. >> thank you to commissioner riley for nominating me. very much appreciated. as most of you will now listening in on these hearings or attending them, i was president for the last year. it was a privilege and honor and one that -- in order to continue to serve in a capacity that helps with the president, working with items on the agenda. helping the small business commission continue the good work it does. during the year rose president, sometimes the points are made by some that this commission does not matter, it does not matter to the upper echelons of power brokers in this building which i never agree with. most of all the supervisors, jane kim, carmen chu, mark farrell, john, campos, all have testified during my tenure. mayor lee even went so far as to recommend a charter amendment for this commission to give more weight. it is clearly relevant. as was testified by some people who came and spoke in support of the recommendation they acknowledged this commission matters for a much to the small business community. i really look forward to continuing the goo

the nominee has not been able to meet with a couple of members of the board, so i would like to nominate me to have a motion to continue this. without objection, this item will be continued to february 14. and, madam clerk, if we could, items 29 and 30 proof -- and 30? clerk calvillo: item 29 a charter amendment, and item 30 a charter amendment for increased voter education and implementation of ranked-choice voting. president chiu: i understand that both of these items have to sit for one week, so i would like to entertain a motion. supervisor avalos, seconded by supervisor elsbernd, and that shall be the case. if we can call up the special order, items 23 to 26, the special order items from 4:00 p.m.. clerk calvillo: item number 23, a hearing involving the removing of existing and tennis and to install a wireless telecommunications facility of up to four panel antennas. item 24 is a motion approving the decision of the planning commission, and item 25 is a motion disapproving a decision from the planning commission, and item 26 is a motion directing the clerk of the board to prepare findi

give me other thinkings going on here. >> if romney gets the nomination, we can't nominate a moderate. if they take it to the convention, that means a lot more headlines for newt gingrich. he's running for a tie. >> no cost in staying in. he's not going to be vice president. >> he's a historian running for his place in history. he's not getting a cabinet position. >> is that fair to start off on the negative? did newt gingrich, who is going to get nothing from romney if he quit now and said he's the greatest thing since sliced bread, no friendship. >> romney wouldn't want him. i can't imagine you'd want gingrich, who is such a free lancer in your white house. he's in it because he believes in his mind he has a plausible chance of winning. if you look at the numbers, he does have a plausible chance. it's just hard to see the mechanics of how he would orchestrate a victory. short of conservatives all of a sudden deciding he's our guy and everybody from sarah palin to the conservative media outlets all blessing him as the alternative to mitt romney. if that is hasn't happened yet, why wo

. >> stop nominating me. i can't win. >> it could be you, yes. alfredas. >> have a good weekend. >> you, too. >>> kate middleton stuns at her first solo royal appearance. first solo royal appearance. she's out and about without the never in my lifetime did i think i could walk 60 miles in 3 days. 60 miles in 3 days is-- is huge. if my mom can fight and beat breast cancer, i can walk 60 miles. you just put one foot in front of the other, and you know that you're walking for such a great cause that you just keep going. (man) that you have all these people coming together for one common goal. (woman) the goal is to bring an end to breast cancer. (woman) the fund-raising was the easiest part. people were very giving. complete strangers wanting to help. if i can do this, you definitely can do this. (woman) i'll never stop walking, not till we find a cure. (woman) and it has to end, but it starts with us. i knew someday i was gonna do this walk. it is the most rewarding experience i have ever had in my entire life. we can do this. you can do this. we c

. >> romney has been waiting around and says make sure nobody is going to win this nomination but me. then i will be the only alternative for obama. the economy is going to be terrible and they will vote for me. the economy is getting better, and romney has not said what he would do to make it still better. >> there is no positive economic message coming out of him. his economic plan of 59 points, and he doesn't talk about them in the smeemps. for conservatives who want to here a powerful proactive conservative message, they think he is kind of a goose egg. >> and he is so uncomfortable talking about his own wealth that they are afraid he is not going to come out and call for lower marginal tax rates. he has an economic speech coming up on february 24. chris: going to draw the big picture. let's go to the white house original decision to require catholic institutions to pay for birth control. here is what kathleen parker wrote. even though some catholic women may disagree with the church, but they still respect it. they don't want to see their church beat up. i thought you said it wel

give me some other thinkings you might be going on here. >> if romney gets the nomination in the endesn't win, newt can say, i was right all along. we can't nominate a moderate. if they take it all the way to the convention, a lot more headflirns newt gingrich. he's running for a tie. there's not really room for -- >> and no loss in staying in? keep this fight up. he's not going to be vice president, right? >> he's a historian running for his place in history. there's no cabinet position there. >> is that fair to start off on the negative here, which i like to do. this guy, newt gingrich, he's going to get nothing, not peanuts, not crumbs, nothing from romney if he quit right now and it's over for those two together. no friendship, though? >> romney wouldn't want him. i don't think gingrich would want taking a place in a white house. i can't imagine that you'd want gingrich who is such a freelancer and such a free spirited thinker in your white house anyway. he's in it because i still think he believe he's has a plausible chance of winning. certainly does have a plausible chance. it'

parliament from the parliamentary group a group called the movement which put forward reading this nomination told me earlier why she thinks he deserves to wait for the manning do so. because he's been criminalized or long whistle on war crimes it is not a criminal act to blow the whistle on war crimes or to blow the whistle on any crime. we feel that. by these leaks for example the video collateral murder. the wall. and. people that have. put their name to war in afghanistan in iraq through their governments need to know what is meeting going on there and by knowing what is going on there and we see this in can apply more pressure on our governments to be accountable for the crimes that have been conducted in our names we do not. let the bradley manning case be because of his injust treatment be the course of silencing all the people the courageous people who want to do their civic duty by reporting on crimes being. a state or military. taking a look at some other stories making headlines across the globe romania's prime minister is trying to dissolve the government saying he wants to preserve socia

moved forward from june a civilian council advisor to military leadership said nominations nominations excuse me should start being accepted and the end of the month dr omar sure from the institute of arabic and islamic studies at the university of exeter says egyptians just want an accountable civilian leadership. that. forces has mismanaged the transitional process to a large degree the expectations on the egyptian street it was rising again they told that they would be. that it would be to civilian elected civilian in six months and therefore once you have elected civilian rule they investments will come . life will be back to normal there would be a restructuring of the security services that acted in a very aggressive. way during the mubarak era all these expectations to the economy the. better economy the dignity the freedom the bread the slogans of that evolution were not really accomplished by a year off the bit of aleutian many on the streets of egypt. the transitional. that is of the traditional media which is the supreme council of the armed forces that's why that is at the protest la

nomination. romney telling me moments ago he will win michigan and arizona, as well. >> i'm planning on winning arizona soundly. a lot of delegates there. also got a lot of delegates from michigan, i would like to win in michigan. i think i will. i'll probably end up with two or three times as many delegates as anybody else in the race. that is victory. we have to get delegates. >> neil: so you were talking about arizona you take all the delegates, even if you were to split you would take half delegates, it's a big night for you. you know the story line, you can't win the state that his father governed, he is from here roots are here, you are in deep trouble. you don't buy that? >> you know people try to run a narrative about nature. i understand that is what they are going to try to do. i plan to win in michigan, if for some reason i don't, i got by far the most delegates. we got states down the road. we got good states in our column and i expect to get the delegates need win. if turned down massachusetts, that may be harder to explain. >> neil: let me ask you. you and rick santorum have not denied th

i invited her to be my guest, and she came to support me to help celebrate my grammy nomination. bsolutely, yes, i was expecting her. she beat me there. >> she got there before you did. that's a reliable friend, not just showing up but showing up before you. >> yes. >> and how did the evening go? how long were you together that night? >> oh, gosh. well, the actual concert portion of the show lasted, i want to say, about three or so hours, because there were a lot of artists. i wasn't the only one that performed that night. we were together in the -- in my private area prior to the show beginning, and then she was with me throughout the entire performance time. i sat on the steps of the stage as the other artists who performed entered and exited and she was right it there. she stood right in the corner of stage for over three hours on her feet all night long laughing and cheering and rooting on the other artists that performed that night. >> i want to look at the video. there's some amateur video maybe from a cameraphone or something that someone took when whitney got up on the sta

me, mitt romney will take this as a winning streak. for the second time in a row he has scored a clear, convincing victory and taken another step towards winning the republican nomination. nevada, like florida, is romney country. >> all: mitt, mitt, mitt. >> this is not the first time you gave me your vote of confidence, and this time i got to take it to the white house. >> reporter: romney's nevada victory was decisive and across the board. >> thank you. >> reporter: who won among those calling themselves very conservative, he won among tea partyers and among evangelical christians. >> all: romney, romney, romney, romney, romney. >> reporter: in his victory speech, he didn't make a single mention of his republican rivals, instead looking ahead to a race against barack obama. >> well, mr. president, nevada has had enough of your kind of help. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: it's not the first time romney has won nevada. he won the state four years ago. that's why newt gingrich said he was just hoping for a strong second place finish. now he says he is charging ahead, lashing out at romney. >> pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-tax increase, the george soros approv

and you told me there because this show was nominated. ng. >> jimmy: yeah. >> he's like, we lose every year to the kennedy center honors. >> jimmy: every year we go. we lose. >> a very weird category. >> jimmy: it has no writing in it whatsoever. and we all leave depressed. >> and then, he won. >> jimmy: we won this year. >> the show won. [ cheers and applause ] and i noticed, the kennedy center honored this year were not as funny, as usual. you won. and it was ironic. >> jimmy: did you accept the award? >> i accepted the award for jimmy. >> jimmy: where is that award? >> i threw it in the garbage. >> jimmy: you, as the acceptee, should have brought me the award. >> oh, now i'm your servant. i'm your assistant that have has to all these things? >> jimmy: in a way, yeah. >> i would have. but it was too heavy. >> jimmy: you have three boys, right? how old are the kids now? >> i have two. one just turned 7. and one's about to turn 4. >> jimmy: you have two. i'm sorry. there's one living in the chicken coop, actually. you left him there. >> he

icelandic parliament from the parliamentary group called the movement which put forward manning's nomination has told me earlier why they think he deserves to win. thank you manning this honor because it is criminalize or along with on war crimes it is not a criminal act to blow the whistle war crimes or to blow the whistle on any crime and. we feel that. by these leaks for example the video collateral murder. the wall. and. people that have. put their way to war in afghanistan in iraq through their governments need to know why this meeting is going on there and by knowing what is going on there and we see this in can apply more pressure on our governments to be accountable for the crimes that have been put out in our names we do not. let the bradley manning case be because of his in just treatment be in the course of silencing all the people the courageous people who want to do their civic duty by reporting on crimes who are it's state or military the u.s. president orders new sanctions against iranian a central bank giving it u.s. agencies the power to freeze assets linked to tehran at the same time a

reporter: california's 172 delegates are 15% of the delegates needed to claim the republican nomination. >> for me the debates have been bickering back and forth and it's a waste of time so i want to know exactly what they are going to do. i want a candidate that's going to stand up not back down and fight for the party. >> reporter: this spring convention which kicks off tonight is a three-day convention. it will feature town halls. they say they are going to try to focus on positive issues and focus on the economy and attracting new voters as well and stay away from divisive social issues. >> we'll see. juliette goodrich in burlingame, thank you. >>> new at 6:00 the poultry farm where tense of how its of where 50,000 hens were found dead or starving are being cared for by animal control. the company that owned it was in the process of shutting down operations. "an attempt to arrange delivery to chickens to a third party resulted in an unacceptable situation a & l poultry did not intend and regrets. >>> more progress on the wildfire in napa county. cal fire says the soda fire is now about 60% con

[laughter] would you accept the vice presidential nomination? >> me first? i do believe that marylanders will reelect president obama. the president inherited one of the worst economies, worst recessions since the great depression, and we have certainly not recovered all we've lost. but we've now gone 23 months in a row with private sector, positive job growth every month for 23 months. that hasn't happened since 2005-2006. and the people of maryland, i believe, will vote to reelect president obama primarily for that reason. >> president obama said during the campaign, he said if we don't turn this thing around in three years, it'll be a one-term proposition. well, i think virginians are ready to collect on that promise because it hasn't turned around. we have the worst debt in american history. it's grown $4.7 trillion under this, this president. the greatest growth in the national debt in the any term of any president in american history. that's going to grow another trillion in the near future. with his budget, really a political document because harry re

if rick santorum does secure the republican nomination believe me he will be portrayed as a pure tan hunter, as a fanatical guy as a member of the inquietsityion. uninformed voters could do him damage. that is the memo. reaction, joining us from los angeles, fox news contributor leslie marshall and radio talk show host jeanine turner. where am i wrong here? >> i don't think you are going wrong. i agree with you. this is a very difficult situation for santorum. he is a principle conservative and stands by his convictions and i believe he is a comepassion ate man but it is getting lost in the translation. i bristle when i hear this type of thing. >> bill: why do you bristle when you hear this type of thing? all rick santorum is saying that that he himself doesn't believe in birth control doesn't practice it apparently and that he believes that the til and the emphasis on do your -- the pill and the emphasis on do your own thing led to a variety of social problems. why does that make you a conservative woman bristle? >> because i am a conservative woman. there are lot of people that don

reporter: california's 172 delegates are 15% of the delegates needed to claim the republican nomination. >> for me, the debates have been bickering back and forth, and to me, it's just a time-wasting. so i really want to know exactly what they are going to do. i want a candidate that's going to stand up, not back down, and fight for the party. >> reporter: juliet goodrich, cbs 5. expect t . >>> organizers say many of the events will focus on the state of the economy. they expect to stay away from what they call devicive issues, like abortion and gay marriage. the convention wraps up tomorrow. >>> filling up is becoming painful in the bay area and around the country. downtown l.a. drivers, check this out, shelling out more than $5 a gallon. here in san francisco, the average price for a gallon of regular is now $4.30. in oakland, it's $4.24. in san jose, $4.25. to a certain extent, investors and speculators are driving the price increases, but tensions with iran are an underlying factor. >> if we do have an escalation in the tensions between the west and iran, then it's quite possibly we could get

nominated. newt gingrich or mitt romney. let me assure you, we will not win. that's a bold statement. >> i think these folks are badly compromised. if you will be out spending. probably out spend bad lie by a president who has a record level fundraising. if you give away the most important victim obama care if you neutral lies the issue about government hes care and wall street the idea that government needs to control your energy consumption and regular this carbon dioxide mission. it will be hard to win this election. we need to have a bold contrast between president obama and the republican nominee where obama's record is the issue. what state do you think you have the best chance of winning? >> on tuesday i think we are going to do well in missouri. it's interesting because it's a head to head between governor romney myself speaker gingrich is not on the ballot. ron paul is. we will see the idea that the one conservative who can go up against mitt romney head to head and win. we have been playing from florida. he had a chance to go head to head. i think we

we are not going to win this election, with either of these two people are nominated, let me assure you

. >> but what is the nominal term. humor me with -- >> i think what your colleague was saying before some numbers. i can try to track them down. the debt held by the public is currently in 2012 about $11.6 trillion. and in 2022, 19.5. >> so to you, stabilizing the situation is just adding debt but not as quickly. this president's comfortable with never having a balanced budget maybe in the next 20 to 30 to 40 years? >> i think what we're talking about is making serious progress in a period of time when you can actually talk about progress. who knows what happens across 30, 40, 50 years of time. we're making that progress. we're making that progress while maintaining the basic compact we have with our citizens. >> i would hope if -- maybe your staff would actually project what the administration would like to see. give us a date when we'd have a balanced budget, not a percent of gdp but actually spend less in one year than we're taking in. and that has not happened in decades. and i would like to see that. another thing. quick q