and wants to devour charles mann. there's that sense of, i come to los angeles and i look around, and everyone says, this is the greatest hispanic city in america, and i think to myself, is that true or are we in the great indian city? and do we not have a word for that? how do you see in light of what you have written, how do you see a city of los angeles? >> let me go back to the time of -- communities isn't so much absorption. they come and see this strange object, these ships, and then these tired, dirty, people come onshore. >> unprecedented people. >> unprecedented people who smell bad. and everything is ethnocentric, right? they're thinking, ooh, and the spaniards, oblivious to how they smelled, look around and see these people dressed funny and the think, ooh. and that's the human part. and they say, these guys have interesting stuff. i'll hold my nose and i'll see if i can acquire some of this stuff. >> yes. >> it's a big deal, and it's only a few of them. only a few of them. so give them some bad lamb, let t

catherine mann, i'll stall start with you. what exactly is the problem the central banks were trying to address? >> well what they were trying to address is that it's become more expensive since the summer, actually, for banks to borrow from each other in the overnight market. that's the way thatbacks fund themselves is that they borrow in the overnight market from each other. since the summer, we've been looking at the interest rate they charge each other has been rising and rising and rising. it's now at a level-- or was earlier today-- at the level right before the crisis with lehman brothers. so the central banks were looking at this really expensive cost of banks borrowing from each other as wellly an indicator of the amount of stress that was happening and the lack of trust between banks since they weren't going to lend to each other. so that's really what they were trying to address here. it's a narrow bank-to-bank funding question but, of course, from that narrow place you get into a lot of difficulty on lending more b

i would also like to say thank you very much for some of the commendation that came about four ben mann of the staff, along with evelyn cart and their service for helping to produce the high level of quality and service to the public. they had been commended by that panel. last, and most importantly, i wish staff, commissioners a wonderful holiday -- let's close out the year in a wonderful way and be blessed by all that has been brought to us, on the rising tide of economics, all the things that the commission has done and takes responsibility for. >> is there any public comment on the president's announcements? seeing none. item four -- i'm sorry, item three. public comment. this is the general public comment. if anyone would like to discuss items not listed on today's agenda. there is no general public comment. item 4. discussion and possible action to approve and swear in members of the board of examiners. reappointments/appointments recommended by the nominations sub-committee are: michael cashion, high-rise sprinkler- building owner. seat to expire september 15, 2013. mr. cash john

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juliet mann, cnn. >>> still to come here on "world business today," we've got first business economy, now social class. we'll look at kln's new offering. choose your flying partners through good old-fashioned facebook stalking. >>> let's check on the currency markets for you now. the euro still down, 0.1% or so. it's still off the lows we saw earlier in the week. as forster leng a steste steste and the yen. a warm welcome back. you're watching "world business today." we're live here on cnn. >>> the choice used to be simple, first class, business class or economy, window seat or aisle. now the dutch airline klm it seems is shaking things up a little bit. it's introducing what's going to be known as social class. from early next year, passengers will be able to check each other's facebook profiles before deciding who they want to sit next to. klm is offering customers the option to choose to display their personal information on its online seating plan. the tool is designed specifically for in-flight networking. >> interesting stuff. richard quest spoke to simon calder, editor at "the i

as jonathan mann reports, the ending was low key compared to the start one march in 2003. >> reporter: what we began with shock and awe, and toppled the regime of saddam hussein has now ended quietly with the casing of the colors. the u.s. officially ended its mission in iraq. on thursday u.s. troops in baghdad lowered the american flag for the last time. u.s. defense secretary leon panetta presided over the symbolic ceremony. >> you will leave with great pride, lasting pride, secure in knowing that your sacrifice has helped the iraqi people begin a new chapter in history. >> reporter: more than 4,500 americans have been killed since the conflict began while its estimated that more than 100,000 iraqis have died. >> we look back at the sacrifices made by so many americans and so many iraqis, but we also look forward to an iraq that is sovereign, secure and self-reliant. >> reporter: but nearly nine years after the war began, some current and former u.s. military brass questioned if u.s. troops are leaving too soon. >> in my judgment we could have used the next few years training and de

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spent over the summer to recreate facilities and programs to accommodate what had happened at horace mann, bryant, and when a vista -- and buena vista because of changes in school locations. we have a continuing need to do it. the state has allowed us, over the course of this year, to look at whether we are going to raise those rates, which went require us to do -- which would require us to do an additional study. we are going to look at it to see if we can raise the rates. if there are any questions, i would be happy to answer them. essentially, we are requesting the board adopt the report that there are no findings, positive or negative, strictly a report of moneys collected, money is spent, and what we have in the bank. i would be happy to answer questions. >> was this one of the special items you want to speak on, mr. kelly? i have no public speakers. comments from the board? vice president yee: i have a question on the rate we are collecting. what is it and what are you thinking about in terms of a potential increase? >> first of all, we do not set the maximum increase. the state act

pede mann scaled back the original plant in the hopes of -- piedmont scaled back the original plan in of addressing concerns. >>> supervisors are considering a proposal to turn over the sharp park golf course to the national park service. san francisco owns the 417 -- 417-parcel of land. they say it protects the red legged frog. a federal judge last week requested their request to limit golf operations. opponents say they can protect the environment while still maintaining the interest of golfers. if the committee approves the plan, it will go before the board tomorrow. >>> ahead -- a theme park based on harry potter movies and books could be coming to california. state farm. this is jessica. hey, jessica, jerry neumann with a policy question. jerry, how are you doing? fine, i just got a little fender bender. oh, jerry, i'm so sorry. i would love to help but remember, you dropped us last month. yeah, you know it's funny. it only took 15 minutes to sign up for that new auto insurance company but it's taken a lot longer to hear back. is your car up a pole again? [ crying ] i miss you, j

. >> with me now is bob mann author of "daisy petals and mushroom clouds." ad that changed american politics. you chose to write a book just on this ad, the political moment of the time. ad aired one time, september 7th, 1964, what happened that day phone the campaign trail? >> johnson, lyndon johnson held a big rally in detroit. >> first one. >> first one, kick-off, labor day kick-off of the fall election campaign, 100,000 people in the audience and gave a speech and attacked barry gold water and it didn't go over very well. i think people thought, this is a slow start to the campaign, in fact "the new york times" story did sort of imply that it was a slow start to the campaign. they didn't know what johnson had in store for 50 million tv viewers late that night. >> the state of the race at time we look at '64, think landslide. did it feel like a land decide september 1964? >> some ways it did. johnson was ahead, that day probably 30 points ahead in the gallup polls. johnson was not going to be satisfied with just a within. he wanted an historic win. he wan

they were chosen from horace mann and sherman oaks elementary here in san jose, the needest of the needyeeling very loved by san jose's finest. bob redell, nbc bay area news. >> as well they should. thank you, bob. >> what a good story. >>> we've got encouraging news about the economy this morning. >> always happy to hear about that. scott mcgrew has that and a new controversy taking place in washington. >> good morning. we got the jobless claim numbers as we do every thursday morning. they were encouraging, under 400,000, the lowest in nine months. now, weekly claims are not the best data because they vary so much. but we will take the good news where we can get it. unfortunately, wall street too busy worrying about europe to notice this good news this morning. senate republicans have blocked president obama's choice to head the new consumer financial protection agency leaving the president to lash out in this press conference. republicans say they will block the head of the agency no matter who it is because they think the agency itself will be too powerful. >>> apple tomorrow will ope

. >> tim mann are in critical condition. >>jaqueline: here is a live look outside, the camera is still bouncing around. the wins will continue overnight. details when we come back. third >>pam: with our continuing our coverage of the cleanup of the damage in the east bay. charles crawford is joining us live from oakland. >>charles: i am standing at the corner of denison's street and kennedy just off of 880. sometime early this morning a large acacia trees landed on top of these two semi truck trailers. a tree removal service came in. all that is left is a tree trunk. i spoke with the owner of the company who says the last few days have been very busy. >> we were expecting a lot of downed trees. >>charles: the last two days have been busy and this owner says he could not be more happy. >> the wind and rain is good for business. >>charles: this tree collapsed late wednesday or early tuesday morning. >> it is doing to their raw and the high wind. the tree just could not stand it and flopped over. >> this sort of staying is comm

analyst and lecturer at the interdisciplinary center in herts lia and in washington we cross to hillary mann leverett she is a professor of u.s. foreign policy at the american university and a former white house and state department official all right folks this is crosstalk me that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it but first marcia is this a major milestone in american foreign policy you know i think as far as getting the troops out it is a milestone with only a few thousand troops waiting to depart from iraq by december thirty first president barack obama's address last week officially spell the end to a nearly nine year military mission the pullout fulfills one of obama's key electoral promise says and winds down the war that has cost the lives of nearly four thousand five hundred go soldiers and more than six hundred thousand iraqis despite iraq's still fragile security this could be the first real lol in violence after four decades of political and social turbulence this is an extraordinary achievement one made possible. by the hard work and sacrifice o

these republicans whoever survives is going to move himself so far to the right that he or she, bash mann is not out -- bachmann is not out of it yet and hard to move back to the center for those voters. >> the administration hopes that the conservatism of republicans on social issues will make some of those social issues an affirmative weapon for them but didn't want to provide a fat target on plan b. >> briefly, you can use executive orders to create jobs. you can also use executive power to protect your own. gwen: it's very interesting to watch the administration decide who they're going to respond to. up until now they've only been talking about mitt romney. and now this week they've had to pause and say really, newt gingrich? i wonder if they want to just step back and let the republicans take each other out or whether they feel the need to get in on this and start taking down republicans before the primary really plays itself out? >> i would expect the administration to continue either loudly or not so loudly going after mitt romney because that's the nominee they fear the most. the

my colleague joe mann gallo and i used only governmental data that is by the u.s. government's e.p.a. and c.d.c. and by comparing. the deaths before fukushima for fourteen weeks and after fukushima and then expanding on the data we found that there has been an increase in deaths in the united states this is been corroborated by findings of deaths of particularly of children younger than one year in british columbia which is one of the first places where the radiation would hit so you so younger than one year is that. in fact i thought that the birth the death rate for children that age actually been declining in the united states until the fukushima if we had it had it had been and then and then the death rate went up another was thousands died why i just under one year and what does this have to do with church and noble. well this is the same findings we found after chernobyl and i'm the editor of the book and i hold it up here on chernobyl catastrophe for people in the environment and what we found was that immediate children because their immune systems are not