. >> anything further about manama -- anything further? >> we do not know how often this store region where they were having -- we do not know where they were having under cover of people coming, so it may not have been that often. that may be why they were never caught before. >> the figures of about once a year -- to you know? parks are no sandford cisco is probably 1200 tobacco and permits. -- >> in san francisco, it is probably 1200 tobacco permits. i am not sure if they get to that many each year. >> conditioners? the -- commissioners bowman -- commissioners? >> vice president garcia, were you about to say something? commissioner garcia: i wish the department would do an analysis of how this works out in dollar figures for an individual operator, and let's take an assumption that all the figures are exactly correct your year of 30 days was decided -- are exactly correct. 30 days was decided. that might seem reasonable to some people, of the fact that it is the first offense, and we can all assume they did not just kesse and the first

margaret warner is now in the bahraini capital, manama, reporting for the newshour. margaret, you've been on the ground in bahrain a few days, what can you see? are you aware as you move around that this is a country putting down an uprising? >> warner: absolutely, ray. in the capitol you see tanks by the side of the road. you see riot police and military manning check points around the city. it is not a heavy, heavy security presence here in the financial hub that is the capitol. but you do, you do feel it. the situation is very different when you go out to the shiite villages. and we went to one today to hear the bahraini shiite ayatollah deliver the friday prayers. and there you do see armoured vehicles out on the highway, checkpoints, military convoys cruising around, riot police cruising around. and the, just by happenstance the mosque that we had chosen to visit overnight, we were told, had been vandallized by security forces. the television sets and sound system ripped out. other allegations of other kinds of destruction. now when we got there new tvs had been

. >> warner: approaching downtown manama, bahrain doesn't feel like a country in turmoil.scrapers gleam in the sun of this tiny persian gulf financial hub ruled by a 200-year-old sunni monarchy. the stock market, though foreign investment has stalled, appears to be humming along. but all is not as it seems. some shoppers have returned to the malls, but hotels and restaurants are hurting. tourists are still staying away, a blow to the economy of this island kingdom. it touts itself as a tolerant playground for visitors from socially conservative gulf neighbors and beyond. that's a hard sell with armed troops and riot police vehicles on city streets, enforcing a state of emergency in effect since march 15. checkpoints dot the roadways between the capital and suburban villages where many of the country's shia majority live. >> we stop them and ask for i.d., and ask them their purpose, why are they coming into this village. >> warner: lieutenant taher alawi says the checkpoints have made the villages safer. residents say it feels like a state of siege. >> when we tried to leav