>> regina [inaudible] >> thank you. thank you pres. katz and commissioners and dir. moyer. i'm happy to be here this afternoon to give our support for the great work that susan has done with this space and the concept that she's developed in the rfp that's going out and wanted to just let you know that our office is going to lend its support in working with susan to help identify businesses, conducting the outreach, could we will also coordinate with the investment neighborhood team out of the office of economic and workforce development to really help pull together a unique selection and interesting and vibrant selection of businesses to be able to take advantage of this great opportunity to be here on the space. on the embarcadero. i also just want to say congratulations on the great work that the port is doing with all bits of the hours. i look for to bring that information back out to the commission. i look forward to your support for this rfp. >> thank you and thanks for your help. next is mark bailey. [inaudible]. >> good afternoon. thank you for having me here. thank you so mu

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dir. moyer. my name is matthew thomas and vice president of the symphysis go american chamber of commerce. let me give by thinking the commissioners and dir. moyer and her staff were being committed to creating a level playing field here at the port. we realize this is not a one-way street. what i do our parts to help make your program as effective and relevant as possible. i'm here to request your approval for the [inaudible] being discussed. having tried to find out the last time african-american business has been located on a peer. i've got various dates. guys may know better than me but it's been a while. this rfp does create a rare opportunity for our businesses to get into a great location. as you probably know this particular space has enough room for 4 businesses to be based out of and we have actually identified for great candidates that could be in the space. so, we would appreciate your positive vote to make this rfp to reality. thank you >> thank you. is there any further public comment? seeing none, public comment is close. measures? >> i just want to thank you for coming up

here is the cofounder of the grief camp and moyer foundation, jamie moyer.ntary tonight on hbo. what started camp aaron? >> karen and i were involved with the grief camp and moved to the west does as an active player. and were trying to seek out that type of an organization. couldn't find anything, so we created our own. and we met erin as a teenager. and unfortunately she passed. we asked her family for their wishes to use her name. that's how we came up with camp erin. >> watching that clip there, y jam jamie, you get a sense these kids are for the first time in a community talking about these things. tell us some of the results you may have seen. >> great question. when these kids go through these tragedies, they're at a loss. when they get back into mainstream life at school and all that, they now all of a sudden feel out of place and different. this allows them to come to a camp where everybody is dealing with a loss. it creates comfortability, they have fun. there's traditional camp activities but there's grief activities intertwined in. there's profes

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. >> i think it was bill moyers who said lyndon b. johnson is 11 of the most interesting people i have ever met. he is the full spectrum of emotion. to cannot assign anyone lyndon johnson, you have to use all of them. he is mercurial and passionate and interesting and wallowing in self-pity. brazen and funny and embracing and threatening. what partnever know of lyndon johnson you were going to receive when you walked into his office. >> the probably -- and probably depended on what his knees were -- needs were. >> the flipside of that political hubris: was unmatched -- hubris coin was unmatched. he knew everyone. everyone in the house of representatives, the senate. he knew what those senators and congressmen wanted for their own political base and needs. he gave them, he worked hard to give them what they wanted so he could get from them what he needed. >> politics was a transaction. >> it was a beautiful thing. he loved it. he lived for it. >> love the game. >> it was brutal on him. it cost them blood sweat and tears but i think tha

several neighborhoods were burned down, and moyer than ,000 residents have been evacuated. e president authorized the evacuation. >> the fire continues to spread in daunting proportions. >> the fire was terrible. we had to leave everything. when the flames were within a few blocks of us, we grabbed our clothes and pets and ran for it. >> mernlsy services are almost helpless to stop the rapid pread of the fire. >> i have a bottle of water with me, as it is still burning everywhere. when the president visited the disaster area, she was shocked with what she saw. >> this is a terrible tragedy and perhaps the worst fire in the history of valparaiso. >> many people have homes that are already reduced to ashes. >> the world must ditch fossil fuel to stop global warming. that was found on the intergovernmental panel on climate change. it said renewable energy is the real answer. they said the switch does make economic sense. >> yet another bundle of dire warnings courtesy of the ipcc. according to its latest report, industrialized and developing nations must switch to renewable en

gives folks a standard deduction so you can buy your health care even if you don't have moyer provided coverage. you can buy healthcare if you change jobs or moves could state lines. we save seniors money in medicare through support, save them money and save -- >> volume that produces discounts, isn't that the idea hint the president's plan? >> the idea behind the resident's plan he's going to make you've buy something whether you want it or not. the government knows better than you. we trust patients to make decisions working with their doctors and providers. the president doesn't trust the american people. >> so it's his plan to start something bigger. maybe a presidential run. find out tonight what the governor has to say tonight, and also interesting comments on chris christie. 8:00 p.m. on fox business network. >> a study that the health care law is sucking cash out of companies. when asked canner large companies saying obamacare is costing them $400 more per work -- $4,800 more per worker. something for jindal says his plan will not do. but teddy says it's a real concern. what do

i think bill moyer said lyndon johnson is the most interesting of the 11 people i've ever met.is the full spectrum of emotion. you cannot assign any one adjective to lyndon johnson. you have to use all of them, he is mecurial and impassioned and wallowing in self pity and funny, and threatening and ferocious and you never knew what part of lyndon johnson you would receive when you walked into his office. >> charlie: probably depended on what his needs were. >> absolutely. and his political acumen, the flip side of the political hiewb brings coin, was unmatched since roosevelt. he knew everyone. everyone in the house of representatives, anyone in the senate, and he knew what those senators and congressmen wanted for their own political base and needs and, so, he gave them -- he worked hard to give them what they wanted so he could get from them what he needed. >> charlie: politics was a transaction. >> it was a beautiful thing, in his words. he loved it. he loved it! he lived for it. >> charlie: loved the game. loved it! it was brutal on him and it cost him blood, sweat and tear

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keeps on giving, regretting the mess but sure as heck not taking responsibility for the mess, to jerry moyer who says that's a big ole mess and creating a bigger mess. and one that you can teach your kids, well, you can worm yourself out of any mess. jerry, here we go again, but it was front and center today, wasn't it? >> yeah, it really was. and the same pattern. look, in some sense, this is understandable, right? it's as old as human history. adam ate from the forbidden fruit, and god said, what have you done? you remember what he said? well, it's the woman you gave me. you know, she gave me of the fruit -- >> well, he was right about that. you know it was eve's fault, but go ahead. >> and she blamed the serpent. so everyone passes it along. that doesn't mean it's acceptable, and that doesn't mean we should accept it. you know, responsibility is utterly missing among our leadership class in general. i mean, you mentioned the irs. i mean, think -- remember john costigan, the guy who turned around fannie mae -- or freddie mac, excuse me, so earned the ability to turn around the irs. but he

mr.ave the editor for moyer, this was established as a global e-commerce site. >> can start with youe?" talk me through this, what is a "yummie." >> talk us through this. what is a "yummie." >> i think that is fairly ridiculous. are women the new -- men the new women, men are the new men. we are embracing style, and with the dating game and we are younger for longer and more handsome, we are more aware of this, with savvier customers. this is translating into sales of fashion. >> i actually want to turn this question to both dan and chris. spend thelling to same kind of money? you see women who make $40,000 per year continue to buy $900 shoes. our men making those kinds of choices? >> you see men do two things, they are building more in quantity. they find something they like and that fits and they will buy that the rest of their life. you have a compete -- complete customer in a man that you don't have in a woman. the same thing is that men are becoming more adventurous. they are really sort of branching out into style and spending real money, on t-shirts and things that poor man wo

there and settled the country down before we left. >> host: bing west >> guest: i believe that mark moyers spoke and marked as an historian is very at earl. he is a serious scholar. the interesting thing that his study point out is the degree to leadership that actually existed in the armed forces of tom but they never got credit for. i tend to come down that if you look at how well the viet means, both people have done since they've come to the united states. i was just back in vietnam last year. americans their beloved everywhere. if we had shown a little more tenacity and a little more kurdish, it could've turned out quite differently. postcode bing west, and set to come secretary of state condoleezza rice are in the campaign bush's foreign policy at guys there had written the president must remember the military is a special instrument. it is lethal and it's meant to be. it is not a political referee and it is most search may not design to the a civilian society. yet because the state department had not stepped forward in iraq, the u.s. military was a police force and a political refer

bill moyers was shone the spotlight on it. at that point, the big companies did not like the heat -- general motors, walmart, and they got out. the big telecommunications companies continued in there and continue to have to. they are prohibiting or making very difficult to municipal broadband. even in areas with a big companies once served. encouraged by the 1996 act, per closer coordination and would hope that the current commission will work closely with those commissions. there is so much granular expertise talking about consumer complaints that the fcc does not have. therek when i went there were 1900 employees at the fcc. 1500 maybe. not the resources to do it. >> at&t is conducting trials in a couple of cities. do you think that is an effective way to really look at it? toover toge or die p -- ip. >> i don't think so. in the old days when we had geographical endpoints, maybe it made sense to have more of a local presence. the congress certainly thought so and it devised a statute that regulated to the state the authority

bill moyers was in this white house. i'm not talking about the devil's out there.i am not saying they knew every detail. but going along to get along, not challenging, not becoming a whistleblower, when there had to be many people -- those two that i mentioned, they really knew. -- i don't know that they really knew. but there were plenty of people. when i finally interviewed about it, they said, how did you get that? well, the government released it. it just came out. i was thinking that myself, but they never told us. your basic question is, what is the meaning of this democratic experiment if you can be lied to with such impunity? there is no restraint. it is not a marginal issue. it is the ballgame. >> thank you for this panel. it is really great. after 9/11, we went through a couple changes psychologically. there was this issue of following orders. technologically, with the internet and smartphones, the nature of espionage changed. the nature of espionage also change bureaucratically. from there it seems that the problems that these panel has clearly identifie

bill moyers was in that white house. i'm not talking about the devils out there. i'm not saying they all knew every detail. but going along to get along. not challenging it, not becoming a whistleblower when there had to be many people -- and i don't know whether those two that i mentioned, they really knew -- but there certainly were plenty of people. when i finally interviewed all these people, they scratched their head and said how'd you get that? well, the government released it. just came out. oh. i was thinking that myself. but they never told us. okay? so you raised the basic question is what is the meaning of this democratic experiment if you are, can be lied to with such impunity? and there's no restraint? it's not a marginal issue, it's the ball game. yeah. >> hi. thank you for this panel. it's really great. after 9/11 we basically went through a couple changes in my mind at least psychologically. there was this issue of now we only to follow orders, as you pointed out, and technologically with the boom of the internet and rival of smartphones -- arrival

michael moyer is an editor. you say by 2016, we'll have new genes to carry disease.y be causing leukemia. they've cured a little boy who had blindness. they'll put in a new gene into a virus, send it into your body. this kind of gene therapy they hope will cure these terrible diseases. >> that's good 'cause that's just two years away. that's great news. now, four years away, in 2018, you say we're going to discover moorers-like planets? >> we just started discovering them. about two weeks ago we found one in the habitable zone, which means that liquid water and maybe life can exist. they're launching a new satellite in 2018 that's designed explicitly to find earth-like planets. >> do they have football? >> we don't know yet. they might have water, but might have football. >> that will be fantastic. what about ways to get into space? >> we just had the launch of this great new rocket up to the international space station by this company called space x. what's amazing about this rocket is that the booster part that usually goes up and splashes into the ocean, falls to

in our bodies back in two thousand and one as part of a story on chemicals in the environment bill moyers had his blood tested for industrial chemicals that had built up in his body the results are pretty shocking take a look. specialist in public health at the mount sinai school of medicine in new york led by dr michael mccallum are trying to assess how many synthetic chemicals are in our bodies. for the purpose of this broadcast i volunteered to take part in their study and a much larger project is underway at the u.s. centers for disease control. and you're looking for chemical you know the body's normal chemicals we're looking for industrial chemicals things that weren't around one hundred years ago that your grandfather didn't have in his blood or for that we're looking for those chemicals that have been put into the environment and through environmental exposures things we eat things we breathe water we drink our non-corporate in our in our bodies they just weren't there so what's the news we tested for one hundred fifty different industrial chemicals and you have eighty four. wow e