thank you again, melanie. >> you have to vote. >> oh, we have to vote. i try to focus so much on the public comment piece. okay. so, it's been moved and seconded to add "and to the environment" to line 6 on page 4. it's been moved and second. all those in favor please say aye. >> aye. >> and then can i get a motion to approve the resolution? put it on the record. so moved by commissioner wald. second by commissioner wanned. all those in favor please say aye. >> aye. >> approved. thank you, melanie. [gavel] >> [speaker not understood]? i was trying to be efficient. less co2 with less words. okay. so, thank you for that. we'll ask for the nays here on out. next item, please, monica. >> nomination and election of commission on the environment officers. this is a discussion and action item. >> all right. it's that time again. it seems like it was just a year ago that we did this. in fact, it was. well, i don't know quite what to say. i've got the honor to be the president on this commission for 12 months and it's been an honor to be in this role. i really do

. >> commending director melanie nutter, department of the environment. approval of resolution commending director melanie nutter for her service to the department of the environment and to the city and county of san francisco. whereas mayor gavin newsom appointed melanie nutter director for the san francisco department of the environment in august 2010 and whereas melanie nut r has continued to direct the department of the environment and provide san francisco's leadership under mayor edwin m. lee and whereas melanie nutter directed the department of the environment of 110 staff for the past 3-1/2 years and helped to make san francisco the greenest city in north america, and whereas melanie nutter helped champion environmental policy achievements in san francisco, including such accomplishments as -- i'll read four of them, but there are many, many accomplishments. successful implementation of the mandatory composting cycling policy that has helped move the city toward the goal of zero waste by 2020 with an 80% diversion rate. successful implementation o

melanie is sufficient with us through friday. if that's okay with melanie. so, before we formally do that, though, i said there were going to be a couple of surprises -- maybe one good one -- on the way over to the meeting, got a call that there was someone who wanted to send regards and send something nice to the commission. so, i bee-lined over to the mayor's office where there was something from our mayor for you, and it's framed. and it reads, that, proclamation that says, whereas the city and county of san francisco traditionally recognizes the achievements of notable individuals and the dedicated work of melanie nutter as executive director of the department of environment has represented san francisco values at their best and whereas melanie nutter was appointed to lead the san francisco department of the environment but then mayor gavin newsom in august 2010, and whereas under the direction of melanie the department of the environment has championed leading urban environmental policies and programs, helping san francisco get closer to its zero waste

. >> mi nombre es melany, tengo 11 aÑos. diagnostico es leucemia. >> en el caso de los pacientes con leucemia, como melany, es un paciente que cuando vino a la consulta con nosotros en el hospital de niÑos benjamin bloom... se consulto inmediatamente en vivo con los expertos en st. jude. [♪...] todos los niÑos con cancer se merecen buenas oportunidades de tratamiento. esto que vemos aqui en el salvador demuestra de que eso es posible, incluso en paises con

sixteen year lows melanie mac to marley shelton the head as she sat in a car with her boyfriend and another man outside a house in town two years ago. daniel mcdonald was seventeen at the time was arrested a short time nature finding costa de hero collectors and graffiti boasting about the killing that ryanair team on melanie's boyfriend saying i do like what you're trying to in the head tube. he is dead and another answer to his girlfriend he said. i feel i can still buy this wouldn't have happened if i'd known she was in the car. lawyers for the defense of the letters for those of the seventy year warranty there's no other evidence to link mcdonald's and kaylee the prosecution said there was no explanation for the masters. other than the conditions of guilt the trial judge said when there was no cooperation evidence the jury wasn't likely to convict if they believed the evidence of confession was reliable after just over four hours of deliberation a jury found him guilty of murder by a unanimous verdict in a victim impact statements melanie's god mother jennifer roche said the sixteen eur

melissa and melanie, so what do you think of each other?h, i'm shocked. she looks great, though. >> see the before and after. >> you guys. >> oh, my god. >> you are all hard-working moms who have wonderful husbands, you have five kids. we have three and two. >> yep. >> what was it like to have someone take care of you for a change? >> great. it was great. >> to be pampered. >> we enjoyed every moment. >> i want to hear from the team about the looks so, first, danna, about melissa, what made you go with this very cool motorcycle outfit? >> the key to looking chic as a mom is to just infuse a few street style pieces and sub those in for the workout clothes you might be used to when you're out. >> uniform. >> you can move in these clothes. i found these great paps from loft, ann taylor this a stretch denim so feel like a legging but look more polished. cool motor jacket. you'll wear it a thousand types and can be sort of your color combo you keep reaching for these pieces again and again and a little pony sider from joe fresh. how cute is ha.

i'd like to invite up melanie nutter. she has an incredibly long list of accomplishments during her time and i'll just highlight a couple of her accomplishments. she helped to successfully implement or mandatory composting recycling policy to move our city to a city of zero waste. she helped advance us to be the electric vehicle capital. she's someone who helped to encourage expansion of our city's outreach efforts to our immigrant populations when it comes to environmental public information. she helped to implement the existing commercial building ordinance with an 82 percent compliance rate. she initiated our city's first drug take back program which has collected over 16,000 pounds of unwanted medicine. helped to plan our 2012 green economy forum where we are making sure we're putting people to work and doing well by the economy. and she helped to support the city's bio initiative. we have known me melanie before she even joined. she has been a long time democratic activist and community leader. we know hopefully why

sponsoring speakers on this item are commissioner johanna walled and melanie nutter. >> commissioner called? >> yes. for the last couple of years the department and the commission have produced a single integrated annual report. each body, the department and the commission are required to file reports with the mayor's office on an annual basis explaining the benefits and the value added and all the good things that we do. so, i think this marks the third integrated report. the section on the commission was abe lee coordinated by our commission secretary monica fish who is now an expert at putting this document together. it, its content represent item that were chosen by the various commissioners for inclusion in the document as well as a representation of many of the activities that we undertook, including in particular the passage of formal resolutions. and now i'll turn it over to melanie to talk about the much more extensive department report. >> thank you, commissioner wald. so, commissioners, as you've seen, you have this annual report from 2013 and because it's quite detailed,

so, david osman is our acting director for this meeting, but melanie is still with us through the end of the week. we wanted to use this as an opportunity to bring the commission up to speed on the process of searching for our next director of the department. and for those that have been involved in the past search that led us to melanie and 3-1/2 great years of working with her, it's going to sound familiar because in many ways it's patterned after that process. it's also been -- we looked at a couple other processes particularly in regard to a search that commissioner wan was involved with with the juvenile probation commission when she was commissioner over there. and they went through a search. but what i wanted to kind of share is where we currently stand in terms of the process. and several commissioners really wanted to be active in having this conversation here to talk about what questions we want to ask in this process and what we think we're looking for as we go out there and try to find our next director to build upon the successes that melanie has delivered for the departm

melanie sloan is back at our table this morning.e to mark the fourth anniversary of the supreme court's decision and citizens united versus the ftc. let me show you the tweet from citizens united this morning. host guest: it marks the victory of anonymous money funding our political system and the vitriol political ads. what have you seen since the 2010 decision? guest: what we have seen as more and more money going into our political system, most of it anonymous. there are social welfare organizations, which were started initially in order to promote social welfare. now what we have seen is political people craving these 501(c)4s. innocuous sounding names. noou have no -- you have idea who is behind any organization. they are funding nasty and district of political ads. we really have no idea who is funding all of this. host: explain what the supreme court decided. caller: what they decided was that -- they basted on an older supreme court case. based it on an older supreme court case. in the past there has been a ban on corporate

. >> mi nombre es melany, tengo 11 aÑos.con leucemia, como melany, es un paciente que cuando vino a la consulta con nosotros en el hospital de niÑos benjamin bloom... se consulto inmediatamente en vivo con los expertos en st. jude. [♪...] todos los niÑos con cancer se merecen buenas oportunidades de tratamiento. esto que vemos aqui en el salvador demuestra de que eso es posible, incluso en paises con escasos recursos economicos. >> en el salvador, por ejemplo, el indice de supervivencia para niÑos con leucemia linfoblastica aguda se elevo de un 10% a un 60% en los primeros cinco aÑos de colaboracion. en guatemala, los indices de supervivencia tambien subieron de un 30% a un 70%. gracias al programa de alcance internacional de st. jude muchos mas niÑos en otros paises ahora tambien tendran la oportunidad de sobrevivir. >> a veces pienso... y todos los dias me acuesto y le digo a dios que solo un milagro, quiero que me la deje, que me la preste. [♪...] por que yo, o sea, es mi unica hija. yo la amo, yo la adoro. [♪...] y graci

and thank you, melanie. [laughter] >> i get to say that. so, this is indeed an annual item and my intention tonight isn't so much to give you a complete survey of what our program does as to, number one, give you an update on pesticide use trends on city properties, which is something i was not able to do last year because we were having data problems with our database. now the database is usable finally. i'm very happy about that. and, so, i can give you some of those numbers. and also, of course, it's our annual chance to revise and improve what we call the reduced risk pesticide list. for the benefit of commissioner wan and others, who might not have heard my whole spiel last year, i'm give you the briefest description we do in the integrated pest management program. we have -- we've been around a long time, 1996 is when the ordinance was passed, and it started with a complete ban on all pesticides. we soon realized it wasn't going to work for a whole long list of reasons. it evolved into what we see today, which is a list of pesticides

melanie, how are you? researchers have recently discovered that the third tower of 9/11 wasn't hit by a plane and if had properly included these elements, the explanation for the building's fall would be impossible. now that an attorney has written to the department of congress, would you be willing to read his letter and consider having an organization review this issue? >> guest: well, you can, please, feel free to send us the letter at info@citizens for action.org, and we'll certainly take a look. >> host: is that something you guys look into, or is it mostly money in politics? >> guest: we use the freedom of information act a incident amount from the government to obtain information it might not want to share. >> host: tom, republican caller. >> caller: yes. your guest is such a far left-wing guest, it's unbelievable. you should once in a while have a guest that's going to balance out what she's saying. >> host: stay tuned, tom. that's coming up next. >> caller: yesterday. you had three liberals on in

. -- host: melanie sloan is back at our table. let me show you the tweet from citizens united this morning. it says, today marks the fourth anniversary of our victory for free speech at the supreme court. i would say it marks the victory of anonymous money funneled into our clinical system for political ads. what have you seen since the 2010 decision? we have seen more and more money going into the political system, most of it anonymous. there are organizations called socialfour's which are welfare organizations, which were started initially in order to promote social welfare. but now what we have seen our political people crave -- --ating these 501(c) four with very innocuous names, things for you have no idea who is really behind them. and they are funding nasty political ads, very destructive within our political system, and with no idea who is funding all of this. host: explain what the supreme court decided. guest: what the supreme court's wasded in citizens united based on an older case, buckley versus let -- vallejo where i

pero pues uno tiene que estirar lo que puede para cumplirle >>> melany tiene 3 aÑos y su mamÁ es pobrees posible que no reciban >>> hay que a ser rey mago. magia que nos rinda el dinero para poder, poderles comprar lo que ellos les guste aunque sea sencillo pero, lo importantes que tengan su juguete. >>> este aÑo las peticiones de los niÑos son tabletas electrÓnicas, telÉfonos inteligentes, consolas de video juego complicando aÚn mÁs lo que los niÑos solicitan. hoy por la noche los niÑos mexicano se dormÍ ran pensado si los re wlayes mago cumplen con deseos porque muchos niÑos no reciben regalos y muchos no tienen nunca. >>> turistas de todas partes del mundo sufrieron baja temperaturas para este festival de nieve y hielo, usando 150 milÍmetros cÚbicos de hielo. y con esto llegamos al final con las noiaÑo no tiz tizas mÁs ime chest esta noche en "aquÍ y ahora." cristi lo tiene todo, hasta que le dieron un diagnostico devastador. >>> cuando te dice que tu hija tiene un cÁncer que solo hay 200 en estados unidos, y que el prometo dio de niÑos que lo logran es del 20%. >>> aseguran haber r

the contractors, the builders and melanie and phillips, our land use attorney, tim ruben, the brokerage firm, elliot and english and special thanks to my partners from the corporation. jeff, our vice-president of development and construction services. carl brown, the project engineer, brandon hwang, director of development, and senior vice-president of development services, we live in a world today where there is business, there is civic responsibility, there is opportunity to create these amazing environments. the city of san francisco like any well intended entity, it will make a few mistakes here or there, but by and large, when you just as we all do as husbands and wives and parents, when you take a look at san francisco in the total context, i know of no place in this country that is this forward thinking, it's a liberal city that understand in order to have the money to do great things for citizens, it has to have a robust business climate. i can't think of a better place to be, it almost makes me teary eyed what we can do with this country if we had the same spirit as san francis

thanks for that, melanie baker, uk economist at morgan stanley. charles, stick around. we'll get a bit more for you on china. china's industrial companies aren't growing by the same leaps and bounds in the past. a lot slower than the 10% jump in november. a healthy 13%. analysts say recent trends point towards a growth slowdown in the country. at the same time, rising -- more than doubling its write-off on nonperforming assets hurt by the troubled steel industry. the 160 million write-off may cut the bank's tax liability but still highlight a major risk. the loan ratio remains rising. china's big banks are exposed to more politically bending and have even higher ratios. let's go back to the point you were making a few minutes ago. >> i couldn't have said it better. you've got wages -- >> how do they -- what's the right way to manage this? >> well, i mean, the thing is that they desperately need to have a lower exchange rate. as the current exchange rate, which is, in our estimate, 30% overvalued. the only way of getting growth is to boost this capital spending. they've

brooklyn's bedford may seem an unlike i place for the farm bill to be a priority, but it is of concern for melanie sammuals whose foot pantry feeds 20,000 people a month. >> in my heart i'm looking at what else can i do. >> sammuals is worried about the plan to cut $8 billion over 10 years in footstamps. the supplemental nutrition program. >> this will drive more people to pantries and soup kitchens that are already on a shoe stripping budget. we can't stake care of the families coming. >> organizations feeding the poor felt a strain when the program was cut by $5 billion and more returned to the food bank and pantries. >> the latest round of cuts would affect more than a dozen states. winson is worried. her husband's salary doesn't stretch far enough. they depend on food stamps and lean on the food barn. >> people have a lot of children. they are working, trying to make ends meet. >> the debate over food stamps is over government spending. the latest cuts are smaller than proposed. it doesn't ease the worry for a permanentry stepping up cash purchases for food. >> we are not here to be the front

i am circling the depth with melanie to help put this together. she's already whispered in my ear you're going to be front and center of this program. we want this program to be made available to all our san franciscan homeownership's right now and remove a obstacle to help renew our energy systems. through this system homeownership's can make payment through their property tax bill that can prepared. >> 20 years of payment that helps to eliminate the large costs for those ub8dz and combined with other energy watch and water conservatism rebates it can help people save money on wave and this makes economic success that were we can as sxhaefrl adequately explains this will have an increased demand for this program for water skepticism and energy conservatism projects it will yeast good jobs that will be sustainable for a long time. we invest in you to be the skill set the people working on people's homes 0 you can have good clean green jobs and we'll begin by hiring people in the spanish community to have faith so this program will be theirs for al

the contractors, the builders and melanie and phillips, our land use attorney, tim ruben, the brokerage firm, elliot and english and special thanks to my partners from the corporation. jeff, our vice-president of development and construction services. carl brown, the project engineer, brandon hwang, director of development, and senior vice-president of development services, we live in a world today where there i

. >> melanie was michelle's high school biology teacher at whitney young high. chicago's first magnet school. >> i think that her mother and her father believed that this was the place where michelle could blossom. she was on the national honor society. she was a class officer. she had the academic record to get into advanced placement classes. you know, that's not an easy thing. >> you are passing a sign over here that says phenomenal woman. when i look over here we see a little shrine to michelle robinson obama. oh, these are her school pictures. freshman, sophomore, junior and senior class. by the senior year she was wearing a little lip gloss there. >> she always presented herself meticulously. even in her dress. she was not a jeans and t-shirt person. >> no. >> she was just an all-american girl. she could pose for an american girl doll. you know? >> very popular. had a lot of friends. and she didn't suffer many fools. >> big brother craig was a high school basketball star. and when he was recruited to play ball at princeton university, michelle wanted despe

the contractors, the builders and melanie and phillips, our land use attorney, tim ruben, the brokerage firm, elliot and english and special thanks to my partners from the corporation. jeff, our vice-president of development and construction services. carl brown, the project engineer, brandon hwang, director of development, and senior vice-president of development services, we live in a world today where there is business, there is civic responsibility, there is opportunity to create these amazing environments. the city of san francisco like any well intended entity, it will make a few mistakes here or there, but by and large, when you just as

it's claimed he wrote of melanie's boyfriends i would do in life when you're crying too and the head. here he is dead the jury was told he also wrote i'll never forget that most during the past two nights of my life. and then to be all over the sunday words on pages and in a letter to his girlfriend's the prosecution claims he wrote i feel i can still buy this would of happened if i'd known she was in the car prosecuting counsel trenton granted the killing of all the hallmarks of a highly organized enterprise involving a number of people the cheap number plates and weapon used in the attack at holding still in the clear intent of firing a shotgun into a car at close range only appealed to kill or cause serious injury. mr brennan said the jury would have to decide if daniel mcdonald was involved in this inning. he says the combined evidence from the actors would prove he was guilty of a larger dynamic donald denies the charge or trial continues tomorrow. vivian stringer rc news at the central criminal court the former president of the european central bank job coaching shea has denied

. >> anyway, so, this is i think one of the departments and melanie's great achievements is putting together this climate action strategy which is kind of cool to what the department does, to drive the emissions down to the city's targets. it's been a long time coming, but it's really good. so, really excited to hear about it. >> terrific. well, i'm really excited to give you an overview of it and we can get into more detail and try to answer your questions. and i'm going to try to give you some context about the report itself. before i start, i wanted to make a comment about commissioner arce's request or interest in the holding an event to highlight those departments that have done a great job at hacto. every year in june, we sponsor the blue green awards where we highlight departments that have done particularly well or done some great specific project related to all of the climate action strategy activities in their climate action plans. and it's a wonderful event. we weren't able to hold it last year because war memorial was being done and that was our cheap, low-cost venue. and we hadn

so melanie. it is not a surprise that john a different design was done the job until a company specializing in snow clearing and elise note saying the same shop drawings in his lot of work. we order. with the film within the past two weeks. from these orders that of the cause of the weather the snow of the lot of snow we've had recently been for me was the last few days the cold cold temperature and temperatures in northern eastern us. my father called to say in this country which is the company's warehouse will attempt to supply labor to previous his studies in the austin them into like spring. oh bugger off the wall. that's our number one pop. this was full of all the way down through there on top. this number temperatures he likes to sing and dance nights a week to many more open to scrutiny still don't. at least twenty two when dad was causing hundreds of hundreds of school was out of business boasts thousands of flights and try to set this has happened canceled or delayed . the a quarter of

>>melanie: probably the universe telling us we don't need this stuff in our bodies.aul:i love it.i know it's bad for you but hey we all have our faults. >>eduardo: green bay's retaliation after the 49ers win. >> reporter: but pay, the cheese is there now so if you want to go out and buy it now we still can. but hey! the cheese is still on shelves. the billstill ahead-- how far would your boss go >> pam: to help you out in a health crisis? the extraordinary gift our restaurant owner is giving an employee in need. and, he defied u-s authorities, setting up a basketball game in north korea. so angry? >> pam: so why is there a push to make a change to m&m's? some parents say, the coloring makes their kids hyper-active. >> pam: now a petition has been launched to make the manufacturer adjust how the candy gets its color -- which varies in different parts of the world. >> pam: renee shutters says her son trenton used to suffer regular 'meltdowns' - but then his behavior improved remarkably when she took artificial dyes out of his diet, including - no more m-and-m's. >>"i j

. >> with melanie griffin opening up about her daughter -- >> are you scared for her?ows what she's doing. >> then the ncis newbie, a golden globe nominee. next on the insider. >>> now, time for the kron 4 tech report, with gabe slate. >> the popular social network snapchat has been hacked. and 4.6 million accounts have been compromised. user names and partial phone numbers were leaked and exposed online. the website posting the user information was taken down right after it was posted. the phone numbers were not quite complete. the last two digits were blurred out. this was done on purpose to protect people's identity. if you would like to see if you were one of the users hacked, security developers have created a website where people can check. >>> you can find that at lookup.gibson.org. the hack was done by an anonymous hacker group, who said they did it to expose the security loophole in snapchat. the group claims it was a good will hack. they are white hackers, the good guys, not the bad guys. let's hope they're telling the truth and that they don't do anything cr

and i think this is exactly what that was it like melanie said such a sense that an incentive to mention that because right now and will lie in bed. change is taking place and that we don't have institutions that many are on the exchange of money to change and media precise the mega center and to add this to allah to manage this change. no youtube of them are the most or all the keepers of the kind of mom prescient when you've lost a huge amount of butter or jesus or the gumption to what's in store them for me in them the commission made the awful want you all know that it might impress anyone up for the disco obama feels kinda difficult for one moment in the digital switch to the orchards and myself and i am patient and i gotta say institute we have been involved in that promoting these gals are and he is now that we don't have any yet we don't meet with and people individually in groups of people with students and blotted we do not have such an impact. it means yet became involved in that said that the impact will team up with the montreal to wear it to disintegrate initiative michael

>> melanie. >> jimmy: where are you from? >> los angeles. >> jimmy: from right here in los angeles.t is the most interest thing about you? >> i was raised amish growing up. >> jimmy: that is interesting. where did you grow up? >> in farmington, connecticut. >> jimmy: and i'm guessing that your family doesn't approve of the changes you've made? >> no. we broke amish in seventh grade. my parents got divorced and they were like f-f. >> jimmy: did both of them decide not to be amish anymore? >> well, my mom was always just crazy. so they was like we wore ruffle dresses down to the toys. we baked our own toys in the oven. >> yeah, it was like three to five hours to make fife dolls. >> she churned her own lip piercings. >> jimmy: wow ear not amish anymore. that's for sure. all right, i have to say. that's interesting. i mean, this is something the amish cannot do. they cannot use a burrito box. i think there were five different kind of burritos there. you can pick which one you like. we'll go meet somebody else. is it there already? oh, good, you get an old burrito. >> let's meet our next

i'm friend with his wife melanie. this is a personal account of marcus' harrowing experience.ost three really good friends on the ground with him and another eight guys in the air. it's unconscionable that anyone would even try to pick apart this story and inject any political slant to it whatsoever. >> there was so much that was written, the criticism was that the book that marcus wrote about himself and his fellow seal members, you know, didn't question the strategy in afghanistan. and they complain that the writer marcus putting his life on the line was enamored of george bush. what's wrong with that. >> there is nothing wrong with that george bush is from texas. marcus is from texas. come on o, that makes total sense to me. it's ridiculous. >> think about it, we just talked about benghazi. four civilians there with a warning no one sends. president obama doesn't send assets. he still won't answer any questions. questioning george bush when why find out secretary of defense gates. surge in afghanistan. why is there a double standard? >> this is on mission for one thing. tha

. >> on the next "washington sloanl," melanie discusses the consequences of the spring court costs -- of the spring court's decision of citizens united v. the federal election commission. then efforts to fight the decision and recent efforts to update voting rights legislation. then u.s. job growth in 2014. if your comments by phone, twitter, and facebook. "washington journal," live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. bring public affairs events from washington or correctly to you, putting you in the room at congressional hearings, white house events, briefings, and offering complete gavel-to-gavel coverage of the the serviceall at of public and private in history. we are c-span, funded by your cabletv or satellite provider. follow us on twitter. evan sayet is a former tv writer and standup comedian who wrote the book "kindergarten of eden." he spoke to a conservative forum of silicon valley. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> good evening, everybody. happy new year. i'm in wending my way right up front that i am taking the easy way out tonight with my introduction for tonight's gue

i know that melanie does it all the time. on the affordable care act she just had a rally where people got out information about people signing up. but who joined? who said they would help to support and lift your voice and encourage. with the concept to leave. that is where we got this from. saying that they have their stuff together, we want to join them and work with them. [applause] so much infighting amongst us, it has been very difficult for other people to join and unite with us, they do not take us seriously. we need to build a coalition, a broad coalition of people that do not necessarily like us but agree on the issue. looking at the voter laws that were passed in texas, using student ids at state universities, but you can use your gun permit? law thatudy the voter was passed in north carolina, the exact same thing. that was passed by college students, and not just lacked once. i have studied this issue. we have been talking about it on radio and television. what i have got to do is brought in, broaden -- brought in