mr. williams job reaching he was on the way to a mi6 headquarters. colleagues reported him missing when he was not seen for days. he was found in the pimlico. authorities are trying to find if national security has been compromised. >> they will immediately be looking at all the information, just to see which players are in town. they will be looking at operations to see if any of those could give a clue. >> this has been on welcome publicity for an organization synonymous with secrecy. officials are hoping the deaths of one of the employees does not have a wider implications. >> astronomers have discovered an entire planetary system similar to our own. it has five plants orbiting its are similar to our son, and they say the plans look-alike neptune and are made of rock and ice. -- look a little like neptune and are made of rock and ice. >> it is similar to our own sun. most of the planets are huge, more than 15 times bigger than the earth, but one of them may be similar in size to our own world. if that is confirmed, astronomers say it will be a maj

mr. william lee a member of your planning commission. the most important accolade is to acknowledge his wise service to this city in terms of planning because oftentimes this planning will have an impact for decades. and people like mr. lee should be commended and they should be held on to for as long as possibly in order for the city to make good, sound progress. and at the same time, for the record, i'd like to bring to your attention for future consideration as a member of the planning commission mr. jim salinas who's been a long time business representative for the carpenter's union local 22 in san francisco, native of san francisco, quite familiar with the lay of the land and well aware of the needs of the people, the citizenry of the city and county of san francisco. thank you very much for your time and attention. president miguel: thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm orlando dusue wave. i'm a local 22 carpenter's union member. i'm a san francisco. i'm here to thank mr. lee. i hope that everyone could be encouraged by his support for

mr. williams' brief. commissioner garcia: let me make this 0.1 more time. misleading information. >> his brief seems to be misleading, correct. >> -- commissioner garcia: i would have appreciated that. >> it seems very misleading. commissioner fung: there were some questions raised. you have to put in a new one- hour window assembly, it is there another location that is not on the property line? i thought that was brought up in our discussion on jurisdiction, and we went beyond that. >> well, i was not present. i was not retained by the permit holder during that, so i apologize. i do not know what occurred during the jurisdiction. what i can say is that we're trying to essentially abate the nov in the simplest, easy way in order to appease dbi and mr. ha sson. commissioner fung: with drama? >> i do not believe so. commissioner garcia -- with trim? >> i do not believe so. do you have a copy of the permit? commissioner garcia: made the the sizes on there, but i do not see it. >> all i see is that it is a one-hour assembly. my understanding is that it is going

mr. williams did raise the question of how much subdivision might be allowed on the lines that are larger like this one in the future. from my perspective, given the discussion on the housing element and the direction that will be taking in the future and the need for development in the city, i am quite comfortable with the way this particular development has been presented. that said, i think that others will have comments morses sync on the design aspect. i would like to see a little bit more work between the front a sponsor and staff. perhaps, of the people have comments more direct. >> i will move to approve an include the incurred schmidt for staff to work with the architect. perhaps, the other commissioners will. >> i believe that the subdivision is quite appropriate. if he were to look across the street, the pattern is qui

mr. williams had a substantive job in chelsea, but he was a convert to mi-6 headquarters in london.olleagues reported him missing after several days. a priority for the investigation is to establish whether national security has been compromised. >> special branch will be keeping an eye on the police investigation. mi-5 will be looking through all the information that is available, to see who is active. meanwhile, mi-6 will be looking at the operations he was involved in, see if those reveal a clip. >> it is unwelcome publicity for an organization synonymous with secrecy. the organization of the death of one employee does not have wider implications. >> you are watching "bbc world news." good to have you with us. stay with us, if you can. still to come -- an operation to save of french village being swallowed by waters. first though, an investigation is underway in northeast china were a passenger jet crashed with 42 people. it happened late tuesday. >> a chinese television viewers will get to a scene they have not seen for six years, the wreckage of a downed passenger plane, strewn

mr. williams and his crewmen and women at nbc news. >> never. we opened a bureau down there. and here's what i tell everybody. if you had been in that dome with me, i was the last person in before they closed the corrugated steel doors. and there were thousands of us in there. and i was the first person they let out. and i had some kind of storm survivor guilt after that because most stayed in for six days. but i had to go do our broadcast. if you had been in there with me, you would have that bit in your mouth too. you would have gone back, i don't know how many trips have we made, 27 times we've brought the broadcast back there. i am now a part of new orleans and it is a part of me. because we met people, charlie, who didn't get out of that dome alive. they didn't survive the shell ter of last resort set up for them in new orleans. as i always say, they were failed by adults. they were failed by their government. closest thing i've seen is something like haiti. where relief is coming in. we tell ourselves it's different, we're in the united states. this was no different fro

causing the trouble outside of the house of commons i went outside of pittsburgh i had lunch with mr williams and all the people with the extreme left who were both verbal e attacking the english defense league who had nothing to do with what will resign other who are on the other side of the street so as usual it was the extreme left who was stirring up the trouble and trying to cause violence and confrontation and you know some unscrupulous commentators then accuse mr willis of of extreme which is totally untrue i've met mr was on a number of occasions i wouldn't have anything to do with him if i thought he was an extremist but i think he's actually a heroic person but at the risk of his own life he lives under twenty four hour police protection i went out for the for dinner with him in and we had four armed police officers sitting that's the next table and why is that it's because he's trying to defend the democratic liberal values of western society against islamic fundamentalist extremists who want to overthrow that and introduce sharia law and islamic fundamentalism in western countries

mr. williams, please rise. >> rise. >> please raise your right hand, sir.a false statement given to a governmental agency is punishable by fine or imprisonment under the title. knowing this, do you solemnly swear that the tesitomy you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god? >> yes sir, i do. >> thank you, sir. please be seated. >> captain, i'm scot bickford. i'm representing mr. williams here, today. >> yes, sir. can you spell your name for the reporter? >> b as in boy, i-c-k-f-o-r-d. >> thank you, sir. >> mr. williams, for the record, could you please state your full name and spell your last, sir? >> my name is michael keith williams. w-i-l-l-i-a-m-s. >> thank you, sir. >> by whom are you employed? >> transocean. >> and what position do you hold with transocean, sir? >> chief electronics technician. >> and how long have you been the chief electronics technician? >> approximately six months. >> prior to your becoming chief electronics technician, what was your positions within transocean? >> electronics te

mr. williams, just a couple of follow-ups. were you on the rig in 2008? >> yes sir, i was. >> were you familiar with the brown out of that occurred? >> yes, i was. >> can you explain what happened? >> i cannot. i was part of the deck crew, then. it was light outside for us. the only thing that we knew was that the crane shut down. >> you worked on the emergency disconnects system? >> no sir, i have not. >> no more questions, thank you. >> good morning. i just have a few questions. you indicated that you were familiar with the censors. >> yesterday >> would to be familiar with the location of those sensors on the vessel? >> yes sir. >> will be familr with the locations of the intakes and automatic shutdowns on board the vessel? >> i could find everyone of them. >> you also indicated you were familiar with the pds system as well -- th eds system as well. >> yes. >> i have a couple of schematics of would like to put up and i would like you to go to those and indicate the locion of where they are. >> s sir. [no audio] >> i am going to give you a blue pin. jus

i would like to introduce william strauss, senior economist at the federal reserve in chicago. mr. strauss joined the federal reserve in chicago in 1992. he analyzes the current performance of the midwest economy in the manufacturing sector for use in monetary policy. he produces a monthly manufacturing index, organizes the bank economic outlook symposium and annual auto outlook symposium, conducts several workshops and roundtable throughout the year. he currently teaches at the university of chicago, the gramm school of general studies. pimm mr. strauss, welcome. we look forward to your testimony. -- mr. strauss, welcome. >> chairman brown and members of the economic policy subcommittee, i am pleased to share with you some perspective on long-term trends and observations on how the recent recession and recovery are expecting -- affecting manufacturing. one major issues the extent to which we should be focusing on the number of people employed in this sector and the overall output. interestingly, each leads to opposite conclusion about strength of manufacturing in the united states

mr. tho-biaz. miss williams. mr. errol wishom. ms. virginia wright. >> please speak and your microphones. we are being recorded and televised. we want to hear everything that you have to say. i would like to first acknowledge from the senator's office, miss erin keenan. we know that center -- senator yee is a strong advocate for mental health in san francisco and throughout the state of california. we appreciate him sending a representative here to witness the proceedings. thank you very much. i want to welcome you all to the public hearing on the impact of the mental health budget cuts. over the past 10 years, the severe reductions in inpatient psychiatric bed capacity has led to a crisis in san francisco. these cuts are a great threat to public safety. they expose the city to increasing costs in crime and homelessness while failing to provide humane treatment and the hope of recovery to residents with mental illness. when services are cut, we end up paying higher costs in our hospitals, streets, and jails. tonight, we will hear from

mr. williams, please raise your hand. do you swear that the testimony you're about to give is the truth and nothing but the truth? thank you, sir. >> i am representing him today. >> could you spell that? >> first name scott. >> think you, sir. -- thank you, sir. >> mr. williams, could you please state your name. >> my name is michael williams, w-i-l-l-i-a-m-a. -- s. >> who are you employed by? >> transocean. >> which are of the position with them? >> electronics transmission prior to that for a period of one year. and prior to that, i was a roustabout. >> how long were you a roustabout? >> two years. >> where you and roustabout with another company as well, sir? >> no. >> do you have any oil and gas experience outside of transocean? >> finan. >> can you please briefly describe your responsibility is -- none. >> can you please repeat the scrubbie responsibilities? >> any and all electronic devices throat -- throat -- throughout the rig. >> can give me some background of your education or if you had any other jobs involved

mr. williams, just a couple of follow-ups. were you on the rig in 2008? >> yes sir, i was. >> were you familiar with the brown out of that ourred? >> yes, i was. >> can you explain what happened? >> i cannot. i was part of the deck crew, then. it was light outside f us. the only thing that we knew was that the crane shut down. >> you worked on the emergency disconnects system? >> no sir, i have not. >> no more questions, thank you. >> good morning. i just have a few questions. you indicated that you were familiar with the censors. >> yesterday >> would to be familiar withhe location of those sensors on the vessel? >> yes sir. >> will be familiar with the locations of the intakes and automatic shutdowns on board the vessel? >> i could find everyone of them. >> you also indicated you were familiar with the pds system as well -- the eds system as well. >> yes. >> i have a couple of schematics of would like to put up and i would like you to go to those and indicate the location of where they are. >> yes sir. [no audio] >> i am going to give you a blue pin. ju

mr. williams comes forward with these very detailed elements from his viewpoint on a rig.hat's a brave and intelligent man. >> pelley: what he's saying is very important to this investigation, you believe? >> bea: it is. >> pelley: what strikes professor bea is mike williams' description of the blowout preventer. williams says that, in a drilling accident four weeks before the explosion, the critical rubber gasket called an annular was damaged, and pieces of it started coming out of the well. according to williams, when parts of the annular start coming up onto the deck, someone from transocean says, "look, don't worry about it." what does that tell you? >> bea: "houston, i think we have a problem." >> pelley: here's why that's so important. the annular is used to seal the well for pressure tests, and those tests determine whether dangerous gas is seeping in. so if the annular is damaged, if i understand you correctly, you can't do the pressure tests in a reliable way. >> bea: that's correct. you may get pressure test recordings, but because you're leaking pressure, they a

mr. williams, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> you said that you don't think this was an accident from what you have seen and heard so far. what can you tell us about your feelings at this point? >> from person responding from the location where the alleged accident occurred, i found no physical evidence there to support what she had reported, leaving the road and going into a boat ramp where the children was found. so causes a lack of evidence and the -- in her statement. and in her verbal and written statement initially. i found there were issues that need to be unravelled and we began an in-depth investigation into what really happened with these two minor children. >> what were some of the issues, though, from what you heard from her verbally during the interview? you said she lacked emotion and said some of the stories didn't quite add up. what are some of the stories that didn't add up, in your estimation? >> well, she didn't have -- for someone that's just plunged into the river here, of course, and had two children in the car, her clothing wasn't damaged. she walked some d

mr. william mcgee, aviation consultant, and mr. david strine, a portfolio manager of impala asset management llc. these and gentlemen, as you know, we will put your statement in the record. we ask that you summarize your testimony in a five-minute period, and that will allow both myself and other members to ask questions. with that, the chair will recognize captain wendy morse. captain wars? -- captain morse? >> we have more than 7700 active pilots at united, and i appreciate the opportunity to look -- to speak to the subcommittee. over the past decade the airline industry has experienced the worst economic storm in the history of commercial aviation. an unprecedented series of financial shocks have taken their toll on airline service and on employees. bankruptcies, laos, concessions, and outsourcing have all been well chronicled. the proposed merger between united and continental represents not only an opportunity for both airlines, but a possible sea change. how this merger is handled will determine whether it is changed for the

william. thank you, mr. cunningham. >> my name is j. cunningham, i am the principal. on june 12 of this year, which lost a 17-year-old civic center stood to a single gunshot wound at his home. the circumstances were questionable. as i look back through his file, he had 11 years with the school district. i am proud to say that throughout his 11 years in the school district, he was receiving help from caring teachers. he was immediately identified as a special ed students. he was part of that process recommended for counseling along the way. he had five years of really good attendance at betsy carmichael, and two years at francisco, and two years at roosevelt. he had a brief time at o'connell and he was at the civic center for the year. we tried to transition him to another school, and that did not go very well. school was hard for him, and showing up was difficult, but one of the things that we heard at his funeral is he was constantly telling younger children and other young people around him at the playground they should go to school and they should be part of it. so

mr. william strauss and for you. we appreciate your remaining here to listen to other palace. the subcommittee will adjourn. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> the pressure of the justice department where in about 25 minutes there will be a press conference for noon eastern. attorney general eric holder will talk about a matter related to national security. it will be live here on c-span at noon eastern. the national incident commander for the gulf oil spill was on this morning's "washington journal" to give an update. host: admiral thad allen, the commander on the ground here on the gulf coast here to talk about the latest in the oil spill. and we've seen reports that the plugging of the hole with cement is starting as we speak. what's happening? guest: well, yesterday as you know we filled the hole with mud. one final step now was to actually fill the hole with cement. we took a day to get the pressure readings from the mud kill just to understand what the condition of the well was before we sta

low income moderately income that's not public housing that's given the store away anthony williams did it and mr fenty is doing it and other big cities mayor is doing it just to deal with the issue of blight in the city so let's be honest what would it do with the real deal this year well sounds like a lot of mismanagement tell me this you know because everyone is suffering right now country and the entire country is in a recession you know some are saying we're heading towards a depression but when you look at the figures do you see itself as a city is actually booming this is where people can get work right now but that's because there are very two different washington d.c. how does it make you feel that you know statistically if other people are listening they think that washington doesn't understand them and washington doesn't feel the same crisis but washington does i mean this is a case of racial. underpinning. any big city mayor even marion barry feel to do this it brings those to washington's together mary had a wonderful opportunity during his reign as mayor of the district of columbia

but william randolph hearst wrote a letter to his mother--once quoting, then, from mr. st-- that if he could spend a month anywhere in the world, it would be at the ranch at san simeon. >> today, william randolph's cowboy dreams are being lived out by his gisat-grandson steve hearst. the now 80,000-acre hearst ranch is one of the largest and oldest working cattle ranches on the california coast. but when the new generation of hearsts took over, the question quickly became, how can the ranch keep thriving in the modern era? >> and it was my ranch manager cliff garrison who said, "gee, steve, it's a shame we couldn't do anything with our beef." and i said, "well, why couldn't we?" and so ultimately we started pursuing the grass-fed beef, and it fit right in with the whole conservation solution for the property. >> it's fun. it's a picnic every day. you know, we love it. it's a beautiful place and a great place to work. >> so from the shadow of their famous neighbor, the hearst ranch is stepping into the spotlight these days with their brand-w grass-fed beef operation. graz

mr. adam's last crusade. william links recounts the life of jesse helms.nd the life and career of speaker of the house nancy pelosi. book tv is in prime time. all this week on c-span2. >> here you are, senator. not a bad desk, either. daniel webster used to use it. >> daniel webster's not here? >> harry truman in 1939 hated this movie. just despised it. at the time harry truman was seen as a senator from the pendergast machine in kansas city. and i always wonder if he didn't think at that point at least the movie was looking at him and his relationship with the political machine back home. >> senate historian donald richie on washington movies and his new book, the u.s. congress, a very short introduction. sunday night on c-span's q and a. a look now at the role of lobbyists here in washington from today's washington journal. . host: our guest is the head of the american league of lobbyists, here to talk about proposed changes. the seven -- the lobbyist call bluff on the town-shall exemption. -- on the daschle exemption. there's a quotation from him who sa

in the 2008 fatal shooting of the 22 year- old garcia williams encountered have been searching for a drug dealer who cheated him on a $50 deal. he mr. king's car for that of the drug dealer. in addition to the criminal case jersey as mother teresa has filed a $16 million civil wrongful death suit. police are investigating several weekend's shootings including one where police were involved. police shot and killed a 42 year-old man they say was holding a 10 in. knife he was apparently trying to shoot himself and no gun officers went to his apartment yesterday after his strained recalled 911 they say he was armed and confrontational. three officers fired shells six jobs. police are also investigating a share in a parking lot that left two men dead and one woman injured it appears it happened when two groups ran into each other this in the 300 block of san antonio car it does not been determined if the cheering was gang- related they're still looking for witnesses. san francisco police to harmon is investigating 12 several steps of copper wire. the stripping of the copper has resulted in multiple car ravages that have affected a lot o

be long-here it would term savings for the consumer and electricity -- host: all right, william, we got the point. mr. rooney. guest: he brings up a great point. first, it is not either/or. the industry expression is megawatts. take away the 1 digit usage. we should all start with energy -- take away the wattage usage. we should all start with energy conservation. another point that he made was that the energy required to manufacture solar panels is such that you never get it back by putting it out in the sunshine. that was true tend to 15 years ago. manufacturing efficiencies are such that the three to four k 40 years attoo thre for the system to pay back the man -- a fact it -- it took 4 years to pay back the manufacturing system. solar systems allow 30-years- plus, so they pay back their debt and 18 months -- in 18 months after that you have a free energy. the cost of energy, the cost of solar, has plummeted, because of manufacturing efficiencies and technology gains. thousands of people have put solar other groups and they have paid off their entire -- assist -- thousands of people have put solar

mr. muton. >> reporter: now, authorities say a tip led them to antonio muton. he's now being held in jail on more than $12 million bail. reporting live in martinez, rita williams, ktvu, channel 2 action news. >>> a hiker found the bodies of two people inside a crashed plane this afternoon. east of highway in the sierra. the sheriff's department says the plane was in a heavily wooded area off texas hill road east of immigrant gap. the faa says the single-engine plane is a piper cherokee arrow rented from a company in watsonville and was on its way to auburn. authorities have not yet released the names of the people killed in the crash. national transportation safety board investigators plan to arrive on that scene tomorrow. >>> an event kicked off today aimed at helping struggling homeowners -- and there are a lot out there -- chase bank is sponsoring the event that will go on for four days. tom bakar spent the day talking with homeowners and has this report for us. >> reporter: the moldenados of gilroy came to chase's loan modification fair to see if they could make a trial modification permanent. >> it's doable. it does make it easier for us, and we can, you

be long-here it would term savings for the consumer and electricity -- host: all right, william, we got the point. mr. rooney. guest: he brings up a great point. first, it is not either/or. the industry expression is megawatts. take away the 1 digit usage. we should all start with energy -- take away the wattage usage. we should all start with energy conservation. another point that he made was that the energy required to manufacture solar panels is such that you never get it back by putting it out in the sunshine. that was true tend to 15 years ago. manufacturing efficiencies are such that the three to four k 40 years attoo thre for the system to pay back the man -- a fact it -- it took 4 years to pay back the manufacturing system. solar systems allow 30-years- plus, so they pay back their debt and 18 months -- in 18 months after that you have a free energy. the cost of energy, the cost of solar, has plummeted, because of manufacturing efficiencies and technology gains. thousands of people have put solar other groups and they have paid off their entire -- assist -- thousands of people have put solar

be long-here it would term savings for the consumer and electricity -- host: all right, william, we got the point. mr. rooney. guest: he brings up a great point. first, it is not either/or. the industry expression is megawatts. take away the 1 digit usage. we should all start with energy -- take away the wattage usage. we should all start with energy conservation. other point that he made was that the energy required to manufacture solar panels is such that you never get it back by putting it out in the sunshine. that was true tend to 15 yea ago. manufacturing efficiencies are such that the three to four k 40 yea att too thre for the system to pay back the ma-- a fact it -- it took 4 years to pay back the manufacturing system. solar systems allow 30-years- plus, so they pay back their debt and 18 months -- in 18 months after that you have a free energy. the cost of energy, the cost of solar, has plummeted, because of manufacturing efficiencies and technology gains. thousands of people have put solar other groups and they have paid off their entire -- assist -- thousands of people have put solar on at

. >> woodruff: speaking with brian williams of nbc news yesterday in new orleans, the president was asked about the beck rally and what it said about the country. mr. obama said the frustration was understandable. given the many challenges the nation faces. >> given all those anxieties, and given the ct that, you know, inone the situations are you going to fix things overnight, it's not surprising that somebody like a mr. beck is able to stir up a certain portion of the country. that's been true throughout our history. >> woodruff: that much was evident by the large turnout on the national mall saturday. for more on the rally and the man behind it we are join joined by kate zernike of the "new york times" and author of the soon-to-be-released book, "boiling mad: inside tea party america." and david von drehle, editor-at- large for "time" magazine. ood to you have both with us. david, i'm going to start with you. you did write time's cover story on glenn back last year. remind us who he is, where he came from. tell us a little bit about his background. >> well, glenn beck comes from top 40 morning zoo radio. that's where he started out his career a