but i will start out with acknowledging coreen mayfield.his past weekend has been amazing for the world of professional sports here in san francisco. world champions in baseball and a convincing division in football on national television have put san francisco in the limelight for being a world class city with world champions, caliber athletics. also in the world stage, coreen mayfield, an unbeaten boxer from district 5, was shining on hbo against maurico herrera, winning a 10 round unanimous decision and in the process defending his north america boxing organization junior welter weight title in the process for the second time. outside of the ring he volunteers his time with a number of youth outreach programs, coaching and mentoring youth to lead positive lives. he is a local celebrity, not only for his talents as an athlete, but also for his commitment to lifting up the young people of san francisco through sports and discipline. in 2003, having put the street life behind him, this young man walked into a gym and four years later became

>> at mayfield united livestock commodities owner joseph watson is tweaking the recipe for success. his 1400 cattle are no longer feeding off corn. the price he said are too high to keep in stock. so earlier this year he began to buy secondhand candy. >> it has a higher ratio of fats and actually feeding straight corn. >> stephen: yes, this cattle farmer is now a jolly rancher. and folks, i say-- i say it is high time-- it is high time we started feeding our cows candy. i mean the mexicans have been stuffing their donkeys full of sweets for years. now nation, we have always been told we are what we eat. but now we can eat what eats what we eat. it's the circle of life. best of all-- (applause) best of all even though this farmer is giving his cows candy, he still technically is feeding them corn. because almost all of it is made from high fructose corn syrup which thanks to government subsidies is somehow cheaper than the corn it is made from. what delicious irony. delicious, because of that corn sirrup. but sadly, folks this drought affects more than just my fillet min nougat t is

[speaker not understood] mayfield who is bringing the [speaker not understood]. he was fighting for a lot of young men who have died and a lot of young men that are trying to stay alive. the bayview can help, come to see if anyone can assist in getting him to be in the parade tomorrow for the giants because he is also adding to san francisco. does anyone have any advice, i will leave my number with whoever is appropriate to do. thank you very much. have a wonderful evening. >> thank you. any other member of the public wish to speak in public comment? >>> last but not least, david elliott lewis. i knew almost everyone you honored today and almost every, every person was well deserved to receive that acknowledgment so i wanted to thank you for acknowledging these people and mental health awareness month. mental health often gets edv brushed under the carpet with so many other pressing issues, but we see the consequences when we ignore it. the cost of behavior sort of unrespond to can be costly to society. i'm thankful we have proposition 63 that lets services upon

now a contract agent with the joint terrorist task force and his wife is fbi special agent kate mayfieldi took him out of the country and he got assigned to go there. he doesn't want to go there. he goes to yemen to look for the panther. the panther is a yemeni american born in new jersey raised here went to colombian university but took up the cause of jihad, went back to his ancestral home in yemen. i postulate, this is based a little on truth he was one of the master mines of the u.s.s. cole bombing. >> that's the premise of it. >> how much of you book is fact and how much is fiction? you're clearly weaving in what have been some terrorism news events in the past? >> i look at the facts as the skeleton of the book. the facts are all true. if they sound true, they probably are true. but novels make it up. you've got to make up the dialogue. it all hangs on the -- the incident was the "u.s.s. cole" bombing. the joint terrorist task force is stationed in foreign countries, yemen being one of them. so the facts are there. this is not a primmer on how to fight terrorism. if you read the bo