new york cities waist water and treatment, drinking supply, handling hazard materials and emergency x toxicities and removal of those and enforcing cities air and noise codes. they also have substantial responsibility outside of new york city managering 2 thousand square miles of the hudson valley. prior to heading up this agency commissioner loyd served as executive vice president for public affairs at colombia university and was in the administration for ten years and commissioner for sanitation under mayor, jenkins and was ma developer at port an authority and commissioner for traffic and parking for the city of boston. emily, thank you so much. we are so glad to have your energy, your smarts to lead us to this tough topic this morning. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, susan. well, as the only - at least self identifying water system manager from the east coast, i had originally planned briefly present some highlights of our climate change experience in new york city but after listening yesterday i thought i could spare you anguish and tell you a brief new york story in a brief new york minute. i live in brooklyn and a little backyard in the back and stone walk in the front. years back my son was in the front and we left our ba

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i was amazed what they had done in new york city, which is a dense, urban area. as a bicycle program manager, i had been skeptical about separating bike paths like in europe. it was not really done in the united states. having seen what they have done in the united states, new york, they have parking protected by planes. Ñithere is a separate area nexto the curve. with special bicycle signals so that there would not be conflicts with turning cars in the bicycle lanes. if they can do something like this in such a crazy and dense area, like manhattan, they should be able to do it in san francisco. new york allows bicycles on the subways, even during the peak times. somehow it works. they do not have restrictions and it seems to work. i support and agree with what i have heard here tonight. besides europe we should also look at places like new york and chicago as examples of best practices for what can be done in seven cisco. supervisor campos: any other member of the public? seeing no one, the public comment is closed. commissioner, thank you for the presentation. if we could now call the next

a manager at he september 11 memorial in new york city found $10,000 stuffed in a donaaion box this weekhe money showed up just one day after museum officials announced an admission fee. offiiials called the donor an angel and say they would like to know their name to thank them personally. so far no one has come forward. >> 15 year old boy in boston is making quite the name for himself. as a sports announcer. people know his voiceebut they don't know the boy behind the mic ii blind. he expressed his interest to a veteran sports annooncer, two teamed up. the rest ii history. >> yeah, man. i have to make the girls stand up so they can hear it. and mainly have fun and do what is right for the fans. >> brian hopes to one day announce at the professional level. until then, he is an inspiration to others who are blind. >> looks like it will be a great weekend to get outside. emily gracey is back with the sky watch forecast. hi emily. >> hi karen.3 this weekend.ures to talk about but first weehave to deal with cold temperatures. in fact, outtide this evening we have the threat of some frost, t

i was amazed what they had done in new york city, which is a dense, urban area. as a bicycle program manager, i had been skeptical about separating bike paths like in europe. it was not really done in the united states. having seen what they have done in the united states, new york, they have parking protected by planes. Ñi

new york city. the bus collided with a flock of geese on the new jersey turnpike, sent the glass into the eyes of the drivers. the driver amazingly managed to bring the bus to a safe stop despite injuries and no passengers were hurt. >>> inside a chile mine, a drill finally broke through the underground chamber and getting out of the mine however could take a little bit longer. >> reporter: rescue crews broke out champagne and family members celebrated after drillers broke through to the trapped miners. a half a mile down the 33 men watch says their path to freedom opened. they have been living in the cramped hot space for more than two months. officials say they could start bringing the men out by wednesday. >> i'm very happy says the mother of a meaner. it will be a few days before i'm with my son. >> reporter: at the moment of break through an american operated the drill. jeff hart from colorado calls this the most important work he's ever done. >> a twist in the rock, it's not an easy formation to drill. >> reporter: you're feeling right now at this moment? >> on top of the world. >> reporter: below the service the miners helped comp

new york city, one of tm of course featured in the film. talk to us what is a charter school, and why you think your autonomously managed charter schools are more effective than traditional sort of zone schools. >> sure. well charter schools are public schools by law. they are free from the bureaucracy of the district on the one hand, and from the work rules of the labor unions on the other hand. so we have the freom to ganize our school around a radical princle, which teaching and lening. so the schoo is not gad around teedsfadults per utaround the nee of achi and learning. >> isn't this amazing that this is so radical? >> it s. >> but we he bee sort of handicappe by some of tse issues, lor uons and ganizingched on what the adults see as most important. >> it really is true. and when you see the schools co-lated, so i aamco located in all seven schools, it almosteels unfair t the distct sools becse it's hard for them touced when they have life-time tenure, when they hav to l off people based soly on seniority not merit. the principal is not allowed to take into account mer. that's a weird way to run a set of schools. >> it's a very weird

new york city. in now miami and soon washington, d.c. so many companies have been holding back in this recession. how are you managing to grow?> there's two reasons that the bad economy has given us to grow, especially something like shake shack, which has not needed a robust economy in order to thrive, and that is the fact that you can have access to a better talent, the labor pool expanded during the past couple of years. and the second thing that has freed up a little bit is real estate. instead of landlords clamping down looking for the highest possible rent really nice spaces have started to make themselves available. in a place like shake shack, it can really benefit especially when you find places where there's a lot of pedestrian traffic. >> you mentioned hospitality. what does the idea of hospitality mean in business? talk to us. >> we launched hq for hospitality quotient. what we're doing is help companies who are already the best in the world at what they do, whether an investment firm, whether a veterinary clinic or a dental firm or a hospital, a big retail chain, they're already the best in the world at what they

new york city. they collide with a flock of geese shattering the windshield and sending glass into the eyes of the driver. the driver managed to bring the bus to a safe stop despite his injuries. no passengers hurt. >>> and the first place ravens are back on home turf today to take on the broncos. >> the broncos do not like playing in baltimore. >> reporter: the ravens get to enjoy comforts much home as they welcome in the denver broncos today. the visittors are likely feeling less than comfortable give than the broncos have never beaten the ravens here. and the ravens are favorite to keep the streak going today. during practice, the defense worked on rep fly indicate the pounding they put on broncos a year ago. they left with several bumps and bruises. >> we got our butt kicked last year, plain and simple. i think we need to watch that game and see how they beat us, which was really soundly in all three faces. >> last year they played better than we were. we were not ready to handle their energy. when you do that, especially there, they're a tough team to play. >> i didn't know how good these guys were till i looked at the

bookstore managed to craft jobs for their everyday staffers, as well as kids with autism working in the vocational training program. they're making it work, chapter and verse. in the quiet new york city suburb of maplewood, new jersey, another independent bookstore almost disappeared. that was until jonah and ellen came to the rescue. even though they knew nothing about the book business. >> we bought the staff or the goodwill of the store and the staff all came with us. >> when jonah came he didn't have a bookstore background. >> with the change in ownership came a change in management style. the former bookstore owner was hands on doing most of the work of the store herself. >> it wasn't that much more anybody else to do. and we all kind of just came in and worked our shift, and that was that. >> with jonah, it's definitely more -- there's more of a hierarchy. >> a recent graduate of business school, jonah was very interested in the idea of job crafting to better utilize the talents of his staff. >> it's changing the jobs to fit the people rather than the people to fit the jobs. now, that can't always work 100%. sometimes we have to buckle down and do something we're not good at or

history of new york city, you know, that came right after this poor kid from rutgers jumped off that -- jumped off the george washington bridge. >> the political context, the former bush campaign manager, ken mehlman said earlier this year, famously, that in '04 and '06, the gop used initiatives -- gay-baiting initiatives on ballots around the country to bring out the evangelical vote. how much of that conscious dynamic do you with see here when christine o'donnell at one time pretty much dedicated her life anti-gay work, when as josh just pointed out, there was no dog whistles. this was flat homophobic language you'd by this candidate for new york? >> well, i think you see some of it. whether it's conscious, whether it's part of a campaign strategy or not, you're going to see some of it, especially in the closing days of this campaign, when people want try to rally the base. but i think the difference this year is that it's not really going to work. we've made -- despite the fact that people in the gay rights movement are upset with president obama for not doing enough, the truth is that the country, culturally, has come -- has made a lot of progress, even since earlier in 2006. and

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new york city are stunned by $10,000 cash donation. it was left in one of the plexiglas donation boxes at the world trade center. museum officials say a manager found the money during a routine check of the boxes. there were 99, crisp, unfolded $100 bills and five 20s. they'd like to know who put them there, just to say thank you. >>> some bay area folks are raising a big stink over a big stink in their neighborhood. but relief may be on the way. >>> surveillance video shows a horrifying scene. one man makes a horrific split decision. >>> good morning. if you're driving in the silicon valley, it's going to be slow in some areas. we'll run it down for you, give us -- you another update straight ahead. >>> actress lindsay lohan just arrived at a los angeles courtroom, where she learned she will be sent back to jail -- if she will be sent back to jail for a failed drug test. she apparently left the betty ford center, where she is going through rehabilitation this morning. and we will bring you updates as they become available. >>> complaints about a strong odor are shutting down operations at a waste water treatment plant near richmond. people w

management. in theory it should work. host: you may not know these numbers. but if you work for chicago, chig, philadelphia, new york city, and you retire, on average what do you take home in a pension? host: it depnds. serge we've seen the stories in new york where people are taking home six figure pensions. i don't know what the average is but there has been a rash of investigation into the practice of some workers taking home these very generous benefits. host: jason from new york. good morning. caller: i just have a comment. there was a police officer in florida who said he only made 48,000. but in his last year, if he adds overtime, that's what his pension is going to be. and already, with the benefits he makes over 100 or close to it. i was wondering, do you think that state pensions are actly fair to the taxpayers, or do you think that it's a good way of helping out people that work for the community? guest: i think that these plans have definitely been abused and they've been abused by those who are supposed to be protecting them, which is the employer, the state government, the city governments, where the accoun