there's a new geneva structure there and integrate with bus stop. >> so everything else is fully funded. >> yeah. no small thanks to our director for that. >> that's great to hear. the time line with that overall? >> so the timeline and i guess -- chester can you help me? thank you. i need a little coaching here. there is a timeline here in the following slide to where we would like to be complete with design by this coming spring and advertise in the summer and get going with construction mid to late next year -- probably not late. >> who is in charge of that? >> we have a principal planner and tim chin and myself. i'm on the money side. we have a few other team members throughout the district that work closely with the director on this. >> thank you. so the project manager's name? >> steve capler. >> thank you. >> he's joined me today if there are questions about that. there is one more element that is included here and i can address if you're ready. >> go ahead. >> that is the weigh staging and signage and we have approved by this body a million dollars of life line funding for this

new traffic and pedestrian signals on geneva and visibility improvements at san jose and geneva and the sidewalk widening on geneva, both sides of the bus loading areas. the final slide i wanted to present. we heard about the conflict between the storage and maintenance needs, and the use by thousands of travelers and of course right there with residential neighborhood, so the upper yard which is our satellite light rail storage yard historically is now recently it's been used for employee parking and that is in the red outline. we are looking at how to make that available for conversion to a transit village probably along with the bart kiss and ride roadway way to the west and that is in line with the balboa park station area plan that the board of supervisors adopted that calls for reusing that site as a transit village with affordable housing being a high priority, maybe support retail. a lot of potential benefits for example in increasing the transit rider ship and the station capacity study looked at the transportation feasibility of that, and found that it would work well from the

>> in geneva as in new york city. >> but during the cold war when we were fighting the soviets our germanentists were better than their. >> different in different places. >> just want to make sure. explain to me again because i understand it when you explain it to me but the moment you leave the room it evaporates out of my head. >> coy explain that using science. >> okay, okay. what is the higg-bosan and why is it. >> so bag-- back in the day the early 60s fis quist-- physicists were try tounged stand the nuclear forces that hold together the nuclear a tomorrow and they couldn't. they kept coming up with this idea that it was spread out all over the place which it clearly doesn't so they came up with this bizarre-sounding idea that empath-- empty space is filled with an energy field every with. >> impossible. >> no, not-- we just got evidence that it's true. >> stephen: no, i'm going-- [bleep] because-- (laughter) >> stephen: it is not empty space if it is filled with something. checkmate. i wait your apology. >> this is why. these are supersmart scientists they figured out that even the

. >> reporter: this is a former new york lawyer who runs a geneva-based auction house dealing exclusivelyatches to turn a profit. >> manufacturers aren't happy to be used as investment. especially modern watches. they don't want dealers to buy the watches, turn around and sell them at a higher price to people who don't want to be on a waiting list, for example. >> reporter: so geneva turns over high end hotels to the world of high end time pieces. >> this auction is one of several in geneva where the top watch collectors gather to do battle with online bids, hoping to buy up one of 600 rare time pieces. everything we have seen today is sold for thousands of dollars. often tens of thousands and sometimes hundreds of thousands. >> reporter: investors go toe to toe betting big bucks on the biggest names. claude faire is a jeweler from lebanon. together with his son he'll make the rounds at the auction. >> any piece i want to buy, i never stop. because i studied the piece before. when i buy, i buy. >> reporter: those who can afford a time piece or more, buying isn't about the money. in fact i

geneva. the u.s. economy is at the heart of the presidential election. in less than two hours, a key jobs figures will be released. 100,000 new jobs need to be created every month to keep up with the growing population. president obama and his rival mitt romney have a matter of days to swing voters their way. the mayor of new york knows who he will support. michael bloomberg says superstorm sandy has helped him make up his mind. rally inent obama's colorado in 2008, a young adoring crowd. >> are you fired up? [cheers] >> the placards or different, but the change is still on the agenda. it is just that change takes time, he says. >> you know where i stand and you know i'm willing to make tough decisions even when they are not politically convenient. [cheers and applause] >> the looked like he was enjoying himself, which was not always the case in this campaign. people wondered after he still had a fight in him, after his first debate. he also had good reason to smile. the unexpected backing of new york mayor michael bloomberg, out from managing the city's response to hurricane sandy to endorse president obama. he was not un cr

if you're following the geneva conventions, you have to know which ones. conventional ones like the world war ii or new rules of 1977 which privilege terrorists? what we just described, what i just described are transnationallists, some of them americans, waging what we call law fare against american liberal democracy. lea fare could be defined as the misuse of law for purposing of litigation, harassment, propaganda to achieve a political strategic purpose. what's the purpose of human rights watch? what do they want to achieve? well, they say this in all the literature. they want to achieve the supremacy of global law over national law. .. and the united states of america. well, what the disgrace. how can the united states be a world leader on women's rights and not sign this treaty clocks let's take a look. what would ratification mean? we don't have to guess what it means. the american bar association has a book on their web site report, 200 pages explaining exactly what american compliance would mean. the aba report is based on the work of the u.n. monitoring committee to go to the countries when th

in session in west suburban geneva after a last- minute deal narrowly averts a strike that was scheduled to begin today. the school board and the teachers union agreed on a new three-year contract shortly after midnight. few details are available but school board officials say the teachers union has agreed to a one-year pay freeze. teachers will vote on the agreement wednesday. the chicago teachers union parents and community groups are using the veteran's day holiday to march against the school board over proposed school closings. wgn's judy wang is live downtown with details. after the teachers' strike ended in september the union president predicted that school closings would be the next big fight. the fight is under way. even though there is no list of schools to be closed yet. that list might not come out for several more months. >> several labor and community groups participated in the protest. they call their movement stand-up chicago. they staged a sit-in inside of the mayor's office november 2nd. police arrested 10 of them for trespassing. i have dealt with failing schools by closing them or replacing the faculty and staff. protesters argue that thi

its new commercial points out that black friday will indeed start thursday at 9 p.m. >>> a huge flawless diamond was sold at auction in genevaor the record price of $21.5 million. it weighs about 76 carats. it's about the size of a large strawberry and once belonged to an archduke of austria. >>> coming up, a final check of your top stories. >> plus a massive recall by toyota. the potential problem with nearly 3 million cars. being recalled around the w. trtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrain, wishing you a happy thanksgiving. both: we're the fruit guys! back in 1998, we had this idea to deliver fresh fruit to offices in downtown san francisco. we built these wooden crates, filled these with fruit in my one-bedroom apartment. the fruit guys has been with bank of america since they first started. we work with them to help them grow and succeed. we're coming up on 50 employees and delivering to thousands of companies every week. i would definitely say this is a fruitful business. around the world. the recall involves the pris and other models produced se in the >>> welcome back. millions of toyotas are being recalled and the world involving th

geneva conventions, you have to know which ones. is it the '9, the traditional -- '49, the traditional rules, or is it the new rules of 1977 which privilege terrorists? so what we just described, what i've just described are transnationallist, some of them americans, waging what we could call lawfare against american liberal democracy. lawfare could be defined as the use or misuse of law for purposes of litigation, harassment, propaganda to achieve an ideological purpose, a political, strategic purpose. what is the purpose of human rights watch, amnesty international? what do they want to achieve? well, they say this in all their literature, they would like to achieve the spectrum i of global -- supremacy of global law over national law. they're doing this for the purpose of establishing global law as superior to american constitutional law and promoting protocol i. okay. that's, that was national security. i'm going the give you one example from domestic politics. there is a united nations convention for the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women. signed by most countries in the world,170 countries in the world have sig

the new bombings come days after more than 11,000 syrian civilians were forced out during strikes last week, one of the largest refugee flights of this year in conflict to date. speaking in geneva, the head of disaster in crisis management at the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies warned turkey needs major aid to handle the growing number of syrian refugees. >> we have seen a doubling of the camp population since july 2012, and i think as you have seen over the last few days, there has been an increase in the number of syrians moving into turkey. they now recognize the situation is becoming prolonged. the initial thoughts the population might be displaced for shorter amount of time are now being reassessed and the government of turkey, along with its partners, are planning for the contingency of a longer- term assistance program. >> israel has launched new attacks on the gaza strip following palestinian calls for a cease-fire to end days of violence. israel struck in an uninhabited area of gaza three times overnight, hours after palestinian groups announced it would halt rocket fire on southern israel if the israeli military ceased the bombing. isr