. >> director metcalf? >> i want to first of all say that i am so thrilled that we are talking about the dtx, this, yeah, you can sit down and i might have a question for you. but i am really pleased that we are talking about this phase, and i hope that kind of for this and this can be a major focus of our time for the board and thank you for such a thorough overview and presentation and i feel like it lays out a bunch of things that we are going to need to delve into and talk about, from what you presented the design build, finance, maintain option looks really appealing and the it really has turned out well, and i think that one of the san francisco examples that has gotten this city familiar and comfortable. with it. i think that it would be really great if as you just said, if the ta and the tjpa can joinly design this and the ta is the agency here that has the experience without having done one of these, and those are the big lawsuit that the ta dealt with from the cal transengineers and i expect that

the column was written by dick metcalfe, wrote about his take on the second amendment, saying too manygun owners still seem to believe any regulation of the right to bear and keep arms is an infringement. all constitutional rights are regulated. and need to be. guns and ammo editor is now apologizing to furious readers and also announced that he has fired metcalf and stepping down himself. joining me now, staff writer for the atlantic, covering this story. fires dick metcalf and said the guy who gets fired said he was talking about the illinois law that requires gun owners to undergo 16 hours of training before obtaining a concealed weapons permit. is that what set off the readers? >> yeah, in terms of the gun control measures that you could advocate for, it was as mild as you can imagine. the way he framed it in the context of there are limits that apply to the second amendment, ones we already recognize, that frame is what promoted the reaction. >> statement of fact. >> absolutely. in fact, a lot of the outcry it was issued in response to that, clearly didn't even read the article be

maybe, we want to kind of schedule forward, drilling down in to some of the areas that the director metcalf mentioned. and i think that starting even right is just at the extension of the box, and kind of understand, what that construction looks like. and that is the imminent domain required to get that space and i don't think that i realized until seeing this presentation that that extension, east or it was needed and i think that the discussion on that will be helpful. and on the construction method. there is i know, and it has been a case for quite a long time in terms of the project approach that we have these two pretty significant, cut and one large and one smaller cut and cover, section, that i think that we would want to spend some time looking at and just understanding what the impacts of that will be obviously it can be very disruptive and these are happening right, and in some case, a pretty booming part of the downtown and another case, of the emerging part of the downtown and so we really are understanding that and but, the discussion of alignment, and i know that we are still

and again, i will just concur with the director metcalf that i think that it was a great presentation and to start surfacing all of these things and maybe, in each of our subsequent meetings we can drill down on one aspect of this, and really, and there is no bigger transportation project that is more important to san francisco than getting this tunnel built and getting the train service to the transbay. and so i am happy to see it moving forward now. >> thank you, director. >> director lee? >> and so i will be respectful as possible, and i am filling in for director lloyd and so i kind of feel like i should draw my box a little bit. i do feel like i need to say a few things, at the staff level, that we met with a tjpa and we have not brought this to the board, but the staff level, there is excitement for any efforts to try and advance the dtx, because we would like to bring our trains to ttc. and that is that we are striving for, and with our context, and a few things, that i think were highlighted in the presentation, is sort of, there is consensus to invest in a decision, and becau

>> thank you.. >> aye. >> lee. >> aye. >> metcalf. >> aye. >> kim. >> aye. >> and so the motion passed. >> thank you, thank you for the continued support. >> we actually have a short calendar today and so, at this time, we are going to recess the regular meeting and convene into closed session. and before that, we have to take public comment on any closed session items. are there any members of the public that would like to speak on item 11 and 12? >> and i have not received any indication that a member of the public wanted to address you. >> seeing none, the public comment is closed on these items. we do ask that the members of the public exit the hearing room as the board con convenients into closed session. we will then reconvene into our regular meeting and make an announcement of our actions. >> >> all right, tj pa board of director's is back in >> i get really concerned one ip -- hear people say the payroll tax is a job killer. maybe in some industries the payroll tax might be a disincentive on business going forward, but i would not be surprised if we came out of the whole discu

mobile home parks in palo alto because the school district is amazing joining us on science is gabriel metcalfhe is the director of spur. in our google hang out is jennifer frieden bacch. andnd iin the hang out maria isa housing rights organizer for just cause. gabriel it's all about supply and demand. as is the case when this happens in most steve. do you think there is something that is going on that is thank that is unique to san francisco that makes it difficult to find affordable housing? >> i think we came by this problem honestly, the we are telling with it are first it's a great city. and second our regional economy is generating a ton of jocks. jocks -- jobs so it's a nice problem to have. the third reason it's our own fault. we have not allowed s so very mh housing t to be built in decade. a lot of demand to live here and a constrained supply because of our own choices. the inevitable results is sky rocketing prices it's a really bad situation. the down sides of this far out weigh the up sides, although there are both. there will not be an easy solution. but there are things we can d

. >> metcalf. >> here. >> and director reiskin? >> present. >> and chair kim. >> here. >> madam chair you do have a quorum. >> thank you, are there any communications today? seeing none, any board of director's new or old business? seeing none, we will move on to the executive director's report. >> good morning directors and members of the public, typically we don't hold a december meeting because of schedule travel and so forth and november is our last board meeting given that this is most likely our last meeting of the year i would like to report on the highlights, in particular since director lee is joining us today and has not been with us this last year. and the various things that we accomplished and with respect to the transbay project, beginning with the ground breaking and the sale of tea to hains, and that is how we started off the year and we then sold block six as well to gala for 30 million and entered into an agreement with havan and bridge housing to purchase, block nine for 43 million, this is working with the offic

>> go ahead and for the record due to scheduling conflicts reiskin are absent and we expect metcalf shortly. >> harper. >> here. >> director lee. >> here. >> director sartipi? >> present >> and chair, kim. >> present. >> thank you. >> so, are there any old or new business for the board of directors? >> pushing up item three, communications. >> sorry. >> any communications? >> none that i am aware of. >> let's move on to the executive director's report. >> good morning and good news that we are expecting to close on block 6 and 7. and that was purchased price of $30.6 million paid to the tjpa and another 20 million paid to the successor agency to construct affordable housing. and the as you recall the development calls for 479 units of residential housing, 409 market rate, and 7 new affordable built by the partner mercy housing and i want to thank cal transand the agencies for the continued collaboration and support of the tjpa and the neighborhood plan. and secondly, i did want to mention that continue to work wither close with the veterans and hosting and supporting a fund-raiser for veter

dylan scott from "talking points memo," nancy metcalf from "consumer reports." thank you so much. david axelrod, former senior adviser with president barack obama, now an nbc news analyst and director of the chicago institute of politics. david, what is your feeling about this, the coverage that the health care law has gotten in the last few weeks? >> well, look, some of it is self-inflicted because the website hasn't functioned properly. and you know, part of the problem here is that people haven't been able to go on to the website and learn that they could get a better deal. on the other hand, many of these people aren't even being informed in these letters that they have that opportunity or that it's buried in the fine print, and that, you know, that's unacceptable. that's deceptive. and i do think that, you know, there is -- you know, chris, you're an experienced journalist -- there tends to be kind of a herd mentality in coverage. >> yep. >> and now the story is, well, the website's not working, now the letters are out there. and i have no doubt that the opponents are fanning

and here to answer them is sandy metcalf from consumer reports.r being with us. >> my pleasure. >> some are saying you have to buy a new policy, and it might cover more but it's more expensive. are these people be asked to buy the policy and things they don't need? >> the reason they are being cancelled they are not adequate to the new rules of the law, and the thing that is not adequate is they don't cover everything they need to be covered and the policies may not have prescription drug coverage or doctor visits, and the new policies that are being sold have to offer that stuff. >> they offer protections on not being covered for preconditions. >> yeah. >> when you hear these stories like men being asked to buy maternity coverage, for example, it's a great headline. >> right. >> can you talk about the idea of individual versus group insurance with risks? >> the whole idea of insurance is that you pool the risk of all kind of health care you need, from maternity to hospice care, and that's what medicare and medicaid does and group insurance and th

dick metcalf made a seemingly inknoouyous case for gun contro.made comes like guns and ammo, supporting gun control is like penthouse reporting articles on pornography and immorality of master detectibat. they issued this apology. i thought it would generate a healthy exchange of ideas on gun rates. i ask for your forgiveness. so much for opening dialogue. and steve king would best be known for comparing mexicans to cantaloupes and wanting to build a fence on our southern border. it was one of the arguments for going me to war with iraq. president bush claim that saddam hussein was seeking yellowcake uranium to build weapons. >> saddam hussein sought quantities of uranium from africa. >> president bush included bogus material in his speech. this week the white house admitted the claim was not true. >> well, now, congressman king says that president bush's debunked claim which bush admitted was incorrect was actually true. speaking on an iowa radio program yesterday, the congressman made this stunning assertion. >> w. bush was accused of 16 words

i am myself but i have been in his sleigh metcalf plays a doctor a nice units prisoners. will premiere this weekend on high tea i however don't know if he is probably going which is now on it's flu season and is the top right tooth to home rule cost network television in the us will be coming anyway anytime soon. prep the national archives in washington as honored director steven spielberg with its two thousand thirteen records of achievement awards for bringing history to life in films such as schindler's list a link in and saving private ryan. i'm very humbled by this i feel like it's the beginning that that my daughter actually presenting. the foundation of our daughter. spielberg other private to read the archive before the event and was able to see regional historical documents including the constitution and the actual thirteenth amendment and we make a movie you've made up of stuff to make out what the document looks like based on the research we do here at the national archives but didn't actually see the entire experience the records of achievement award honors in

construct one hundred schools and one hundred hospitals another deputy of them into a snow dog jesse metcalfe says that the implementation progress of the program of housing and utility modernization is not satisfying it is proved by the great number of people's complaints. for example in two thousand eleven ten point five billion cu were allotted for the republican budget for implementation of this program but in two thousand thirteen no money was allotted at all while the region's in about twenty six willing to give the government is planning to live only in between tinggi in two thousand fourteen what does it mean does the government consider this program to be unnecessary the prime minister said he opposed in his chair and said that the government made conclusions and punished and vice ministers and deputy governors of them were reprimanded which said the company considers to be quite efficient method of controlling budgetary discipline of the prime minister pointed out that is necessary to prove all the above mentioned programs this is a bonus for the fastest but it's up in accordance wi

the site as you heard you are left some questions about obama care and here to answer them is nancy metcalfrom "consumer reports," thank you for being here. >> my pleasure. >> the big thing was people were told you can't keep your policy, you have to buy a new policy that might be more expensive, it might cover more but it's more expensive. and they don't -- are these people being asked to buy something that they don't need? what would you tell those folks? >> well, the reason those policies are being canceled is because they don't -- they're not adequate to the rules of the new law, and the thing that's not adequate about them is they don't cover everything that they need to cover, the policies that are being canceled might not have prescription drug coverage, they might not cover doctor visits. the new policies that are being sold have to cover all that stuff. >> and they offer certain protections in terms of, again, not being discriminated against on pre-existing conditions. people get sick, sometimes people could be dropped or their premiums go could up, all those sorts of things. >> th

created an uproar among conservatives this week when a published an article by contributing editor dick metcalf that embraced gun control any good will with gun control advocates the gun an animated walk itself has now expired that's because the magazine fired did. earlier today and ammos chief editor jim the cat announced the move on line saying that his publications committee member on one of those on wavering. let's be honest though that aspiring to has probably little to do with ideology and everything to do with the pressure guns and ammo faces on the gun industry advertisers and the very very ugly pocatello high school i don't high school fired its girls basketball coach lorraine cooke late last month when he discovered that she had posted to facebook a suggestive picture of her fiance paris and grabbing her breast a teacher getting fired over a racy photo isn't really news but makes the case so screwed up is that her fiance is also an employee of pocatello high school just like she is and he's keeping his job is the school's football coach for what that's what this is a case of gender do

my name is eddie metcalf. i enjoworking in my yard and you know, i can't. kidneys, no more kidney stones. that's the good news. "but, we found a spot on your lung." that frankly scared the "hell" out of me. i hadn't smoked in 22 years. how could this happen to me? he said, "well, you know about radon gas?" we'll... you know, i heard about it. he said, "well, the second leading cause of cancer" "in america is radon, 22,000 people a year die from this." i literally left the doctor's office, got a test kit, put it in my house, and our result was 39.8. the upper limit is 4. we got to get this fixed. that was on a monday, and on wednesday, our mitigation system was up and running. well, i think everybody should have their house tested. we'd never know. we'd still be living there. i could get another tumor from it. right now, it's changing my life. >> good morning, everyone. i'm carolyn tyler. thanks thanks for joining us on this sunday, november 10th. let's start a a quick look at you are a weather with meet lease average. >> good morning. we are starting out wi

dick metcalf said all citizens have a right to bear arms, but not a right to use them you are responsiblye responsibly. with many threatening to can sell their subscription, meanwhile an army vet in georgia was banned from entering her daughter's school after posting a photo of her concealed weapons permit on facebook. a police officer told tonya mount the principal was scared of you. >> she said the principal doesn't want out grounds. were you in the army? i said yes. do you have a n could sealed weapons permit? i said yes. >> speaking of tyrant. >> that was great. count on cat kidnapping, cat napping. i give up. lori, are you a gun expert. were they justified in firing the writer? >> you know what struck me? i love that it is gun writer. i am a financial journalist. it is not as cool and wild west sounding. >> but you have guns. i met your personal trainer. >> jorge. >> that's a tough question. it is hipocritical. it is protective of the constitutional rights. they are firing somebody for infringing upon his own rights by knocking out the free speech, blah, blah, blah. >> it is a free c

. >>> and why you may want to savor that gla my name is eddie metcalf. i enjoworking in my yard and you know, i can't. i can't do that any more,'cuz i'm missing most of my lung. they did a cat scan of my kidneys, no more kidney stones. that's the good news. "but, we found a spot on your lung." that frankly scared the "hell" out of me. i hadn't smoked in 22 years. how could this happen to me? he said, "well, you know about radon gas?" we'll... you know, i heard about it. he said, "well, the second leading cause of cancer" "in america is radon, 22,000 people a year die from this." i literally left the doctor's office, got a test kit, put it in my house, and our result was 39.8. the upper limit is 4. we got to get this fixed. that was on a monday, and on wednesday, our mitigation system was up and running. well, i think everybody should have their house tested. we'd never know. we'd still be living there. i could get another tumor from it. right now, it's changing my life. pushing the limits. however, i didn't know the impact a brain injury can have. the ri

and we my name is eddie metcalf. i enjoworking in my yard and you know, i can't. i can't do that any more,'cuz i'm missing most of my lung. they did a cat scan of my kidneys, no more kidney stones. that's the good news. "but, we found a spot on your lung." that frankly scared the "hell" out of me. i hadn't smoked in 22 years. how could this happen to me? he said, "well, you know about radon gas?" we'll... you know, i heard about it. he said, "well, the second leading cause of cancer" "in america is radon, 22,000 people a year die from this." i literally left the doctor's office, got a test kit, put it in my house, and our result was 39.8. the upper limit is 4. we got to get this fixed. that was on a monday, and on wednesday, our mitigation system was up and running. well, i think everybody should have their house tested. we'd never know. we'd still be living there. i could get another tumor from it. right now, it's changing my life. and phone bill. do you ever notice the strange charges that pop up on your bills? what are they and where do they come from? michael

what metcalf was talking about the training requirement for a permit in illinois.lumn. illinois is a state that is forced to allow carry rights. they have set up a system that is very hard, takes a hot of training, a lot of time. other states make it simple, take a short class. that's the issue, how long it takes to get carry permits. that's specific to that. it's not about what types of gun you're going to carry or any type of assault weapons ban. >> i listen to the details both of you lay out. i read the column, chris, what this comes down to is the power of social media. and it got what it wanted. >> it's the age we live in now. it's a 24/7 interconnected world where if you, you know, if you stir up the pot, you're going to get a lot of stings. >> you can start revolutions and bring down editors. >> absolutely. it's the reality of the day and age we live in. but listen, in this case, i would say it's isolated because you're talking about a magazine where the audience was very pro gun. in terms of the wider debate, the overwhelming country believes that, i don't

dick metcalf wrote that the right to guns. he argued the second amendment is no different than any other right. this week, the editor of "guns and ammo" apologized to readers and said the magazine's commitment to the second amendment is unwavering. >>> and the "wall street journal" looks at how airlines are mining their customers' personal data, using it to personalize the flying experience and target promotions. flight attendants will soon carry tablets with information on whether passengers have allergies or if bags have been lost. that's a lot of info for them to >>> the fog a little thick in spots out the door we go, in fact we have that dense fog showing up in the city of san francisco and around the bay and, well, those visibilities down to a quarter mile and less in some spots. delays at sfo half hour of arriving fights because of fog. high pressure making for a mild weekend start and then more clouds colling coming and cooler temperatures. 60s and 70s in most spots today, maybe some upper 50s toward the coastline. a li

. >> starting metcalf lyndenberger.first space flight. >> and liftoff of "discovery". >> she came to space camp as a young lady, she came through the programs, did exceptionally well while she was here at space camp, and she followed her dreams. she followed her heart. she had a love for math and for science. and became our first graduate from space camp to go into space, and she was on one of the sts shuttle missions. >> i really want to be an astronaut. i think it would be really cool to just go up in space. >> we love science. >> i'm really excited to go on the rides and space camp is so much fun. >> hey! >> come to space camp. have fun, don't be afraid to fail, and just enjoy any rock star moment that you may have. >> hi! >> that was very fun! launch systems are a go. stand by to resume the countdown on my mark. five, four, three, two, one, mark. i've never done something like that. it's very difficult to run a space shuttle. it's very fun having that job. >> when we come back, we're going to talk about space. shoul