mr. hernandez. and that they were partying. that they had a good time and that mr. hernandez spent a good amount of money. >> mr. hernandez is aaron hernandez. a 40-million dollar rising star with the new england patriots. how much money? >> he said like ten grand. >> ten grand? in one night? >> that is what he said, yes. >> when the club closes, the party continues at a place he keeps near the patriots stadium. odon lloyd's best buddies daryl hodge and daryl sweet said his friend was not normally a big partier. they know a different side of him. the friend they describe was passionate about football. >> whistle-blowers, he is coming full throttle. >> and family. >> definitely always took care of his moms and sisters. >> my brother and i, i wouldn't say best friends but as close as siblings can get. >> branch, who also coached lloyd in high school didn't hesitate to give him advice as an adult. and an occasional reality check. >> at some point, realizing we're not going to the nfl this is just going to be for fun. what i have to do is start to prepare myself a life.

mr. hernandez. and they were partying. and had a good time and that mr. hernandez spent a good amount of money. >> mr. hernandez is aaron hernandez. a $40 million rising star with the new england patriots. how much money? >> said, like, 10 grand. >> 10 grand? in one night? >> that's what he said, yeah. >> when the club closes, the evening continues at an apartment the football player keeps near the patriots stadium. oden lloyd's best buddies, darryl hodge, and darryl sweet, say their friend wasn't formally a big partyer. they know a different side of him. the friend they described was passionate about football. >> whistle blows, he's coming full throttle. >> and family. >> definitely always took care of his mom and his sisters. >> my brother and i were kind of like, i wouldn't say best friends, but, you know, as close as siblings can get. >> in and out. you know what i'm talking about? >> branch who also coached lloyd in high school didn't hesitate to give him advice as an adult and an occasional reality check. >> at some point, realizing he's not going to

mr. hernandez i'm the organer and i'm here on the on behalf of the 5 thousand men and women in the industry many of whom will be employed at pierce 96 when it's built and thanks supervisor cohen for calling this hearing it gave us a chance to talk to the members about this project and it's proposed policy just several years ago we asked our members to support the new power plants to replace the plants we asked our members if they're interested to build a facility that could one day be used for coal our members are excited to build piers 96 but no to building power plants they say no to sorry i lost my place they said no to a facility that could one day be used to handle coal our members are very excited to - sorry for local 61 we'll not support materials that harm the community and environment i want to thank the department for your leadership and supervisor cohen and supervisor wiener and the labors local 2 61 laborers. >> thank you very much is there is there any additional public comment. >> yours sincerely, yes, i'm david grace i've been keeping track of the hazards in that hunters poin

mr. hernandez wants to know how you will secure our borders and keep us safe. >> comprehensive immigration reform is we need to secure our borders. we also need to ensure that we help improve our economy and give our agriculture, our tourism, our construction industry a stable workforce. relies on that labor. it is not amnesty. they have to get back in line. >> and other big difference, secure the borders first. you can't get to the other issues until you can secure the borders. it is gang members, it is terrorists. we live in a perilous time right now. we all probably think the terrorists are coming into this nation. i believe we need immigration reform. but secure the borders first. >> how would you secure the border and pay for it? >> there are many ways. -- compass relief and ruiz would have voted against it. the national guard would have to go down to the borders to help secure the borders. there are lots of areas that the border agents are not allowed to enter because they are protected areas for endangered species. criminals don't care, illegal aliens don't care and they go right th

mr. rigo hernandez who is in charge of the facilities at cable car. the weekend like this, with fleet week coming up, will emphasize the importance of cable car not only to us as the agency, but to the city and to the region. and first of all, be accurate to say in the last 18 months under his leadership we have put in maintenance programs, preventive maintenance programs, run them on a schedule, posted them in the division so that i'm pleased to say the infrastructure and there is some 5,000, no exaggeration, moving parts, to support cable running underground through the city are in great shape because of rigo's leadership and emphasis on that. but also in many places, of course not here, but two of the biggest societal problems are depression and tension. so, part of rigo's healing powers is to make sure that the cable travels through the system at just the right tension and depression, there's some 35 depression beams throughout the system. so, in addition to being a well trained first class manager, leader and mechanic, he's also a healer of sorts

mr. hernandez. drain your watch as chief of staff to the director, is it reported,in fact as agents falsely assumed they were not gunshots when they were gunshots? were standdown orders to people who had aarti full shotguns out. in fact, the bullets were not discovered to have hit the white house in real-time within a 24 hour or greater. by the secret service. yes or no, please. >> you are referring to the in 2011.ooting >> yes. >> at that time, it is my understanding that there was reports of shots being fired in proximity to constitution avenue. 'am.amma -- ma i want to be considerate to you, you have a hard job. but you have an agency whose morale has gone down. it is lower than other comical federal agencies. it has had a series of embarrassments out. we've had two cases in which the reporting is evolving. only last night to the public learn that in fact, it was far worse, or at least somewhat worse, on september 19. only recently has it been revealed, and you said you wanted to correct the reco

mr. hernandez. drain your watch as chief of staff to the director, is it reported,in fact as agents falsely assumed they were not gunshots when they were gunshots? were standdown orders to people who had aarti full shotguns out. in fact, the bullets were not discovered to have hit the white house in real-time within a 24 hour or greater. by the secret service. yes or no, please. >> you are referring to the in 2011.ooting >> yes. >> at that time, it is my understanding that there was reports of shots being fired in proximity to constitution avenue. 'am.amma -- ma i want to be considerate to you, you have a hard job. but you have an agency whose morale has gone down. it is lower than other comical federal agencies. it has had a series of embarrassments out. we've had two cases in which the reporting is evolving. only last night to the public learn that in fact, it was far worse, or at least somewhat worse, on september 19. only recently has it been revealed, and you said you wanted to correct the reco

hernandez. >> do you support funding for higher education? >> yes, ma'am. [applause] >> ok. >> mr. angel pedrero. >> thank you, wendy. senator cornyn, of all the decisions that you made in your 12 years, which one do you regret the most or would you rather say you have never made a mistake in your tenure? >> well, i would never say that i have not made any mistakes. my wife is in the audience. she would disagree if i said that. of course we all make mistakes in life. and hopefully we learn from them. one of the things i regret is that when we passed the prescription drug program for medicare to make prescription drugs available for seniors, that we didn't insist that it be paid for. that was a mistake. because what with ve seen there is a bipartisan tendency to want to do things but not to pay for them. this is this has happened over a period of time to where now we have $17 trillion in debt and someone is going to have to pay that back. unfortunately it is going to be the nextgen vegas going to have to pay that back and that is immoral for us to be spending money today and giving

mr. duncan who are real heroes. >> moderator: we have to move forward to next question. hiewl ya hernandezease. >> senator cornyn, according to the use of the centers for disease control, 20% of young adults did not have health insurance in 2012. one of your efforts as senator has been to bring an end to obamacare. what would you instead implement to increase the percentage of young americans without insurance? cornyn: well, it's true that the affordable care act, or obamacare, was sported by its -- supported by its advocates as a solution to our broken health care system. there were many people, like me, who were skeptical that the federal government had the competence or the ability to change the law, especially using the tools they did, that would actually cover more people. in fact, there's still today 42 million people who lack health care insurance even now four years into obamacare's passage. and we've found all of the promises that were made -- if you like your doctor, you can keep him -- they've proved not to be true. because, unfortunately, what the federal government did is made

hernandez. >> do you support funding for noncitizens for tuition for higher education? >> yes, ma'am. [laughter] [applause] >> ok. mrangel pedrero. >> thank you, wendy. senator cornyn, of all the decisions that you made in your 12 years, which one do you regret the most or would you rather say you have never made a mistake in your tenure? >> well, i would never say that i have not made any mistakes. my wife is in the audience. she would disagree if i said that. of course we all make mistakes in life. and hopefully we learn from them. one of the things i regret is that when we passed the prescription drug program for medicare to make prescription drugs available for seniors, that we didn't insist that it be paid for. that was a mistake. because what we have seen there is a bipartisan tendency to want to do things but not to pay for them. this is this has happened over a period of time to where now we have $17 trillion in debt and someone is going to have to pay that back. unfortunately it is going to be the next generation is going to have to pay that back and that is immoral for us to be spending money today and giv

match hernandez has border situation from immigrants to drugs to tears issues continue to plague our area. mr. menendez wants to how you will represent the district in securing our border and keeping us safe. this is directed to the congressman. ruiz: i believe incompetence of immigration reform, and a key element, conference of immigration form is we need to secure our borders. we also need to ensure that we help improve our economy and give our agriculture, our tourism, our construction industries stable workforce. know what the place other than more than here would rely on immigrant labor but we also need to make sure that we have an earned path to such an she. and earned a path to sit should reduce our deficit, improve our economy. but that is armed. it's not amnesty. people have to pay a fine, get back in line, and they also have to -- we also have to make sure they have never been arrested. .. but secure the borders first. >> moderator: how would you secure the border and pay for it? nestande: there are many ways. first of all, the bill congressman ruiz would have voted against would ha