and so that was with megan and elaine and brad and jonathan, as or who was with the orton project. and brad was able to get a project through with the hoe down yard that we have worked with for some time and i want to take a moment to thank the staff because you don't always see the important steps so i want to thank all of you for making those happens, and so thank you. >> i think that is it for me. >> item under on the consent calendar, item a. >> okay, public comment. >> seeing none. >> next item. >> okay. >> item 7 arequest authorization to award construction contract no. 2765, pier 35 building & roof repair project, to roebuck construction, inc. in the amount of $2,041,010, and authorization for a contract contingency fund of 10% of the contract amount (or $204,101) for unanticipated contingencies, for a total authorization not to exceed $2,245,111. (resolution no. 14-48) >> and item 7 b,request authorization to advertise for competitive bids for construction contract no. 2769, port security fences project, phase iv. (resolution no. 14-49). and item 7 c,request authorization t

nice day for the mountain view orton wine festival all weekend which would include tomorrow. 76 degrees in mountain view. here's what we're expecting mostly clear skies off the shoreline now. low pressure will keep temperatures mild for sunday. but then from the west, high pressure begins to build in and that will warm things up to near mid-90s by the end of the upcoming week. sky conditions overnight low clouds return to the shoreline. and give us an overcast start along the shoreline. for sunday morning, rest of the day it will clear up. to some it up, "stratus quo" tomorrow. warm inland cool coast and things warm up by the latter half of next week. heading out of the bay area, we'll look at 93 in sacramento, 101 fresno, south bay 80 for san jose tomorrow. 67 in the city. 72 at oakland. and up in the north bay, 75 for santa rosa. 79 at san rafael. out at napa 81 degrees. extended forecast will warm up and reach temperatures near 90 inland by wednesday. and then begin to level out by next weekend. but a little bit of a warming trend there. >> thank you. >>> all right, vern is here with

money has already been spent and how in the key six or seven senate races, how little has moved in ortonong -- arkansas, those bases have been static and they are all within the margin of error. or has not been enough disparity of money and there is not enough one issue where suddenly you see anything appreciable moving in these hotly contested seats. >> in this sixth year of obama's term, anti-obama is not a decisive factor that somehow that game has been played out? >> to win the majority of the senate -- and that is what we're talking about here -- they have to beat some number of democratic incumbents. hard to beat incumbents who are not scandal-ridden and are focused. there are focused on keeping their jobs. yes, a lot of republicans will turn out but to be a well-known, in most cases pretty well-liked incumbent, well-funded democratic senator you need a strong challenger. republicans have all the challenges they can hope to get. none have really present themselves -- proven themselves as incumbent giant beaters. if the democrats can change the electorate in they can convince voters

we already have them orton powers to block the return, stopping them returning on the basis of the threat they pose, along -- allowing stronger powers to strip citizenship or naturalized britons. these powers do not apply to those who are solely british nationals. some have said that we should deal with this gap i criminalizing travel to certain countries or fundamentally changing our burden of proof. it would be wrong to deal with this cap by fundamentally changing the core principles of our criminal system. it is abhorrent the people that declare allegiance elsewhere are able to return to the united kingdom and pose a threat to our national security. we are clear that what we need is a targeted discretionary power that allowed exclusion -- that allows exclusion in line with international obligations with details on a cross party basis. mr. speaker, we are putting long-standing arrangements on on a statutoryty footing. airlines will have to comply with no-fly list, u.s. information on passengers, and comply with security training -- screening. second, we need stronger powers provided bye

i wrote about harold orton has one night i was sitting at home and i read a flyer from the library ofongress and they said that his papers were just been opened at the library of congress. and i had written black resistance, which is about president and what they do and i had written about congress and what he do tonight that i need to write something about the supreme court. why not look into his papers and see if they're interesting. so i took itself to the library of congress and started reading his papers. i got very interested because he hadn't been written about and that dangerous. because most people who read about supreme court justices read about the same people over and over again. frankfurter, douglas, this one, not one. people have never heard of. all i knew about him was when i was in moscow in labor law, we read his opinion and we like them because he always told you what the holding in the case was in the first line you didn't have to read all the way through the opinion to find out what he was doing. so i started reading and he seemed fascinating. he had taken note on