we do have with us this afternoon mohammed nuru, director of d.p.w. mohammed, where are you?ause] mohammed is going to have to rush out, but he wants to say welcome and thank you. >> good afternoon, everyone. and thank you for inviting the department of public works over here to talk about our contract processes. we are part of the city family and he will not be able to stay for the whole event, but edgar lopez, who is from our department, who actually is involved in many of the projects, the new public safety building, most of the projects in san francisco are actually under his leadership. so he can talk in detail about how they meet many of the goals and what we have coming out. we do have quite a number of projects that are coming out. all those new projects are subject to the 30% local resident hiring. you will see from the information that our department has far exceeded many of those goals that have been sent. we actually track everything and i think the exciting part is that we do have a number of projects that are coming online, and so this hope for work. as it relat

. >>> mohammed owns the shirley express convenience store on new york's long island.ins a loyal following of customers and has managed to dodge a big bullet in his line of work, getting rob d robbed, until now. it's just past midnight and mohammed is finishing up some paperwork before locking up for the night. >> my head is down on my paperwork and the guy comes quick and says guv me the money, give me the money. >> the robber tosses a phone violevi vievi violently and raise as baseball bat. one wrong move can have deadly consequences. convenience store murders are near the of the top of the list in workplace slayings every year and now his phone is across the room, so hi can't call the cops but the clerk has been hiding something from the robber. he's got a weapon of his own, a big gun under the counter. what would do you in this situation, would you fight back, break out the gun, or give the man threatening you with the weapon what he wants? >> that's a moment i had to decide. i can't call on somebody to ask what i'm going to do now. >> mohammed makes some choices t

we do have with us this afternoon mohammed nuru, director of d.p.w. mohammed, where are you?plause] mohammed is going to have to rush out, but he wants to say welcome and thank you. >> good afternoon, everyone. and thank you for inviting the department of public works over here to talk about our contract processes. we are part of the city family

sheikh mohammed admitted to erin that u.s.on iran are not good for dubai but he also told her that he doesn't believe iran will develop a nuclear weapon. >>> a family of five killed in a house fire christmas day, the disturbing details of the final moments. >>> a man arrested for a crime. when he murdered and dismembers her he was already wanted for violating his parole. [oinking] [hissing] [ding] announcer: cook foods to the right temperature using a food thermometer. 3,000 americans will die from food poisoning this year. check your steps at foodsafety.gov. >>> autopsy results are in for the five family members killed in a tragic christmas day fire in stamford connecticut. lomer johnson died of head drama after falling through the roof rafters while trying to save one of his grand chirp. that's him in the santa claus outfit. johnson also died of smoke inhalation as did his wife and three grandchildren. the children's mother, new york ad executive, madonna badger, and a friend escaped the deadly blaze. official officials say

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his name is sheikh mohammed. locals call his highness. >> reporter: a perfect december day to celebrate the 40th anniversary of one of the youngest countries in the world. this is the united arab emirates and the man who built its crowned jewel, dubai, is still at the helm. a dream of skyscrapers where 40 years ago there were literally sand do you knows, tents, and small efforts. now the world's tallest building rises from the desert. the center of the city. and the backdrop for the rich and famous, including tom cruise and his stunt move for the latest movie, "mission impossible" he dangled 153 stories in the air. this city is a haven for people seeking escape. judy is a student from syria. >> living here alone, i never feel unsafe, uncomfortable of living here. >> reporter: even the ruler still walks without a security detail. dubai is diverse. 85% of the people who live here are and people from 200 countries pass through so far, though, there's been no suicide in the city. >> are you worried that extremists, s

we do have with us this afternoon mohammed nuru, director of d.p.w. mohammed, where are you?[applause] mohammed is going to have to rush out, but he wants to say welcome and thank you. >> good afternoon, everyone. and thank you for inviting the department of public works over here to talk about our contract processes. we are part of the city family and he will not be able to stay for the whole event, but edgar lopez, who is from our department, who actually is involved in many of the projects, the new public safety building, most of the projects in san francisco are actually in san francisco are actually under his leadership.

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we do have with us this afternoon mohammed nuru, director of d.p.w. mohammed, where are you?ause] mohammed is going to have to rush out, but he wants to say wee

mohamed el erian have a wonderful weekend to both of you. diane, stick around because i want to talk about a big drop in the jobless rate and what it means. could it finally be sometime for optimism in the jobs market? there goes dwayne's car. oh, man. there goes dwayne's house. whoa! whoa! and there goes dwayne. man, that thing does not like dwayne. [ male announcer ] state farm's got you covered. nice landing. it was. [ male announcer ] get to a better state. secondhand smoke affects everyone's health. nice landing. it was. it's not just irritating. it can cause heart disease and even death. speak up about secondhand smoke. your health and the health of your family depend on it. >>> hiring is up and unemployment is down. this is what the government said about the job situation in november. 120,000 jobs created over all and more jobs created in october and september than originally thought. the private sector accounting for all of this and then some. 140,000 jobs created in the private sector while the government shed some 20,000 jobs. here

. >> susie: mohamed el-erian joins us now with more analysis. he's c.e.o. of pimco, the world's largest bond fund. nirs to you have on today to analyze all of this for us. >> thank you. >> susie: well so, what do you think of the deal? you've been talking about europe an you've been very concerned about their strategies. what dow make of this decision? >> the first sigh of relief that they agreed to something. unfortunately, what they agreed to is neither a quick fix nor is it comprehensive enough. it doesn't cover enough of the issues that need resolution and then as you said in the lead-in, there's a new angle now which is we're starting to see division within the european union, and in particular within the members of the eurozone, the 17 and the other 10 lead by britain. so it just tells you complicated this issue was. and we haven't solved it fully as yet. >> so what's missing out of this so-called comprehensive plan that you want and is it still possible to get there? >> well, time is running out so what's missing. first you have to combine debt conta

then there was the controversy over sheikh mohammed, khalid sheikh mohammed. wanted, what, to stop the waterboarding at that point? >>. no i wanted to bring khalid sheikh mohammed to guantanamo out of the shadows. tell the people we had the mastermind of 9/11. the united states doesn't disappear people. >> bill: he didn't want that because he wanted to do it secretly. thought he would get more al qaedas though, right? >> khalid sheikh mohammed was passed his intelligence value. >> bill: why didn't cheney when you had this difference of opinion. >> i did, of course. >> bill: why didn't he want a public exposition of what mohammed had done and where he was going? >> i don't know. >> bill: he never told you? >> once you started down that rude would begin to unravel the entire operation. we still had some of these people that we needed for intelligence value. but my point to him and the president ultimately agreed is that we had done nothing to be ashamed of. >> bill: so he didn't want any exposition of what the u.s.a. was doing at all. >> that's my recollection,

i don't know what they would do today if they captured the equivalent of khalid sheikh mohammed. probably read him his miranda rights. i don't know. that's what in my mind it is a mistake for us to give up those capabilities. i hope that there are no more attacks. but even as we meet here today everybody goes to work with their car radio this morning there's a threat that's sufficient credibility at least at this stage that the authorities are saying this is not confirmed what we are to give very seriously. so i think it was a mistake for them not to stay as actively and aggressively involved. the averted a beautiful piece of the notion that we overreacted. i don't think we did. i feel we did exactly what we had to do and the results speak for themselves. >> one or two more from the and then we will open up to questions from others. you often made the case that iraq was the central front in the war and terror. looking back on iraq one of the things that people have focused on a reading your book and in the refuse of your book is the fact that you don't think a lot of mistakes wer

we spoke yesterday, mohammed. this video and the fact that people are -- it's being caught on tape, it's really fueling what's going on there? >> well, since we spoke, don, the clashes have still been on going between the protesters and the police and the army. today the video we acquired -- the video of the woman that was beaten severely and stripped of a substantial amount of her clothes, i spoke to the man who filmed the video, and he was very devastated because when he was filming he saw how brutal the army was. they were beating elderly, children, and the girl herself was extremely beaten. just now i spoke to a friend of hers, and she told me that the girl does not want to speak to the media. she's worried that the situation might be escalated. her parents still don't even know what happened to her. they don't know she's the one in the video, especially that the picture has been on the front page of several newspapers here in cairo and it has fueled a lot of rage, and many protesters i spoke with -- actually

what's going on, mohammed?ugh the official spokesman of the general prosecutor's office. he said that the request to investigate these rights groups have come from judicial authorities here. they requested that the prosecutor's office inspect the offices of 17 local and 2 foreign rights groups for an ongoing investigation, that they may have received illegal foreign funding. we're also told that some of the offices were shut down. some of the computers and documents have been confiscated. he says a report will be prepared and sent to the judicial authorities for further investigations. these groups, as you said, include two u.s. rights groups, the national democratic institute and international republican institute. also the arab institute. this is sending a chill down the spine of activists in cairo some of them suggesting that this seems to be like a mu bar rick era tactic. many saying this is a clear violation of what these rights groups can do here and they're saying that possibly this is happening because

coerce, mohammed as -- of course mohammed as i mentioned earlier. zandesky is here as well. all of the arts organizations, whoer going to spend hours not only in the mornings, but in the evenings activating our market street. one of the things i did when i had our campaign office here, we did pop-up art. we did these things that occurred in the evening. i would like this place to be not only safe -- to be so safe that evening activities would be a freight welcome. i want to thank our chief. he has been a great partner. i want to thank our academy for training our ambassadors. now without adieu, we are going to start walking down our great corridor, introducing all of our wonderful ambassadors to the existing, new businesses, and forthcoming businesses that they need to know by first name . thank you very much. >> welcome to district -- need your district supervisor. we're here with supervisor john avalos, from district 11, which includes the excelsior, and will sign, our mission, and crocker amazon neighborhoods. supervisor avalos was elected to the board in november of 2008

when that happened to mohammed a year ago, it was the last straw for the young man. >> they confiscatedruit. he went to the town hall and asked tuesday to the mayor, but they did not let him in. nobody would speak to them. >> he then doused himself in petrol. he said he only wanted to make a gesture, but suddenly he was engulfed in flames. hamami was there when it happened. he has a computer science degree, but he has been unemployed for years. >> we protests -- we protested. we demanded the rights bouazizi demanded. we demanded jobs, freedom, and national honor. >> market traders say things have gotten little better. they cannot sell their fruit here without fear of police harassment. but it's a little else is changed in tunisia since the revolution, and their lives have not got easier. there are demonstrations here every day. people distribute fliers demanding jobs. there are simply no opportunities for young people. these five young men are desperate. there on a hunger strike. his condition is serious. his kidneys had failed. the engineering graduate has been unemployed for six years

mohammed?reporter: alina, we're hearing reports of more carnage going on in syria. 13 people killed and dozens wounded today during shelling attacks by syrian security forces. they say that the neighborhood has been particularly hit and this is on the same day that dozens of arab league observers, about 50, are planning to arrive in order to try to help end the violence there. now, for the past few days, opposition activist groups in syria have been calling on the arab leagues to go directly to this city when they arrive so they can stop what is being feared a genocide, a continuing massacre. a member of the arab league spokesman said today that the arab league plans to go tomorrow to this city. still unclear where exactly they can go, what the mission is, but one member tells us observers have been going in are planning to move ahead to the city. >> mohammed jamjoom joining us live by phone from cairo. thank you very much. >>> a look at the weather. rob marciano in the extreme weather center f

mohammed is one of the most dedicated, committed civil servants. so i want to thank him for being able to pop in just a little bit. something came up. he had to rush off to take care of an emergency. our next part of the program will be my commissioner. here comes supervisor cohen. i'm going to give her a chance to come in and put her bags down. i would like for the commissioner to come up and talk a little bit about our guest speaker today. i'll just say something briefly. i met him almost two years ago. and he's absolutely one of the most supportive advocates our community could have. he provided for us to have a training program two years ago, c.m. construction management testing and inspection training program. we had 21 residents from san francisco to participate in that program. the program ran for eight weeks, for eight hours a day. that's a big commitment getting up and being there at 8:00 on a saturday. i was a chaperon. i know, i'm still tired from that. the kids are exited and quite involved with the classroom. we had the bay bridge insp

the plight of mohammed and the others is now all too common.erns about security and uncertainty have fended off not just tourists but foreign investors. foreign currency reserves have fallen steadily, down almost 40% this year. >> the country is bleeding. egypt is bleeding financially. it's bleeding foreign reserves, it's bleeding the stock exchange, it's bleeding tourism and unemployment. the bleeding has to stop. uncertainty has to be dealt with. >> reporter: a lack of confidence in the economy has led to a downgrade in egypt's credit rating. as egyptians went to the polls for the first time since the fall of mubarak, it's clear that change is upon them. yet hani, mohammed and fellow egyptians now understand change and transition are not without challenges and trials. leoni lakhani for "marketplace middle east," cairo. >>> for more about the program, visit cnn.com/mme or send comments via e-mail to mme@cnn.com. send comments in arabic as well at arabic.cnn.com/mme. >>> i'm john defterios. thanks for watching. see you next week.

the head of the arab league's observer mission to syria arrives in damascus general mohammed ali the same is to check the country's compliance with an arab peace plan aimed at halting the nine month long unrest a further group of fifty arab league monitors should reach syria on monday according to estimates more than forty thousand have been killed since march the monitors visit coincides with fresh claims of violence in the city of homes and twin suicide bombings on friday that killed forty four but as artie's sara firth reports with western sanctions strangling the country it's the syrian people who are bearing the brunt. it's been nearly ten months since syria's uprising began the capital of damascus has remained largely sheltered from the conflict. in the bustling sand say it seems like it's business as usual this one says so and the winds of change has begun to flow a little stronger the arab league's imposed tough economic sanctions the effects of which would be felt even had in a poor area in the damascus grass and her family struggling to make ends meet. learning this fall th

mohamed and his friends have been taking photos of unidentified bodies that have been popping up across lead there in recent months this naturists are probably their relatives most realistic hope of finding closure but even after sifting through them many managed to retain hope like this man whose brother disappeared on the frontlines of banter about. i hope he's in tunisia maybe he's in hospital maybe he's lost his memory or has no way of contacting us. they say hope dies last only bit it's still alive even if many people aren't. artsy tripoli. the violent ousting of libya's colonel gadhafi with nato help was arguably the defining event of shifting sands this year. traveled inside libya throughout the year talking to both gadhafi family members and rebels here's a firsthand account of a time in tripoli. we arrived in libya in the evening this is how you'd expect this kind of story to start but actually we crossed the border when the sun was still high. our driver told us to be careful we all thought that was a little bit unnecessary. but he explained that they sway may turn qaddafi. co