't reported on it yet. pride came through the city again and did well. it w

i just started a kids dance party at palang lounge. we are fortunate to have the new top 10 clubs in the neighborhood. we know the owner and pitched the idea of just letting the neighborhood invite the families and let the kids come and dance for 3 hours. noon-3 o'clock this sunday september ninth, tomorrow. that was something we came up with. we created a flyer and posted it. last party we had over 30 families there that was the first one this one we're xching a lot more people. we also organize holiday parties. we have a halloween party. kids are a great way to build community because everybody loves kids for the most part. you know, even the bad kids are good kids. we have our trouble spots but you know building community is about communication and as mark said, that's how you communicate with those people and that's i think the most effective tool is figuring out how to communicate and communicate. thank you. >> i want to piggyback on her point on kids. kid is a great way to bring families together. it's one of the most excellent w

the sand, lounge chairs and palm trees were shipped in overnight.t's a way to give parisians a mini holiday without leaving home. >>> back in the u.s., plans to build a mosque near ground zero are touching a raw nerve with many relatives of 9/11 victims. and the vocal debate over the project has entered the national headlines. jeff glor reports. >> reporter: opponents call it a mosque in the worst possible place. >> this building in particular should be turned into a museum. >> reporter: supporters call it a cultural center in the best spot to encourage understanding. >> if a mosque were built, then you guys would know what islam was about. >> reporter: at issue, this building in lower manhattan, the proposed site of a 13-story community center and islamic prayer space. >> this is the muslim community's effort to rebuild lower manhattan. >> reporter: the controversy, it's only two blocks from ground zero. this week sarah palin went on twitter. she called on peaceful muslims to refudiate the plan. calling it a stab in the heart for america. >> they h

the 9-year-old supposed to change planes in chicago, and when arriving there he was take dwron a lounge for children traveling alone. but the airp line left him there for eight hours. he missed a connecting flight. julian makes this trip five, six times per year, splitting time between his mother's home in ottowa and father's home, here. united offered to refund it's fee for the child care center. >> tonight civil rights organizations are accusing the fbi of ethnic profiling. saying the bureau is using a mapping technique to target the muse limb community. tonight filing a request to get internal documents. >> there is aclu requesting information from fbi about this guide and want the public to know how that guide sk used in 29 states, including california. mosques like this one are feeling affects of a new fbi program. that critics say it's collecting information about muslim americans. and there is mapping of their behavior autos such news fixes the community. people are getting scared to come to the moss ook he doesn't believe agents infiltrated but orgsz say that kind of operations

united left him in a waiting lounge for eight hours missing his next fly. he called his mother.e watched the same video all day, was given all mcdonald's and they yelled at him. he is back with his mother, united it will provide a refund for the child care fee. >> i think it's going to provide more than that. recapping top stories, oakland city council is telling voters if they want more police officers they are going to have to pay for them. >> free teresa garcia is live at police headquarters. >> this new deal to help save public safety jobs includes having residential property owners pitch in a dollar a day for the next four years. this is going to be a tough one asking the voters to approve pulling the city out of its own crisis. plan in the works is to rehire 80 layoff police officers by a tax. last night, they approved it 5-3 to help fund police and fire services. property tax increase requires two-thirds voter approval and raise about $54 million a year. council will only put this the new tax on the ballot if the oakland police union agrees by august 10 to contribute 9% i

then, my wife and i were literally in an airport waiting lounge on our way to a vacation and i got a call saying, can you please come to new york and talk more seriously about it? after that occasion, i did. the job was offered to me. i took it. >> what about the job, by the way, who talked to the most? >> bill keller talked to me the most. >> what about what he told you that he wanted in treat you? >> that is one of the interesting things about this job. there is no written description. i am the third public editor of the times. each of us has approached it in a different way. i am sure it will be approached in a different way. he asked that i helped the times uphold journalism. there was really know what the description. i signed the most interesting contract you can imagine with "the new york times." i did not report to bill keller. i did not report to offer sulzberger, or anti rosenthal. i had complete independence to look into anything i chose to look into. i could not be fired unless i simply sat down and failed to perform in any way, or five violated the written ethics policie

he rents lounge chairs, umbrellas, and beach toys down the road at a resort on orange beach. but with the health department issuing advisories against swimming, few people want what he's renting. >> it is slow. the first of july, usually this weekend is sold out. so far, i have done $5 today; usually in the thousands of dollars range getting ready for the 4th of july. last year, we would have the property line with two rows of chairs, maybe three for the 4th of july. and we would have all of them rented out. right now, we have 70 sets out. and i have one set being rented for one hour. >> reporter: chaz baker is in the same business, and in the same boat. he's one of thousands of gulf coast residents who have filed claims with b.p. for lost income. some say they were paid quickly, but baker did not have a good experience. >> at the end of every month, i am going to go in and show that, month by month by month, that we are down in sales which directly affects me. i am a commissioned employee, i work... you know, if i don't make that commission, i don't make that much money, so

new for you this morning as if it does it please the provinces lounging a pilot program to use civiliansinvestigate certain crimes as that piece chief george has grown skin or the idea as part of the six month trial 15 civilians will be trained to do basic crime scene investigations the light dusting for figure rents and documents in the offshore we are seeing gascon did something similar or he was police chief in arizona and that program from to find out has resulted in a 40% reduction for the sworn police officers kicking them focus more time on crime prevention he's hoping to make those called in cystoscope new parking meters are stirring up during the san francisco as revenue program that could change her people park their cars around the city. the new meters or the first in a large- scale test of the sf park program they will be a blessing these meters here, 190 of them as a matter of fact will be installed in the hayes valley neighborhood just west of city hall the meters will accept everything from collins to their records and events sleepy paper and kurds. the rate on those spots

those books are available thanks to the generosity of explorer bookstore right outside in the lounge.ease avail yourself of that opportunity to read and learn more about the various opportunities we are discussing. there will be a number of schedule changes of the course of the day. our featured luncheon speaker will be the ambassador of pakistan to the united states, ambassador husain haqqani. thes get started with morning session -- the terror threat picture in counterterrorism strategy. there are lots of vulnerability is in this country and lots of threats against this country. the key to protecting the nation, needless to say, is intelligence. to talk about that issue today, i can think of no one better than our featured speaker. to be in conversation with their speaker, we are lucky to have mike is a cough, the national investigative correspondent -- mike isikoff, and he will soon take a very same position for nbc news. he has written extensively on the war on terrorism, the conflicts in iraq and afghanistan, and other national issues in potential politics. his book was an instan

yes, you can find secularists in faculty lounges.f you drill down to the grass roots, we still are a pretty dynamic religious society. some of you in this auditorium me know peter berger, the famous austrian sociological who's now an emeritus professor at boston university. and the point of view of religious sociology, the u.s. is a nation of indians, by which he meant asian indians, profoundly religious indians governed by swedes in the most secularized society in the earth. in any evvnt, the point is that however 9 secularized me maybe, i am here to tell me that the grass roots reality in most of the rest of the world is not secular. and is instead the competitive dynamics of a flourishing religious marketplace. to get really pack -- to get practical, for the typical bishop in sub-saharan africa or most of latin america, when you ask, what are they really worried about? is it losing people to secularism or losing people to christian and capitalism? in some parts of sub-saharan africa listen to militant radical list hinduism. most p

lounging in the grass. these are the hermitage cats. around 60 in all. in and cared for by the museum. cats first arrived here in 1774, brought in by the russian imperial family to rid the palace of rats. today the tradition of cats living here continues, and is thriving. down in the basement is cat headquarters where morina runs the show. she's in charge of keeping them healthy and keeping them in line. >> this is nura. this white one is her brother lupa. they're about 7 months old, brought here two weeks ago. they're not feeling so hot so they're being nursed back to health in here. when they're feeling better they'll be released and allowed to roam around the museum's grounds. outside the cattery. he's lived at the museum for eight years. he's very happy with his life, she says, before he attacks her arm. all the cats appear happy and show their appreciation. except for the gallery they pretty much have the run of the place. wandering through the maze-like basement. milling around outside in the warm summer weather. some don't want to be bothered. oth

reacquaint -- who is a celebrity and was not a celebrity in i thought the kardashian sisters were a lounge -- the one -- what i love, the one constant is stink. why do you have such a thing for our ex-governor of florida. >> he lives in the mangroves, if you've ever been in the political area of south florida. i always wanted to turn him loose on south beach, the epicenter of pretension. he's the complete anti is shesis of that to set him loose. he leaves a trail wherever he goes and leaves a pretty big trail in this book. that's my vicarious way of dealing with that scene. >> if you were allowed to your own devices, you might do -- >> the book is the socially acceptable outlet for me, but part of me always wants to live through that kind of, you know, rebel. >> speaking of outlets, how's the golf going? >> it's horrible. i haven't touched a club since may. they don't call me to play much often. that was a bad move. >> well, we're glad you got back to writing. and "star island" i great, terrific book, a fun read. >> thanks. >> it's fun to see you, carl. >> good to see you, take care. >>> c

"the new york post" first ran this photo of rangel lounging there and it became a symbol of the allegations against him. >> what it really looks like is a pattern of arrogance as if the rules just didn't apply to mr. rangel but it's got to be more than minor infractions for the committee to announce this public hearing. >> reporter: and that public hearing is really like a trial set for next week where a different group of democrats and republicans will look at all the evidence in public. if they decide there were violations, the punishment could be expulsion from congress. this is all very tough for democrats in this election year and rangel says he even wants this wrapped up in time for his own re-election. he's trying for a 21st term. meredith? >> kelly o'donnell, thank you very much. >>> it is 7:15. once again here is matt. >>> thursday here on "today" former agriculture department official shirley sherrod told us she would like a phone call from president obama and later in the day she got it. but will that call bring an end to the firestorm surrounding her forced resignation? nbc's ch