mr. brooks. it is unfortunate that commissioner torres is not with us today. at the part where that we are investigating water supply options that helped more reliably serve customer needs during. the short fall or during emergencies and skipping to the relevant provision, the party's proposed to continue investigations and analysis in the development of the joint desalinization project. this was not in any way contemplated prior to this meeting? because i am seeing action, i am seeing a commitment to continue investigating and analyzing. is this still going too far from where you thought commissioner torres was coming from? >> it is possible that the commissioner would even be favre for this, but his opinion was that we needed to flesh out. also, your environment to a chair is not here, and i would think for us to move forward with this desalinization, which is a very controversial thing if not outright bad, i would want to see the full commission here and give us some time to get some public comment out here to say what we think about desalinization and then

mr. brooks regarding the defense access program rope program. an amendment by mr.smith concerning a joint operational energy pilot project. an amendment by mr. heinrich regarding a micro grid pilot program. an amendment by mr. shilling concerning arsenal capital improvements. an amendment by ms. sanchez regarding advance surface machinery systems. an amendment by ms. sanchez concerning base camp fuel cells. an amendment by mr. ryan regarding small business alternative energy applications. >> without objection, reading of the amendment will be dispensed with. is there any discussion of the amendment? if not, the question is on adoption of the amendment offered by mr. forbes. so many as are in favor will say yea. those opposed no. the yeas have it. the amendment is agreed to. chair now recognizes mr. forbes for the purpose of introducing an n-block amendment. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman i ask unanimous consent to call it a readiness on block number two of military construction budgetary legislative amendments that have been worked and approved by the min

mr. brooks. >> good afternoon, commissioners. eric brooks representing san francisco green party and the local grass-roots organization of our city. i would strongly urge you to continue this item. even though there have been years of planning on this, even though there has been a lot of hearings on it, there's been a recent development within the last month that completely changes the game on this issue. you've received some communications about sea level rise and tsunami dangers. keep in mind that tsunamis 10 feet and above are not accounted for in this project plan, and that could happen from alaska. also, the new estimates of worst-case sea level rise are 78 inches, not 55. the bcdc is relying on more conservative data from a couple of years ago from the ipcc. the scientist that is have come up with the new 78-inch figure are ipc scientists. so the most recent date is not being included and the 7 -inch figure is -- the 78-inch figure is nowhere in the response. the thing that's changed is because redevelopment was threatened

mr. brooks? >> eric brooks, representing san francisco green party and our city.last week's planning commission hearing, we reiterated our strong opposition to this project and that the eir should be recirculated. we were joined by the sierra club and others in that same call for the eir to be recirculated. the reason for this is not only the past things i have seen -- i have said about c level dangers, but the main reason now is the massive financial and governments changes in this project. these changes have happened all within the last month. the have caused staff to completely rewrite this whole thing in the last month, notwithstanding the claim that the product is not changing. the fact that they are going to have 20% less financing and do not know whether they can get that number back up from the state not only affects local hiring, not only affects affordable housing, but you heard them say today that the future preparation for sea level rise depends on future financing. if we are going to start this project with 25% less financing and no guarantee it is go

mr. brooks for the purpose of an amendment. >> mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. >> and the number? >> i'm not sure, mr. chairman. was filed today. >> to 78, your first one? >> yes, sir. >> clerk, please pass out the amendment, to 78. >> without objection reading the amendment of the amendment will be dispensed with. the gentleman will suspend until the clerk has a chance to pass out the amendment. >> the gentleman is recognized to explain his amendment. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this is to the system. the amendment creates a budget item in the amount of $149.5 million. but it makes the expenditure subject to the following limitation. this section will also provide a limitation that no funds made available in fiscal year 2012 may be obligated or expended until the government accountability office provides a report to the congress of the cost-benefit analysis between the system including the lifecycle cost for water will cost to upgrade, maintain and deploy and the analysis of the cost associated with harvesting the tech

mr. eric brooks, he says the poll assumed higher rates for customers in all questions. the customers were not asked what the response to the program would be if it had electricity rates that were the same or lower than their pg&e rates. >> i can respond to that. we do not believe the program exists like that. there is no program that can buy wind and solar at the same price as brown power. if you are going to buy solar and 20 cents, you cannot sell it at 8 cents. it does not exist. >> therefore, that question is irrelevant. >> you cannot ask the question. you cannot provide the service. >> i am very disappointed by these results. it shows we have to do more education as a supporter of this approach. i do not know what other alternatives we need to pursue to make sure the people understand this is in their best interest. do you have any ideas? >> of course we have to do more marketing and education. with the people already with us, this would be the largest program in california by far on day one. marin county has about 9000 people. it may grow to 50,000. we're assuming

mr. turner? >> good afternoon, supervisors. brooke turner. i understand the concerns of the tenants in place at parkmerced. i applaud president chiu and all of your efforts to try to address the concerns but i'm here today as an environmental minded person, who has worked for many years to sustainable development and this is what this proposal is. as president chiu pointed out, this is an exceptional proposal, the likes of which have not been seen in san francisco before. i'm not aware of any other developments in the nation of more sustainable or environmentally considerate. many of you have had the opportunity to meet my sons. some of you have suffered their visits to your office. for that, i apologize. despite their bad behavior, it's for their futures i became involved and interested in the environmental movement. i believe that my children, your children, and all the kids in san francisco who grew up here will benefit from the project by showing all of us that sustainable and socially responsible development can be achieved. thank you. s

mr. brooks. >> aye. >> mr. young. >> aye. >> mr. rogers. mr. courtney. >> no. >> ms. giffords. >> mr. that vote, the ayes were 54, the nos were 5. >> the amendment is agreed to. the chair now recognizes mr. cooper for the purpose of an amendment. >> thank you, mr. chairman. amendment number 164, i would ask to be distributed. >> the clerk will please distribute the amendment. without objection, the reading of the amendment will be dispensed with. >> gentleman from tennessee is recognized to explain his amendment. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this amendment has to do with the joint strike fighter but only the f-35b, the short takeoff and vertical landing variant of it. so in this vast program, this is a very small aspect. what the amendment would do is, the committee remembers that this year we have funded three of these and next year my amendment would propose that we fund four. now, the committee work says we should go ahead and do six. i would like to cut that back by two for a reason. it would save $380 million in money that i think could be spent for other higher priorities. i do n

mr. prime minister, the brookings podium is all yours. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. i'm deleted to be here and honored. thank you for hosting me this morning. if you allow me, i would like to start, since there is a concern of time by giving a broader context of what is happening in libya and the middle east in general. i would add at the beginning, what is taking place is a natural product of the globalization process that started in the mid '80s. we have witnessed some results from the financial and economic scene and we are witnessing the new global cultural paradigm of paying off some real concrete results in the middle east. i would say that what happened in libya cannot be separated from what happening in egypt, from what is happening in tunisia and what is taking place in yemen and what is taking place in syria. and i would also argue that this is irreversible trend, a new global culture of paradigm based on global values, common values, sharedy many young people in the world. more involved with in the political process, more part anticipator to of any country

mr. zawahri apologized in his message. the result of him being the home office nag everybody hates. brookings institute reporting today zawahri is most known in al qaeda for berating other groups like muslim brotherhood because they stray from the true path he follows. those groups never liked him anyway. mr. zawahri is widely believed to have ratted out the muslim brotherhood 30 years ago when he was in prison in egypt. a rat. we are all waiting to see what the u.s. will do with bin laden's hard drive. with the intel they collected from the house where they killed bin laden. maybe they'll be able to roll up al qaeda central. if he survives long enough to take over the reigns of al qaeda central from dead bin laden, he'll never be another bin laden. in the week of good things that it sometimes feels awkward to call good, that would be a good thing.

mr. sunshine, thanks very much. >>> barnes & noble and the gap this morning. jason brooksith kcbs and cbsmoneywatch.com has more. >> reporter: good morning. things heating up for barnes & noble on the selling block for almost a year and now it may finally have a deal that its board of directors like. liberty media which owns a number of different organizations including encore, st arz, it's offering a million dollars to take over barnes & noble. things may not be so bleak. it's biggest brick and mortar competitor borders has been closing stores left and right. and also barnes & noble has the nook ereader which has done fairly well and that's an absolute key in trying to capture that ebook market amazon just reported this week that for the first time it sold more ebooks than printed books. things are awfully tough for san francisco-based gap and its three major changes including old navy and banana republic. it's had problems with sales and now it says that its costs are continuing to rise, it's costing about 20% more to make its goods than a year ago. and it's not able to

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mr. morgan. >> no, no, the majority of americans disagree with me. but a third of them agree with me and that's a lot of people. that's about 100 million. so 100 million people agree with me, brooke i'll give you that what about, because this is so fascinating, guilty as charged in terms of -- he was a big get for a lot of us. you talked to trump. he was huge on the tv for about six to eight weeks there. which do you think benefited the most, piers? do you think it was trump or us and tv and newspaper land? >> well, indispute blee, the media had a field day. donald trump brings with him a lot of energy and oxygen that definitely helps him. he's definitely promoted himself. and the apprentice, i spoke to him about it. he's a very charismatic guy. dare i say git a few boring guys. without him and huckabee, it's looking dull in the race. what we love to do is say that he's a ridiculous candidate while praying that he runs because it will make it so much fun. >> we love a good character. >> final question. is he done with politics? >> i suspect he knows it's liberating and good for his brand and i would never underestimate him. whether you love him or hate him, the guy has made billi