mr. givener and chris daly. for the record, i'd like to note and mr. my opinion, did not do an adequate investigation regarding residency of supervisor sean elsbernd before -- before he was reelected in 2008. just thought i'd mention that since both of them are in this room by sheer luck. secondly, i'd like to remind all critics of local government that the fbi does have a public corruptions unit on golden gate avenue. there's a little plug right there. thirdly, i'd like to thank the examiner and the chronicle for putting forth recent articles regarding the mayor's trip to china. let's put it this way. i would bet plenty of money that the chinese know exactly what they're doing and it wouldn't surprise me if they have certain volunteers arrive in san francisco to do their deeds. also, i would like to mention that in regards to treasure island, i keep hearing on the radio news about what's going on there and the different problems. and i think it's only fair to have mr. tony hall testify in these chambers regarding what happens' going on at treasure isla

mr. givener. >> john givener, deputy city attorney. the committee and members of the public can discuss the legislation that is being considered by the committee today. of course, supervisor kim's legislation is closely related, deals with the same topic. so, it's perfectly fair for a member of the public or committee member to mention ideas in supervisor kim's legislation as a counter point or suggestion for amendments to this legislation. >> okay. i think that's very important. i'm glad to hear that. i think some people may have thought otherwise. so, just to be clear, we are allowed to talk about supervisor kim's legislation today. if folks could please -- this is a hearing that is run in a certain order. everyone will have an opportunity to make public comment. please no outburst from the chamber. yes, mr. givener, just to be clear, we can discuss that? >> you can discuss it. again, to the extent it informs decisions about this particular legislation. >> okay, thank you very much. okay, next speaker. >>> [speaker not understood], a

mr. givener. >> john givener, deputy city attorney. the committee and members of the public can discuss the legislation that is being considered by the committee today. of course, supervisor kim's legislation is closely related, deals with the same topic. so, it's perfectly fair for a member of the public or committee member to mention ideas in supervisor kim's legislation as a counter point or suggestion for amendments to this legislation. >> okay. i think that's very important. i'm glad to hear that. i think some people may have thought otherwise. so, just to be clear, we are allowed to talk about supervisor kim's legislation da

mr. givener, just to be clear, we can discuss that? >> you can discuss it. again, to the extent it informs decisions about this particular legislation. >> okay, thank you very much. okay, next speaker. >>> [speaker not understood], a member of the sun site heights association [speaker not understood], which strongly supports supervisor wiener's ceqa legislation. our neighborhood association is 100 years old and we thought we saw it all. we think that this is a very important open government measure that promotes transparency. it's unjust to keep the planning process hidden from the general public and accessible only to the experts. who under the confusing rules. you're going to hear from the usual suspects here, i trust, and maybe their attorneys. i heard one activist saying i had a long talk with aaron last night. so, you will hear that. but let's think about everybody else here who doesn't have time to come to all the hearings who doesn't fully understand ceqa. supervisor chiu asked about what specifics, what's important. what's important to us is clear no

mr. nir u as well. >> i'm speaking for the department. i handle records and public request and even though given to mr. new rue to respond. >> was there any other public comment on this item? questions for mr. lee? mr. lee, i have got to say, it -- maybe i'm naive but it was shock to go me shock to to me there were no document for approval for the hundred thousand dollars projector an allowing it to go over by 3 percent. >> we were shocked too and that's why i explained to the task force and why it was being discussed to employees. in city government sometimes it does take time to get all the employees to buy in on what needs to change and that's what essentially happened. >> whose e-mails did you look through to see if there was any approval? >> the people that mr. nooim an asked. those are people in charge of the project. >> okay. any other questions for mr. lee? comments from the commissioners on this agenda item? >> it sounds like an exhaustive search was done and documents compiled and documents provided on cd's. sounds like there is nothing else. >> i agree. anything else? is there a motion to fi

their friendships, because of their nations' to my campaign, because of any gifts that have been given, not mr. williams or his company, nor any other dividual or company. governor says he understands why the questions and -- why the public may be questioning the donation in question. and he is looking into changing way familychange the members do their reporting. it would be good politically, but has no bearing on the current case. yesterday, virginia democrats called on cuccinelli, the republican candidate for governor, to step down. this after he disclosed the thousands of dollars in gifts from the same johnny williams. called the failure to report the gives an oversight. >> has a lot could get involved in a series civil war over the increasing concerns over the use of chemical weapons. this comes as syria claims the rebels, not the government of syria, are responsible for the use of chemical weapons last month at a lot though. at a news conference today, president obama vowed to find the truth. >> we will find -- will use all of the resources we have at our disposal and we will work with n

because of their friendships, because of their donations, because of any gifts they have been given. not mr. williams or his company. >> in virginia, gifts to family members don't need to be reported. the governor says that's why he did not report the $15,000 gift from williams to help pay for his daughter's wedding. the fbi is looking into the details of that gift. >> i think that i reported the gift as, i believe, the law required it to be disclosed. the gift to the office holders are required to disclose, but no office holder right now is required to disclose gifts to a spouse, to children in the house, to adult children. >> state senator, chad peterson and scott see it differently. >> i don't think mr. williams would have paid for his daughter's wedding if she hadn't been the governor's daughter. >> i have three daughters and to me, when you're a father and there's a wedding for one of your children, especially your daughter, that's an obligation that you take on and to the extent somebody helps pay for that. that's an obligation, that's a gift you need to report. >> many lawmakers are

that there is at no fault because their retention policy was wrong, but that was what they were given. >> mr. wolf, give me an opportunity to help me understand something, so if you don't want to answer my questions. >> well, i can certainly answer your question. the problem is that i don't see it being contained in as a category four? >> what category do you think that it is? >> i don't have it in front of me, yeah, i would say that it is in category two. >> why? >> because a current record that must be retained. >> so... >> i don't agree that in category four those list those lists that they have in there, halfway down, where it talks starts to get into the sunshine ordinance, it says specific examples including calendars telephone message slips, calendars? it can't be calendars, calendar ss prop g.. it can't be be calendars. and that would be, that is like state law. you can't do that. and you know, notes, notes are considered, unless it is work product, and there are no notes kind of stuff like that, how lawyers work, there is a lot of work product that they use before the actual officia

right now much of russia's banking center or writes from abroad to help solve this problem mr putin has given top level bureaucrats and state employees the way months to close their foreign bank accounts or face a sag according to a new presidential decree thousands of russians have until july the first to file declarations for their income and assets so with offshore accounts losing their sparkle anyway it might be easier for mr putin to implement these measures and buy an heiress editor in chief or business new europe told us that the fine print lesson may actually lead to a healthier banking system and contribute to russia's fight against corruption. i think it's probably a good thing i mean the first result will be countries like luxembourg which have these massive banking sectors in proportion to their economies will have to go back and review everything i mean clearly it's unstable and should there be an event like the collapse of the eurozone then they'll go to the wall and so they need to think about how they're going to deal with that and reduce the size yeah and you've got countries

because of any gifts they have been given, not mr. williams or his company. >> gifts to family members don't need to be reported. that's why he did not report the $15,000 gift from williams to help pay for his daughter's wedding. the fbi is looking into details of that gift. >> i think when i reported the gift has, i believe the law required it to be disclosed. that is, that it gets to the office holders are required to be disclosed. but no office holder right now is required to disclose gifts to a spouse, to children in the house, to adult children. >> state senator, chad peterson and delegate, scott, see it differently. >> i don't think mr. williams would have paid for his daughter's wedding if she hadn't been the governor's daughter. i have three daughters, and to me, when you're a father and there's a wedding for one of your children, especially your daughter, that's an obligation you take . that's a gift you need to report. >> many lawmakers are calling for stricter disclosure laws and limits to gifts. some say we also need limit

mr. speaker, the attention that i've given mr. bar lelta, i hope you in -- barletta, i hope you in america have given mr. barletta as well and i hope he's rewarded not just by his constituent busby a policy of the protection of the rule of law that can be re-established here in this country. the idea that we should somehow suspend our good judgment and we should waive the rule of law all for some idea of political expediency is not compatible with the principles of our political party and sacrificing the rule of law for political expediency seems to me to be a foolish idea. but it needs to be precious to be an american citizen. citizenship should be valuable and throughout all of the years that people have come into the united states legally and the distinction between legal and illegal has been con flated by the open board rts crowd. -- borders crowd. both republicans and democrats. but you'll watch, mr. speaker, how they conflate the language. a few years ago they started blending the term health care and health insurance until i

many of the issues that we are raising in this appeal, so it is quite unfortunate that there mr* yee was not given that opportunity. had we been notified, we can point out the various flaws in placing this smf at the location where it currently was. at&t fell very short in its notification procedures and following through with its own procedures, during negotiations that at&t had with mr. yee was fond of boasting that they don't negotiate with anybody, so since at&t apparently has unlimited resources to handle matters like this, perhaps it could have developed and done a little bit more to make sure all of the affected residents and property owners of this very busy commercial area would have been notified and had the opportunity to object. moving on to the merits of the matter, whether or not the location of the smf as it has been placed was a good or a poor location. apparently, this was the second site for this surface mounted facility. the first location was across the street at the 22nd and irving market and the owners there objected to the location because it was a busy loading zone. and so

mr. roth. remarks given by jonathan, the novelist. the biographer, claudia, the literary and social critic, elaine, the french policy for, ed that, the novellest and biographer, the novellest and mr. roth, who many believe to be our greatest living american author. thank you to everyone. where are you david? [applause] thank you to the invited speakers, thank you to our guest of honor. early in the novel, i married a communist, mr. roth makes reference to a memory of young nathan disukerman. you flood to history, and history floods in to you. you flood in to america, and america floods in to you. i have the sense it's true tonight. the word flood portrays history and overwhelming and that's the kind of history being made. in the presence of the finest talent in american literature, fiction and criticism in this one room, on this single moment in time, america indeed in to us. and it's my hope in some small part we are flooding in to america as well. i hope you enjoy the evening. thank you. [applause] [applause] hello i'm jonathan. and

. >> i appreciate the response you've each given. mr. chairman, thank you for the latitude to engage in a little bit of dialogue here on an important issue. >> i think your questions are very helpful. you have latitude on my watch all the time. let me ask about a couple other areas. i think you will pick up we care tremendously about hydropower. we've called it one of the forgotten renewables. that was the message when i went to meet with senator murkowski's constituents. we've got an astounding those in the house of representatives recently for hydropower expansion, almost 422 to nothing and people say congress is not an alternative galaxy we talk about hydropower. these are exceptional votes and senator murkowski and i keep unpacking statistics. 60% of the clean power in the country come opportunity for 60,000 megawatts of growth is a very, very exceptional success story. i want to ask you about potential for disruption to hydropower from climate change. let me walk you through it and see which you think of this whole area and get your

community a meeting that took place over the weekend with some exxon officials mr howell says that very few answers were given and all those in attendance were very frustrated very angry exxon mobil has not indicated how long cleanup will take mr howell told r.t. that the major concern for many people in the neighborhood is the longer term impact of from the spill both environmentally and financially what will this circumstance do to property values in that area most residents according to mr howell who we spoke with didn't even know that exxon mobil's pipeline ran through that streets and the pipeline was specifically referring to can carry more than ninety thousand barrels of canadian heavy crude oil per day from illinois to texas so that is something that most residents in the community were not even aware of that that pipeline was was going through their neighborhood just that have been big oil spills and this in the past was the usual reaction from officials of the companies involved. well look at the bigger the oil spill the bigger the news coverage and of course this oil spill taking place in arkansas

mr. dressler this is a statement given to the district attorney by gabrielle barra a flight attendant onyour flight from rio. she states that she served you 15 drinks. is that an accurate count? i only remember the first 12. she states you slurred your words and spilled a drink on yourself. do you recall that? no. she states you were disoriented-- at one point locking yourself in the washroom and requiring assistance to get out. do you recall that? no. given this statement is it fair to say that you were so intoxicated as to be unable to think or act rationally? yes. no more questions. i don't know what happened in there. you dismantled your case. i removed the needle from his arm is what happened. the offer is vehicular manslaughter first degree three counts, five to 15. we'll take it. send me the papers. make no mistake, mr. dressler i'll be present for every one of your parole hearings. feldman still has to sign off on this. five years? you think this is just? mccoy: it's what the statute provides. statute. i don't give a damn about the statute. i was presiding over a landmark case. y

because of any gifts they have been given. not mr. williams or his company or any other individual or company. >> reporter: mcdonald also repeatedly pointed out that under virginia law the gift to his daughter didn't have to be disclosed. >> reporter: do you believe there was at least an appearance of impropriety? >> no, i think i disclosed the gifts as the law requires me to, and gifts to office-holders are required to be disclosed. but no office holder right now is required to disclose gifts to a spouse, to children in the house, to adult children. >> reporter: but virginia's democratic party chairman who is also a delegate, says they do make it a practice to report it. >> it is difficult to understand why he wouldn't report and disclose gifts that are given, even if it is to a family member. i think most legislators typically do that, it is strain that our governor wouldn't do it. >> the governor says he does think it is time to tighten virginia's disclosure laws, more coming up at 6:00. >>> all right, julie carey, thank you. >>> a

high ranking suspects given no comment very upset on that mr president soon. to president putin. but the media. i won't give an interview i'm sorry but no. investigation is a dead end. he says you can stop your bullshit and keep quiet or else you'll suffer the consequences. even if they're your bodyguards to watch themselves because the same goes for them. blood rivers from gold cinch i've never heard of such a case as ours are so much money and gold has been stolen for so many years. for all the gold in colombia on our t.v. . getting. the book about international airport in the very heart of moscow stop it come on fayette come in fayette call get back. on. when that's not enough money time. most of the fun pleasure to sit down below. acts like a. lot of months a matter of are you tired. that it's a hard road. now a lot of arabs without arab ways and values some say we're wrong or that we're imply that we're out of control. so we're going to gossip about us they tell our kids i met your mother is a bad day go and work interest in them they should stay home they shouldn't be worki

community peak a meeting that took place over the weekend with some exxon officials mr howell says that very few answers were given and all those in attendance were very frustrated very angry exxon mobil has not indicated how long cleanup will take mr harrell told r.t. that the major concern for many people in the neighborhood is the longer term impact of from the spill both environmentally and financially what will this circumstance do to property values in that area of course this oil spill to police in arkansas is not as big as the one that took place in the gulf of mexico a few years back but the concern for many people especially residents the that. are directly affected by this oil spill is that it's not going to receive the coverage that it needs to receive to find those responsible for the spoil still accountable this is still a very disastrous for oil spill that's going to harm the community harm the environment and if the media does not and is not given access to cover this oil spill to cover the extent and the damage and the circumstances of it then there may be less accountability that is the major con

mr. curtis, given the intensity of the allegations and the allegations being focused at you. did you think you were not going to get out of this situation no matter what you believed to be true? >> well, i told my family over the last couple of years and i always say they, i never say police, fbi, cia, but whenever speaking of all the research i've done in organ tissue and bone harvesting, which has ruffled feathers where there is a black market for bone tissue and body part marketing. i've sent letters saying, please pass my measure so people will stop dying, cancerous material will stop being placed into healthy people and they will get diseases by tainted tissue. so that's been my goal for years. so when i began trying to push that through congress, strange things started happening. i became a person of interest, if you will. and this has restored my faith, actually, in our justice system. i had lost all faith. but i've been telling my kids for years, you know, i'm going to walk out this door, i've got to go here, you know, i love you all. god's in control. when it's my ti

mr. zito had not given up a run so far this season. that is over! he got crushed in milwaukee. the biggest hit off barry, a grand slam by bettencourt. the brewers scored 8 in the 3rd inning. the giants came back but lost10-8. >>> as and astros, pena tied it up in the 8th. same inning though reddick scores from first on donaldson's triple down the right field line. the as tied a franchise record three triples in the game beats houston 4-3 the tenth straight win against them. >>> play of the day from chicago, cubs leading the texas rangers 4-2. they have the bases loaded two out bottom of the 9th craig gentry ends it with a game saving catch right there. they were loaded up and now it's over. >> what a way to end it! if that ball bounces and gets by him, the man -- >>> ♪ "sweet caroline" >> this is really cool. new york fans normally ridicule bostonians all the time especially for their 8th inning traditional song at fenway park. they always sing "sweet caroline" by neil diamond but in a gesture of support, following the tragedy in boston, guess what they sang last night in new y

mr. sanchez? >> thank you, scott sanchez, the planning department. given the lateness of the hour i will try to be as brief as possible. this project does have a long history it was before this board before, and there were revisions of the board had adopted and there was a special condition's permit that was approved and the departments worked with the executive director to insure that the board's conditions were successfully implemented and during the course of that appeal process we did find and i think that it correctly pointed out by the appellant inconsistentcy in the addenda and the approval and the things that had changed and we tried our best to catch of the issues and one of the things that we did not recognize at the time that this was not a level lot as depicted on the plans this is a laterally sloping lot and so the project was constructed and the appellant pointed out to the department that the building was higher than was being shown on the plans. so we promptly suspended the building permit and reviewed the matter and found that it was a com

mr. mcveigh was convicted and given the death penalty, but terry nichols was convicted of manslaughter instead of murder. that's a pretty shocking difference between the two men. it shows in any case where you have multiple players, it gives the opportunity for a skilled defense lawyer to protect their client. the question always is can the government convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt under the rules that the evidence is sufficient to convict? that's a high standard, and it remains to be seen whether the government can meet that standard. >> steven jones, thank you. >>> we'll look at some other stories making some headlines around the united states today and around the world, including the alleged terror plot in canada. see, i figured low testosterone would decrease my sex drive... but when i started losing energy and became moody... that's when i had an honest conversation with my doctor. we discussed all the symptoms... then he gave me some blood tests. showed it was low t. that's it. it was a number -- not just me. [ male announcer ] today, men with low t have androgel 1.62% (testos

mr. jensen and his successor as well, given that he will be retiring soon. we have plenty of time to review it. and also with our recent bawsca prepayment, which is in your packet today as well, that is also in part moved from our perspective to greater fixed cost recovery. so, that was one of the consequences of that structure. and more is to come and we'll review that with mr. jensen in the future as well as his successor. >> okay. and if, if for some reason it looks as though we are not going to be able to come to conclusions on time for the next rate cycle, would you please let us know that? >> we will. >> my expectation is that we will. >> point well taken. thank you. >> thank you. any other comments on communications? >> i do. >> yes. >> i wanted to draw the attention to the pipeline, water pipeline assessment. it was very shocking to me to read this. i hope everybody did. and i thank david briggs for putting this together. we certainly see problems. i mean, these pipes are older than i am. so, i know that -- >> they're 29 years old? [laughter] >> amaz

mr. star. this is basically only saying that given this formula for the propensity of retail. >> and the commission would still have their discretion? okay. my main concern ask concern is we are going to be creating an awful a lot of retail space. proponents would say we want to fill it with small local businesses. that would be ideal but i see a lot of vacant store fronts in san francisco as an example that sit without a tenant there for years and years. i'm not sure if this is entirely true but the retail space is a loss leader for their development and they can afford not to rent it. i'm not sure if it's the entire amount that they are getting but it's a factor and the other thing about this legislation that concerns me a little bit is if certain types of formula retail such as banking, there is a reason why there are branches in different neighborhoods and just because there is one bank in the neighborhood doesn't mean you are going to use that bank and probably you will be traveling somewhere else by car to do your banking and not be able to stay within your neighborhood to do that service. th