ann maria perini and vice president is mrs. lorie and i will be the president of the council. >> congratulations. >> thank you. i hope to serve the commission and the council, as well as mrs. perrini did. >> that is my report. >> the composition of your advisory committee, each supervisor entitled to appoint one; right? >> yes, sir. >> besides those eleven, how many for the public -- other than those eleven, how many slots? >> eleven. >> there are 22. >> there are 22 folks. >> that is almost eleven other than the supervisors. >> yes. >> let me ask you then, how are the other eleven chosen, besides those chosen by each supervisor? >> the commission chooses them. >> oh, this commission? >> yes. >> recommended. >> thank you. >> you are quite welcome. also i failed to mention that we have a new co-chair for the legislative committee diane lawrence is here and she will be giving the report. are there any questions? yes? >> you were saying about the site visit? >> yes. >> what are you looking for? you have a list that you check off or what

lori: you got it. lemonis: since i did this deal, mr.reen tea has more than doubled their revenue, and they're gonna do about $5 million in sales. but with this factory, it has the capacity to do between $25 million and $30 million worth of sales. i've already given them a huge account to make ice cream for crumbs, and they've added new flavors to the mr. green tea line. and over the next six months, mr. green tea ice cream will be in over 6,000 grocery stores nationwide. what do you guys see as next? richard: we're working with another company. they have food service. business was probably $13 million. and they're very interested in us taking that over. michael: when they contacted us a few weeks ago, her opening line was, "we're done fighting mr. green tea's distribution in new york." and that -- i think that shows, you know, the -- the real -- the real actual labor and work we've put in the distribution end of the company. i think probably the highest moment to date has been knowing that we're finally independent and not relying on ot

lori segal, cnn money, new york. >>> president obama's remarks came in a wide ranging year end news conference. another focus, his bombshell decision to -- mrobama says restoring ties will give the u.s. the best opportunity to influence cuban policy and steer it toward democratic reform. >> ashare the concerns of disdense there and human rights activists that this is still a regime that represses its people. and, as i said when i made the announcement, i don't anticipate overnight changes. but, what i know deep in my bones is, if you have done the same thing for 50 years and nothing has changed, you should try something different if you want a different outcome. this gives us the opportunity for a different outcome. because suddenly cuba is open to the world in ways it has not been before. >> of course, you have heard mixed reaction from all over the planet to mr. obama's historic announcement, especially coming from parts of the u.s. florida senator, marco rubio, a republican, slammed the president's order moments after he made it. but, in havana, it is mostly a time of celebration and hope. here is cnns rosa flores, she's there. ♪ >> repo