. >> these refineries remove production offline and when there is less production, then less supply and that puts pressure on prices to go up. >> reporter: because california has some of the strictest pollution standards in the country, it's hard for other plants to produce gas as quickly when these plants are offline. >> what can we do? you know, we just pay t basically, they have us. there is nothing we can do about it. >> that makes it a little tough. it's almost $100 for my truck. so i'll have to put out the harley. time to pull out the harley. >> reporter: joe vazquez, cbs 5. >>> muslims in milpitas getting a new place to worship. the city planning commission has unanimously approved the building permit for a new mosque. the 14,000-square-foot building with a minaret six stories high will be built at the site of a former cement warehouse. while some people expressed concerns about traffic and parking, supporters spoke of the importance of this new mosque. >> i think it would add to the richness of the city and i think it would bring, if anything, probably [ indiscernible ] >> const

>> if there is a request, that is handled offline tyrian if there is a conference, that is something that i bring up to the board, usually with the president's consent early on in the meeting so that the parties can argue as to whether or not it should be granted. commissioner garcia: i think this board does a good job, may be too good of a job, of flushing up the issue. i think enough questions are asked that we are better off, but i think the only thing left is for us to vote on it. commissioner hwang: i feel that the seven-minute opening is rather a long. it is a regurgitation. i would suggest that people did not regurgitate their written material in their oral presentations, and that could signal mcginley reduce the time. i think having a rebuttal would be a good idea. >> one thing to remember is that briefing is not mandatory, so the party 7 option to not submit any briefing and choose to make their arguments solely to the board. through oral presentation. something that supposed to be done. >> we have the opening brief or if they decide to hear someone reading their opening pap

this is between january 15th, when this goes offline, and the end of 2011. >> it is possible to take blood and only use this until -- becomes available as a way of minimizing the impact on the residential portion of this proposal. >> we feel that the lots will be needed to help address some of the challenges. that answers the question. thank you. >> i am here on behalf of my fellow neighbors. several of us are prepared to comment and opposition to part 1, we would respectively request that this item be put over until the following meeting. the reason is that we made a request under the sun shine provisions and refer receive some but not all of the materials. this morning at 10:45, we received an e-mail which says that we have received some items but also that item 1 requires an extensive search and compilation of electronic data and we're in the process of gathering these. our concern is that we do not know all of the facts that we might know if we received all of the information under the sun shine request. we would respectfully request that you rule that to this item be put over to

we will talk about that offline. [unintelligible] parkway in cooperation with the authority expects to execute a commercial agreement on the second phase of the project by the 31st. a milestone for the project and california. last month on a less than great note, the professional engineers filed a lawsuit against the california transportation commission in regards to this agreement and reaction by the city to approve it. the agency issues responsible for the lawsuit denying allegations of improper procedure, be it worth mentioning that the issues in the lawsuit were worth mentioning back in may when they were considered by the commission and still approved of in the entry of a public-private partnership processes by 8-3 in a vote. we are confident that we will resolve this issue in a timely manner. the vast majority of the unions have been very supportive of the project in the process. they see it the way that we see it with major opportunities expanding for infrastructure in california through the introduction of ca

the parking lot goes offline in about six weeks. president buell: do we have the rep has of the -- representative of the exploratorium? any vehicles that come from your side, do you employ any transportation systems to bring large groups to and from? >> jennifer is our facilities operations person. the field trip program is administered or you have to make a reservation. they call, a reserve a space, and of those charter buses or school buses are scheduled. the demand is managed that way. president buell: do they work for you? >> both. sorry, i misunderstood you. there are the yellow buses owned by the school districts, and many districts now charter them. we don't own the buses. president buell: they have had, in the past, had to put a transportation management plan together to get people out of there? it is the visitor's option on doing that? >> it depends. there are days when it is no problem. when there is demand, we wrote off areas for buses. they flow students and kids to and from the building. there is an active parking manag

. >> we with talk a little bit offline. but they're going to meet as a committee but then there will be a public meeting. i heard some dates thrown around. we are going to talk about a date and how we're going to have that public hearing and people are going to be able to speak with the department. so that's important to me. >> thank you. we move now to line item number four, please. >> item number four is reports to the commission. item 4-a is the chief's report, a review of recent activities. >> good evening, chief, how are you? >> i'm good, sir, how are you? >> good. >> good evening, president mazzucco, director hicks and the director of the police commission. i'm going to give you a report ending january 8, 2011. this is only for eight days of 2011. violent crime, we're down 8%, 137 violent crimes versus 149. property crimes were down 42% and property crimes 410 versus 703 of last year and total crime, we're down 36% which is 547 part 1 crimes versus the 852 last year. again, these are only for the first eight days of 2

it's been offline for a number of years is the facility has been renovated. it's a fantastic place and would be a really cool place to get married. we generated a pretty significant amount of revenue from the palace before it closed for weddings so i expect that will come back and hopefully be even healthier than it was before the facility was closed for renovation. and then we're reviewing all of the ideas that we received from our staff last year for revenue generation. and i just picked three examples that to me sounded both interesting and/or fun. having our staff offer gardening classes to the public which i think is a really fantastic idea. looking at parking -- some kind of a parking concession at gildman playground during san francisco 49ers game. and then just a fun idea, i don't think it would be an enormous revenue generator, but dodge ball tournaments. offered by the recreation division. >> i hate dodge ball but we should totally do that. it's the scariest sport on the face of the earth. do it. do it! everything. oh, shut up. give me a break. what

utility to produce previous test results or run new tests and that could force some pipelines to be offlinefor up to 10 days. >>> new guidelines or when it is the right time to remove a patient's tonsils. doctors say children who have at least 7 throat infections a year are good candidates for surgery. so are children who have tonsils so large their breathing is obstructed at night. >> there are lots of kids who don't sleep well, they are having trouble in school, they are not performing as well as they should, that need careful assessment. >> every year more than a half million kids in the u.s. have their tonsils removed. >>> an undercover investigation has found high levels of mercury in tuna and swordfish sold in california. a public health group analyzed 98 samples of swordfish, tuna, salmon and sushi. they found detectable amounts of mercury in all of them. the highest levels of mercury were found in swordfish, 20% of the tuna and sushi samples had sushi levels that would be harmful to women and children. with more health news, here's randall pinkston. >>> reporter: antidepressants may

. >> refineries remove production offline and when there is less production there is less supply and that puts pressure on prices to move up. >> what can we do? , you know, we just pay it. basically they have us. there is nothing we can do about it. >> that makes it tough. it's $100 for my truck. have to pull out the harley. >> reporter: according to a minneapolis based website that monitors gas prices, california's strict pollution standards make it hard for other plants to step in which also reduces supply. prices are expected to accelerate beginning in march and peak at about $4 a gallon. now, the highest prices are expected to hit around may and they should probably go down again in june and july. but that depends on how the economy is doing. back to you. >> you're right. start saving right now. sonja, thank you. sonja shin in oakland. >>> it is an exciting day for students in san jose. after months of waiting, their science experiment arrived at the international space station this morning. kcbs radio's matt bigler is at valley christian high school with more on the science proj

. >> -- remove production offline.uction, there is less supply and that puts pressure on prices to move up. >> what can we do? , you know, we just pay it. basically they have us. there is nothing we can do about it. >> it make it tough. almost $100 for my truck. have to pull out the harmly. >> reporter: a minneapolis based website that monitors gas prices says california's strict pollution standards make it hard for other plants to step in, which also reduces supply. prices are expected to accelerate beginning in march and peak at about $4 a gallon. now, the highest prices are expected to hit in may. and they will probably go down in june and july depending on how the economy is doing. back to you. >> yeah, not good news for commuters. all right, sonja shin live in oakland. thank you. >>> it is 5:38. new this morning, utah army base back open after a lockdown. a spokesman said needed to resolve a serious concern, no other details. the lockdown started about 5:30 yesterday. military weapons are tested at that army base

fact is, they've engaged in a lot more risky behavior offline. >> sexual predators are a risk.e cases, known cases of sexual exploitation involving social networks have involved kids who have gone out looking for a meeting with somebody. they were not deceived. we need to start thinking about our kids less as victims and more as participants. >> all right, i'm xting mike now. >> real probleal dms, reage can result from things kids do tohemselves and each other. and that's what we nd to be thinking about. >> i'm 16. i just turned 16 yesterday. i'm a swimmer. i have been swimming for seven years. i play golf. i'm really fun and outgoing. and i work hard in school. a lot of people in my school are like, "wow, she's smart." i know what it means, like everybody else does. it's weird because i have this one life that's fake, that's all happy-go-lucky, whatever. and then i have the real me. when i'm online, i'm the real person. i'm completely, 100% me. i'll talk about anything to these people because i know they won't judge me. sometimes it makes me feel better, because it's like, "oh

on dating sites is that someone will start a conversation with you and they'll ask you to take it offlinet telling you about this problem that they're having, because they need money to get back, they need money for a vees sachlt they ask you to give them money and they ask you to wire it which is just the same as sending cash. you wire somebody money, it's gone. be very careful, you only warm to deal with reputable dating sites and you want to make sure that you don't take the conversation offline. have the conversation in the safe information and again, don't second money. >> and the ponzi scheme. first we all -- a lot of us who live in the new york area have heard ponzi scheme, but once bernie madoff -- they're still going strong. >> according to the government about $10 billion was lost to other ponzi schemes in 2010. they're also called affinity scams, because people come after you where you feel very comfortable. your church, your synagogue, your country club and they ask you to participate in an investment. to give them money. they have some great way of guaranteeing you returns, i

i will take my answer offline and thanks very much for c-span. guest: the caller is right in that emergency -- emerging markets such as india, china, and brazil, in many cases they do not have the same regulatory structures that we do. perhaps an advantage is created. we worked very hard to reduce trade barriers that can hurt american companies from competing in doing business with those countries. one side of the equation is trying to break down trade barriers in the countries that hurt american business. on the other hand, what we do here, we tried to create a level playing field at home. countries that have companies that dumped products in our country, dumping product is selling it below what you would sell it in your own country, we have laws and ways to combat that. unfair subsidies is another way that we make sure we create a level playing field. i think reducing tariffs in general helps create the free flow. i am not sure that raising tariffs here is the best way to go. it is important that we create a level playing field both at home and

we should be thinking about campaigns that were both online and offline that was five years ago. he was an old school established political pollster. he got it. and i think we're just seeing that evolve very steadily since then. >> i think to some extent we're going to see a shift in traditional campaigning that you can't predict what it's going to be, but, you know, the first time as we get more and more data, the first time -- this is the first time ever that in-house staffers have had enormous amounts of data at their disposal to analyze. so we're starting to see something that hasbeen happening in corporate, which is the rise of the statistician and the quant as one of the most valuable players in the competition. as people are at least pocketly quant organized who really take numbers and analysis seriously, we're going to start to see organizations change dramatically as people get into leadership roles. and we're going to start to see the way the doors are knocked change dramatically. and it's not going to be digital per se. it's going to be decisions that you don't even th

we should be thinking about campaigns that were both online and offline that was five years ago. he was an old school established political pollster. he got it. and i think we're just seeing that evolve very steadily since then. >> i think to some extent we're going to see a shift in traditional campaigning that you can't predict what it's going to be, but, you know, the first time as we get more and more data, the first time -- this is the first time ever that in-house staffers have had enormous amounts of data at their disposal to analyze. so we're starting to see something that hasbeen happening in corporate, which is the rise of the statistician and the quant as one of the most valuable players in the competition. as people are at least pocketly quant organized who really take numbers and analysis seriously, we're going to start to see organizations change dramatically as people get into leadership roles. and we're going to start to see the way the doors are knocked change dramatically. and it's not going to be digital per se. it's going to be decisions that you don't even th

i will take my answer offline and thanks very much for c-span.the caller is right in that emergency -- emerging markets such as india, china, and brazil, in many cases they do not have the same regulatory structures that we do. perhaps an advantage is created. we worked very hard to reduce trade barriers that can hurt american companies from competing in doing business with those countries. one side of the equation is trying to break down trade barriers in the countries that hurt american business. on the other hand, what we do here, we tried to create a level playing field at home. countries that have companies that dumped products in our country, dumping product is selling it below what you would sell it in your own country, we have laws and ways to combat that. unfair subsidies is another way that we make sure we create a level playing field. i think reducing tariffs in general helps create the free flow. i am not sure that raising tariffs here is the best way to go. it is important that we create a level playing field both at home and abroad.

maybe you and i ought to talk offline. i will give you a few of your thoughts.i can take two more did you say? we have one right there. >> sean higgins business investor's daily. i'm hoping you can expand about your comments on labor regulations and what it was you might be concerned with the would do and how you would respond. >> welcome a you know, go ahead. >> one chief concern is trying to kind of the essentially to a card check approach through the regulation where they have been talking about the kind of slave revolt where the members could vote from their homes, the organizers could go to their homes kind of cutting off the business ability to communicate with its employees. a cyber though it is no different than a card check vote in terms of pressuring. i would remind you when you think about that issue always there in mind the congress of the united states always wants to make sure that when the vote for the speaker or vote against the speaker that they do it under a secret ballot. that's kind of interesting to me. >> i think the other point because car

maybe you and i ought to talk offline. i will give you a few of your thoughts.i can take two more did you say? we have one right there. >> sean higgins business investor's daily. i'm hoping you can expand about your comments on labor regulations and what it was you might be concerned with the would do and how you would respond. >> welcome a you know, go ahead. >> one chief concern is trying to kind of the essentially to a card check approach through the regulation where they have been talking about the kind of slave revolt where the members could vote from their homes, the organizers could go to their homes kind of cutting off the business ability to communicate with its employees. a cyber though it is no different an a card check vote in terms of presuring. i would remind you when you think about that issue always there in mind the congress of the united states always wants to make sure that when the vote for thespeaker or vote against the speaker that they do it under a secret ballot. that's kind of interesting to me. >> i think the other point because card ch

>> we should talk offline. [laughter] >> what is she trying to say? >> i am sure all her answers are on her twitter. you think it needs world trade -- i? -- it means world trade? winning the future? wow. you're hired. [laughter] >> just going back to egypt, for 30 years, the president has been saying to president mubarak exactly what you said president obama has been saying to president mubarak, with no effect. what additional leverage does president obama have? can you blame the egyptian people for seeing the president's pro forma statement on human rights to be more than pro forma? -- idon't know allowable don't know the level of seriousness or exactly how each of those conversations transpired prior to when we got here. i can only speak for our time here, and that is this has been an important part of not just ogueident obama's diale with president mubarak, but in talking to those here that are involved in senior meetings around government with -- that would interact on a bilateral basis with the government of egypt, these are topics that we pushed

you have to build relationships online like you build them offline.those applications, the more we make limit actions implicit, the more the things are going to happen. for instance, location we've seen so much growth in data location being shared. three years ago if i wanted to share my photo with an update on location and a comment, that's three e-mails, and today with most applications, it's one click. i'm not thinking about it and it's because i accepted that application and their 35 different privacy options they asked me for upfront. as an industry we have to be the shepherds to make sure we encouraging the responsible development of them and usage of the applications and also empowering the parents to be ahead of the data and not the last to know. >> is the private sector coming up with applications to help parents here? recently in california at a show and realized there was just a -- seemed to be a tremendous growth in innovate tores develop -- garage innovators develops apps to help parents and help them avoid problems. >> it's where we step

i will take my answer offline and thanks very much for c-span. guest: the caller is right in that emergency -- emerging markets such as india, china, and brazil, in many cases they do not have the same regulatory structures that we do. perhaps an advantage is created. we worked very hard to reduce trade barriers that can hurt american companies from competing in doing business with those countries. one side of the equation is trying to break down trade barriers in the countries that hurt american business. on the other hand, what we do here, we tried to create a level playing field at home. countries that have companies that dumped products in our country, dumping product is selling it below what you would sell it in your own country, we have laws and ways to combat that. unfair subsidies is another way that we make sure we create a level playing field. i think reducing tariffs in general helps create the free flow. i am not sure that raising tariffs here is the best way to go. it is important that we create a level playing field both at home and

i don't think -- i appreciate your statement could have been given to me offline as to what you have done and i would have if i had any other questions, i understand sometimes we need to kind of politicize things a little bit more. one thing that i'm kind of surprised, it takes ten years for the -- >> we'll leave this program at this point. the u.s. senate has returned to senate after a break for the lunch meetings. senators are working on legislation that would change filibuster rules. this is live coverage of the senate here on c-span2. for a united states senator to engage in the unconscionable practice of secretly blocking a piece of legislation that affects millions and millions of americans. the fight for more sunshine in the way the senate does business feels like it has been the longest running battle since the trojan war. today, after scores of battles, the cause of open government is going to prevail. over the years senator grassley and i and with the strong support of senator mccaskill, we've been able to secure leadership agreements to end secrecy. we've been able to pass