the official policy body. what we're looking to achieve this year is to make strides going forward particularly in the area of violence reduction and gangs. we have heard about the strategies today. we have seen the promise of law enforcement being able to work together with community-based organizations dedicated to violence reduction. this is possible but only of you all get involved. so for those of you that are here and watching at home, get involved and pick up the phone. you can go to our website to keep up with developments, sfpublicdefenderorg. we are creating initiatives around gangs and violence reduction. and applying brain science to the law, and advocating for reform. this is a banner year for criminal-justice. we have the three strikes initiative. we limit it to only serious offenses. also, the ballot measure, the state measure which will eliminate the penalty. thank you, all of you for coming and for all the volunteers that made this possible. i want to thank the san francisco public library, ev

the official policy body. what we're looking to achieve this year i

the official policy body. what we're looking to achieve this year is to make strides going forward particularly in the area of violence reduction and gangs. we have heard about the strategies today. we have seen the promise of law enforcement being able to work together with community-based organizations dedicated to violence reduction. this is possible but only of you all get involved. so for those of you that are here and watching at home, get

body of water as the east sea. they claim the sea of japan is based on an incorrect view of history. white house officials say u.s. policy is to refer to each sea by a single name. they also said they are aware that south korea caused the body of water, the east sea. they are not asking south korea to use a different name. >>> people in hong kong got used to having more freedom than mainland chinese. leaders in beijing promised to let them keep their autonomy when the british left 15 years ago. they said they left a country in plis for 50 years but now they are making what they call patriotic education kpulscy for hong kong's children. some people are protesting what they see as propaganda. nhk world has more. >> children at some school know what chinese leaders mean by level country. their teachers began giving them patriotic education just after hong kong diverted to chinese control. the students began each week by saluting the chinese flag. they only know what hong kong has been like since it became part of china. >> raise your arms to 45 degrees. stand up straight. >> students will appear to raise the flag. >> transl

officials in jerusalem today. he has spoken about iran's nuclear aspirations saying it can't be tolerated. iran will be a big part of romney's foreign policy address. coming up later on today. >>> in peru, the bodiess have been discovered after a day-long search in proven mountains. crews found the remains of gill weiss and ben horn. friends say they had been missing for five or ten days after embarking on a trip to scale a 2 20,000-foot mountain northeast of lima. >>> the mother of wikileaks founder julian assange is in ecuador this morning. she's there to plead for asylum on his behalf. assange has been living at the ecuadorian embassy in london since applying for political asylum in june. he's hoping to avoid extradition to switzerland after claims of rape and sexual molestation. >>> honda is recalling thousands of vehicles because of problem with air bags. first the front passenger air bags in 200,000 santa fe suvs may not deploy properly in a crash. and side air bags in 22,000 sedans may inflate for no reason at all. honda dealerships are expected to notify owners this week about some free repairs. >>> now to stories across country. first to wichita, kansas. people can legally walk down city

york has overlapping relationships with two bodies in the uk, the bank on policy questions and the fsa on regulation. >> it says here new york fed officials also met with representatives from the british bankers association to express their concerns and establish in greater depth the flaws in the libor setting process. the new york fed analysis culminated in sale recommendations to libor which was finalized in late may and in june. mr. fwit quigeithner emailed th governor of the bank. what it says here is that the fed was worried, the fed found out from barclays it was underreport, the fed discussed this with the british bankers association and then emailed you. >> don't know if the federal reserve said to the bba they were concerned about misreporting and falsifying submissions. that certainly is not what they said to us and they didn't pass any of that information to us. >> okay this discussion continues about what the bank of england was told by the new york fed and timothy geithner at the time. it's an extraordinary discussion going on who knew what when and why didn't you raise red flags when the fed told you. >> let's contrast this

they are talking about a huge body of research showing that central banks that are independent from political officials who are up for reelection in end up creating better policy than those under direct political control. the reason for this is simple to understand. that is that when the fed lowers interest rates, for example, the effect it has on lending happens much faster than the bad effects it has in terms of inflation. so, politicians and ran the central bank -- you could easily imagine ana situation where you get a year off from the election and they just cut interest rates and everybody loves it and then you have an inflation problem the next year. so, central banks are set up as a best practice with political insulation. the reason bernanke opposes this legislation is that he says you can imagine election years -- i do not think this is hard -- where the fed has to raise interest rates because that is where they see the economy, or they are keeping them steady. a politician -- politicians decide they do not like it and they will get your document and find ways to embarrass you or ought to you. they use that as a way to apply political pressure. it has

policy? enterovirus. >> dr. sanjay gupta is in cambodia right now where health officials are scrambling to learn more about a mysterious illness that's killing children, attacking their bodieshave died in cambodia over the past three months. it's not clear how fast or how far this deadly syndrome could spread and whether children in other countries may be at risk. our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta has traveled to cambodia for cnn. he's investigating what's going on. sanjay, first of all, thanks so much for doing this. what is going on? because a lot of folks not only in cambodia but all over the world are deeply concerned about these kids. >> well, wolf, i'll tell you, it is an ongoing investigation, and i'll preface by saying i was in the hospital today where so many of these kids are being treated and as a parent, it's tough to see what these children are going through. they're trying to figure out why so many children, 64 children they say the number is, have died. very quickly over the last couple of months. many of them treated at a hospital here in phnom penh where i am now. they're starting to try to zero in on what is causing this. one of the things t

they are talking about a huge body of research showing that central banks that are independent from political officials who are up for reelection in end up creating better policy than those under direct political control. the reason for this is simple to understand. that is that when the fed lowers interest rates, for example, the effect it has on lending happens much faster than the bad effects it has in terms of inflation. so, politicians and ran the central bank -- you could easily imagine a situation where you get a year off from the election and they just cut interest rates and everybody loves it and then you have an inflation problem the next year. so, central banks are set up as a best practice with political insulation. the reason bernanke opposes this legislation is that he says you can imagine election years -- i do not think this is hard -- where the fed has to raise interest rates because that is where they see the economy, or they are keeping them steady. a politician -- politicians decide they do not like it and they will get your document and find ways to embarrass you or ought to you. they use that as a way to apply political pressure. it has a

representative body such as this, to come forth, freely discuss, freely, openly discuss the ideas and hammer out policy. and yet what we're seeing is that in bringing those elected officials here, by electing them by overwhelming advertising from unlimited sources, those elected representatives will be beholden to those particular sources and will not have an independence of judgment, will not have the secratic able in the free marketplace of ideas to hammer out the differences of ideas and achieve consensus in order to direct the direction of the country. so the very underpinnings of the country are at stake. now, why is this being fought? something that ought to be like a motherhood bill. you're for disclosure of who all is giving money to influence the political system, just like all of the federal candidates have to disclose? and, oh, by the way, are limited in the amounts of contributions to each candidate. well, what is such common sense is being thwarted if this legislation were to pass and they had to disclose who is giving the money. and you know what? most of them would stop giving it. and they'd have to operate under the normal campaign finance laws which say,