politics" on "new day" where mr. john king. i heard they did not take shots at you at the white house correspondents dinner. >> i was home watching "the bubble guppies". >> a lot to cover "inside politics". with me on this monday morning six months to election day to show reporting. let's start six months out. there is a sobering new poll for democrats. who are you going to vote for for congress. six months out the republican candidate has the advantage. that doesn't seem like much advantage, when you look back in history, the huge tea party year in 2010 if you are the democrats and see the numbers now what are you think sng. >> you are very concerned. republicans have been anticipating or saying they anticipate a wave year.

today's meetings will be adjourned for the following individuals for supervisor chiu's for the late mr. john and mr. sxooeven leon on behalf of the suggestion of supervisor cowen on behalf thoughtful boards for john and also at the suggestion of supervisor cowen and sxhoovlgz on behalf of the for the late ms. renee. >> thank you commissioner wolfram crew with jonathan and bill and others with that, there's no further business. >> that concluded our business before the board. >> ladies and gentlemen, we're

today's meetings will be adjourned for the following individuals for supervisor chiu's for the late mr. john and mr. sxooeven leon on behalf of the suggestion of supervisor cowen on behalf thoughtful boards for john and also at the suggestion of supervisor cowen and sxhoovlgz on behalf of the for the late ms. renee. >> thank you commissioner wolfram crew with jonathan and bill and others with that, there's no further business. >> that concluded our business before the board. >> ladies and gentlemen, we're (clapping.) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i think we have more companies anywhere in the united states it's at the amazing statement we're not trying to be flashy or shocking just trying to create something new and original were >> one of the things about the conduct our you enter and turn your your back and just so the orchestra. the most contrary composer of this time if you accountability his music you would think he's a camera come important he become ill and it was crazy he at the end of his life and pushed the boundary to think we're not acceptable at this point for sure it had a great influence he was a

today's meetings will be adjourned for the following individuals for supervisor chiu's for the late mr. john and mr. sxooeven leon on behalf of the suggestion of supervisor cowen on behalf thoughtful boards for john and also at the suggestion of supervisor cowen and sxhoovlgz on behalf of the for the late ms. renee. >> thank you commissioner wolfram crew with jonathan and bill and others with that, there's no further business. >> that concluded our business before the board. >> ladies and gentlemen, we're just about expensive eat but food for everyone and there's organizations in the city that are doing really good work making sure that healthy food it assessable to everyone. more and more as follows are are becoming interested in upper arlthd they want to joy the open green pace sea know where their food it coming from we'll look at 3 programs talking ushering agricultural and garden to new heights. so what exactly it, your honor agricultural >> it the growing food or flowers within city limits traditionally we've been referring to communities gardener that is a raised bed over and over upp

mr. gibner related to the timetable >> john gibner, deputy city attorney. two questions came up prior to public comment one was whether there is a deadline for the applicant to distribute or send out the notice of intent the answer is no the ordinance didn't set a timeline for the applicant to publish it's notice that it's notice of intent in the applicant were to take an extended period of time inevitable the applicant will consent to a longer than 60 daytime period regarding whether we can extend the time period beyond 10 days but this item coming back to land use next week we'll discuss whether it's possible to extend that period or not >> thank you and just to in terms of the timing and legislation because of the glitch with the noticing of the fees under the newspaper we're going to need to continue this for one week we can't put it out of committee today but out of committee technique my intent next monday to notice that for a committee report. supervisor kim >> seeing there's a continuous until technique i'm happy to hammer those out what want to say

warm thanks to dbi chief building inspector for his excellent customer service, for mr. john barber of mission housing. thank him very much for his assistance. mr. barber also mentioned he hasn't been to dbi since the 90s, that's a long time, and he knows significant and productive changes have been be met in dbi's business and how that is good for our business. congratulations to director huey who was interviewed by the cantonese radio talk show program about steps interested owners who want to take to legalize current legal units. this was a live call in radio show and director huey got plenty of questions about situations and provided helpful advice so thank you for taking that on the road. he had also been invited to do a channel 26 chinese tv interview with annie chun, the president of self help for the elderly. we expect this interview to be scheduled in the next few weeks which will remind viewers about the rapidly approaching september 15 deadline to submit [inaudible]. dbi had alsz been invited to be part of the june 21 home buyer and investor expo, which will be hel

dean marcus was the director at that time and mr. john wood was the secretary of the planning committee. and with the help from above, from god, i say we finally were able to save parcel forever. our nightmare began because a trail was built at the west end of the property of my home. then in 2013 there was a fire which was spread from the park tgnre land across the stairway to our backyard and burned six or seven of my cyprus trees. we were look lucky that there was no strong wind that morning and the fire happened at 4 o'clock that saturday morning and i was up half an hour before that working in my bedroom, faceing the street away from the west side and i didn't smell or hear anything until i heard a fire truck coming by. i thought he was coming for medical reasons in the neighborhood. you could tell -- then i went down stair and saw a sea of fire in my back beyond a reasonable doubt so i called my neighbor two houses from mine and they were not aware of it so of course we ran outyard so i called my neighbor two houses from mine and th

one thing i heard from the protection of the vertical club mr. john said it doesn't have to be in the sequa comes at a time it's addressed through the permitting process the building itself didn't have to be a potential for the building permit process so the building permit process is, you know, they have the building permit that's what i'm appealing how exactly has it and i can show you the potential damage to the advert club. thank you for your time >> thank you. okay. i'll hear from the permit holder now. >> good evening, commissioners thank you four hearing this case. i'm with the law enforcement i'm the attorney for and partner with the sfmta projects. the paelths appeal first addresses the just a second hammering the just a second hammering didn't require a buckle permit only a public health department permit. so department of human being health asked for the exposurey for the mitigation plan. so to this stent sf hires someone to do the testing and january 21st it had the building permit and on january 27th they punched poles in two spots to pro

i'm going to turn it over to mr. john. >> good afternoon acting director and chair george and members of the commission i'm john senior financial analyst for the coi i. a first broad stroke background on the cf ds and the roll in the shipyard. there's the fopgs that's authorized and the cf ds are an integral part of financing the shipyard >> scheme we don't have any - >> our screens up here are blank. >> i was looking at the paper. >> one second, sir. do we need to call someone to fix that? we'll see. okay natasha if it's not a quick fix we'll look at the paper. can you follow along on the paper we're going to take a minute to fix this. sir go ahead >> thank you. so excuse me. 2005 the cf d-7 was formed 5 point plus million for the infrastructure parks in the area that was old it was formed in 2008, for the purpose of maintenance that doesn't issue bonds. in 2008, the cf d-7 r m a what direction reflecting the bonding capacity to $65 million. on april 1st, 2014, this commission approved the form of and amended r m a for c

and on behalf of supervisor avalos for the late mr. john [speaker not understood]. >> we'll take a moment and thank our staff from sfgov-tv for bringing this meeting live into the homes of san franciscans, michael furman, jonathan and charles kremenak. madam clerk is there any more business front of the board? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel] >> good morning today is tuesday, may 20, 2014. welcome to the san francisco transportation authority board. my name is john avalos the chair of the transportation authority. we are broadcast by sfgovtv staff bill and jessie and our clerk is eric can chang. madam clerk call roll >> supervisor avalos pr supervisor breed. supervisor campos absent. supervisor chiu. supervisor cowen. supervisor farrell. absent. supervisor kim. supervisor mar. absent. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. supervisor yee. we have quorum >> we have quorum very good. >> approve the minutes of the april 22nd this is an action stem. >> questions or comments

and on behalf of supervisor avalos for the late mr. john [speaker not understood]. >> we'll take a moment and thank our staff from sfgov-tv for bringing this meeting live into the homes of san franciscans, michael furman, jonathan and charles kremenak. madam clerk is there any more business front of the board? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel] >>> i'm nicole and lindsey, i like the fresh air. when we sign up, it's always so gratifying. we want to be here. so i'm very excite ied to be here today. >> your volunteerism is appreciated most definitely. >> last year we were able to do 6,000 hours volunteering. without that we can't survive. volunteering is really important because we can't do this. it's important to understand and a concept of learning how to take care of this park. we have almost a 160 acres in the district 10 area. >> it's fun to come out here. >> we have a park. it's better to take some of the stuff off the fences so people can look at the park. >> the s

and on behalf of supervisor avalos for the late mr. johnspeaker not understood]. >> we'll take a moment and thank our staff from sfgov-tv for bringing this meeting live into the homes of san franciscans, michael furman, jonathan and charles kremenak. madam clerk is there any more business front of the board? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel]

and on behalf of supervisor avalos for the late mr. john [speaker not understood]. >> we'll take a moment and thank our staff from sfgov-tv for bringing this meeting live into the homes of san franciscans, michael furman, jonathan and charles kremenak. madam clerk is there any more business front of the board? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel] bridge for success. >> commissioner hyde i don't know if there's other and commissioner lee and i'll do public comment. >> so i was just i mean this is more kurt it i understand you're here after operating for 4 years first of all, did you know upper operating without a license. >> i did, yes. >> i mean, i'm not going to hold that against you but i'm wondering sort of i was listening to convince in the hallway and wondering if you could give me a better idea of coming and trying to get a permit from the beginning. >> yeah.. well originally the idea was i wasn't going to get a space that large not having the financial resources.

and on behalf of supervisor avalos for the late mr. john [speaker not understood]. >> we'll take a moment and thank our staff from sfgov-tv for bringing this meeting live into the homes of san franciscans, michael furman, jonathan and charles kremenak. madam clerk is there any more business front of the board? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel] >> hi today we have a special edition of building san francisco, stay safe, what we are going to be talking about san francisco's earth quakes, what you can do before an earthquake in your home, to be ready and after an earthquake to make sure that you are comfortable staying at home, while the city recovers. ♪ >> the next episode of stay safe, we have alicia johnson from san francisco's department of emergency management. hi, alicia thanks to coming >> it is a pleasure to be here with you. >> i wonder if you could tell us what you think people can do to get ready for what we know is a coming earthquake in san francisco. >> well

and on behalf of supervisor avalos for the late mr. john [speaker not understood]. >> we'll take a moment and thank our staff from sfgov-tv for bringing this meeting live into the homes of san franciscans, michael furman, jonathan and charles kremenak. madam clerk is there any more business front of the board? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel] >> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake.

mr. quan. >> thank you, john quan from the department of public works. the department acknowledges that at&t has absolutely right to place their boxes in a public right-of-way, however, the city can dedicate time and manner for the displacement of the facilities that's why we permit those and with a preprilt permit before we issue american people evaluation permit. one of the things that the public members pointed out was a tree identified at this location. i did evaluate the pamper that was submitted there were several pictures of the location one showed a vehicle in front of the proposed site and another the proposed at&t box on the sidewalk. by what was sprooipz it didn't show a existing base because i went back there and checked with google map there's an empty tree well, i don't know whether it was an accident that at&t places the facility and masked it i can't speak to that but the bottom line is the city a established stormwater management and the city is correct in regulating the enforcement as it relates >> out of the one hundred and 60 previous

. >> i would like to give a real welcome to the senator from massachusetts, mr. johnay i ask you so that i don't look too naive, a tough question off the bat? >> whether i'm a democrat or republican? >> people recognized television was now the medium that mattered. it was not before 1960. and it was every day after 1960 in those presidential debates. >> don't watch that, try to find a western. >> all right. >> once everyone had a tv set in their living room, and advertisers had fully gotten a grip on how this was a way to sell products the very definition of what you were doing was to create the entertainment that would appeal to as many people as possible. >> beaver, eat your brussel sprouts. >> i can't, my stomach is glued to my throat. >> now, no excuses. >> "leave it to beaver" was something that a lot of families understood. the first show that was shot from the perspective of a child. most people had a lot of experiences like the beaver had, and everybody has an eddy haskell. good evening, mr. cleaver, some poor unfortunate child is trapped up there. >> everybod

mr. quan. members of the board of appeals i'm john quan with the department of public works. actually this one is interesting what happened i'm sure i've received a brief or a notification from the developer locked on 1335 mission streets as suggests that mr. president of this box is in conflict. the hearing officer determined that the site was most appropriate that in order for the fit to that site the most appropriate situation was for one the parking meters to be removed and put in a double meter that's the best location available that's assessable for at&t and that's one of the reasons the hearing officer made that recommendation. if the suggestion is that we the department should not find and assist based on the description to find of the alternative possibilities then the department will reject the site based on the requirement of the entitlement for the better streets requirement as it was imposed upon the development team so at&t could find another location and restart the process >> is this 1335 mission. >> no, i'm talking about right next to it. pretty sure in this

republican consultant margaret hoover, editor of the daily beast, mr. john avlon. themselves here? >> democrats south of the mason dixon line sure are. i mean, no, it's not an accident these folks, alison grimes, running in kentucky, against mcconnell, charlie crist, now a democrat, running in florida, and michelle nunn, trying to pull off a win in that state. frankly, it's a question of accountability. if you're protecting the president at this stage of the va scandal, it looks like you're a lock step democrat. >> john hints at something here, which is these candidates may actually be looking for subjects to distance themselves from the president on. i'm wondering if there will be more democrats who sees this as an opportunity to create some space from the president, when the president is not polling well -- >> i think you can look at senator pryor in arkansas and these other key swing states up in november. i think it's very, very likely. it didn't need to be this way, john. i think the president, by waiting a month to speak directly to the issue, and by letting

commentator republican consultant margaret hoover, political analyst and editor of the daily beast, mr. john avlon. has general shinseki become an albatross around the president's neck? is it time for him to go? >> this is a political pile-on moment. the key question is this, does a political scalp solve the problem? shinseki is a man with a very respected record. he's clearly lost the confidence of congress. could it switch into high gear to really start dealing with the systemic problem or is this such a political pile-on that it's time that the president doesn't hold leaders accountable, fire him and put a fixer in to get the job done fast. >> the problem, too, is shinseki may lack the political clout to actually get change done within the v. archgta. >> that's the point that drew griffin made. maybe fixes can't happen while he's there. margaret, you have worked in a white house before. i've never heard a cabinet secretary be told he's on thin ice before. that's shocking to me. that was leaked overnight by white house officials to the media. on thin ice. you know, what does that mean? eit

mr. chair, john lou with office of economic development. given the supervisor's overview the presence of department staff here that is available to talk more about the specifics on the legislation if there's need or desire i will be brief. the mayor was pleased to introduce this legislative package along with several supervisors including chiu and campos and supervisor cohen of this committee and working in coordination with our partners and the executive director is here today with important partner in putting this together so lend support to local manufacturing sectors always been a key element of the mayor's 17 point job plan so it was in this vain over the last year we were able to produce this package with the cosponsors and industry sponsors and it's because we're part of a national trend that seen growth in manufacturing. san francisco is now struggling to find space for small and medium size businesses and those that wish to locate here in the city so in that vain this package was produced and the goal is two fold to ease the regula

. ♪ >> this is "bloomberg surveillance," i am tom keene and mrs. john burke, the ceo of financo.n is have become more brandier. forget about the alligator shoes or that shirt, he just figured it out. abercrombie & fitch has not. what are they missing right now? >> the world has unfortunately moved away from them, five or 10 years ago that millenial customer wanted a look, they wanted to be on trend and on fashion and they had it. media, world with social you have a plethora of ideas and options for that customer, and they are looking to change more quickly. they are looking to individualize their look, and it makes it difficult for one brand that is tied to one look to survive. >> do you spend a lot of money investing and making your brand or is this like a gorilla brand? >> with social media, it can be done very quickly. look at michael morse and where they have come from so fast, that is because in today's world the information is on your iphone and ipad. >> can this be sustainable after what we have seen from decades of ralph and others taking the good news and keeping it goin

john [speaker not understood] was incredibly long-lived excelsior district resident, known as the mayor -- mr. excelsior. i've known john for at least 10 years myself. he has been quite a main stay in the excelsior district. he passed away at the ripe age of 97 last tuesday surrounded by his children in the home where he was born and raised. john was known as mr. excelsior because of his dedication to the community. he helped to revitalize the excelsior district improvement association, the edia. in 1959. and to this day the edia holds its monthly meeting in the spacious basement of his home on santa rosa avenue. john continued to remain active as the sergeant of arms and led the pledge of allegiance before each meeting. as a former president of the edia, one of his proudest accomplishment was to safe 88 homes from the demolition for a parking lot. john organized a petition drive and delivered 8,000 signatures to city hall to successfully stop the demolition. i can't imagine that happening now, what an incredible feat that would be. john was a very active member of corpus christi church which

mobile had an african-american man whose name was john leflore and mr. leflore back in the 1920s decided he was going to take on segregation and started one of the earliest naacp chapters in the south here in mobile and kind of quietly went about the business of opposing lynchings and pursuing the right to vote, pursuing the desegregation of buses and public accommodations and mostly he did it through negotiation and lawsuits and that kind of thing less like demonstrations and confrontation. he found a few moderate wide allies in mobile who would sort of medium part way and so that he came can kind of the mobile story although there was a lot beneath that apparent progress where there was still a lot of hard-core segregation and some pretty hard racial attitudes. so it took a while for all that to play out. there were people going way back to mobile in trying to get things started earlier. john hewlett became the first african-american sheriff in lowndes county alabama. lowndes county was arguably the toughest county in alabama in terms of its resistance

mr. quan. >> commissioners john quan from the dksz again. i think in many ways the time issue we've beat it to death i want to talk about the location for randall street the department received 12 objections based on that the hearing officer did open the hearing for 20 days. to evaluate proposals. during the hearing one the observe terse identified three locations and the department did receive at the end of 20 days at&t response was those locations are more than 3 hundred photo away from our cabinet and therefrom they don't satisfy the requirement. the departments expectation was for at&t to meet with the obtain terrors to identify those additional locations in those 3 locations didn't satisfy at&t requirements to find a resolution that didn't happen. in relation to 33 of walter street we received a petition from 29 people observing to the placement and based on this on our hearing okay. we directed at&t with opening for 20 days to have a followup what walk and they do. i was reported to by my staff that 4 people showed up one was by happen

mr. quan. >> evening john quan for the department of public works i've heard from the appellant that they do pay for the direct cost force the department i'll agree it didn't pay for the staff time the issue is trying to schedule a room at city hall in many cases that's been the challenge for the department we'll be working to get the additional time on monday in those kind of cases. i'm not hearing really is the continued point to the order itself that based on the order upon the objection we have a southern timetable to process the hearing. what the challenge we continue to face this is also, this is in context to their mou of memoranda of the understanding that when we do a posting there is a 20 day posting period and it would come in on the same day for the posting to schedule the hearing immediately is what their suggesting. when we do that and in consideration that at&t has stated they'll do the box walk to court reporter those opportunity for the hearing date of 20 days to the potential directors hearing of a week, week and a half i take it a challenge that at&t tried to schedule thos

joining me now, secretary of state john kerry. mr. secretary, good morning to you, sir. >> good morning, cluck. how are you doing? >> i'm okay. let me just ask it this simple way, will we ever look back on the war in afghanistan and say america won it, it was successful? describe. >> i think our objective has been to give the afghans the ability to fight the war and ultimately determine its outcome. i think we're on the road to achieving the transition that the president set out as his policy. the president also, you know, from 2009 when he came in, there was no strategy being implemented in afghanistan. most of the focus, as you remember, was on iraq and resources have been cannibalized from afghanistan to go to iraq. so the president focused on afghanistan. he set time limits. he set a target for the afghans to take over security, they did. he set a target for them to provide the security and implementation for election, they did. and now he's setting a target for them to assume full control of their military, trained and equipped.

mr. john carlin served as national coordinator of the department of justice computer hacking and intellectual property program which consisted of 240 prosecutors specially trained to prosecute cyber crime and intellectual property cases. so a lot of background in the area that gave rise to this week's indictments. he has a degree from harvard law school and from williams college. he will speak for about 45 minutes, and then we will have a q&a with him over there and take some questions from the audience. i ask that you all silence your phones because there are a lot of cameras in the room. please join me in welcoming john carlin. [applause] >> thank you, ben, for that kind introduction. how grateful to be here at brookings today discussing emerging national security threats. also a keen fan of allow fair blog, as are many in this national security field. the department of justice announced charges against five members of the chinese military for computer hacking, economic as been eyes and othe

we are great for their professionalism in the prodigs of the late john chapla. thank you, mr. chairman. >> chair now recognizes ranking member of the subcommittee on military personnel. gentle lady, ms. davis. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank mr. wilson and the committee staff in particular for working in a bipartisan manner to develop the mark. i really appreciate all of their efforts. the mark continues the committee's focus on sexual assault. the chairman's mark includes two more provisions in addition to several provisions that were already included in the subcommittee mark, and these include a requirement for the secretary's concern to establish a confidential process by which a victim of sexual assault may appeal to the board for corrections the terms or the characterization of a discharge or separation from the armed services and requires the secretary of defense to modify rule 404 of the military rules of evidence to clarify that general military character of an accused is not admissible except in cases where the military character of the accused is relevant