mr. kennedy has walked back in and of course ms. kirk baum this was your baby before you had a baby and you have done a wonderful job in working with us and patient and collaborative in this process. i give you my thanks. like director brinkman, as we look at the package, i have to reference the comments of mr. boden and we have to look that the as a package. this is a whole package and if we pick and peck at it and we try to solve every little problem we lose the large scale benefit of this. large scale efficiency require small scale tradeoffs. that's the simple reality of this. i'm very impressed to all that's been done to address the small scale tradeoffs, but i think the overall point is the one that director riskin made at the beginning. this is a monumental change. this is a real significant increase in efficiency, in all of those 5 seconds, 2 minutes and add up and it's not just director ramos 30 minutes, it's everyone's 30 minutes in what it increases, happiness, productivity. i second it with no changes. i think we should a

mr. kennedy for the time they spent with us on the issue of the 3 jackson. i'm happy to see that. if you don't push your luck, it doesn't go anywhere. with respect to the three, i'm very concerned about two issues: one of them is the reliability of the service. i'm one of the regular users of the transit to plan trips and it's great. i can look the night before and tells me what time i need to get up to catch the bart. i'm surprised how many times the 3 pops up as the recommended route. in the morning when i get close to that schedule, that service doesn't exist. it's late, it maybe as much as 56 minutes late. that means i can't count on the 3 which begs the question when you are at your rider ship statistics how do you catch all the people who can not take the 3 because they can not rely on the schedule. that particularly plays into the proposal of cutting the evening service head way to 30 minutes. if one bus is missing, all of a sudden i'm an hour wait. that's painful in the evening. you are creating a real disincentive to plan travel that way. i think it's something that is ob

mrs. kennedy did.her genius was deploying the third to give what i can and the kids that were kids that were and viewed them with this wonderful sense of patriotism and furnish imbued them with this wonderful sense of patriotism and furnish this big house with the things that belong in it. in some cases the remote ring back pieces had been there before. we all a lot sooner. as far as what we have the truman, what i would defend the place didn't fall down. for decorating, not so much. >> before they started rebuilding, how serious was the idea that they should just knock it down and build another? >> good question. if you didn't hear, how serious are they about tearing the house down? on paper, entirely serious. they debated this. i found a transcript that indicated for a while they tossed the idea that in the white house out to the suburbs. i don't know if they would've put them in a split-level ranch house. i hope not. i found one that said they wanted to build in the same hardball palace in maryland.

mrs. kennedy did. her genius was deploying the private sector to give what i presume gifts tax deductible to the white house and view them with a wonderful sense of patriotism and furnish the big house, the things that belonged there. in some cases, bringing back pieces that were there before. we owe a lot to her. as far as what we owe the trumans, we owe it to them that the place did not fall down. the decorating? not so much. [laughter] >> before they were rebuilding, how serious was the idea they should knock it down and build another? >> that's a good question. >> [inaudible] >> yeah. the question was, how serious were they about tearing the house down? on paper, entirely serious. they debated this. there was a transscript that said they tossed the idea of moving the white house out to the suburbs. i don't know if they would have put them in a split level split house, i hope not. key question was this, clarence can notary public wanted the house demolished, but not many believed the house should be

mrs. kennedy did. her genius was deploying the private sector to give what i presume gifts tax deductible to the white house and view them with a wonderful sense of patriotism and furnish the big house, the things that belonged there. in some cases, bringing back pieces that were there before. we owe a lot to her. as far as what we owe the trumans, we owe it to them that the place did not fall down. the decorating? not so much. [laughter] >> before they were rebuilding, how serious was the idea they should knock it down and build another? >> that's a good question. >> [inaudible] >> yeah. the question was, how serious were they about tearing the house down? on paper, entirely serious. they debated this. there was a transscript that said they tossed the idea of moving the white house out to the suburbs. i don't know if they would have put them in a split level split house, i hope not. key question was this, clarence can notary public wanted the house demolished, but not many believed the house should be

mrs. jane kennedy. on behalf of the of supervisor campos and kim for the late john jack casey. >> i want to take a moment and thank sfgtv and folks bringing this to you and jesse lar son and with that madam clerk, do we have anymore business. >> that concludes our business for today. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. good morning and we to bayview and the ruth williams memorial opera house. my name is tom decaneey and from the arts commission. i would like to welcome mayor lee and other members to celebrate this exciting ground breaking. i would like to acknowledge commissioners here. bell entrance, commissioner striker, commissioner shoit a, commissioner roberto and former president johnson maybe here if he's in the audience, wave your hand. their presence under scores the city's cultural center. for those of you who don't know we have six citywide cultural centers. four buildings and including the african american cultural center and latino arts in the mission and south of market and here in

kennedy. but then mr. johnson did get tapped to run as mr. kennedy's vice presidential nominee. and even with that second choice job to run for, lbj still had the problem of his senate seat being up at the same time. lyndon johnson had served two terms in the senate by this point. he was the majority leader in the senate. he was really powerful. he was really good at being a senator. and he really didn't want to give up that base of power for himself. but texas stay law at the time was a problem. texas state law at the time said you can't run for two offices at the same time. you can't run for re-election as a senator and for vice president. johnson by law couldn't be on the ballot to be re-elected senator and be vice president at the same time. and so if he had followed that law then the cost of running for the vice presidency and losing would have been johnson holding no public office at all. and that of course was totally unacceptable to lyndon johnson. so he had that texas law changed. it's a fascinate thing. robert caro wrote about this in "the passage to power." on april 2

mrs. jane kennedy. on behalf of the of supervisor campos and kim for the late john jack casey. >> i want to take a moment and thank sfgtv and folks bringing this to you and jesse lar son and with that madam clerk, do we have anymore business. >> that concludes our business for today. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. >> good morning, everyone. the the meeting will come to order. welcome to the regular meeting of san francisco transportation authority finance committee i'm mcly cowen the chair of the meeting and to my left a supervisor cowen and to my right is supervisor scott wiener and supervisor farrell will be joining us as well the clerk is erica changing i'd like to thank our friends jonathan and others for broadcasting in meeting. thank you very much. madam clerk, any announcements? >> there are no announcements. to meet new requirement i'll do roll call. supervisor chiu absent. supervisor cowen. supervisor farrell. absent. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener. we have quorum >> thank you v

mrs. jane kennedy. on behalf of the of supervisor campos and kim for the late john jack casey. >> i want to take a moment and thank sfgtv and folks bringing this to you and jesse lar son and with that madam clerk, do we have anymore business. >> that concludes our business for today. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. >> 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. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog hel

mrs. jane kennedy. on behalf of the of supervisor campos and kim for the late john jack casey. >> i want to take a moment and thank sfgtv and folks bringing this to you and jesse lar son and with that madam clerk, do we have anymore business. >> that concludes our business for today. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. >> hello. welcome to "culturewire." we are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been installed. >> i have been doing large-scale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. i quickly found out about the san francisco arts commission school and realized there was a pre-qualified school you had to apply to, so i applied to the. >> how long did it take you to develop this work for the plaza? >> this was a fast track project. design development was about a month. >> le

mr. kennedy knows the united states is the head of the economic train. he is based in london.e united states is decidedly our locomotive. when you look at these meetings he can give us some terrific perspective. you've seen the imf and the back story. what is the most important theme? >> i think there are two or three. the ukraine situation is going .o dominate the conversation there was talk from the trading secretary about the sanctions. interested in how the imf aid can get to ukraine. impulse as to what the imf and the u.s. is providing the world economy. they say that the u.s. is back in the little growth engine. it is not as strong as it once was in previous cycles. finally, there is potential growth. it is been about growth. >> we have a jargon alert there. what is potential growth? >> how fast can the economy grow before it starts. >> it is politically unacceptable. jpmorgan, they are down to 1.75. that is below the new normal. the lower it goes, the more trouble the economy is going to face. we are talking about weak growth anyway. inflationrouble for and deficits. >>

mr. kennedy, for the record, i was not objecting. arson return to make sure that the minority was granted equal time. something out do of order. you can see it for 2.5 hours per do you like a moment just to stand and stretch? has also right here been here 2.5 hours. she's going to get the next question. we like to stand for just a moment? we would take just a very short recess just to be able to stand. >> thank you, mr. chairman. our constituents i want to thank you. i would like to thank you and the members of this committee for their unanimous consent to allowing me to participate. mr. chair, one of the reasons why i asked to participate is because of the fact that the people of hawaii are also very concerned about the reports of the money spent on our connector . mr. matsuda, i do want to say up front that i know you have inherited this. the connector went into effect in 2011, july specifically. you came on board in november. so to the extent that you can address on these concerns, i would appreciate it. first of all, one of the t

mr. kennedy, i share your illness. i, too, am a democrat.aughter] >> say your name and affiliation. >> i'm c.j. with mental policy work, and i'm a hard core democrat, but found on the issues of the seriously mentally ill, and it is a lot better and mr. murphy in particular. throwing money at mental health, but unwilling to admit the politically incorrect things that need to be done to help the most seriously ill, and in your presentation, for instance, you talked about prevention. there is no way to prevent schizophrenia or bipolarment we don't know how to do that. you talked about early intervention. we don't know how to identify someone with schizophrenia before they come up with a symptom. working on it, but we don't know how. you talked about arisa, i can count on one hand the number of people with schizophrenia can nonsubsidized employment outside the field. what is it about serious mental illness that my own party won't address? >> well, again, not to get polarizing here because the one thing we cannot afford toot in our field -- to do

mr. kennedy, i share your illness. i too am a democrat. >> your name and affiliation. >> d.j.jaffe with mental illness. among hard-core democrat, but i have found on the issues of the seriously mentally ill that the republican party is a lot better my own party is willing to throw money and mental health but is unwilling to admit the politically incorrect things that need to be done to help the most seriously ill. in your presentation, you talked about prevention. there is no way to prevent schizophrenia or bipolar. we don't know how to do that. you talked about early intervention. we don't know how to identify someone with schizophrenia before they come up with the symptoms. working on it, but we don't know how. you talked about her research, and talked -- count on one hand the number of people with schizophrenia who have not subsidized employment outside the mental health or arts field. what is it about serious mental illness that my own party will address? >> well, again, not to get polarizing. the one thing we cannot afford to do in our field is to not work together when w

ambassador, caroline kennedy. then, mr. obama joined japan's prime minister at a famous sushi restaurant. they'll hold more talks tomorrow. from japan, the president will travel to south korea, malaysia, and the philippines. the administration announced today that it will complete the sale of ten apache attack helicopters to the military dictatorship in egypt. it's a reward for egypt keeping its peace agreement with israel, but this is the same dictatorship that overthrew egypt's only democratically elected government. in cairo, clarissa ward caught up with some of the die-hard activists who are still pressing for democracy. >> reporter: they were among the first waves of protesters in tahrir square three years ago using social media to spread their call for freedom, helping to overthrow a 30-year dictatorship. we first met sherief gaber at a protest in late 2011. he had returned from studying in the u.s. to join the revolution. >> the bravery of the people around me is really what drove me. i mean, i was coming back and fe

it's about strategic and caroline kennedy has to drive the world's fastest train in japanese. mr seems to be the daughter of billy tea was president john f kennedy was impressed to the developmental model train which floats above the canucks needed levity to a very powerful super conducting the kids. the top speed of nearly five hundred and eighty one kilometers per hour. was all i think that this technology. great benefits. and the united states. it inspired a generation of non scientist one in one study science you're looking to expand by selling the technology to the us and they suggested it cost high speed train can be used to washington dc in new york. tokyo nagoya is estimated to cost fifty two billion dollars that the change happened to the two cities which are too has hundreds of cards just under forty minutes. open for business in two thousand and seven. a florida woman has been attacked likely to fall into is sifting through rubbish to restrain it was dragged outside the carriage by one of the beds and his late admit that the hospital for treatment for increased her leg

john kennedy was the chief drafter, but with mr. mayor's guidance and leadership, there were a lot of people who worked really hard together. i took responsibility for this without having read it carefully enough. >> the second, can that be done, a clerical correction [speaker not understood]? >> we might as well do it officially. a motion to strike the word "pilot project" from the sixth paragraph of the clause. >> is there a second for that? he >> second. >> discussion? all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> [speaker not understood]. on the whole, the entire budget for the next two years. what i was trying to say earlier, not sure how successfully, i would say my number one priority of this new budget going forward is definitely extend free muni to low-income seniors and persons with disabilities. it is an enormous need and i think it would be a great thing. there is a moral imperative here. so, i hope, mr. reiskin, that we can begin planning for this as soon as possible. i understand the budget has to go to the board of supervisors yet

of contemplation waited outside to wave goodbye to the president and mrs higgins holiday of farewells for their state visit. ray kennedyrte news comfort of home made them not to the beach offers the present troubles to palm tree which is a large irish population he gave his final speech. following a tour of the ruins of the city's old cathedral which was destroyed in bombing raids during the second world war . warm welcome of the nonstop up with it. presidents higgins and his wife sabina taken on a tour of coventry cathedral outside a group of friends from to finance but living in one sitting. remembering last may to compensate the place it is today. the make up the good people coming from on at the detail. the suspect after the second word harper started iv standards and the recital which was left reeling and no precedents he gets here are some of those religions. theo was qt joke just one part of coventry destroyed in the blitz in nineteen fourteen. now one memorial to pull victims of war and violent conflict within the walls. coventry defender died irish population. people you came here in the fifties and sixties to

mr. obama was greeted by u.s. ambassador caroline kennedy, who joined him for a sushi dinner with japanese prime minister shinzo abe. >> hello. >> ifill: tokyo is the first stop on a four-nation asian tour, delayed six months by last fall's government shutdown in washington. >> when i announced our desire to pivot and focus on the asia pacific region. >> ifill: the trip is also the latest step in a stated policy shift toward asia, and away from a decade of war in iraq and afghanistan. mr. obama laid out that goal 18 months ago while visiting thailand. >> i think we had not had the same kind of presence in a region that is growing faster, developing faster than any place else in the world. >> ifill: but that presence and focus has taken a back seat to other international concerns in the middle east, and now in ukraine, as a resurgent russia flexes it's muscle. still, many in japan hope the president's trip will yield results. >> ( translated ): hopefully he can improve japan-china-south korea relations and do something about t.p.p. >> ifill:

kennedy government. a long list of accomplishments. as i said, fortunate to have him. welcome. >> welcome, mr. minarde.re fortunate to have you and look forward to working with you. the first item on the agenda are minutes of the board of directors meeting of march 20, 2013~ [speaker not understood]. >> commissioners, my name is harlan kelly and i am the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission. thank you for allowing me to come before you. i have a previously scheduled engagement, so, i'm going to have to dash off right after my comments. but i want to talk about an item that you have, item 5 on your agenda. ~ first of all, due to personal and confidential rules, i'm not here to talk about any specific as it relates to any disciplinary actions related to ms. ellis that were taken in august of 2013. however, i want the commission to know and understand that all actions were based on exhaustive and independent puc investigation where we carefully weighed the facts and the mitigating circumstances. recently, in january 2014 with your commission and the fppc, reached a joint settle

mr. durbin: madam president, robert kennedy once said the purpose of life is to contribute in some way to make things better. around the world and here at home, dedicated american citizens are living by this principle trying to improve the lives of those in greatest need. sadly, on april 24, we lost three americans from my home state of illinois who were killed at the cure international hospital which focuses on maternity and pediatric care in afghanistan. dr. emanos john gable and his father gary gable. both doctors were working to help the afghan people receive health care. in a country still coping with the legacy of decades of terrible conflict that devastated the medical infrastructure of afghanistan, they were helping by volunteering to address the real needs of the afghan people and improving the lives of those that they assisted. this is dr. emanos whose picture here is an indication of this young, dedicated, idealistic man who lost his life. he was dedicated to helping kids. after he finished his residency at the children's hospital in michigan, he could have made some money with

people just aren't going to hand you think. mr. feith yet to make connections. more than anything in life, just to make alliances. something 7 or 10 ted kennedy, 10 user begins a really big advocate advocate for arguing very close to our union. he said a lot of people come to washington dc and work about this they serve term after term and never get anything done. he says, people want me to be president but one thing that i do as a senator i build alliances and him effective and i can work across the aisle. i build alliances. that's very important to be able to do that. you can take the negative role and say somebody does give [inaudible] that's true. sometimes you have to figure out a roadblock how you get around it and be effective in getting the gimp and build alliances with people that have the experience or talk to people i was watched people that are successful and i watch what they do. i learned what they do because it helps me. you don't want people that are failures, with 80. you watch people that know what they're doing, who are effective, and how to get things done. so i appreciate your comments. i'm hoping as a commissioner will c

mr. met. and, kool-aid. or anyone with a big head. ion kennedyabout your liberty, because, it is quite attractive, what happens when your liberty shows and gets you fired? we live in a time where important issues have been hijacked by extremes but when did we lose the ability to hash things out and call ont a draw. i certainly disagree with those who hail against gay marriage, but what if the boot stomping on your neck were on the other foot, what if your views fell out of favor, and your single donation, that edyou made got your ass the boot?

people just aren't going to hand you think. mr. feith yet to make connections. more than anything in life, just to make alliances. something 7 or 10 ted kennedyuser begins a really big advocate advocate for arguing very close to our union. he said a lot of people come to washington dc and work about this they serve term after term and never get anything done. he says, people want me to be president but one thing that i do as a senator i build alliances and him effective and i can work across the

. >> well, i think i think what justice kennedy i took justice kennedy to be asking me, mr. chief justice, was whether the government's choice to provide that accommodation reflected a judgment on the part of the government that this was something less than a compelling interest, and i don't think that inference is possible, because the government was trying to use that accommodation to ensure that the contraceptives were delivered. so, with all due respect, i don't think there is an inconsistency there. and i and i do think, if i could, with respect to the issue of whether there are exemptions that defeat a compelling interest, that i submit would be a very dangerous principle for this court to adopt in the form that my friends on the other side have offered it, because not only would you then be in a position where it would be very hard to see how title vii enforcement could be justified by compelling interest in response to a rfra objection, ada enforcement, fmla enforcement, all kinds of things. and i do think -- >> title vii was passed before 1993, so it wouldn't apply

i want to bring in nicholas burns from harvard's kennedy school of government. welcome, mr.mbassador. >> thanks, carol. >> so the u.s. is sending troops to eastern europe. does that mean diplomacy is officially dead? >> i think the administration has calculated it quite rightly that diplomacy is not going to get us far with putin because he doesn't want to negotiate anything seriously. he's trying to destabilize eastern ukraine. president obama, quite rightly, has tried not to make this a military contest between russia and the united states. what can the u.s. do? two things. it can move some of our troops not into ukraine, but into those eastern european countries that are members of nato to which we have article five in the nato treaty, collective security guarantee. the countries need a similar lolic reenforcement. it won't be large numbers of u.s. troops. it sends a signal to president putin his ambitions can't go as far as the nato territory because we have this commitment to them. the other thing we can do is raise the economic cost through sanctions. i think the u.s.

so president kennedy was not making up these political handicaps, they were real. >> mr.d. and then i've got a question for you. >> i think it's interesting to note you think about selma and king's march in selma, which was critical to the voting rights act. that came out of conversations between president johnson and martin luther king when he said to king, you know, you find the worst place in the south, you find where people can't vote without reciting the constitution and you get down there. get all the leaders down there so that a guy that's on a tractor in the midwest will say it's just not fair, everybody ought to be able to vote. you do that job down there, get radio and television down there, i'll push this bill through up here. so it was that kind of partnership. go ahead, i'm sorry. >> let me ask you, because you've been quite vocal about this and there's this sort of -- is there a real tension that you think or do you think that this white house of president obama, he doesn't like the lbj comparesons, i don't think any president does, and any president will sa

kennedy school of government at harvard university. mr., former boston mayor thomas menino. this role, commissioner davis led the boston police department's response to the boston marathon bombings on april 15. the heroic actions and quit thinking of the men and women under mr. davis's leadership, as well as that of the massachusetts national guard, the boston national guard, medical personnel, and indeed, civilians, led to the survival of 17 critically injured civilians. i have known mr. davis throughout his 34 years of law enforcement, and he served in the lowell police department. he was named superintendent in 1994. he was recognized for reducing the crime rate and lowell quicker than any other superintendent in the united states of america with over 100,000 residents in the city -- in a city of over one hundred thousand residents. commissioner, thank you for your service and your service to the city of boston, the commonwealth, and to the country. it is an honor to have you with us here today. we look forward to your testimony. we als

mr. chief justice, that doesn't answer the question, the statutory interpretation question, which is, as in cablevision, as justice kennedy noted, there is a user-specific, user-initiated copy that when viewed by the user is a private performance. that operation of the system works exactly the same way. and the fact that cablevision is able to compress its signals to make them internetaccessible through a single antenna and aereo chooses to do it through multiple antennas to avoid all the hassles that go with having a big antenna should not matter for the copyright laws. we're still talking about renting equipment, that consumers have a right to get over-the-air signals that are free to the public, using public spectrum that the government has allocated so that broadcasters -- justice kennedy: suppose aereo offered a service so that the viewer at home could press three different buttons, but it takes only 45 seconds, and he could get the broadcast without advertising? and aereo would have some way to screen out the advertising so you could watch the entire baseball game or football game without the ad without the ads. >>

mr.. does he risk grading tensions with china? >> it's no secret that the niceties and japan have a close working relationship. caroline kennedykyo. it is showing the significance of the relationship. i think it's a reassurance to our allies in terms of our presence within the region. i don't think this should be taken as provocative by the chinese. they understand that there are some issues at play. the islands between china and japan. that has to be worked out in a diplomatic way. let's switch to immigration reform. the president did campaign on the promise to fix a system that he admitted was broken. where are we in those efforts and what is the likelihood that anything is going to be done during an election year? of theore reflective logjam in washington because of caucusse republican cause and ability to lead. inability to lead. what steps are they taking to that canl to the floor lead towards a comprehensive bill being passed in the house and being passed in the senate and signed into law? >> do you think if this was an election year that might happen? >> i think with pushing the republicans to support this bill is becau