bell ringing. ladies and gentlemen, mr. ken lunardi. lunardi. our second contestant is a grip. he's been with muni for three years. one year on the cable car. ladies and gentlemen, mr. sullivan philips. how you doing, buddy? how are you? >> thank you. i'm ok. >> cool. sullivan, we scud a few questions. if you weren't driving a cable car what would you be doing? >> probably be cooking. >> good. i am so hungry. sullivan, give us a little warmup and then your bell ringing the ladies and gentlemen, mr. sullivan philips. >> [ringing bells] >> sullivan philips, ladies and gentlemen! let's hear it for him. our third contestant has been with muni for 10 years. he's been on the cable car for six years. ladies and gentlemen, mr. howard woo. they're doctor they're not booing you, they're woo-ing you. ok. now if you weren't driving a cable car what would you be doing every day? >> fishing every day the >> excellent fishing off the coast here. what advice would you give to new operators of cable cars? >> new operators? stay out of buses. >> ladies a

bell ringing contest. i would like to introduce mr. ford. >> welcome to the 47th annual cable car bell ringing competition. this is one of a kind. this is a comptation -- competition for the world championship and thank you for coming. i also have to thank our cable car grip men and conductors. every day they help move people around our city, they're great ambassadors and do a great job entertaining visitors to our fine city. we have two members from the mta board, bruce oka and malcolm hideke here today. i'd like to thank our judges. we have judges representing a lot of president businesses here in the union square area. with that, to all the mta employees and fine citizens of san francisco, thank you for joining us today and thank you for your support. >> matt ford, ladies and gentlemen. the bell ringing competition is a two-part event today. we have professionals competing for a number of prizes in the coveted title of world champion bell ringer. for the amateur portion we have executives from some of our local media outlets competin

mr. leonard oates. >> this is what i do every day. [ringing bells] >> leonard oates, ladies and gentlemen, reigning two-time champion mr. leonard oates. that completes the entire competition, ladies and gentlemen. let's hear it for everybody you heard today. the votes from the judges will now be tallied. that means up guys actually have to go to work now. we're going to name the tom three winners in the amateur and professional categories. the first place winner of the professional competition will take home a beautiful cable car bell with -- made by gilberto at the frens of the cable car museum. every year this man makes a beautiful cable car bell for this competition the mr. gad oy is pretty shy, he won't talk about his work but the craftsmanship speaks for itself the every bell every year is individually made by this man. it's a craft. you will see him a little later. while we're waiting for the votes to be tallied though, you're not going anywhere. i'd like to introduce some of the city's top choreographers from the epiphany production, the san

i am skeptical and i would like you to perhaps review what you think, mr. bell, what you think is the key evidence that proves that a corner has been turned and the reason why i am asking and the reason i'm skeptical is that you could look at two sherrif in judases basis i think it was around 2005 when predicting it from a progressive majority. you can look ahead to some articles in 2003 after the first bush midterm election arguing that there is a prominent republican majority. did you can go back all the way to 1912 when taft drove out the progressives from theepublican party and see that thero limited government, pro state activist government have been going added all this time for almost a huned years now. it seems that one side periodically gains the upper hand and the other side. deplete gains the upper hand in each side when they periodically gained the upper hand is claiming a permanent victory. you can see these claims often. th they go down in flames. so i am just wondering why this sort of -- why you think at this time the conservative limited governm

used without this engagement and help a friend public is of great need i would like to thank you mr bell is going to miss to lehman which all that help. he's now going to be telling republican subject of korea in the time of need for a sham or among washington the most important political territory of the poem of getting that is modernization of economy technological. modernization of production this new trend was proclaimed by me a year ago and was basically fully exposed to old political and public figures but nobody has any doubt that modernization is necessary or her for no political power would be with us and we are absolutely against it really like to freeze if we have discussing. the possibility of us. in terms and speed with everybody wants to become as fast as possible to become true but there are a lot of social development our own possibilities there is a mentality of things like finally it is specific in every country i would like also it was about high interests of our partners to modernisation got them where you thanks to them and we are indeed. expecting your support eithe

[bell] >> mr.resident, commissioners, i just wanted to add a little color to that, because i was involved, as far back as two years before the commission was founded. we were sitting in a room with people, and looking at the grand jury report and try to figure out how we korea a functioning city agency, and i had watched -- how we create a functioning city agency, and i watched work 50 hours for free. i was getting paid, most of the time. at least back then, i was getting paid, but terence was doing it for free. there were many unwarranted attacks in my estimation, and is sort of a payback for his activism. i cannot even talk today. earlier on, and he got a tactic in the press and got attacked everywhere. really, what i have seen him do is deal with hundreds of my clients. he called meetings. he helped out. i cannot tell you how many times he has saved the business, at least one dozen that were going down in flames, and these were people that had $100,000 on the line and trying to do a good thing.

bell ringing contest. i would like to introduce mr. ord. >> welcome to the 47th annual cable car bell ringing competition. this is one of a kind. this is a comptation -- competition for the world championship and thank you for coming. i also have to thank our cable car grip men and conductors. every day they help move people around our city, they're great ambassadors and do a great job entertaining visitors to our fine city. we have two members from the mta board, bruce oka

bell. >> councilman? mr. artiga?> reporter: the welcome mat pulled back at all three place and the message loud and clear. i hear you knocking but you can't come in. >> whatever comes out in the records you're not fearful? >> no. >> reporter: bring on the investigation? >> bring it on. i welcome it. >> reporter: that's what cole told me a few weeks ago before he was indicted on 12 counts of misappropriation of public funds and faces up to six years in state prison. >> very serious alleged criminal activity. >> reporter: robert rizzo the one time $800,000 a year city manager for bell appeared to be fighting sleep when the judge echoed those words. no break on bail from this judge and rizzo and four other defendants today remain behind bars unable to make bail. and now add another controversy to the bell plot. one-time bell police chief randy adams who made $457,000 a year was hired by rizzo even though adams claimed that he was disabled. through his attorney, no comment from adams. but adams, who commuted daily from h

mr. rizzo. [applause] tears at bell city hall as word of the arrest spread. >> i'm so excited. just see rizzo handcuffed all the way makes me happy. if i can get all his property and resource and pay back all the debt he owes me i'll be happy. >>reporter: former city council members were arrested as well as former assistant city manager. if the only current city council member not in jail is hear. >> it is happy and sad moment for us. saddest part is that our city has been tarnished tremendously. reputation of our city has been dragged through mud and hopefully we can begin the heal process. >>reporter: all are scheduled to be arraigned first thing tomorrow morning. may not make bail any time soon because according to the l.a. county district attorney the funds that are used he want 0to make sure they are legitimate in the from the taxpayers of bell. this is abc 7 news. >>> the state public employee retirement fund which lost a quarter of the valley over the past 2 years gave substantial pay raises and big bonuses to many of the top manager. according to the associated press so

[bell] president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> thank you, mr. president and supervisors. i sure would like to ♪ take the budget home tonight cannot get any rest until i take the budget home i get no rest until i see the light just like ronnie said, just like ronnie said ♪ >> baby, my darling ♪ >> ♪ be my budget darling bring it back again is it just like ronnie said? take the budget home tonight i cannot rest until i see the city light take the budget home tonight or is it just like ronnie said? are you just like ronnie said? like walking in the rain. bring it back again we surely see the light make the city budget turn out right oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ and i cannot wait until i see the city budget city light take it home to nine -- tonight are you just like ronnie said? are you just like ronnie said? be my budget baby ♪ [bell] president chiu: thank you. next. >> i was beaten by criminals. today, nobody wants to investigate it. nobody wants to take my complete although that violates state law. we're talking about the police department, the sheriff's department, the commonw

salary to handcuffs then the courtroom and that raises a new question for the residents of bell: just whose money is mro using to get bailed out of jail? >>> they are wasting your tax money every day don't come up with a budget but don't think they are just sitting around doing nothing. how lawmakers are making millions while nothing gets accomplished. >>> and what can these bay area kids learn from the best female soccer player in the world? a hint? it has very little to do with soccer. ,, ,,,,,,,,,, ma'am, can you identify the other airline that charged you bag fees? that's it. that one...right there. exactly how much did the other airlines make off with? ♪ it was like $25. was that one-way? or roundtrip? roundtrip. $50? did you have a second bag? yes. mm! it was $35. that's $120 roundtrip. [ gasps ] oh! ah! ♪ [ ding ] employees from the southern >>> their inflated salaries caused outrage across the nation. today, eight current and former employees in the southern california city of bell appeared before a judge for the first time. it was bizarre. >> reporter: that didn't happen. >>> reporter: >> firs

rizzo earning $800,000 as city manager of bell, california taken out of his huntington beach home in handcuffs but as dave lopez shows us, the arrest didn't stop with mro. [ people yelling ] >> reporter: to those who have been following the bell investigation, they wondered when the hammer was going to fall. today did. >> the los angeles county district attorney's office public integrity division filed criminal charges of misappropriation of public funds and conflict of interest against robert rizzo. >> reporter: the one-time $800,000 a year city manager is behind bars on $3.2 million bail arrested along with him, four members of the current bell city council, mayor oscar hernandez, councilmembers theresa. >> cob bow, louise ortega george mar bell, his assistant and one-team bell city councilman and the godfather of bell politics who openly bragged according to sources that he is so well connected that no one would touch him. >> mr. cole is being booked. >> reporter: he said he welcomes this investigation. was there any difficulty in going after george cole? >> not that i know of. any difficulty going after george coal? >> no. >> reporter: so all the

bell. thank you. actually, was that mr. wall over there or was that mr. norquist that when the dinner bell?of that ring the dinner bell. >> i have some quick remarks. i will let can start the evening of -- ken mellman star at the evening off. >> while we figure that out-that is okay. do not worry. thank you very much for being here at the 2010 log cabin republican national dinner. [applause] earlier tonight, some of our supporters of our political action committee were at an event with chairman john corn and and one of the things that was said, other than the financial fiscal challenges and lack of fiscal restraint by the obama administration or the lack of attention or care to individual liberties of americans by this congress, we talked about the need for dialogue. not only across party lines, but within the party. that is something that log cabin republicans have been doing for quite awhile, for decades, actually. we have a number of leaders who actually were at the beginning in the 1970's when the log cabin was a coffee club in living rooms in california. i want to start out by recogniz

bell was throughout. >> they pulled like 164,000 pound airbus for 12 feet. the money >> mr.esup, christine o'donnell is here. >> have her come in. oh, boy. >> hiii. >> hi, christine, how are you? i'm ted jesup. this is jim oucher. please, sit down. >> yeah. >> so, christine, jim and i are handling the rnc role in your delaware senate campaign.

mr. rizzo provided years of diligent, hard working years of service to bell and now in whirlwind of accusationd we will sort it out. >> reporter: rizzo attorney sees a political motive in the filings by attorney general candidate cooley and gubernatorial candidate jerry brown. the d.a. should have allowed rizzo to surrender at the courthouse rather than being walked out of his home in handcuffs. >> the public should really question whether that was a fair process. >> how about because we want mr. rizzo to have an appropriate bail, make the appropriate bail based on the nature of his offense. >> current bail rates range from $100,000 to more than $3 million for rizzo. all eight are due in court tomorrow morning. >>> politics now, a new poll suggesting senator barbara boxer is gaining some ground in the senate race against carly fiorina. the new poll by rasmussen reports puts boxer ahead 47 to 43%. that is pretty much the mar gyp of error. earlier this month, the same poll had fiorina up 47%. >>> the white house says mrs. obama will man making at least nine political appearances in six states, i

one-time leaders of bell's government all wearing their issued jail garb through their attorneys said they couldn't enter a plea today. including robert rizzo, his attorney said mr. rizzo is ill in fact too ill to even understand the charges against him. >> this a complex case and for mr. rizzo to enter a plea i have to explain the charges and count 1 is very difficult to even counsel to understand. >> reporter: rizzo faces 53 felony charges dealing with misappropriation of public funds and fraud and the judge asked the prosecution, what type of prison time if convicted is rizzo facing? >> mr. rizzo's maximum penalty is 58 years in state prison. >> reporter: none of the defendants entered a plea today. they are all back in court october 21st. and the question especially pertaining to rizzo, will he be in jail all this time or eventually make bail? so for now, the four that couldn't make bail with rizzo leading the way will return to county jail in an isolation cell away from all other inmates 24/7. the sheriff says it's for their own protection. the question is: how long will they stay that way before they come up with the necessary bail? from downtown los angel

meanwhile, the mayor of bell oscar hernandez did post bond a quarter million dollars and was released in the middle of the night. >> mryor? [ knocking ] >> reporter: i could hear voices behind that closed door, voices in the garage out back, there were cars in the driveway, the do not trespass sign had been knocked over, and no one came to the door. and around the corner, at the mayor's grocery store, near silence. the key of the day. >> did you put up the store for part of the bail or do you know? you don't know? have you seen him since he got out of jail? >> yeah. >> reporter: how's he feeling? okay? >> i don't know. >> please, i need respect for everybody. please. >> reporter: but angry bell residents have lost respect for not only the mayor but three members of the council because the grassroots organization basta which means enough in spanish has gathered enough signatures to put on the ballot in december for recall vote. george several others are out of jail and in seclusion. will they resign? artiga's son through a closed- door and barking dog answeringed for his father. >> the family supports our dad completel

mrs. dixon. >> she was like three feet tall. >> cleto: she called me the wrong name. >> jimmy: for those of you that weren't listening, that was the bellt science bob is fun. here's some highlights from the last time he was on the show. >> three, two, one, pour. there we go. >> jimmy: whoa! >> pressure is building up now. bubbles are being created -- >> jimmy: i feel like jesus. whoa! whoa! >> powering it up. >> jimmy: oh, feels weird on my body. oh. >> go ahead. >> let me lob -- >> jimmy: oh! most of the audience was killed that night, so -- [ applause ] that's a warning to you. but tonight, science bob is going to make a cloud in our studio, a real huge cloud. and we're all going to lay on it and play harps. i should also mention that the l.a. feast of san gennaro is going on. this is something i started with my buddy doug in 2001. our ninth annual feast. all the proceed goes to charity. every decent italian american in l.a. comes out for it. faces are kisses, cheeked are pinched. there's a nugget ring on every pinky. it's a great event. to celebrate the feast tonight, the people of the feast, we give you our bragging italian guy of

bell on that yet. i guess i would come back mr. mckean and say the challenge here is that everyone supports our effort in general. supports reform in general, but has problems with each of the particular recommendations such as joint forces command such as deleting redundancy. i understand these are tough decisions but if we don't make them, we'll not get the hundred billion dollars. >> well, you haven't given us any savings yet for jif con. you haven't done a business analysis to come up that. that was a military decision so to count that in the hundred billion is probably not - fair enough. before we submit the budget there will be savings coming from this initiative. >> we are - [laughs] okay. we're hoping there will be. we haven't seen that analysis yet. we're assuming at this point that there will be some savings generated. >> and it's fair to get that analysis before you judge it. >> that's what we would still like to see. thank you. >> as i understand it, you don't know how much you would save in efficiency by elimination of

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to $800,000 a year, while one in six bell residents lived in poverty for managing this tiny little town. we'll bring you an update on the story as we get it from mr. brown. well, house speaker nancy pelosi has been awfully silent yesterday, i mean lately, until yesterday when she boldly predicted that despite the polls democrats will hold onto their majority in the house in november praising in particular the great job her members did last summer at those town halls. take a listen. >> i feel pretty confident about the caliber of our candidates, our members are battle tested, they've won these districts before, they will win them again, i'm not yielding one grain of sand. i want to have the same big strong majority we have. but i feel certain that we will. last summer was a tough summer and our members saved the healthcare bill by going out, having a couple of thousand of town meetings and other public events in order to communicate with their members. megyn: monica crowley is a radio talk show host and a fox news contributor and my guest now. she is very proud of the job they did, saving the healthcare bill and she thinks shell hold on to the hou

mr. roker, we do a little fly-by on the way to the airport? >> i think we're going to send jim bell> very good. all right. when we come back, speaking of food, we're going to do a little tailgating big easy style. meredith and natalie? >> all right. natalie's going to show us t firsjob workiner first job working at a pet store. [ bell rings ] what are you doing, friending somebody? yeah. you got time for that? you got time to earn more on your savings, online at capitalone.com. that's new school banking, baby! instead of earning squatootski... your savings will be earning three times the national average. now, let's review. capital one interestplus savings... at three times more. go to capitalone.com. what's in your wallet? are you a pisces? >>> good morning. 8:56 is the time. we are fom lowing breaking news. iran's culture ministry says one of three berkeley grad yats will be released saturday. they were told to come to the same hotel where the american's parents were told to meet them recently. this is video from their reunion back in may. the message did not say which would be re