"we are anonymous," says 2008 anonymous has destroyed servers, stolen e-mails and taken websites offline . in the collective act of social engineering its greatest feat was in getting people to believe in the power of its size. >> yes. >> what is that jack. >> well, this kind of speaks to where anonymous began, which was the image boards. so when the original, interest on these discussion boards were stopped from using nicknames and they had to be anonymous there were two different -- they started to be as the civil war between the people who wanted to use big gains in those who wanted to be anonymous. the guise of the nicknames recall the anonymous guys, there would jokingly referred to it as a man called anonymous in the hive mind. this joke turned into something that was real, the sense that through collective action, their collective discussion they could create something more powerful than any individual. unit, we talk a lot these days about crowd surfing. that is a very big component of our anonymous works as well. collect the gathering ideas together, what is best. sometimes the m

more than a million barrels per day of refining capacity is currently offline in the region and thousands of residents under a mandatory evacuation. and 1.32 million barrels per day of refining capacity offline. >>> and the tweets about the massive storm now a hurricane, among the hashtags being used, isaac and hurricane and gulf coast. just to show how many people are talking about this, social media track up, more is being said about isaac than the republican national convention. you can really see them starting to roll in here. >> cnbc has a team of report ready to go. you have scott cohen there for katrina. keeping you updated on the rigs and refiners. let us begin with scott cohen, who was there for katrina nearly seven years ago to the day. scott, you're comparisons for the preparation then versus now, if you can. >> reporter: it's night and day, brian. we should point out they're two very different storms. as you can see, we had rain bands come through. it's a soft gentle rain right now, we know is the proverbial calm before the storm. the preparations have been very visible. i can

we can talk offline about this. i think we're on the same page. the second thing is -- has to do with the entertainment commission. the entertainment commission is i think quite under resourced in terms of being the agency that is responsible for overseeing and enforcing with respect to the significant industry. they're not doing the whole industry. a significant portion of it. the board has given the entertainment commission more responsibility, whether it is regulating promoters or all sorts of different things. sometimes when a given agency authority or responsibility without the resources, you said the agency of four failure. the entertainment commission has worked hard and has improved its performance. i do think it could use another enforcement position. it is one guy who is sort of doing a great job. i think we need more. >> i definitely think the entertainment commission has a great -- that a great job with the resources it has under the leadership of joycelyn kane. the budget is based on permit fee recovery. we were not able to fund a new

the dmv computer system for the entire state went offline, shut down around 7:00 this morning. they do not know yet when it's going to be coming back online. and this shows you just how much we rely on machines. but because of this computer crash, it is effectively shutting down their offices throughout the state like this one here in santa clara, which is why you've got long lines of people hoping that it comes back online soon, even though they don't know when it's going to happen. so the dreaded trip to the dmv isn't wasted. some people aren't even bothering. dmv workers here say roughly about 10% of the people have given up waiting and gone home. the dmv is still conducting driving tests and those results are recorded on paper and can be punched in the computer at a later time. if you need to, say, register a car, get a new driver's license, transfer ownership, you're out of luck. >> i had to pick this day. that's my luck. >> bought a car for him. took my whole day off today to help him. >> reporter: real inconvenient? >> well, what can we do. >> i wish they would let us si

of course we have a lot of refineries going offline. with the richmond refinery down out in san francisco, headlines this weekend, the refinery in venezuela and one in asia, so a lot of capacity being taken offline. ironically in spite of all of this we are seeing some heavy selling in the crude oil complex which centers around the chatter that we could get an spr release. if we get an spr release that will be negative for oil prices. we have a lot of options, traders starting to bit of oil volatility. one month highs is there trying to see some protection. no matter what we do from the spr, i think his name was at the top of your show, its gasoline prices that are going to remain elevated because we don't have the refinery capacity, and we do have a glut of oil here in the state's. so if you think that gasoline is going to outperform crude oil, even in an spr release, you want to probably be short oil. uso is the royal etf command long gasoline, huge. nicole, the u.s. gasoline fund. even in an spr release to my destination relatively o

for that, i would be habitat and offline conversation. >> yeah, we will have to do that, supervisor. supervisor chu: with regard to language taxes, there was a question provided from our office to all departments -- regards dealing with access. i believe the attorney is not a tier one language access department. but there are claims that touch upon the city attorney's office. for folks who are monolingual, may have limited english speaking abilities, what is the city attorney's ability to serve those individuals? >> all those documents are put out in -- how many? instructions for all our forms will directly interact with the public in five different languages, supervisor. supervisor chu: when people call into your office to request information, do you use a language line? >> yes, we have specified individuals in our office who can speak a variety of languages, and we refer them to those individuals. supervisor chu: quickly, i know you said there were a number of items you are in agreement with the budget analyst. can you indicate which ones those were? >> all of them except for that

their innovative approach to bringing an offline product online changed the landscape of the industry so much that it's biggest competitor is taking notice. if you're like most americans, your life has gone electronic. you shop, bank, pay your bills and send e-mails all online. and even though there are plenty of ways to send digital invitations, when it came time to send one for his 21s birthday party, james hershfield was shocked he couldn't find a classy invitation anywhere on the web. >> i was kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place because i didn't have a budget to send paper invitations, but i also found that the existing products for sending invitations online were not as customizable and not as beautiful as what i would have wanted. >> the internet was full of sites that were a little bit more junky and low end. it didn't feel high-touch and have that emotional quality. >> james, a sofhmore in college, went to the web. >> i've got 2200 hits within two hours. >> a thousand. 22,000. >> i got to harvard in 2006 and there was a really permissive air of opportunity there in t

at the presidential level and all ones who really integrate their posting tragedy with also their offline strategy. so you're seeing a lot of campaigns posting images of people volunteering and providing a link for people to go sign up and volunteer themselves. and when they're doing those events, those are much better when you're localizing them because you don't want somebody from california getting an event in wisconsin, let's say. >> host: so how would you as a consultant at facebook, is that a fair word to use? >> guest: yeah. >> host: how would you take my personal information. i've signed up, and i've liked both barack obama and mitt romney. and so i don't know what that will do to any ads or what have i get, but -- whatever i get, but how would you take my personal information, gender, age or approximate age, employment, etc. ing and use that to target an ad? >> guest: so want to make very, very clear that when you like a page, the admen of that page, they're getting no personally identifiable information about you. so they don't know -- all they know is perhaps what city you're i

several escalators were offline or under construction. we did not see any police presence. >> a metro transit officer? i have never actually seen a transit officer. we ask every day riders to put on their hat and weigh in on their good it. what's most of the time it is pretty clean. >> the timing has gotten better. >> and the bad debt. >> the delay of trains. working on the escalators. >> none of them ever have air- conditioning. >> big trouble for three employees of a local parking management company. they are accused of stealing $400,000 in visitor parking fees collected at the smithsonian in chantilly. this is all according to federal prosecutors that indicated the thefts began in 2009. that was shortly after the managing company they work for took over the parking lot. >> how this convention got its start and what makes its music unique. >> some of the sounds from the nation's oldest gospel convention with 1200 people were expected to attend this week. one of those in attendance tells us about the wide appeal. >> it is the only kind o

google taking advantage in its ole brilliance andle rolling out belued offline products, while groupons into traditional retails. i want to own google here, even up here, just a couple of points off its high. but groupon? i'm going to be a real gentleman and just tell you right here, right now. that it's still too early to buy groupon. stick with cramer. ♪ why not take a day to explore your own backyard? with two times the points on travel, you may find yourself asking why not, a lot. chase sapphire preferred. there's more to enjoy. >>> biden puts his foot in his mouth by 2e8 telling a predominantly black audience that romney's policies would put blacks back in chains. outrage. also tonight, retail sales come in higher than expected. there is no recession. it's not really all that it's cracked up to be. plus, is team obama robbing the suburbs to pay for the cities? we expose this new war on the wealthy. "the kudlow" report just moments away. >>> just want

the party too, which berger says more people seem to be opting for, even though he sees online and offlinemerging. nowadays our online identity is the same as our real-life identity. and we need bridges between those two fact that we spend so much time online. meaning as more people get more social, all that time online could potentially turn into more face time. i'm karin caifa, and you're now, clicked in. -----end-----cnn.script----- no, it's not knives... knives...the amazing this this man is using to cut these veget. their money on another special session this week.the gambling bill lawmakers will be debating and why some are folding on the whole session. session. 3 â?>arouog

campaigns we have been seeing against the presidential are to integrate the strategy was also there offline a strategy so you are seeing a lot of campaigns and people volunteering providing a link for people to sign the bill and volunteer themselves and those are much better when you are localism them because you don't want someone in california getting an event in wisconsin, but there's also the broad messaging that would go to everyone. >> how would you as a consultant take my personal information? shlaes i know and like both barack obama and mitt romney so i don't know what that will do to any ads or anything i get but how would you take my personal information, gender, age, the employment etc and use that to target the ed? >> first went you like a page the admin is getting no personally identifiable information about you. all they know is perhaps what city you're in the they don't know that it's tied to you. they don't know that they have 20,000 people from washington, d.c.. they will know that they have 25% are male between the ages of 25 to 34 so that they could get a sense of the dem

. >> perhaps you and i can have an offline conversation. >> this is not an attack, we have the killing in september 24 as of 1956 with matthew johnson by san francisco police officer and 45 years later, on the same thing. we are still looking for opportunities. it sounds good, but it is not being implemented. who is holding this panel accountable to the law? someone has told the panel accountable. if i am going down the street 65 miles an hour, i am in violation of the law. the city, county, san francisco is in violation of the law of title 6. >> thank you for all the great questions. for closing, which have our commissioner. >> i want to thank his supervisor cohen for posting this. this is actually the beginning of a dialogue between the community and the departments in your supervisors. i want to thank the panelists of the department for coming. and giving the information that they did. i would like to thank you for coming and also for welcoming us to your community. we basically -- our goal in this district is very important to us right now. all of us see the high unemployment over

i can talk to you about that offline. the situation we have today, board of supervisors, commissioners, and you from the san francisco transportation authority, is that our state is broke. three in spite of our state being broke, no money for education, no money for health, nominee for safety, some folks because they have the power and jerry brown should know better, by a very close margin, millions of dollars have been allocated for the high-speed rail. jerry brown said at one time when they decided to have the bart, the bay area rapid transit, some neighboring counties were against it. maybe they were against it and that is their concern. but we can make no comparison whatsoever in these dire economic times comparing the high-speed rail to the bart system. i just want to get that out there clear for those people who should learn to represent and be leaders. in the second issue is the moneys allocated to muni. every time we allocate moneys to muni, we have no accountability and no responsibility. if they get this grant,

you need the online organizing, but you need offline, too. encampments become difficult to maintain, but you can find ways to work together in occupying. >> do you think the technology has changed things more fundamentally? it has changed everything about the way we live. >> look at wisconsin or tahrir square. people will come to the square. instead of 5000 people, you had 50,000 people. there is a power tool i.d.. it is a good question. without the people power, technology and new media is a sterile force and not as powerful. >> you mentioned people power. covered the fall of marcos and rise of a keynote -- aquino in the philippines. you have a vicious dictator and a pious, sincere, well-meaning is the original political leader. that was not true. she did not care about poor people. she probably had never met one even though 70% of the population lived under the poverty line. he had actually done some things that were useful and helpful while he pocketed a piece of the action. then i went to a of salvador where oliver stone and others romant

we first told you baltimore's dive team was taken offline after a near fatal accident last year. so today we asked why a city with miles of waterfront doesn't have an active dive team...and if it had any impact on saturday's incident. the answer, to both questions... was no 14:41:50"when someon is found not breathing they literally have about 4 to 6 minutes before any type of recessitation efforts are implemented before they are considered clinically dead." dead."fire officials say they are currently re-training city divers, but there is no word when the unit itself will be re-activated. elkton police arrest a man for beating another man to death inside the acme grocery store in the big elk mall. mall.police say 42- year-old troy kelly approached a 55- year-old man from behind in an aisle and began beating him. once the victim was on the floor, kelly then began slamming the victims face into the ground.kelly stopped only when a bystander intervened. the victim was pronounced dead at the hospital.police have not released a motive. a bus crashes right through the front door of a ho

tom took to twitter to interact with educators to share recommendations with his no child left offline initiative. his recommendations would reverse growing trend of schools and districts banning cell phones on school guns. the school's chief says times have changed and the technology policy needs to change too. >>> samsung making major commitment to create jobs in san jose. the tech giant sign add agreement that would lead to major -- signed an agreement that would lead to a major expansion in the city. >> this is another example of california taking steps to maintain and strengthen its position as a world leader in innovation. >> the deal involves+9ceh sam sg receiving financial incentives, including tax breaks. >>> next, following breaking news in san francisco, firefighters are on the scene of a deadly house fire. amy hollyfield getting new information right now and she will be with us, live. >>> also, latest on the search for two robbers who used a stun gun to commit their crimes. >> work being done in one of yosemite's most popular campgrounds to destroy a virus that killed a bay

option to publish the list after the party, more people are opting for that, even though he sees offline line worlds merging. as more people get more social, the time on line could turn in to more face time. >>> airlines continue to look for ways to make more money and american aligns is the latest to of a new service in hopes of boosting revenue, delivering your bags to your home or hotel for an extra fee. the fee will be in addition to the money paid to check your bag and the airlines are raising fares by 10 bucks a trip. >>> it is national grab some nuts day. you head me right. we will tell you about it on abc2 news at 6:00 which starts right now. >>> do you know anything about the case? or about the identity of the person in the photos, the sketch, i would encourage you

wilson about it offline. >> i know that staff has been exploring different opportunities for renovating lincoln park golf course. what i would like to ask is what are we looking at putting that item before us in terms of changing the month-to-month lease to a more permanent lease? a more long term lease? along those lines, what are we doing in terms of addressing some of the renovations that have to occur there as regards to the irrigation of that course? i would like to know when we can expect to be dealing more addressing some of the issues related to that of course. >> we have tried to approach our golf course issues some was sequentially and we're still in the process of working through an expired lease at golden gate park. once that is resolved, in all likelihood, it would be the work plan for this coming fiscal year. i cannot tell you when we're going to move forward. i think it depends on other property management issues that we will be dealing with in the coming year, so i will keep you up-to-date. >> our projections up to this point -- >> between july -- that would be the time

as you mentioned this was supposed to be the return to flight for superman, having been allline -- offline for a full week after an incident where a dozen riders were stranded 150 feet up in the air at the ride's highest point. what should have been a triumphant return of superman turned out to be a disappointment for some customers. >> the ride is broken so we don't want to wait in line. >> i'm glad they stopped it to fix it. >> within an hour of the park opening, the superman ultimate flight coast e came to a grinding stop from an issue totally unrelated to last week's episode. >> came up here and then just stopped and broke. brakes went on and got locked down there at the base. and it couldn't get it to the home spot, so we were stuck in our seats. >> six flags personnel described the ride as cutting edge and the computer systems that run it extremely sophisticated, but clearly they continue to have issues after a dozen people got stranded for more than an hour and a half last sunday at the highest point on the ride. >> a combination of the launch speed at the time and the weight, and t

i would hit the " make available offline " selection. google maps will be down load that on the to your phone it takes a couple of minutes depending on the size of the map. to simulate how would have zero cellphone service i will put my telephone into airplane mode. now i will launch a google maps and find my maps and my places. in google maps. i would load it exactly how i would load it with a it data connection record to zoom in and completely with a connection, and three-dimensional street scenes. >> this is even great for camping, of lake tahoe, yosemite. anywhere where there is difficulty with a cellphone signal. this is free. for now it is only with android but it is expected to get to the iphone, the ipad, leader. >>pam: a new way >>vicki: kron4.com still has the best information for news, weather, traffice but now it is 24/7 on comcast digital 193. a great way to check it out. www.kron4.com the new home page for constant weather, and our news crawl at the bottom of the screen is constantly being updated with breaking news from th

instead, google has come up with a new strategy, buying offline companies and making them into online up the zagots, couldn't do that well. $150 million for google. now with the $23 million purchase of froemmer's, google has added a respected and authoritative creator of travel content to the mix. put them together and voila, google has the makings of a travel site that can give yelp a real run for the money. amazingly, google once tried to buy yelp for a reasonable price. $500 million. as yelp is currently worth $1.4 billion. i think the combination of froemmer's and social media reviews to go with the powerhouses has the potential to give yelp -- well, it could outvote yelp, and i like yelp. meanwhile, there's the other voice of the web. there's groupon. [ buzzer ] >> the house of pain. it's shown deceleration in its core business. the irritating e-mail coupons you get for nail salons and places you can't get to during the day to brazilian waxes that you have no desire to get at all. after some initial excitement that drove customers to stores via good copyrighting, i think the thri

looking at approximately 465,000 to 474,000 barrels a day cut back by 30%. 150,000 barrels a day offline. keep in mind, most of the biggest refineries in the united states are just north of new orleans between new orleans and baton rouge. >>> meantime, hurricane warnings for the northern gulf coast, including new orleans, biloxi and gulf shoerl shores and whe find scott cohn. scott? >> reporter: thanks, mandy. you talked about the reduced refineries outside of new orleans. add that 170,000 or so barrels a day to 1.4 million barrels already announced where they're just shutting down altogether. todd santos was talking about the winds and the potential power outages and that's where you start to get in to the risk as the storm comes on shore of potentially taking the refineriless offline. more about that in a moment. this storm and n a lot of ways confounded the forecasters. and particularly, on that landfall. there's been a disparity of anywhere from a couple hundred to 500 miles in the different models of where the storm could hit. now seeming to be baring down on the new orleans or on l

erick aybar, throw offline. scores another run. a's up 6-0. bottom sixth.ek norris flushes one to left. a two-run shot. a's would hit four homers in the game. up 8-0. 10-1. now, trout, bomb to center. youngest player in baseball history to have 20 homers and 30 steals. but oakland spoils trout's 21st birthday. >>> that's your espn news update. i'm doug kazirian. >>> it was one of the most impressive plays in baseball this week. and it did not come from a player. the fan nabs a foul ball with baby in hand. >> the superdad caught the ball with ease, never loosening his grip on his child. and even mom didn't seem to mind. >> multitasking. i like it. well done. >>> coming up next this morning, "the pulse," and a break-in at a chocolate shop by a four-legged thief. >>> and hillary clinton hits the dance floor. we'll show you all her best moves. >> go ahead. i've been fo to win on golf's biggest stages. but when joint pain and stiffness from psoriatic arthritis hit, even the smallest things became difficult. i finally understood what serious joint pain is like. i

it is called google offline and now it is ready for smart phones and tablets.ntil now, it must be connected to a cellphone a service or what fight. this however allows you to download to your phone. and you are able to access this with out a signal, later. if you are going to a city, state, urban area? you can pre- downloand this which is very handy for international travel. if you are going to go to paris france? and if i find paris come off i will make the selection of " make available ". and this will download this map to your phone. it will take a couple of minutes depending on the size and your data connection. let us pretend i am in paris. i will put my phone and air plane load. now, i find my places in the bill google maps. loading it up it is exactly as if by was interacting with a regular data connection. i can go right exactly where i need to go. streets, buildings, intersections, all of the details. this can also come into travel outside. lake tahoe, yosemite where ever there is not a strong signal. this feature is free. just like the google maps. ri

. >>> some experts say the damaged crew unit may be offline for as long as six months. >>> bp's california refinery is going through a change in ownership. san antonio based announced plans to buy the carson facility along with 800 gas stations across the southwest for 1.8 billion dollars. will pay an additional 1.3 billion dollars for crude and other inventories. experts say puts at nearly a quarter of our state's refinery capacity. >>> getting new funding but it geesing to cost some homeowners the new fee that's spark ago big debate. >>> and remembering a woman many consider a pioneer in gender equality with the law firm of a magazine that turned heads and changed minds. >>> bay area cool down is slowly taking shape. i'll have what you can expect in your area for tomorrow coming up . >>> we have an update now on those wild fires burning in lake county we told you about. this is a live picture from our news chopper 2. just minutes ago cal fire updated its numbers. firefighters say the two sfriers now burned about 6 thousand acres and they're still 25 percent contained. we're also told eva

we actually share 10% of our offline revenue and 30% of our online revenue back with the community. we share that royalty not just with the inventor but with the community people that helped that inventor. our average product is actually owned, created, influenced by over 1,000 people. >> i'm jenny and i'm a two-time quirky inventor from atlanta, kw. my latest invention is right here and here. there is an organizational system made out of milk crates that can handle all the needs of college and high school students. i think this is a completely unique opportunity and it's not something i would have experienced in any other realm. i honestly believe that. >> is there an average length of time from idea that you've decided has passed through the community, has passed through your own evaluation process, from that point to an actual product, what's the average time? >> averages are around sort of 120 days. but the beautiful thing is our record is 39 days. we've taken an idea from a sketch to every store at bed bath & beyond in the country in under 39 days. no other company in the world

absolutely anything you might buy on e bay, craigs list or offline in the real world, we know what it's worth. >> in addition to know whag to sell, you want to consider when to sell. >> if you sell your product before the new version is announced, you can get considerably more money for it. >> web sites stay on top of the new release and can help you decide whether to sell or to hold. >> change at a very fast rate. we see on a given day 20 per september of products received a price change. >> if the spries too low, consume consider donating instead of selling. >> oftentimes you get a tax deduction. get that out of your house and someone else will start enjoying it. >> he was surprised today find out his old gadgets could earn him over 700 bucks in kags. abc 2 news. >> all right. coming up it takes a real balancing act to balance a checkbook these days. >> guess what, you think your checking account is getting more expensive to maintain, wait until we tell you what your bank is thinking about now. >> change in 24 hours around here. radar is clear at the moment a warm night but an approac

alexis christoforous shows us how some retailers are luring frugal customers offline and into the stores. >> reporter: maria is looking to cut what she usually spends on back to school shopping. her first stop? the salon at jcpenney. >> you can't go wrong. it's a free haircut. the week before school. and they needed one anyway. >> reporter: jcpenney has given away over one million free haircuts this month. >> while they're getting their haircut the moms are asking about the backpacks and the denim and the shoes. >> reporter: maybe even something not on the school list. >> i finally picked up anything that catches my eye. >> reporter: the retailer is vying for a chunk of the nearly $84 billion the national retail federation expects parents will shell out for their students. that's a 14% increase compared to last year. the fastest increase since 2003. the reason? parents like maria had their kids make do last year because of the economy. this year, they're stocking up. 40% of parents, the highest percentage ever, are buying for school on the internet. but retailers like teen clothing store

supervisor kim: we can talk about this offline. it is what i have under your line-item of professional services, which a allocated for fiscal year 2012-2013 and 2013- 2014. i think it is a mixture of funds. 2012-2013, you have allocated $2.7 million, and it declines the next year to $1.3 million. >> yes, that is the one-time investment from our restricted fund that we're finding ourselves. the e-recording and the upgrade of the recorded division that was mentioned. supervisor kim: thank you. >> ok. supervisor chu: thank you. colleagues, we will go back to the general order of departments. the next department is the treasure island development authority. we have mary ann from treasure island. >> good afternoon. i am the director of island operations. before we reviewed the numbers, i would like to take a minute and highlight some of these from the past year. we were designated as a state redevelopment agency in february. we were not exercising redevelopment powers at the time of that de-designation. so we continue as a nonprofit reu

gather some attention than thinking about bahrain and we've been airing this video today we got it offline a video a league allegedly shows government most real driving cars the demonstrators missing in on a screen where is the red line that if this is not it to make the international community take a stand on bahrain at least. well it's very hard to say when the international community can react the international community had the chance to react when the formula one grand prix was organized in bahrain and the protesters and many civil rights activists around the world called for his cancellation but nothing happened and fortunately money and all and interests go all first before human rights i think what might trigger something in as you said is probably when things get start or probably arms be in used and then the conflicts get worse maybe in that case it's actually community will be force even if it's not willing to look towards bahrain and saudi arabia so for now the majority of the international community is silent i want to can individuals make a difference i'm thinking about for i

one line which of course affects us offline and of course my own personal experience with previously issues let me to look further into previously rights on my brielle scarce an update on this you mention your privacy issues of course it's talking about your twitter account the direct messages have been subpoenaed and what is the status of that case right now and get people to give a little bit of history of that about a year and a have i got an e-mail from twitter the six day that the u.s. authorities wanted to get them to my back and the information meaning. my private message is where i can on my bank account their information and of course the only reason i managed to get this information was because twitter to. you know the department of justice to court and managed to secret document document that insisted there were ordered twitter to hand over this information without my knowledge within three days. that i took this to court with the help of the yes the addict money went to your foundation and the a.c.l.u. well unfortunately we lost on every account we took in through our thr

and we already are starting to prepare to take tunnel 1 offline. narrator: the construction of tunnel 3 is vital for maintaining the sustainability of new york's drinking water infrastructure. but the pipeline is useless if there's not a reliable supply of clean water within it. hurwitz: the city bought up land around the reservoirs to prevent it from development. it provides assistance to local residents to see that there's no pollution of the reservoirs. it's much more cost effective to prevent pollution and to protect a source of water than to remove it at the drinking water treatment plant. lloyd: what epa said to us was, "you can have an exemption from filtration "if you keep this undeveloped, "and if you can manage the wastewater so that it does not pollute your water supply." and we feel that we've reached the point where we can really keep it clean enough to drink unfiltered for the indefinite future. and new york city is in a small club of cities that actually have that filtration avoidance waiver. narrator: while municipalities are respon