mr. kim, how big is this problem? >> in china there is about 100,000 to 400,0 refugeesin china right now. among 80 percent is north korea is women. those women who doesn't have friends or relatives inside china, they are traffick 100 percent. >> so many are despate and starving. this seems like their only way to survive? >> yes, because of these refugees a cross the border because they are hungry and desperate. they want to be survived. that is the reasonthey cross the river. >> some women are sold as wives to farmers, others are bought by the cyber porn industry in china. tell us about that. >> yes, from my 10 years of this rescue ministry that i found is 3 stages, late 1990s, these refugees stay close to river because they want to make a river. they crosthe rive then they become traffickers. they sellthem because they see the money. second stage is north korean people in beginning of 2000 theybecome a merchant on the market. beginning of business, they borrow monefrom friends that are relatives. they are experienced

mr. yee? miss kim? >> next, superintendent garcia. superintendent garcia: this last weekend, we had a retreat. i want to thank the staff for making this one of the most successful retreat's we have ever had. one of the main goals was to identify the top priorities of the district and in times of economic times, identifying three or four things that we must do it to do them right, to make this district one of the top in the country. we will be focusing this year -- the priorities will be the core curriculum and assessment, the special-education redesign, and also quality and middle school pathways. we kind of put that off to make a decision this coming year. we had an opportunity to look at how to better communicate these things. throughout the year, we will be reporting about progress in these areas. there are basically ones that we are doing simultaneously. only focusing on these things can we make social justice a reality. i want to remind everybody, i know that we're finally feeling what the fiscal crisis is about in california. th

we talked with petaluma fire chief who says atop's owner mr. kimaid he brought the boat here thursday to salvage for scrap metal. >> it would have been required on approval to have a permit and would have been required to have a city business license. >> reporter: the fire chief tells us there's no record of atop applying for a permit or license and no way fire officials would have issued a permit for this operation. >> we would have paper work on file with an approval and the operator would have a copy of that approval as well. >> at this point there's no record of that? >> there's no record, no. >> reporter: we went to atop listed address, but when we arrived we found this. an apartment building, with a room number instead of a business suite. so far no one from atop has returned our calls. the company is paying for the clean up which could take weeks to finish. officials say when this investigation is complete, atop prc could be facing fines or even criminal charges. reporting from petaluma, jana katsuyama. >>> and the effort to -- the idea is t

we talked with petaluma fire chief who says atop's owner mr. kimsue said he brought the boat here thursday to salvage for scrap metal. >> it would have been required on approval to have a permit and would have been required to have a city business license. >> reporter: the fire chief tells us there's no record of atop applying for a permit or license and no way fire officials would have issued a permit for this operation. >> we would have paper work on file with an approval and the operator would have a copy of that approval as well. >> at this point there's no record of that? >> there's no record, no. >> reporter: we went to atop listed address, but when we arrived we found this. an apartment building, with a room number instead of a business suite. so far no one from atop has returned our calls. the company is paying for the clean up which could take weeks to finish. officials say when this investigation is complete, atop prc could be facing fines or even criminal charges. reporting from petaluma, jana katsuyama. >>> and the effort to -- the idea

mr. yee. ms. kim? >> yes. ms. chan >> yes. >> ms. fan >> yes. please join me in the plenl of allegiance. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. if you'd like. [no audio] >> we usually end our meeting in memory of staff members who have been a part of our family who have passed away. so we do have many members of some of the schools here today presently, so i'm going to actually pull this up to the beginning. and so i want to ask the principal of mission high school to come up first. >> thank you very much. thank you, demigsers -- commissioners. on behalf of the mission high school community, i want to read a bit about kathleen cecil. sadly she passed away on wednesday evening after suffering a brain aneurysm monday on the opening day of school, which has really rocked the community, though we are blessed to have a wonderful, supportive community that rallied around each other, including families, staff, and most importantly students who have been very strong and wonderful. so i'll read this. kathleen cecil, beloved english teacher was a kin

president kim: thank you, mr. bruni. we will post that information. thank you. item k is advisory committee reports and appointments to advisory committees by board members. do we have any appointments tonight? there are none. item l is special order of business. a resolution receiving actual cost information in connection with the sale and issuance of san francisco unified school district, city and county of san francisco, california, proposition a i election of 2006, general obligation bonds, 2010, and authorizing submissions of such actual cost information to california's debt and investment advisory commission. may we have a motion and a second? >> so move. president kim: second? may we have a reading of the recommendation by mr. ravioli 1234 --? >> good evening. resolution receiving actual cost information in connection with the sale and issuance of sfsud sfsud 2006 general obligation bonds, series d, series d and series e and authorizing the submission of such actual cost information to the california debt and investment advisory commission. for brevity, i

mr. yee? >> present. >> ms. kim? >> here. >> thank you. president kim: if you'd like, please join news the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance recited] president kim: frank you. first on the agendas is approval of minutes for the meeting of august 24, 2010. may i have a motion? >> so move. >> second. president kim: are there any corrections? roll call, please. >> thank you. [roll call] president kim: next is a presentation by superintendent garcia. >> yes. thank you. first of all, if you didn't catch it on the news yesterday, i think we have a lot to celebrate this year. not only did we start out the school year getting our great test results and seeing student achievement increase tremendously. but in the a.p. rankings, we learned that our district went up 16 points, the largest gain in the past five years, with schools serving some of the most vulnerable students in our district and actually had the highest gains in the entire school district. it's really exciting to see that in spite of all the challenges, schools have really fo

it was interesting is that it was a one dollar payment if it was kim a question ten years ago mr putin what would you like this country to be infamous by and the reasonable demands of it should be kept and in fact according to their opinion polls the russians feel much happier than they used to and mr putin discussed the main the chairman's you see mention of national income is growing my personal income is growing pensions undergoing and so on and so forth and russia past the stores like prices reasonable. do you get the feeling that i'm going to talk about. russia till twenty ten if you get the feeling this is a man beginning to campaign again. i think that he is very pragmatic he's not about campaigning here he is the bar sceptic to how he wants russia to be in the future now and in the future i think that who is running the country there was very question was what would either they mean here who is still in power and we can say that because you may remember he is really the sceptic to fright and to get richer you know i'm sure he'll tell us what is good day for money thank you very

member of the korean peninsula delegation many thanks for speaking to us mr ford who quoted in the media today as saying that you think kim jong un is the chosen there so what do you think it means for the future path of the country. well i mean he's the chosen there but he is not actually officially yet the heir apparent promoted in the last few days to the general and of course the almost unprecedented korean workers' party conference is opening today and it's expected that following that conference you will be getting a high position in the party i think that's a signal to the rest of the world maybe not to korea that in fact he's been designated as the successor to the kim jong il some stage in the future and will he be bringing change with him if he doesn't succeed as you've mentioned the serious change going on in pyongyang with a chance that many senior think is could be replaced by people who have more experience in dealing with the west could this be an indication do you think that the country is going to break from its self-imposed isolation well i think we need it we need to look wider than just who is if you w

kim. . pifment mr. defazio of oregon. ms. ros-lehtinen of florida. ms. kaptur of ohio. mr. kennedy of rhode island. ms. velazquez of new york. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the gentleman from california, mr. garamendi, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. garamendi: mr. speaker, thank you so much. i will engage in a colloquy here with the permission of the chair to discuss an important issue for america. that is manufacturing. if america's going to make it, we're going to have to make it in america. before i go into the subject of how we can restart and rebuild the american manufacturing sector and make it in america, i would like to do a little review of history first. years and years ago, i played football at the university of california and it's football season and my friends have accused me of using football analogies, and well, it happens to be true. so, ok, football season. let's consider for a moment that it's not football that we're dealing with, but rather it's the economy. and if we were to consider th

mr. kelly did submit a card. thank you for saving paper. any other comments from the public. commissioner maufas? >> thank you, president kim for bringing this resolution forward. i would like to respectfully request to be added. thank you very much. >> i want to thank both of you -- both president kim and commissioner fewer for bringing this resolution to support the proposition d on the ballot in november. this is totally consistent with our parent engagement resolution to get parents involved, and we all know that the more they are involved with their community, their schools and so forth, then we will get better results. if we are going to believe in democracy, then we need as many people participating as possible. it is not just the parents that will be involved, but their children will also see they are involved so they will respect the process we have in our society. thank you again, and i am fully supportive of this. we are adding everybody's name? thank you. >> i also think it is so important that all of our stakeholders actually have a voice in who represents them on the board of education. that in itself is profo