mr. brookes? >>> mr. finestein and ms. ackerman. >>> jason freed laugh co-staff. a couple things i wanted to point out. i'd be remiss if i didn't remind you laugh co-would like to see this program move forward as quickly as possible this their efforts. * i wanted to get down to some of the issues that were brought up. on slide 4, the 2011 poll, that question was asked, it was eight aside from marin. we have a light green that everyone is opted into and you have to opt out of and a dark green which is a voluntarily you want to sign up and go into a darker green program. which is why when you look at the tier 1 customers you see a little bit of this drop off because tulipsthere is a little bit of a price increase and most people don't get the difference between 40% renewable and 100% renewable. you're all hgh free. that's why you saw that number. there has always been the tradition of when you're doing these polls, you've always taken a very conservative approach to who is actually participating in the program which is why in some cases you see these are city-wide n

mr. brooks has made comments about staff not getting it and i take offense at that. they get it. ms. hale and mr. reedstrom are very bright, very sophisticated people. they understand numbers and they can take a concept and they can make it real with real numbers. if lpi is incapable of convincing them of those numbers, then they have not convinced me. so, what i had hoped that they would do is be able to make their proposal real in a way that could be quantified, in a way that very intelligent and sophisticated people can incorporate those numbers, and test the proposition. so far the answer has been that the proposition fails, okay. and if lpi has better information to share, they should do that. >> president, commissioners, arthur feinstein, chair of the chapter of the sierra club. * i work on wetlands and wildlife issues usually so i share with you the fact this is a little complex and difficult issue to address. but i have been to several technical advisory and stakeholder meetings and several hearing rate board and diving in and trying to understand this very complex issue. i ha

mr. brooks? >>> good afternoon again, commissioners, eric brooks, san francisco green party and the local grassroots organization our city. it's good to hear, i think i just heard which is we will find a better more ecological use for the gun club space. what i really wanted to address, commissioner vietor's question about go solar sf and clean power sf. this is very crucial. i will always get up here and say, and especially at the beginning a few years ago the go solar sf program, i was even critical because, you know, i see that the clean power sf program does the same stuff but on a much larger scale much more quickly. however, with that said, go solar sf is the one program that we have right now that is working and it's getting solar up on people's roofs. so, that, first of all, argues that we need to fully fund it instead of constantly underfunding the program. you know, if we threw a little bit more money into it, but we're not up to the 5 million a year that we should be on to fund that pr

mr. brooks be in the call or is he being excluded? he >> these are staff check inses. we have public stakeholders meetings as well as public technical meetings as well as commissioner meetings as well as lafco meetings. >> this meeting tomorrow is between staff and lpi? >> staff. >> and a teleconference? >> yes, it is. >> send me the details on that. commissioner moran? >> the next advocate's meeting is the 20th as well. so, that will be -- everybody will be invited to that as well on the 20th. >> a couple quick question. one is about the lpi proposal that there be 20 megawatts of shell and 18, i think it was, of hetchy. i have the same question of staff. the answer is that if hetchy power isn't cheaper than shell power, it doesn't matter what the mix is. it price ends up being the save. -- same. * that didn't mirror exactly what the lpi was, the import was the same. with that said, i just urge that as we proceed down this road that we can focus on the numbers. there is liberty and freedom in the numbers and discipline in the numbers. the process we've gone through in

mr. brooks brought up a good point about a special election and i just would like to know and when researching in your report, if you could maybe look at whether or not there are special elections that are done to fill some of these vacancies as well, and that would be really helpful information to have. >> yeah, we will report on whatever information we find. this is based on some of the information we've gotten so far, we've put it into a big broad basic, there are basically two type and is a high dried of the two types, some places appoint, some call for a special election and some allow for some kind of hybrid where there could be an appointment or some kind of special election, that's when time comes into play, we've noticed that there are some places if there are some time left before an election, the seat could remain vacant, in the report, we'll have a spreadsheet that has every location we've looked at, what it says in the city charter or the government code or how it's located of how it works, we will have all that information and there will be some sort of report on top of that that

mr. brookes? >>> mr. finestein and ms. ackerman. >>> jason freed laugh co-staff. a couple things i wanted to point out. i'd be remiss if i didn't remind you laugh co-would like to see this program move forward as quickly as possible this their efforts. * i wanted to get down to some of the issues that were brought up. on slide 4, the 2011 poll, that question was asked, it was eight aside from marin. we have a light green that everyone is opted into and you have to opt out of and a dark green which

mr. brooks said lots of jobs for san francisco residents, so i would like the commission to send a strong message that for puc staff to work with the local power to develop the best cca that is possible. thank you. >> thank you very much. and

mr. brooks said lots of jobs for san francisco residents, so i would like the commission to send a strong message that for puc staff to work with the local power to develop the best cca that is possible. thank you. >> thank you very much. and next speaker please. >> good afternoon folks. alwine from the clean energy alliance and i have the great opportunity to be chairing those stakeholder meetings that take place, fairly contentious of recent time. i wanted to address two questions quickly. one is a question of the rates and the high rates that i think everybody concerned about it at roll out time which according to the proposals that have been put before the

mr. brooks? >> good afternoon commissioners aaron brooks with the san francisco green party and local grass rots organization in our constituent and first of all, i'm pleased to hear about something i didn't know about which, is that the president is the founder of the prop 65 text. it. >> is it didn't get to the legislature and so tom haden and i had to go to the voters because i couldn't get a second anywhere in the legislation. >>> that is a big deal. >> so i would concur with the frustration around the denialers, it's really out rages and i think that we do have a new staff now, it seems to be more proactive but, i would say really, you know crack down on progresses and report make sure that if we are still not getting fast enough action six months from now that we start crack the whip on this prompt because it cannot continue the way it is. and i know that i have seen a lot of stuff in the record we report we had today about building a huge pipeline and shuttle waste water across the settle

mr. brooks, for five minutes. mr. brooks: thank you, madam speaker. secretary of defense leon panetta states sequestration, quote, would be a disaster in terms of the defense department . as far as our budget is concerned, as far as our ability to respond to the threats that are out there, it has a big impact, end quote. over time sequestration's disproportionate cuts to national defense will reduce our military to the smallest number of uniformed personnel since before world war ii, its smallest number of naval vessels since world war i and the smallest number of aircraft in the history of the united states air force. but national security is not the only sequestration risk. in my home district in north alabama, president obama has ordered that roughly 14,000 highly skilled and irreplaceable department of defense civilian employees suffer 20% fer lows and 20% salary cuts. red stone arsenal's engineers, scientists and other civilian defense staff are critical to national security in a time of international instability. their knowledge and skillsets ar

mr. brooks, for five minutes. mr. brooks: thank you, mr. speaker. dr. julian davidson passed away on january 31, 2013. i have known julian davidson and his wife dorothy for only a few years but i know enough about julian davidson, what he did and how he lived to know he was an american patriot who will be sorely missed by his family, the tennessee valley, america and me. julian davidson was born in the small town of oakmen in walker county, alabama, on september 2, 1927. he was a proud son of oakman and walker county. however, his destiny lay elsewhere. at the age of 17, julian davidson hitchhiked to montgomery, alabama, and without permission and despite being underaged, enlisted in the navy during world war ii. he served with distunks on gun ships, loading heavy ammunition into gun turrets. julian davidson's naval service gave him an enduring respect and admiration for america's war fighters who serve in harm's way. after the navy, julian davidson attended classes during the day and worked at a pool hall at night to obtain and electrical engineering d

mr. chuck horn brooke to the peace pac. >> okay. item l. special order of business. we have several action items. i would like to hear a motion on the resolution to decrease the number of certificated employees due to the reduction in particular can kinds of services >> may i have a motion? >> moved. >> second? >> thank you. >> may i have a reading of the recommendation by the superintendent? or the designee mr. bush man? >> i would like you to read the i think that we are going to take them one at a time. we are going to deal with them one at a time. so the recommendation from the first certificated pks resolution. okay? is that not clear? >> we were going to read them all in a row. so is that okay? >> we need to take them one at a time. says our parliamentarian. the presentation is then as. >> so you are doing a presentation that is sort of the whole thing. >> and i understand. >> and so let's do the presentation. >> if i could i will do the presentation and then we will read them and take questions if that will work. >> that is okay. this was going to work. >> oka

mr. chuck horn brooke to the peace pac. >> okay. item l. special order of business. we have several action items. i would like to hear a motion on the resolution to decrease the number of certificated employees due to the reduction in particular can kinds of services >> may i have a motion? >> moved. >> second? >> thank you. >> may i have a reading of the recommendation by the superintendent? or the designee mr. bush man? >> i would like you to read the i think that we are going to take them one at a time. we are going to deal with them one at a time. so the recommendation from the first certificated pks resolution. okay? is that not clear? >> we were going to read them all in a row. so is

mrs. brooks: thank you. i rise in support of vawa. yelling, name-calling, black eyes, bruises, belts, broken bottles, children scared and crying in the corners, crying for it to stop, the lies and cover-up us to friends and family and then the abuser gains the control and says i'm sorry. i love you. i won't do it again. i'll change. and the victim stays again and again and again year after year. the cycle of violence goes on from generation to generation just like brittany from tipton county, indiana. abused by her drug addict mother. married a man that was a victim of child abuse. and the cycle continued. brittany's husband verbally and physically abused her while their children watched. whether you are in a poor family, rich family, whether you're in the city, country or on the farm, we as members of congress have the power and the control to change her life. when brittany finally took control and made the call, it was vawa funds that made sure that the cops that responded recognized it. and i've done those ride-alongs and they are

mr. brooks: that fear has come true. as i stand here today, north alabamians face job furloughs in the thousands because washington would rather spend money on privileged programs than protect national security. mr. speaker, i voted against sequestration at every opportunity. i sent a letter to the white house calling on the president to face and avoid the horrendous consequences of his sequester. i've escorted members of the house armed services committee arged reginald arsenal to help them better understand how our civilian defense workers are critical to america's security, and i have repeatedly co-sponsored legislation to end the sequester. for nearly two years i have been fighting sequestration and the hallowing out of our armed forces. it's time for the president and the senate to do the same. madam speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentlelady from texas seek recognition? ms. jackson lee: to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend.

mr. [speaker not understood]. >>> good afternoon, commissioners, aaron brooks, green party and our community, san francisco. just wanted to address the first item that you covered in the report, which was espinola jackson. i've been doing city hall stuff and working on sfpuc issues for about the last decade, which is much less than dr. jackson has been working on similar issues. she's been doing it for several decades. and over the decade that i've worked on issues like making sure that we don't bring in the new peaker natural gas plants issues like closing down the morant plant, issues around the bayview hunters point shipyard candlestick development on top of the superfund site, and myriad other issues around the southeast and the entire city when it comes to environmental protection and getting good low-cost clean energy to the public. espinola jackson has always been around. i'm bumping into her constantly. i wish she was here to hear it. her contribution to the city process is profound -- has been profound. and so i not only would want to lionize dr. jackson, but just to say that even though dr. jackso

mr. benjamin wittes, senior fellow at the brookings institution and codirector of the harvard law schoolhed in june 2008 in the 2000 brookings book, legislating the war on terror, an agenda for reform. mr. wittes cofounded and is editor-in-chief of the l'affaire blog, the logical discussion of hard national security choices. between 1997 in 2006 served as editorial writer for the "washington post," specializing in legal affairs. mr. wittes is an alumnus of oberlin college and we thank them for serving as a witness today and look forward to his insight into this complex topic. our final witness is mr. stephen vladeck, a law professor from american university washington college of law, teaching constitutional law, federal courts, international criminal and national security watching the food. he's a fellow at the national security in new york city. mr. vladeck has co-authored multiple legal textbooks and served as a law clerk of appellate judges in florida and california. he and his' degree in history mathematics of amherst college and his jd from yale where he served as the executive edit

mel brooks and i are watching when you had mr.eings ever. >> jimmy: thank you. >> i did three pictures with him. he's got a fake family he brings around with him. >> jimmy: such a phony. >> and when you had him tied up there. couldn't have happened to a more deserving person. but i said this and tweeted it that night i said i have been watching late night going before jack parr, way before carson and i said in the tweet, i said, this is the funniest hour i've ever seen. >> jimmy: wow. thank you. that is very nice. >> i meant it. and mel brooks was with me. and we were laughing hysterically. >> jimmy: the idea that you and mel brooks is watching my show could petrify me and turn me to stone. it's mind boggling to me. >> and the other thing that to this day is the single funniest thing i have ever seen -- i have emceed a hundred thousand shows. when he says the emmy's and you introduce your mother and you remembered your mother made you carry a pencil box -- >> jimmy: a briefcase. >> and the kids made fun of you, that wasn't so nice

mr. word. >> jimmy: not chatty. >> not a chatty kathy guy. tonight, he is a combination of woody allen and mel brooks.hnny says stay for another segment. he stays for another segment. tells a poignant story that is very touching. and then he goes back to another. it goes on for three to four more segments. finally, there is only one segment left in the show. and i said, irvin. irvin says "you just sit right here. i am going to take care of this." he goes outside broke for commercial. the producer, at the time, he said you don't know who david steinberg, you have never put him on. he is going to be a star. you have got to treat him with more respect. i've was listening from inside the green room. i thought that was really impressive. i am impressed by this. this is great. and then irvin comes out. i said am i going to get on. you are not going to get on. get your coat on. but i guarantee you are getting on the they don't know how to treat you. we are walking out. as we are walking out. tony bennett says in the faint distance. now i would like to sing "i left my heart in san francisco." irvin said, wait

brooks says it fits with mr.ss instead of negotiating and he'll have another one next week in newport, news, virginia where sailors stand to lose their jobs if the sequester takes effect. buck mckeon feels the current urgency the white house is displaying is contrived. >> i have been talking up for a year and a half about this and it's like the white house last week woke up and says, oh, gee, we're going to have sequestration. it was the president's idea originally. he put it on the table. and when we tried to change it a year ago, he said, no, no. anything you pass, i'll veto. so this just boggles my mind hearing them talk like this, like all of a sudden now, we've got a problem. >> he and other members of congress are on a two-week president's day break. they won't even be back in washington before the cuts are set to begin march 1. gretchen? >> gretche wendell goler live at the white house. thanks so much. >> steve: all right. yesterday on his radio show, rush limbaugh was talking about the frustration in look

mrs. was about to hit. let's go to gary tuckman in staten island all night long. gary, so far, how much snow are you seeing? >> reporter: brooke, all night, all afternoon, all morning we've been here. when we started the day there was absolutely no snow whatsoever on the streets, sidewalks, on the grass. there's a plow coming. i want you to take a look at this plow for a second. the reason i wanted to point it out, they have come down the street in the last three hours probably about 30 times. you may say why do they come down here 30 times? number one, we're here. number two, no one wants to ignore staten island anymore because what happened on this street in this part of staten island was nothing less than devastating three months ago when hurricane sandy came. we need to point in that direction again so we don't get hit by him. in staten island, 23 people died. that is more than 50% of the entire total population who died in new york city during hurricane sandy in october. this borough was devastated. staten island is used to being ignored because it's the smallest borough and it is not being ignored anymore. they're doing

mr. lewis and say thank you. i got my front row seat. >> reporter: you know what, brooke, they are fired up, ready, we're going to the players as well. we'll send it back to you. >> rene thank you, live on cnn in the daytime. >> they need to get themselves excited there, they seemed -- >> your pats fans would be more jazzed? >> oh. >> too soon. >> all right, christine, give us some headlines, please. >> a lot of news going on here today. let's get to it. lawyers for george zimmerman will be in orlando in a courtroom on what would have been trayvon martin's birthday, they're requesting a trial delay. zimmerman faces second-degree murder charges. trayvon martin would have been 18 yields today. the unarmed teen was shot and killed nearly one years ago. >>> a chilling moment in the court, the woman accused of killing her ex-boyfriend in a gruesome 2008 attack she confessed to the jury she is a murderer. listen. >> did you kill travis alexander on june 4th, 2008? >> yes, i did. >> the 32-year-old went on to say she acted in self-defense when she stabbed her ex-boyfriend 27 times, slashed his throat from ear to ear and