. >> and designating the examiner to be the official newspaper of the city and county of san francisco. item #5, resolution designating the san francisco bayview and small business exchange to be outreach newspaper for the city. the western addition to be the neighborhood outreach newspaper ad provide outreach to advertising in fiscal year 2012 and 2013. >> i believe we have jennifer brown here? >> the first resolution as for the official advertising contract. the estimated annual value of the contract is $50,000. this contract is for fiscal year 2012-2013 and would expire on june 20, 2013. per the requirements, we have to conduct a solicitation, i evaluate and score the bidders for the contract award. this year, we received bids from "the examiner" and the " chronicle." the highest scoring better was "examiner." thank you. the "chronicle" does not meet the requirements because it is printed outside the city limits. the board has the discretion to award the contract to serve the city needs for public noticing. historically, this has been awarded -- [audio difficulties] -- [audio diffic

last week the communist parties official people's daily newspaper published a commentary on the south china sea dispute. the article denounced what it called the internationalization of the issue and interference by outside powers. that's seen as a warning aimed at the united states. as some experts don't expect china will make concessions, they say the super power is asserting itself to counter america's increased focus on asia. >> translator: we used to be able to solve a conflict soon after it happened. but in recent years, it doesn't get solved right away. this has to do with america's back to asia policies. if the american back to asia attitude also accompanies actions, china's countermeasures will become larger. >> china is pursuing its maritime interests as a show of power with the united states also putting more emphasis on asia, it seems unlikely china will be prepared to back down. nhk world, beijing. >> reporter: that was china's stance, how will asean respond. as we heard there, china seems hard lined. what's the position of asean countries? >> the philippines and vietnam

because we see the videos and we see the photographs but then when we read sometimes in the newspaper the official statement by the police department is you know that they were being you know had items thrown at them that they were being provoked and this was their reaction talk a little bit about the discrepancy between the message that you still get from those officials with the police department and what we actually see unfolding before our eyes. right i mean i think that in a lot of media. reporting on events like this there's a real false equivalency where you get a kind of balance of violence from the protesters and from the police and that's just patently false i mean anyone who's been to to any of these events knows that that's just not the case i mean the violence really is very clearly one way from police towards protesters which is not to say that nobody has thrown a water bottle or something like that i mean that stuff does happen but i think that many times. something that you know somebody throwing a water bottle is used to then justify really overwhelming and disproportionate respon

official, the israeli newspaper ha'aretz reported sunday that president obama is national security adviser had personally briefed israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu on contingency plans to bomb iran should the u.s. decide to abandon diplomatic track on iran's nuclear program. the israeli government has denied the report. a pregnant shooting victim who sustain serious injuries in the aurora, colorado massacre has lost her young daughter in the attack and suffered a miscarriage. ashley moser was eight weeks pregnant when she is scared from the trauma of the shooting while undergoing treatment in the hospital. her six-year old daughter veronica was the youngest victim to be killed in the attack. the suspect, james holmes, is to make a second court appearance today. his public defender has made court filings showing he had been receiving psychiatric treatment before the shooting occurred. police in maryland say they may have prevented another shooting with the arrest of a man who made violent threats and was found to have a large stockpile of weapons. the suspect, the press got, reporte

an official said that meeting never happened. two different israeli newspapers report that iran has seriously step up the pace of the nuclear enrichment, so much so that the reports indicate iran could produce nuclear weapons by the spring of next year. different report, different day, different timing. and mike is live for us in washington, a former pentagon intelligence officer and currently the c.e.o. of diligent innovation consulting firm in washington, dc. there might be a briefing, and everybody might deny that a briefing happened, would not be outside the norm at all. if there were plans, it would be weird if there weren't. what is the dust up? >>guest: how many details would be conveyed at a meeting like that described by the newspaper, that is the question. everyone knows other than the u.k. that israel is our closest military ally. and the war planes the israelis fly are u.s. built and a lot of the weapons they drop are manufactured in the united states, we are sharing intelligence and on the same page with iran not being able to acquire nuclear weapon

defense minister and deputy defense minister some other officials have been killed and many many others here in the mainland according to one local newspaper that last has also caused serious damages and killed a big number of civilians this information is yet to be confirmed we haven't got any official comment on this incident yet the opposition syrian observatory for human rights has said it was an intense explosion and a number of positions were local college a nation committee has it is also commented saying that to loud explosion and heavy gunfire echoed through the city so we have we can understand how big it was her nest was the blast comes as the capital has seen falls for a day of clashes between government vulturous and grab old scores trying to bring down the regime by force the fighting has taken place in the least five neighborhoods not central but to the chain really not far from the city center here in damascus all in the southern part of the capital and the heaviest. clashes have reportedly been taking place in an area known as me down today a free syrian army has announced that making a holding area while earlier the gover

just heard the my rant the exact quote from romney adviser and surrogate and official spokesperson just talk to the newspapers was we are part of an anglo-saxon heritage and romney feels that the special relationship is special the white house doesn't fully appreciate the shared history we have and then a little later the the author of the piece the reporter who interviewed the this romney spokesperson said that you know one suggested that is the spokesperson mr romney was better placed to understand the depth of ties between the two countries than mr obama whose father was from africa. dog whistle politics again is this it worked for george herbert walker bush willie horton ads even though willie horton was released on a program that was set up by the former republican governor of massachusetts before dukakis it worked for broad reagan opening his campaign in philadelphia mississippi where three civil rights workers were murdered in the town of seven thousand people is this what we're going to see again just mostly we have a unattributed unnamed quote from somebody in the campaign reported by a british newsp

>> by the way, the other story you referred to appeared this morning in the israeli newspaper, unnamed u.s. official, again, unnamed, quoted as saying that president obama's national security adviser had talked to prime minister benjamin netanyahu about contingency plans to attack iran. that is being denied by israeli officials. conveniently timed for mitt romney's visit. regime n israel, going to give -- romney in israel, going to give a speech. cnn will carry that. before break, i want to mention all over twitter i'm seeing talk about a fake op-ed piece by former executive editor of wikileaks. keller himself tweeted this is not him, please don't pay attention. other people re-tweeted, meaning they sent it out, including another "new york times" columnist. goes to show you can't believe everything you read on line. >>> when we come bark the "washington post" says mitt romney is losing the like able sweepstakes cd that matter? ♪ this is our pool. ♪ our fireworks. ♪ and our slip and slide. you have your idea of summer fun, and we have ours. now during the summer event get an exceptionally engineered

newspapers did not see. the syrian government is rather positive towards the result i have watched syrian official media's. hours of positive towards the research. now president assad has said he didn't want solutions imposed from the outside but he doesn't have to be succeeding in ending the hostilities why can't he just accept the international mediation efforts. international mediation efforts acceptable to the syrians but then what president assad meant is there is there would be no solution imposed on the syrians in the sense that. i understand the position of syria and of course and speaking in my individual capacity understand that the position of syria is desired international powers that in geneva will help to really help launch you amongst syrians in order for the syrians. to decide their future to decide who will do to decide what is that you should do like to have. international help is essential is useful is positive and the decision will be of course with the syrians. now talking about international mediation been useful and other animal you know there are more talks planned opposition groups

been in the past. >> reporter: the other possibility, a prominent south korea newspaper citing south korean intelligence officialse woman a former singer for electronic music band. that band was hugely popular in north korea. had hit songs with titles like "i love pyongyang. that newspaper reports they became romantically involved about a decade ago. but that his father objected. she then married someone else according to the paper. as if you needed another twist, there's a family pattern. >> when the father, kim jong-il was around the same as the leader, he became interested in a young female reporter also married to somebody else. that person no longer was relevant. in the kim family, if they want you, they have you. others say the north koreans have an interest in projecting this woman as a possible wife for kim jong-un if she's romantically involved with him. not only to make him seem more human, but also to show there will be another generation of the kim family after this one. that the dynasty will continue. it's crucial for the regime to project that kind of strength, wolf. >> given history, even if she em

the newspaper reports that little league officials are condemning what happened, calling the brawl embarrassingyers and the city of columbus. >> no kidding. >> still ahead, three nationals are getting set to take the field for tonight's all-star game. we'll take you to kansas city for a preview. >> plus, a childhood disease is making a comeback. the latest on the spread of whooping cough is next in our health alert. ?gw?qyjw >>> in tonight's health alert, whooping cough is on pace to have a record setting year. more than 16,000 cases were reported as of june 30. more than double the number reported from the same time last year. now the current record in the u.s. was 2010 with over 27,000 cases. and the cdc is encouraging everyone to make sure their vaccinations are up to date. it's part of an immunization. whooping cough is contagious. it can cause death in the worse case scenarios, especially among babies and young children. there were several regional outbreaks. the closest locally, south western virginia. >>> another reason to get off the couch and get moving. cutting your sitting time can

. >>> reports of a serious security breach have london olympic officials scrambling for answers this morning. a newspaper report over the weekend said several people on a terror watch list were just waved right through border controls, including those at london's heathrow airport. new, inexperienced recruits who were recently hired in order to shorten notoriously long immigration lines are being blamed for the lapses. >>> now to egypt where an american pastor and a fellow missionary remain in the custody of a kidnapper. it's a race against time. as abc's alex marquardt reports on the pastor's serious medical condition. >> reporter: parishioners and family were praying for the safe release of their pastor, michel louis. time is of the essence. the pentecostal preacher is diabetic a he doesn't have his medication. >> the only concern that we have at the moment is that he is diabetic. and the longer they hold him, i want to assume it's not going to work in his favor. >> reporter: louis was taken on friday along with fellow missionary lisa alphonse. they were on their way to israel via mt. sinai for an annua

. >> reporter: another possibility, a prominent south korean newspaper, citing south korean intelligence officialsfies the woman as a former singer for a group called the electronic music band. that band was hugely popular in north korea, had hit songs with titles like "i love pyongyang" and "excellent horse-like lady." we're not making this up. how could we be? that newspaper reports that they became romantic involved about a decade ago, but that his father objected. she then married someone else, according to the paper. as if you needed another twist, there's a family pattern. >> when the father, kim jong-il, was around a similar age as the current leader, you know, he became interested in a young female performer who was also married to someone else and that person no longer was relevant anymore, and, you know, in north korea if the kim family wants you, then they have you. >> victor cha and other analysts say the north koreans have an interest in projecting this woman as a possible wife for kim jong-un, not only to make him seem more human, but also to show that there's going to be another gen

newspaper. the chinese swimmer saying i'm clean. the american swim officials are pointing fingers at the chinese. not only does she win in the 400-meter medley but she shattered the record. her final 50 meters, she swam faster than ryan lochte and michael phelps. she deny all allegations the american officials, the head of the american swimming coach's association says flatly, her performance is unbelievable, disturbing and does not add up. so this controversy will continue in the days to come. the other hot topic here tuesday morning, what is with the empty seats here at the olympic games? british soldiers, yes, british soldiers are actually now being used as seat fillers. this has been an embarrassing story for the london game. a lot of corporate seats are going unused. a few hours from now, how about this? they'll release a batch of tickets and sell them to the general public. all those seats that were supposed to be sold out are now available. if you can get a in it to heathrow airport, do it from sfo. tickets are available here at the olympics. one of the

weekend, a brush fire started over a story, an article that ran in an israeli newspaper that suggested tt obama's top security official israel on u.s. plans for a possible attack on iran. now this was, you know, brush fires. spread quickly, difficult to put out. one of the reasons why, one, the substance. two, the question about leaks about national security that put president obama in a good light. i should note the israelis, the government, has denied the story. the white house has not commented which is probably the best thing to do. but bob, when you saw this, did it raise your eyebrows? >> bob: it did. tom donilon, the national security advisor that said this, a guy, a friend of mine for 30 years is the last guy i would manual leaking something like this. it was the kind of leak, though, frankly raises a lot of suspicions about it. secondly, it's one that gets iranians that much more nervous about it. one thing about the denial, if you listen to it carefully. if they were planning together, you to plan by this time. you would start plans by now. i wouldn't surprised if they did. it was probably done between donil

officials say they got a 911 call about a pair of chimpanzee running wild in the western part of that city. the las vegas sun newspapers climbed on top of a police car and tried to open a woman's car door. officials shot and killed one of the animals after they said it made a group of bystanders. cops eventually caught the other chimp and tranquilized it. the newspaper reports police got a domestic dispute call in the area around the same time and the cops say they believe the animals got loose from that house. i'm shepard smith. this is "the fox report." it's the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news some political analysts are calling it former vice president dick cheney's grandest gesture to pass a torch to former massachusetts governor mitt romney. the cheney's are hosting a fundraiser for governor romney tonight which includes a private dinner at their home in wyoming. we're told tickets are going for as much as 30 grand. vice president cheney had a heart transplant in march but he is reportedly back in action, even hunting and fishing again. let's get straight to carl cammeron who is live on the top s

phone service skype is working with law enforcement officials to give them better access to loser information according to the "washington post" newspaper. protesters, drug lords and other reportedly prefer skype over standard phone lines because it is harder for the government to spy on their service. officials at skype have reportedly changeed their coding for give authorities better access to user addresses and credit card numbers. privacy advocates say this will help police abuse the system. and new to arthur aidala and criminal defense attorney, randy zelin. so, they can get you anyway. >>arthur: this is a problem for the f.b.i. because it is an area they cannot get to and it is referred to as "going dark." now they will not tell you this but they are happy about this. what they say publicly, if they follow it, i could live with. they say anything they want to obtain requires review and approval by a court and "it is only used in national security matters and to combat the most serious crimes." now, if i knew that last sentence was a fact, that's only regarding national security, not if someone underage bought a beer and us was onl

newspaper says a u.s. advisor discussed plans with the israeli prime minister but a senior official says nothing in the article is correct. >>> reverend jesse jackson is asking for prayers tonight. he say there's no timetable for the recovery and he's been on a secretive leave of absence for 7 weeks. he's facing a house ethics investigation. >>> and a beautiful day and it's a beautiful evening. take a look at the shot downtown and right now at the 11, bwi sits at 77 degrees. dew point values down from last night, it was 75-degree dew points. right now we're into the 60s, so the comfort level certainly isthere. we got to 88. that was your official high. and a very comfortable 82 as you head down the shoreline, ocean city 82 degrees. let's take you through the temperatures again right now 76 in town, 79dc, 70s over the eastern shore, we'll slowly fall back into the low 70s. suburbs could be in the middle to upper 60s. here's the trend, starting out tomorrow morning, 77 to 74 degrees. your wake up to good morning maryland temperature around 75 and we're on our way to the 80s as we head into the tomorrow afternoon

minister other officials high ranking officials security officials have been killed and many many others seriously injured according to one local newspaper in the blast has also caused serious damage is and also killed many many civilians but this information is yet to be confirmed it's very hard to very far right now since we didn't get any official comment on what happened yet. while it's of course a tragic news for all syrian people of course we have to understand that this is one of the most serious losses since the beginning of the uprising started here in syria last march for the syrian regime whole security has reportedly been done decapitated and of course the regime is dramatically were kinda. right now you know you talk about this massive blast in damascus television a security building that killed at least six including the defense minister this massive suicide blast with the free syrian army already taking credit for this blast sometimes the west refers to these are members of the free syrian army as freedom fighters we know president bashar al assad referred to them as terrorists one might imagine that a suicide bombing woul

a gazette newspaper reporter took this video which shows the walk-through the tunnel and up several flights of stairs. officials say the heat caused a section of track to bend outside the west hyattsville metro. the heat kink is what caused the train to derail. green line service will remain suspended tomorrow. shuttle buses are being used in the meantime. more than 324,000 pounds of various frozen ready to eat meat and poultry products are being called tonight. the products may be contaminated with listeria, it's a serious infection that could lead to death. they include packages of frozen meat balls and meatloaf. all of them produced by buona vita located in new jersey. for a full list of producted go too usda.gov and click on the recalls tab. >>> for the first time in 60 years, an historic election in libya. citizens voted in free national election day. the first voting in the country since the overthrow and death of dictator moammar gadhafi. >>> still ahead, congressman barney frank marries his long time partner. the unusual vows at their wedding. >>> the accident that led to the olympic flame being snuffed

officials say that the restaurant owner josephine anne harris died this morning of natural causes. she told the local newspaper thrilled to have met the president yesterday when he had breakfast at the diner. today mr. obama made a call to harris's daughter to offer his condolences. >>> the heat sweeping the country forced a chocolate shop to close early. even with the air conditioner set at 68 degrees, the owners cannot keep the chocolate from melting. they tried moving everything to the back of the store. but every time people over the door it lets hot air in and the chocolate cant take it. >> they have to have a party and eat all the squishy chocolates. >>> we are all feeling squishy and melty right now. it's ridiculous. >> it is ridiculous. day nine and hitting day ten tomorrow and day 11 on the day sunday and we increased the numbers for the next couple days too. let's show you what is going on out there. an orange moon. why is the moon orange? that is what you get when you get a hazy atmosphere a lot of humidity. it looks like a big orange egg or a golden egg. the temperatures in the 80s but we hit 99 de

british newspapers are reporting that officials have arrested a terror suspect caught five times traveling too close to london's olympic park. the 24-year-old man is suspected of being an al-qaida operative and would be suicide bomber. his movement sparked fears he was on a reconnaissance mission for an attack on the park during the upcoming olympics. this man was already known to the british government and under court order not to get close to that park. attorney general eric holder is moving past his contempt of congress citation in the fast & furious case and instead touting the record number of civil rights lawsuits the justice department is filing across the country. he had a friendly audience for that message in las vegas where he is speaking at the national council of laraza's annual conference, it's the largest hispanic rights advocacy group. among other pledges, holder said the administration will continue to aggressively examine voter i.d. laws nationwide. >> this bill will keep thousands of construction workers on the job rebuilding our nation's infrastructure. second, this bill

trish, if ever anybody prints again that your husbands were at fault, you have an official document to call that newspaper, call that tv station, call that reporter and say, sir, i want a retracks. i will send you a document that says my husband and my father and friend's husband was not at fault. i will tell you that four, five years ago, i was in jacksonville, north carolina, connie gruber invited me to a reunion of the church and i had a chance to meet brooks gruber's father. and that gentleman lives in naples, florida with his wife and he came out and we spoke. and he had tears in his eyes and he fought in korea for this country as a marine. and he said, congressman, i want to thank you for trying to clear my son's name. i said, mr. gruber, i will accept your kind words on behalf of my savior, jesus christ, because christ was a man of humility. and i try to walk in the light of christ. and if we ever accomplish anything for this country, no matter what faith that my colleagues might be, just remember that accomplishing truth and integrity for john brow and brooks gruber will be god's will, and not min

. >> two high-ranking chinese officials have resigned amid criticism over the government's handling of the storm that left dozens dead. a chinese newspaper mayor of beijing and the vice mayor have left office. this comes after 37 people die n -- died as a result of the rainfall last week. the death toll could continue to climb. >> the bay looks pretty good for us adam,. refreshened >> i love days like this but it does not last long this time of year. sometimes it only lasts about 18 hours. at least we're getting a full day of lower humidity. >> already feeling pretty good out there. >> it is refreshing. dew points in the fifties later on today, lower humidity levels. it will be comfortable, highs in the mid to upper 80s this afternoon. tomorrow, here comes the heat. right now it is 66 in winchester 69 and martinsburg. 78 in lexington park. look at the temperatures. kansas city is still in the mid '80s, 85 degrees. 84 in omaha. that is burqa heat and humidity still resides. it-- that is where the heat and humidity still resides. that is well off to our west right now, but it will slowly creep our way all day. we are comfortable today, les

two former newspaper editors and six others have been officially charged today in connection with theworld phone hacking scandal. the charges are conspiracy to illegally intercept communications. rebekah brooks who was the top executive of news international, the british newspaper division news corporation has been charged among other things in connection with the alleged hacking into the voice mail of murdered school girl million lee dowler. she said in a statement, quote, the charge concerning million lee dowler is particularly upsetting not only is it untrue but i have spent my journalistic career campaigning for victims of crime. brooks was also charged back in may with interfering in a police investigation into the phone-hacking scandal, charges that she denies. andy colson was also charged with the same crime, he went on to be prime minister's david cameron's director of communications until he stepped down last year. before that he was editor of news of the world, the sunday tabloid that was shut down last summer when the phone hacking scandal took on new steam. he is also char

extremely dangerous situation japanese newspapers reporting the plant operators still face a number of hurdles before they can decommission the plant and officially close the book on the crisis and it could take decades one of those hurdles includes trying to determine why eight million back or els of radioactive cesium still continues to pour out of reactor number two every single hour and plant operators still have no clue how they're going to remove massive pools of highly radioactive spent fuel from the roofs of the reactors as the newspaper reports not only will that work be unprecedented but the work will also have to be done in an environment of high radiation levels oh and then there's the situation with reactor four which could collapse at any moment triggering a worldwide nuclear disaster worse than share noble for more on this let's turn over to karl grossman investigative reporter professor of journalism at the state university of new york and author of the book cover up what you are not supposed to know about nuclear power karl welcome to the program good evening term we're now five hundred days since the crisis began just how big of

clark a contributor from britain's guardian newspaper who's been closely following developments on syria thanks for being with us now syria little regime officials have been claiming for months that the uprising in the country is a terrorist conspiracy does this high profile backing by the iraqi foreign minister on this claim put the syrian conflict into a different perspective this is the first time we've been hearing it from the outside so strongly very much so that in fact we would hear the u.n. secretary general has already said that al qaeda was behind the terrorist bombs that took place in damascus some of the worst book bombings that took place there so we don't just have to believe president assad is coming through all of the sources now so i think it's very important you know when president started first came out and said this foreign terrorist groups like al qaeda were much of the violence in syria that was dismissed by the west but now we've got iraqi. general saying this and what's happening is of course we've got this kind of unofficial alliance between western allies and radical islamic terror groups to destabilize syria. but it's

did city officials do a bad job planning the drainage system in this high end part of town with a lot of new skyscrapers? >> instead of an answer newspaper quad the criticism, a blogger said they only know how to turn on the tap of positive propaganda, that was quickly deleted by authorities. >> there are other questions about beijing's building boom beyond potential faults in the drainage system, mostly focused on the quality of so much going up so fast. >> even when people buy luxury condos in china, they joke about how they are not going to last very long because they haven't been built to last. one area that had no plotting was beijing around the forbidden city, once home to emperor's its drainage system was designed six centuries ago which makes it all the more embarrassing an area with new buildings and new drainage technology couldn't deal with something as old as man, a rainstorm. barry petersen, cbs news, beijing. >> glor: next up, pension hardball, the choice one city offered to its firefighters and police. >> glor: one measure of the weak economic outlook comes from moody's which estimates states and cities across the country

newspaper. denials and -- it will not be clear cut but even if we did, it has nothing to do with whether or not there was a violation which constitutes official misconduct. it has nothing to do with that. it is a totally separate matter and if you like to pursue it someplace else, fine. >> i would respectfully disagree. this is why. the mayor has argued that his suspension of the sheriff was discretionary. it was an exercise of his discretion. respectfully, the phrase rise to the level of official misconduct implies that there is a definition of what official misconduct is or is not. that is not the case and the mayor has conceded it is a discretionary decision. there is no real definition. conduct that falls below a standard of decency, good faith, and action. determining what fits into this parameter is is a discretionary decision. the mayor's discretion is at issue. you have to decide, did the mayor exercise his discretion in a reasonable manner when he suspended the sheriff? is the mairs idea of what he thinks is official misconduct, is that reasonable? did he exercise his discretion reasonably? his credibility, his truthfulness go to whe