commissioner garcia: mr. hall, ++mu1q in dismissal. do you want to amend that?p. the d.a.'s office did not file on it. there was a lack of evidence. commissioner garcia: not filing on it is not the same as dismissal. >> it never ended up in court. commissioner garcia: it seemed to me that you're saying that they were dismissed from working at this establishment. >> all three. ñrthe masseuses who got the citations have been terminated. >> ok, but you said unless i misunderstood the all three of them were dismissed as a result of soliciting for prostitution. >> the first misuse -- commissioner garcia: stop, stop. correct me if i am mistaken.

commissioner garcia: mr. hall, ++mu1q in dismissal. do you want to amend that? was tip. the d.a.'s office did not file on it. there was a lack of evidence. commissioner garcia: not filing on it is not the same as dismissal. >> it never ended up in court. commissioner garcia: it seemed to me that you're saying that they were dismissed from working at this establishment. >> all three. ñrthe masseuses who got the citations have been terminated. >> ok, but you said unless i misunderstood the all three of them were dismissed as a result of soliciting for prostitution. >> the first misuse -- commissioner garcia: stop, stop. correct me if i am mistaken. it is as if each time someone who worked for this establishment who solicited for prostitution was fired from this business. >> that is correct. commissioner garcia: one person did it twice, so how could they have been fired each time? do not do that. when she terminated the first time since she solicited for prostitution? -- the first time she solicited for prosecution? and then she came back? ok, that is misleading. >

commissioner garcia: mr. hall, we know that, and we will give it that way, knowing that it is here say. -- give it that weight, knowing that it is here sayh -- ear -- hearsay. commissioner fung: i hate to go through this too much, but 25 years ago, when i was on this board, we use it to your massage parlor cases, multiple massage parlor cases every week -- we used to hear massage parlor cases. related more to the wacky pressure "-type of establishments that have been popping up in the city, also -- the at keep pressureaccu -- popping up in the city, the accupressure type of the establishments. this is a very difficult business, outside of the sensationalism that you might have seen related to the task force and other things that were made by various public speeches. at the heart of this particular case for me is the number of incidences, and it almost reaches the level of preponderant, and therefore, in this particular -- i need to support the department. i was going to say, and then maybe i said i would not, but

but putting in one of these, and i think mr. hall has done this, you can cut a hole in your property line wall ware windows are not allowed. you can put this in and get a view of the golden gate bridge. have you done this? >> yes. i have to fantastic view walls in the east side of my bedroom. i have this kind of transparent wall material that allows me to view the bay bridge and downtown, which otherwise would not have. i am not sure i want to tell city planning about this, but it is great stuff. it is expensive per square foot, but by comparison to the improvement of equality in my like having them view, i will take it. >> how much is a view of downtown worth? >> and lot more than the roughly $200 a square foot. >> this is an odd piece of value enhancement. >> that would not necessarily be considered a window from the planning department. >> that is correct. it is a wall. it is made with special high- temperature glass with coating between layers. how about that? there is a thin steel that goes around inside. it is not structural. w

. >> our next ranking member is mr. hall. >> this is an extremely important issue in my district. we have 13 bridges designated structurally deficient. these bridges, along with countless others within the states control, are being closed. i think the county is trying to make an example by fixing the bridge i crossed last. your office has issued several recommendations. one was a performance based oversight of states use of funds in reauthorization. have these steps been taken? >> at this time, we are not satisfied with the pace of the response to our recommendation. there were three main issues we wanted to address. first, to try to acquire better data so we could connect to the funding spent done and structurally deficient bridges to those projects. we recognize that the system for tracking that information does not include the detail. in response to our report, they had told us that by may they would provide us with an assessment of what changes they could make. what we also wanted to be done with this information was at the intermission be used to evaluate the effectiveness of

mr. president. today the president hosted a town hall with i think african-american leaders in washington, d.c. tomorrow, he'll head home to chicago to celebrate his 49th. he'll have dinner with friends and spend the night in his house but, obama will be solo. the first lady is in spain with their i thinkest daughter, sacha. >> boy's night out in chicago. you behave yourself, mr. president. >>> up next on "the nightly news," the gulf oil disaster through the eyes of children. >>> thanks for joining us here at 5:00. more he cal news head yourd way at 6:00. see you then.

mr. president, madame clerk, members of the board, i am the newly installed program director for city hall fellows. many of you know who served in the role previous to me. i like to thank the mayor's office for continued support in the preparation of young people for careers in public service. two years ago, the board approve funding for people in san francisco this year. the fellows will take up their positions in the controller's office, public works, parks and recreation. san francisco is an inaugural member and we look forward to a long and productive partnership as we look to ensure that our best and brightest college graduates are exposed to opportunities in public service careers. we thank you for the opportunity to serve the government of san francisco. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon, commissioners. a few weeks ago, this group broke down the charter reform. there was recommendations put down about why the decision was made. they vowed to improve their public process. i regret to inform you that this has not happened. the it group approve the new

a decrease in rosa hall of resume mr. novato 62 your afternoon-7 cisco. dunnage redwood city same story for fremont, monday. 86 for antioch and livermore. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. showing 80 degrees for an afternoon high at some of the war was in an spas' upper 60s run the big blows is ridiculous, will continue as very similar temperatures or the next few days is like cool them with family and others da. sissy's at apprehensive to the crows. erica. >> the writer on the bay is a good with no real delays to speak of, and no real cars on the road address hundred city we do has awarded a construction to warning about him those corrections of your duron road. the to let them live their clothes of a live minnow. eight minutes from the macarthur maze this is consistent. in two san u make your way one way traffic control is in effect that is in effect a 6:00 a.m. but traffic is so light it is not too bad a problem. taking a look at the golden gate you can see just a couple cars on the road making their way into the city your ride from highway

mr. david webster hall websterwest -- david westerhall. came to this position after 27 year career -- westerholm. he came to this position after a 27 year career. >> thank you for the opportunity to testify on the role in the deepwater horizon bp oil spill response in the use of dispersants. i appreciate the opportunity to discuss the critical role in the importance of our contributions to protect natural resources, communities, and economies affected by this tragic event. the spill is a stark reminder of the large oil spill still occur and that we must rebuild and maintain our response. when an oil spill does record did occur, there are no good outcomes. -- when an oil spill does occur, there are no good outcomes. the goal of the unified command is to minimize the environmental damage and speed recovery. epa is required to repair and mitigate other devices that may be used to carry out the plan. the plan requires regional response teams of which noaa and these days participate. -- in the state participate. they make sure the trade-off dec

hall roof. they said it was fabulous of there. i looked at them. they said that they could fix it so that we could have a deck sunday. mr. atkinson sent you a copy of the e-mail back to me where she said she did not object to the top roof but she did object to the one off of the bedroom. i told her that i wanted to continue having the one off of the bedroom. one of the things that we did was removed the stairs from the house. we had a great deal into their yard or their house. a much better view than we have had from the deck. since we removed the stairs, we no longer have access to our fire escape except from the bedroom deck. thank you. there's something on the screen.

operators to come to city hall and talk within which it with him about what could be done, so approximately 12 new operators talked to the mayor, members of the staff and myself and mrenshaw. this was a reaction to the weekends incidents, -- weekend's incidents, and we talked about how to further professionalize the industry and avoid these things in the future. it has been a tough summer, as you know, and the mayor showed a commitment, i think, to this by spending more than 1.5 hours reaching for his cell phone at all and was completely attentive, discussing best practices and ways in which the city, including the police department, the entertainment commission, and his office, could step up to promote a safer night live, in general. the mayor asked for a draft document of best practices by the first of september, and a small group of us, including myself and some members of the command staff and a few industry representatives it, have been meeting to create that draft, as well as a short list of what they are calling recommended security-related conditions that they intend to present to you at the entertainment commission for your possible discussion and action. -

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mr. frazier. the panel last night, it looks like there is no after the chronicle, so congratulations. we were talking about how people to get them to eat their broccoli with their ice-cream. reading city hall coverage with subway breakfasts. can you talk about ways you are experimenting with getting people to eat them both? making it palatable? concrete experiments that you will try? >> that will -- that sounds terrible. [laughter] >> maybe we can have broccoli with cheese? i do not think that there is a simple answer. i think that people come to read various news sources. there will be multiple sources. some for entertainment, some for other resources. the key thing about broccoli and in sustaining a democracy, it tells us what we need to know even if we did not need to know it. it is about the role that the journalist plays, telling the community what we did that no we needed to know. cheese, ice cream, it does not matter. that means editors. that means transparency. that means education about media. it means membership of junior journalists. without all of those things, there is no broccoli. no one will tell us what we need to know that we did now know we need to know. >> on that note w

hall roof. they said it was fabulous of there. i looked at them. they said that they could fix it so that we could have a deck sunday. mr. atkinson sent you a copy of the e-mail back to me where she said she did not object to the top roof but she did object to the one off of the bedroom. i told her that i wanted to continue having the one off of the bedroom. one of the things that we did was removed the stairs from the house. we had a great deal into their yard or their house. a much better view than we have had from the deck. since we removed the stairs, we no longer have access to our fire escape except from the bedroom deck. thank you. there's something on the screen. >> we undertook this project to stay within the envelope of the existing buildings. when we went to the planning department, we were told given the rear yards and the adjacentt the section 188 interpretation would require permission of the five contiguous property owners or 10-day notice, per the zoning administrator interpretation for the deck that complied on the not complying portion. this is a three story not complying portion. we went through the pr

hall. >> lehrer: but with the democratic primary behind him, bennet would not commit today to have mr. obama back to campaign this fall against a republican opponent. >> we'll have to see. we'll obviously do what's right for the campaign. he's been a huge help and i appreciate his endorsement. and we'll see what happens between now and november. >> lehrer: bennet will face republican district attorney ken buck with ties to the tea party movement. he claimed the mantle of outsider in beating former lieutenant governor jane norton. >> republicans have been sending their elected officials back to washington d.c. to change congress, and instead those republicans have been changed by congress. >> lehrer: in fact, buck's win was one half of a big night for the tea party in the rocky mountain state. the other half was businessman dan maes and his upset win over former congressman scott mcinnis to take the republican nomination for governor. maes will face denver's democratic mayor john hickenlooper and a third-party candidate, former congressman and anti-immigration crusader tom tancredo. a r