officer mathias again. officer matthias: steve mathias again. in looking at this, we have met with a multitude of city department and the board of supervisors. after much negotiation with neighbors, planning, the nob hill coalition, the board of supervisors, we have all come to an agreement as to how the masonic auditorium shall be operated. these conditions will ensure that all party sides are respected. these conditions will promote a venue that was strongly support the quality of life concerns of the neighborhood. -- will strongly support the quality of life concerns of the neighborhood. therefore, we support the approval with the list of conditions. this will promote compliance because there will not be different rules for different boards. the applicant will either be in compliance or they will not be. what we do not want is entertainment be either being more strict or less strict and people shopping for something so it is easier to enforce. if it fails to comply with any of the conditions, this is very helpful because the entertainment com

. >> but cannon's son mathias who had grown from a young boy into a teenager filled with rage, wasn'tou get kind of jaded to things, i guess, after awhile. i'll believe it when i see it. that sounds good. i'm just cautious optimism, i guess. >> family members of the three murder victims were in disbelief that they would soon find themselves back in a courtroom more than a decade after the killings were they thought had been solved. you think the right man's in jail? >> yeah. but apparently there's people who don't think that way, so it's a wait and see thing. >> you don't believe it? >> no. >> but cannon's defense team believed they had the evidence. they found new witnesses pointing to new suspects. there were now serious questions about the story told by the key prosecution witness, bimla boyd, who was later convicted of manslaughter for gunning down and killing another man on that very same property. and then there was what prosecutors had called the scientific evidence proving, they said, that scott cannon was the killer. remember, the jury in cannon's trial heard from an expert i

officer mathias, welcome. officer matthias: hello, commissioners and staff. i'm here to give you an update of what is happening lately. many were talking about, he was actually parolee at large. it is helpful to be able to take them into custody when they are wanted. some of the things that we do when i apprised the commission as far as what things are going on, if it is tied to a club, i will say exactly which club and how it is tied their, if it is appropriate or not. but sometimes we talk about the things that are just entertainment related. i think it is important for the commission to know the level of activity going on in the districts. june 3rd at about 6:30 p.m., there was a battery at pier 23, appeared 23 cafe. they acted appropriately by escorting the parties out and helped the police when they responded. after talking with the employees at the bar, they were able to find out what happened exactly and take appropriate action. on june 10th at 2000 hours, several phones were stolen at grand ave. the suspect was later arrested that night on broadway. j

curt for being with her today and acknowledge deputy assistant secretary elliott's husband mathias who could not be with us today because he is currently serving as the deputy chief of mission in our embassy in honduras and, please, wish him well for us. i want to thank all our witnesses for being here. we'll start with madam ambassador, start with you and maybe go from my right to the left, and if could you try to keep your opening remarks to five minutes. if you have a longer statement that will certainly be made part of the record. and then we'll get to -- we'll get to questions. >> thank you. mr. chairman, senator, it is an honor to appear before you as president obama's nominee to be the u.s. teebd sri lanka and u.s. ambassador to maldives. i am deeply grateful to the president and to secretary clinton for their confidence in my abilities. if confirmed, i look forward to working with the committee and interested members of congress to represent the american people and top advance u.s. goals in sri lanka and maldives. my 30 years in the u.s. foreign service, i have been posted as u

first call comes from robert and mathias west virginia. republican line.brother, good morning. >> caller: good morning. yes, back to the fast and furious. it strikes me that the whole reason why the bush administration and then the obama administration has had to resort as was involved in the purposes of assault but then is the lifting of the ban that we had for a number of years on the sale of assault weapons. although i am in a very much strong amendments state, various absolutely no justification for a private individual to be in possession ak-47 or an m-16. i would like to know if there's any news of putting congress further thought then. >> guest: that's a good question and i absolutely agree with you on the limitations that should be in place around assault weapons. but there's been no recent effort to do with that. but back to the fast and serious, there was a very ill-advised strategy under president bush as under president, we've engaged in the necessary oversight it calls for giving them protection of the tragic consequences and outcomes of it. i