main stage is taped and editted by interns. in exchange for class credit and the opportunity to use equipment. interns produced 15 hours of original programming during year 1 of main stage. the auditorium hosted talented performers who brought the cultures of the world home to san francisco. like the culture of the bay area these performances are adding a fusion of tradition. >> master protectinist. explored the historic influence of african music in peru. in the modern interpretation, created his irish and native american roots to create a unique sound. [music] >> speaking spanish... >> from some of the sounds they used to play we almost lost all of them we still have some that he remembers. for instance. >> this means attention, be alert. something's going to happen. wake up, wake up. >> some of the drumming part has been rescued by compose the cultural association. drumming... [music] [applause] [music] >> our most popular streaming video is another expression of japanese culture. a form of comic story telling produced witho

they could be 6- or 8-inch mains, but being 100 years old, they actually may be 2-inch mains. and they reduce the amount of volume of water that's available to us. johnson: there were a number of things that we have had to do in order to get the system back up to an acceptable standard. replacing mains and valves and fire hydrants and other components of the system to ensure that it operates properly. egan: we consider both the underground infrastructure and the above ground assets to be a part of the critical infrastructure of the city. johnson: and if the infrastructure is not there to actually deliver that water in the volume and the quality that's necessary, then communities simply can't exist. man: infrastructure is vital to the american economy. water, after all, is an essential ingredient in hundreds of thousands of everyday products. narrator: agriculture and industry use roughly 80% of the water consumed in the united states. water is the basis for manufacturing many goods and provides the ability to clean and sterilize everything from computer chips to the surgical i

in maine, blackberry -- in maine blueberries and lobster help sustain and create jobs in our state. every $1 million in agricultural exports supports 12,000 jobs. therefore, increasing exports of our agricultural products could play an important role in reviving our economy. boosting support for the department of agriculture's foreign agricultural services will help promote our homegrown natural products abroad. this effort to increase agricultural exports could be paid for by strengthening our effort to curtail wasteful agricultural subsidies such as payments to very wealthy corporate farmers who, frankly, do not need federal assistance. the corn-based ethanol tax is another example of an extraordinarily expensive subsidy costing taxpayers some $6 billion annually, which has produced a host of problems, from higher grain prices to impaired engine peformance. we must reevaluate all programs that have not performed as promised, and then reallocate their funding to job creation initiatives and to deficit redemption. third, we simply must do more to encourage job creation and investmen

this would maine on the street a tree which i think is $1,700. i would like to overturn them also an order to place a condition on the permit to that any replacement tree be done at the discretion of the department of public works bureau of urban forestry. >> can we call the roll on that? >> the motion is to uphold a permit with two conditions -- >> you are modifying the order. >> we still need the objectives. >> the permit would be upheld by your modified to permit in two ways -- you are striking defeat on the street fees -- >> no, on a significant tree. >> the tree that will be replaced. >> and come you are granting -- and, you are granting for the planting at the discretion of -- in terms of size and species. >> ok. again, to uphold that the -- strikes the significantly, granting a replacement tree in terms of species and size. on the motion -- >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> the permit is upheld with those conditions. thank you. >> i would move quickly to our next two appeals and see if we can get them done before 6:00. please call the ite

>> aye. >> that carries, and we will need a motion for the main regular -- main resolution. all those in favor? >> aye. >> thank you. >> the water improvement program and agreements 904, marc roche and control services for specialized corrosion control and authorizing the utility commission to execute this amendment for a total not to exceed the amount gov $2,959,998. >> are there any questions or, -- common sense -- comments? >> most of this is aimed at the transition to our operating of green energy water facilities for the new building. is that right? >> this contract is for the erosion -- for corrosion >> i will be back. >> is there a motion? >> so moved. >> next item. >> discussion and possible are shown to approve the selection and awarded professional services building commission in, monitoring, and performance optimizing and authorize the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to negotiate an exercise 3 professional services agreement for an amount not to exceed $3 million for seven years funded by water, waste water, and power enterprises t

if you want to shut off the power you shut off the little guys first than the main. when you throw a switch there is the arch. like water when water flows in an old house any you shut it off quick you get the hammer effect? that's like electricity. is it safe to do it if you smell natural gas? show of hands. >> nobody has their hands up. it's not safe to flicking any switches if you smell natural gas. how about if there is smoke coming out of an outlet. if you shut this off in an area where there is no gas, good idea. >> just about anything can be a hazardous material, cleaners, solvants, hair products anything can be hazardous. they are every where. the only time they are hazardous if they are misused our there is a disaster. do you see these in san francisco? that's probably propane. we have a port. in an industrial area. it identified where they are stored. are there hazardous storage places in this air? no. are there a dry cleaners? yes. who remembers grand auto. they have solvants, cleaners, octane boosters. it's great until there is a natural disaster. where do

icommissioner fung: for the main permit that was there before. president goh: they cannot have !zthe second without the fir, right? commissioner fung: they could. >> scott sanchez, planning department. it depends what the board wants to do. if the board were to uphold the appeal and require changes, then that would be there revision permit. at that point, the board could overturn or pulled -- overturned the appeal on the suspension, which would allow the whole project. but i would refer to deputy director kornfield as to whether a revision permit can go forward when the main permit is suspended. i think the board would have to come under revision permit, take whatever action the board wants to have happen, and with that they could release the suspension on the main permit. and then everything would move forward with that revision permit. commissioner fung: can we clarify that? mr. kornfield, i thought this was a separate permit, not an addenda. >> as long as we resolve the pr'm and fixed methodology. as long as there is a subsequent permit that replaces the scope of the problem t

as i mentioned, the main ban pushed down. you see the yellow, that's incorporated with the main band of rain. this make as weird move, rotates back into the bay area and san jose will be effected as will areas close to the south bay and the southern east bay locations. current conditions, clear skies and cold air, 39 degrees in santa rosa. 39 in napa. 41 in san rafael. these locations will get holder over night. down into the south bay, cloudiness. 45 in san jose, 45 mountain view. straight san francisco. 44 in concord. 30s over night. tomorrow morning, rain in the south bay expected. continuing into the afternoon. the showers will stay mainly down towards the south bayh. we will look at all the information you need for the mountains in a bit. >>> the rain and wind here, of course, means lots of snow for the sierra. this is video along interstate 80 leer lake tahoe. traffic moving slowly but it came to a stand still earlier because of the snow. it quasi-actually shut down in both directions for three hours tonight. chains are

large crowds are waiting in lines at libya's main airport in the capital of tripoli where some of theworst violence has been. the state department believes there's several,000 dual u.s. libyan nationals and 6700 private u.s. citizens in libya. both sides are engaged in fierce fighting now for control. protestors trying to overthrow qaddafi say they've taken over control of one of the largest cities. mercenaries and hired soldiers are reportedly shooting anyone in sight. hundreds have been killed. qaddafi remains defiant and says he will fight to the end. another bombshell, the exjustice minister told a swedish newspaper he approved qaddafi ordered the pan am bombing over lockerbie scotland that killed over 100 people in 1998. >> trading for an orange prison suit. the judge . >>> today a major project starts on the golden gate bridge. it could have quite an impact on cyclist. live with more on what will be done. amy? >> for all of you out there who have had to paint your house, you know what a daunting project that can be. you have to scrape off the old paint, pu

this water main break shut off water to 2,200 residents. woman: how many breaks are you working on right now? we have 24 breaks working right now. man: in our company, washington suburban sanitary commission, we had 479 water main breaks in february -- the most ever, for any february. man: this 10-inch water main in willard park is 73 years old. man: at wssc, we're having a year of record -- a ramp up slope of water main breaks that soon is going to reach exponential. man: the damage has been done. and this is the culprit. brunhart: today, 25% of our 5,500 miles of underground water pipes has reached the end of useful life. by the year 2020, 85% will have reached the end of useful life. woman: what to do? wssc is working on that costly problem right now. brunhart: it's not only true here, but it's true throughout our nation. narrator: across the united states, cities and towns are facing the challenge of aging and outdated drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure. it's a national problem. but it needs to be approached syste

personally major lapses of one of moscow's main train stations. some u.s. politicians famous for the blue advising the world on democracy it seems the american people are being turned into the object of ridicule. from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day the egyptian president hosni mubarak has to address the nation later tonight the cia says it expects he'll resign however the country's information minister has denied the report gyptian military forces have announced they are siding with the protesters and that the president will meet their demands more than two weeks since the mass uprising in the country which has been accompanied by a wave of clashes between pro and anti government protesters well these are live pictures from central square where massive crowds are staying put as you can see they're refusing to leave until the president stands down with immediate effect. professor at the u.s. naval war college michael told me earlier that the money the u.s. has been pouring into corrupt regime has been with th

. >> welcome to a special edition of main stage. the first anniversary. time to look back at one year of great performances from the stage of san francisco's main library. we will key the authors, poets and playwrights, the story tellers and the photographers and hear music brought to our stage from 4 continents. we will also meet some of the people that help bring the performances from the coet auditorium to your television screen. time to celebrate, main stage year 1. >> 3 cups of tea with each other. >> doesn't anybody care? >> i have been on the river for 7 days... >> our first performance is one of our most popular on line videos. the dance company around the bay area and around the world. educating audiences of the culture of north india. the movement of a cottic dance. [music] [music] [applause]. [music] [music] only 5 years the festival has established itself as the premiere over view of san francisco's lively literary scene. the week long event draws 10,000 people to the city's book stores, night clubs and of course it's libraries. here in the co

in the main bazaar, baha sayed opened his small store but only to dust off the souvenirs.o tourists, no business. egyptians are now divided, with many wanting democracy, but not unrest. in the square, protesters say egyptians shouldn't give up yet and must keep the pressure on, or risk losing their revolutionc the protesters tell us they are not stubborn, but they are r skeptical because president mubarak has made promises to do many of these reforms before, but not carried them out, brian. >> amazing to see the stores open, that's a start. they were all shuttered up last week when we were there. richard engel starting off our coverage tonight. richard, thanks. this so-called people's revolution in cairo was coming for some time. its roots are in years of social discontent in egypt, including high unemployment and a whole lot of educated young people just out of college with zero prospect for a job. it was helped along by neighboring tunisia and it got a push from social media as we saw while we were there, and some of those who had put the word out are now a part of the s

large crowds are waiting in lines at libya's main airport in the capital of tripoli where some of theworst violence has been. the state department believes there's several,000 dual u.s. libyan nationals and 6700 private u.s. citizens in libya. both sides are engaged in fierce fighting now for control. protestors trying to overthrow qaddafi say they've taken over control of one of the largest cities. mercenaries and hired soldiers are reportedly shooting anyone in sight. hundreds have been killed. qaddafi remains defiant and says he will fight to the end. another bombshell, the exjustice minister told a swedish newspaper he approved qaddafi ordered the pan am bombing over lockerbie scotland that killed over 100 people in 1998. >> trading for an orange prison suit. the judge says he's going to >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. . >>> today a major project starts on the golden gate bridge. it could have quite an impact on cyclist. live with more on what will be done. amy? >> for all of you out there who have had to paint your house, you know what a daunting projec

when i'm not a who becomes the next president one of the main challenges they'll face is the growing budget deficit latest report show it's risen to almost fifty billion dollars leading some analysts to warn the u.s. is past the point of no return well very new york resident healthiness to the streets of the big apple to see if people don't really think america is bust. the u.s. has a new budget coming out can america ever go bankrupt this week let's talk about that well we're already bankrupt so it's like credit card debt i mean. can you go at what point you hit the bottom and what point do you start screaming about it china has too much invested in dollar to let america go bankrupt so now we're something that someone else has to take care of. right now. if anything happens there's going to other countries who are going to do that for us is that fair. it's. not saying that everything's alright rosy at this point we're certainly not at a critical point and i think what you're pointing out is the fact that we need increased global cooperation it's not just a problem that can be fixed

the main road being the purview of the military. the next moment, there were thousands of mubarak's supporters flooding the streets along the square. they were incapable of being out on the streets to do anything about it. nobody is in control at the moment. they are up to the job of trying to bring order to the streets. the army has said that they do not necessarily think that that is its role. one of the officers was asked by our translator, why are you not doing anything about it? he responded, that is not my job. that is not what we are here to do. >> we heard that announcement by the army earlier this weekend which reassured protestors that they would not fire on them. they made it clear that their job was to provide order to maintain public property. let me ask you about the accusation by many of the protesters. we have reliable reports that it seems true that some of the people coming out were put on the streets by members of the national democratic party or their allies to deliberately create public disorder. >> i think ther

london in two thousand and six and this is a relationship that hasn't been the same since then the main suspect of the u.k. police force is a man called under the look of war who's now a duma deputy in russia and russia's constitution prevents his extradition so all the repeated extradition requests have been made they haven't been granted and you mentioned to the guardian correspondent luke harding who was refused entry to russia recently russia says that he was trying to travel on an invalid viz that the he says that it was in connection with his work with the wiki leaks cables that said some compromising things about russia there are always these these little things that looks like this relationship is going to get better and then something else happens we've also got forty people. even here in the u.k. who are wanted by russian crime in force and they are they are men and women in russia essentially the most notable of them bodies that is old ski and chechen akhmed zakayev. again their extradition has been requested by russia and britain has refused but i think what's happening more

we are convinced that today was the main task of these international community is to prevent and such press ethnic and religious extremism and manifestations of racism and racial discrimination as well as overcoming event of columbia and intolerance. during the next declaration and documents of the two thousand and nine review conference in the adoption of that russia played a leading role could serve as a major impetus crustal i wouldn't particularly like and stressed the need for an interest faith agreement in the world religious leaders should stand together against its criminals and protect people suffering income for the areas where live completely right to life which is being named human right is under threat fortunately the situation in many regions of the world including the balkans africa south and south east asia and the middle east or urgently demanded a more comprehensive and nuanced approach to comedy i think religious faster and you know history such as to think of grossly bad faster which is indeed a decisive one russia has consistently quote proposals for stablish in t

so i'm gonna go to a bring you some of the world's other main news this hour the people of chile have been marking a year since a massive earthquake there killed over five hundred and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless the country's president led commemorations in a town that was all but destroyed by the quake protest took place accusing the government of being too slow with rebuilding shattered communities nearly half of the damaged properties remain uninhabitable but the players are being dogged by you're a critic hold. before british airways i t work has been found guilty in the united kingdom of involvement in trying to bomb an airplane rajeev was convicted of conspiring with a radical gave many cleric to stage attacks carried previously admitted fund raising for terrorism but denied getting a job would be a with the intention of carrying out attacks. showbiz news the eighty third oscars in los angeles the king's speech reign supreme one full of it including best actor for calling first betrayal of george the six natalie portman one best actress for her performance as a

just above the bridge of the maddox where captain herrick was is the main gun director and inside the director was the sailor who was in charge of firing those powerful five inch guns his job was to open fire once the enemy targets were spotted on radar or sonar those are the main methods for detecting progress you can't see directly the man in charge of the main gun director august fourth one thousand nine hundred sixty four was a four year veteran he was also an expert sonar man patrick clark parker is now a businessman in los angeles tommy do you think that night all those floors in the pitch black enough of a swell. rainstorms. was there anything to shoot out there you know i don't i'm certain that there was not anything to shoot at right from the beginning and the captain asked me mediately after the attack to go down and evaluate all the recordings that had been made. noise that was that sonar was reporting and i kept myself pretty busy for the next three days really trying to evaluate these things and determine if we had heard anything that might have been even a question mark

john mccain there are of course a lot more is set to happen still here on saturday as the second and main day of the forty seventh security conference in munich continues where you go first there's a wide spectrum of world leaders attending the summit where you are in munich so we'll keep on coming back to you for more details you can piss going off live in munich thank you. government protesters in egypt are still pouring on to cairo tahrir square as they piled up the pressure on president hosni mubarak to step down the deadline set by the demonstrators for him to quit as part of the past on friday actually without making any live statements at all now opposition activists say they held discussions with egypt's prime minister over the president and start negotiations on the country's political future and these are right now live pictures from tahrir square the twelfth day of protests now still a massive crowd refusing to leave until the divines are met and the country's leader of almost three decades has stepped down these are again impressive and live pictures of the central square in c

but just running up the other main news for you. -- just rounding up steam other main news for you. yet the in last week, germany, the third largest contributor said it was suspending financial report. internal reports revealed millions of dollars destined for african countries had disappeared a somali man has been sentenced in nine years in jail and denmark for trying to kill the cartoonist to caricatured the prophet mohammad. he is senior being driven to court. he was convicted of attempted murder and terrorism. the drawings were published in 2005 to start protests across the muslim world. the husband of the wounded arizona congressperson get real difference will resume training to go into space. he has been on leave since his wife was injured. six other people were injured in that incident. let's take you back to the scene in cairo. hundreds of thousands still demonstrating their, demanding the resignation of the egyptian president, demanding that he does now. protestors have been waving the flag, singing country attics songs. -- patriotic songs. the protesters are ducking of red

alter of the day that their main goal is to try and make sure that no further terror attack. can take place here in russia. while the u.s. is cutting its next budget deficit with president obama saying tough choices and sacrifices have to be made but there's one place the administration doesn't want to make major cuts defense spending with numerous u.s. military bases located far beyond his territory did it goes off ski found out where american taxpayers' money is really go. bad. they are signs of american power and might. military bases spread all over the world just how many apparently too many to count what i've read of. know about one thousand is that it's that us bases are cycles and. while there is more than we just can't be sure but what we can be sure about is that the us defense budget is now about the same as military spending in all other countries combined and since nine eleven military and security expenditures have soared by one hundred and nineteen percent military expenditures in faraway places like new zealand colombia and japan and have you ever heard of the

use the weather is the main risk factor. should be totally calm the volga river is one of the most beautiful but difficult sights for such flights it is always windy here alexei needs to pinpoint the exact moment when the wind dies down and then fly under the bridge as quickly as possible the motive behind the pilot's bike weighs fifty kilograms if the wing brushes the bridge he will be sent crashing into the water. but when you start ladders use a special system to rescue pilots after splashdown it's called. going find it here on the power outlet or. not go through. this system works automatically when a pilot crashes into the water which. by then it will instantly inflates a big balloon within three seconds with the initial lift him up to safety. as he circles over the bridge aleksei chooses the right moment for the aerobatics the wind has now dropped precision is crucial the gap between the bridge and the water is quite narrow and a gust of wind will push the pilot off course. and the glider traveling at sixty kilometers

the main reason i would like to offer commented today is that i was very surprised that today's agenda had only one item. i would think that a committee of such importance would have had a lot more items than one item, so being a longtime resident of san francisco, i am sure there are many residents like myself who question we are getting our money's worth out of today's meeting, but onto other things with regard to agenda items with this committee, i would like to make two suggestions. the first one would be that maybe we should spend more time regarding the development of a park. i think different people have spoken out that it is underutilized, and i think that if this committee has only one agenda item today, maybe they can consider a boating discussion on john mclaren park, to give the residents of that part of town to come and give public comment, and the second item has been covered many times, especially on tv, and since we had plenty of time today, i thought it would not hurt to mention it again, that the department of public works has an ongoing campaign for illegal street du

>> aye. >> that carries, and we will need a motion for the main regular -- main resolution. all those in favor? >> aye. >> thank you. >> the water improvement program and agreements 904, marc roche and control services

enemy of the common american people a main enemy is ignorance not a proper political education this is the enemy of our people because once we can understand diagnosed. what we are living under all human beings who recognize that me and you have human rights will fight for the rights of human beings the way we are being governed mel treats a good sector of our people less than human. less than human in this country nothing short of revolution but there's so many steps this so many steps and empowerment of our people and the enemy out of this particular time that we're in is lack of information and political education i want to switch gears actually a little bit and ask you about the way the united states interacts with other countries do you think the u.s. has too much power over other countries or tries to have too much power and really getting in the affairs in the businesses of other nations out there who deserve to make their own decisions what's your take on this kind of foreign policy exchange that goes on oh it is power is he who controls imperialism the belly of imperialism

friday's the main day. that's the main show into town for low snow levels.y saturday morning most is gone. saturday night clear and cold. sunday looks good but rather brisk and breezy. >>> all right. macy's says it will raise prices as many of its vendors are doing the same. the price hikes are not a surprise as brands including brooks brothers and abercrombie and pitch have announced their own price increases. the announcement comes as the quarter income up 50% macy's credits the increase on controlling its own expenses and faster than expected online growth. >>> well, expect to pay more for fresh tomatoes when you can find them. cold weather in mexico, texas and florida's hurt tomato crops in all three regions. and that is limiting supplies. some restaurants including wendy's are not serving them unless customer specifically asks for tomato. that's actually good news for california tomato farmers who can charge more. >>> amazon is edging into the territory of netflix. amazon now offers free instant movie and tv show option for prime service customers. cust

but it's much more to notice that for months and months before the maine was destroyed and afterwards the press were running perfectly accurate stories about the horrible atrocities committed by the spanish against the cuban independence movement. a counterinsurgency movement in cuba in which at least 200,000 cubans died and many as 400,000 died and a counterinsurgency campaign featuring the relocation of relocation of villages, featuring the torture of counterinsurgents, featuring an equivalent of waterboarding american went to war in cuba to liberate the cubans from the spanish, and they did for a few months. after liberating cuba from the spanish they, of course, took cuba for themselves. and worse yet, went to war in the philippines and conducted a counterinsurgency campaign which was almost a mirror image or should i say the exact image of the counterinsurgency conductedgin the spanish for the cubans. it raises several questions. one of the things it points to is the fact that americans don't get convinced to go to war unless there is a powerful appeal made to what i call in the

but since this is the main dish, we now need to prepare the main dish. what do you say?the main dish makeover is the 10-minute lasagne. the 24 ounces of nancy's premium spaghetti sauce. >> and i notice the expiration date is june 21, 2009. ( laughter ) >> oh, wow! >> i wonder if i can open this. ( laughter ) >> oh. get the kids. our next ingredient... >> you have such big muscles. ( laughter ) >> mary's too weak! thanks, guys. ( applause ) okay, and then i'm going to add my natural cheese soup. >> what would your mother say about you cooking in a plastic bag? ( laughter ) >> whoo! ( laughter ) this stula is too big. >> yeah. >> okay, so this is wisconsin cheese. >> oh, the best. ( laughter ) >> okay, then three cups of noodles. get out your seam ripper. it's handy! okay, a cup? one, two, three. ( laughter ) ( applause ) one package of frozen stir fry onions and peppers. >> that seam ripper, that's perfect. >> it is. dump, dump, dump. you want to open the meatballs? >> oh, sure. do you trust me? that's not bad. nancy's meatballs. >> yeah, i know. >> nothing but the best.