with that, let me introduce mr. russo and mr. duffy to talk about the report. >> thank you. fred russo from the budget analysts office. i want to do a quick overview of our report, prepared at the request of supervisor mar. he provided a number of project objectives for us on this research. i guess that the machine is not done. reviewing practices and bottles for aging in the community, starting in the place that expanded into community when we realize that some people were aging while staying in their home was not a good option. what the supervisor asked is that we review demographic information about the population in san francisco and that we look at housing programs to determine the number of seniors in an on waiting lists for affordable public housing, providing legislative recommendations to encourage and enable residential upgrades to allow seniors to remain in their homes and communities. i will start with at the demographics. as the supervisor looted, the baby boom generation is aging and the impact is certainly going to be felt in san francisco. in 2008 the populati

opposition found him the nickname of the man of the so many here are asking what is it exactly that mr russo koussa knows that has caused him to defect and just how important can the information he has be to the coalition partners. ati's policy or they should be reporting on the latest in from libya since february the polish to those who contributed to our troops and freed from tripoli is. bring you closer was really going on the ground there in one of the latest tweet she says that some people in tripoli think that arming the rebels would mean that the west is also effectively arming al-qaeda as late as from find other related to it's a party of the score call on all caution also love on the website r t dot com to read about the war correspondents life in point of personal blog share big story. this is the former canadian diplomat peter dale scott is in california for us on a straight connection i believe very good evening to you mr scott now there's an increasing talk of supplying arms to the rebels in libya but when the u.s. tried this before such as supplying weapons to the taliban in af

a shrewd operator by the international community so many here are asking what is it exactly that mr russo koussa knows that has caused him to defect and just how important the information he has to the coalition partners. paula there have been reports that washington could see to become even more importantly what do we know about that. well the first reporters of course the whole question around weapons this is a concern a tripoli has had from the beginning and it is a legal question whether or not that united nations resolution nine hundred seventy three actually allows for the arming of the rebel fighters the rebels themselves have shown themselves to lack good leadership to be quite loosely organized and by and large not actually know how to use the weapons that they do have they do have surface to air missiles they've used them but if you remember it was just a few weeks back that they actually shot down one of their own aircraft so the questions that are being asked are that if the international community plans to arm the rebels are movies weapons actually just not be falling into th

a shrewd operator by the international community so many here are asking what is it exactly that mr russo koussa knows that has caused him to defect and just how important the information he has to the coalition partners well the big question on everyone's mind here is the whole question of weapons this is a concern a trip he has had from the beginning and it is a legal question whether or not that united nations resolution nine hundred seventy three actually allows for the arming of the rebel fighters the rebels themselves have shown themselves to lack good leadership to be quite loosely organized and by large not actually know how to use the weapons that they do have now we understand that about two to three weeks ago the american president barack obama reportedly signed a secret order that's all the deployment of cia agents. to this country we understand that they have been making contact with the opposition fighters they've been assessing they need to turn in their streams and i want to keep what tripoli is saying is that it might be a good thing that the discussion is now on the inte

a shrewd operator by the international community so many here are asking what is it exactly that mr russo koussa knows that has caused him to defect and just how important can the information he has the to the coalition partners nato has taken over the full command of all military operations here but increasingly the questions being posed not only by the international community are that they might be liberating the rebels but this is a very different scenario from the arab democratic revolutions that we saw interest and egypt the big question on everyone's mind here is the whole question of weapons this is a concern a trip we have had from the beginning and it is a legal question whether or not that united nations resolution nine hundred seventy three actually allows for the arming of the rebel fighters the rebels. themselves have shown themselves a lack of leadership to be quite loosely organized and by large not actually know how to use the weapons that they do have now we understand there are two to three weeks ago the american president barack obama reportedly signed a secret order th

fifteen years and after him the nickname of the man of so many here are asking what is it exactly that mr russo koussa knows that has caused him to defect and just how important any information he has the to the coalition partners. contributing to our twitter feed to from tripoli to bring you closer to what's really going on on the ground it one of the latest. and she says that some people in tripoli think that arming the rebels would mean that the west is also threats of lee are being held hostage in a sort of a that's again in a minute with the latest guest on the program but anyway you can find us on twitter i doubt the other school can all log on to our website as well r t two caught on to read about a war correspondent personal life in the prisons all the personal blog you can read over which is going through the. crowd that's going to a former u.s. government official into the picture now to try and shed some light on what's happening fourth of that climbs in washington these scenes as archival even if you can hear me we're coming out in the early almost two weeks now into the operation i

opposition found him going to claim of the man of death so many here are asking what is it exactly that mr russo koussa knows that has caused him to defect and just how important can the information he has be to the coalition partners. pulis leah there and she's contributing to our twitter feed from tripoli of course to bring you closer to what's really going on on the ground there and in one of the latest tweets she says that some people in tripoli think that arming the rebels would mean that the west is also effectively arming al-qaeda we're going for more on that in just a second you can find us on twitter meantime but are too young to school on what web site to read but of course for his life in paul his personal life. across the lives of washington d.c. to talk to former cia officer philip giraldi for more insight on this ongoing story mr drone the we're getting reports that the cia has its men on the ground now in libya where is this all were heading as you see it is there a possibility that they're there indeed to assassinate gadhafi. no i don't think that's the case i think it's seems pr

mr. russo - to set prices are determined by supply and demand globally, and several of you have said that sort of thing. let me ask i guess the first mr. newell, what is the scale and let's put it in perspective here of possible short term energy production. i mean, suppose there were a lot more leases for offshore drilling released in the last couple of years to hear the curious oppose or even a in the drilling on private land. what is the scale of the increase in production we might achieve compared to what opec can do by turning defaults up and down in the short term? >> welcome there is a considerable lag in the increased access resources and an expiration and the element and the ultimate protection of the resources so there's an important issue would return to the time scale which i think you mentioned in the short run to respond to the immediate impact send crude oil supply one needs to look at the availability of the ferre production capacity in opec which is where that currently relies.

mr. russo, - to set prices are determined by supply and demand globally, and several of you have said that sort of thing. let me ask i guess the first mr. newell, what is the scale and let's put it in perspective here of possible short term energy production. i mean, suppose there were a lot more leases for offshore drilling released in the last couple of years to hear the curious oppose or even a in the drilling on private land. what is the scale of the increase in production we might achieve compared to what opec can do by turning defaults up and down in the short term? >> welcome there is a considerable lag in the increased access resources and an expiration and the element and the ultimate protection of the resources so there's an important issue would return to the time scale which i think you mentioned in the short run to respond to the immediate impact send crude oil supply one needs to look at the availability of the ferre production capacity in opec which is where that currently relies

mr. russo - to set prices are determined by supply and demand globally, and several of you have said that sort of thing. let me ask i guess the first mr. newell, what is the scale and let's put it in perspective here of possible short term energy production. i mean, suppose there were a lot more leases for offshore drilling released in the last couple of years to hear the curious oppose or even a in the drilling on private land. what is the scale of the increase in production we might achieve compared to what opec can do by turning defaults up and down in the short term? >> welcome there is a considerable lag in the increased access resources and an expiration and the element and the ultimate protection of the resources so there's an important issue would return to the time scale which i think you mentioned in the short run to respond to the immediate impact send crude oil supply one needs to look at the availability of the ferre production capacity in opec which is where that currently relies.

russo. [applause] oakland. from the board of education, emily mores. [applause] and i could go on and on with the -- mr. mayor to be of the people who are here celebrating with you on this very historic occasion. and it was all made possible by this fine collection of people to my right whom i've introduced by name and now let me ask the president of the san francisco board of supervisors, a man who chaired the historic meeting where the vote count was done without the assistance of our folk who normally count votes which is kind of the way i prefer to have votes counted in elections. you get better results. the president of the board of supervisors, david chiu. [applause] president chiu: good afternoon. so mayor brown, i want to tell you the score of the game upstairs. two numbers. 11 to zero. [applause] this is an historic moment for san francisco. and i want to first start by thanking my colleagues at the board of supervisors. we may not -- please clap for them. we may not always agree. but on this great man, edwin lee, we came together and thank you for that. [applause] i also want to thank the many