. >>> cal osha has now joined the investigation into what went wrong. ktvu's rob roth continues our live team coverage. >> reporter: julie, the area here on berkeleyway is still sealed off. investigators have been coming and going pretty much all day long as they look to answer the many questions as to what happened here yesterday. among those investigating is cal osha. >> we want to make sure they have their proper pte, personal protective equipment and that they have it properly worn. whether it was protective or not and whether or not they followed procedure. >> reporter: firefighters say they have long been concerned about homes constructed similar to the one that burned yesterday. >> a lot of the houses are built upside down. you will have the front door at the top of the house and the dwelling below the street level. as a firefighter, that's the most dangerous kind of way to enter into a building because you're coming in on top of the fire. >> reporter: tom o'conner says firefighters are well aware of what happened in the area back in 1995 the las

if cal-osha cannot stop him and dbi cannot stop him, why do we even need permits? i think it is easier to require him to get one than to figure out a way to make the city safe if no one has to get one. can we spend a little time so we do not have to come back in a month and tell the same story? i have been working with nancy for more than one year. i've never seen such a bad set of plans as what was submitted in 2010 by this building owner/ contractor. the drawings were inconsistent from sheet to sheet. they were signed by an engineer who may or may not have ever seen the plans. some of the plans were photocopied from an earlier set. there's a problem at 23rd ave. the deeper you dig -- he digs -- the more we might find out. it's too late for a slap on the wrist. this has been going on for nine years. the property was bought in 2002 and he immediately began structural work in the house. they did kitchen work without permits. there have been new gas lines without permits. i'm sorry, but the director in this room stood on the deck, -- of the one permit that was comple

as you heard pam mention cal osha is one of the agencies that will be out here. police and fire investigating as well. they are trying to figure out out what lead up to the flash over. we will try to get closer for you coming up on mornings on 2. reporting live in san francisco kraig debro county sha -- ktvu channel 2 news. now let's go to claudine wong. >> reporter: firefighters and police officers have been coming here to san francisco general this morning for the ongoing vigil for firefighter anthony valerio. when they are here they are met with the critical response team. the team that mobilized right after this tragedy. i talked to one member of that team. he talked about the bonds. >> the bonds are incredibly tight. the fire department has a very strong brotherhood and sister hood. i don't think there is a stronger bond than cops and firemen. something like this brings us closer to together. there is a lot of you know words that don't need to be said but you know just a glance, a look into another firefighters eyes and that says a lot. >> reporter: they dro

and what sort of agency in our society engages in it but take, for example, osha, occupational safety health. well, before osha everybody is dying on the job 'cause people are standing there on the assembly line and it's so unsafe that they're falling into the grinder and we're eating hot dogs made out of a guy's leg. we got that constantly. we got that in the upton sinclair book, okay? but first of all, 60% of the of the injuries on the john are nothing that an employer can do anything about. 20% of them are like violent -- like people beating each other up. once that happens, you know, it's already going on. there's not much you can do about it. another 40% -- and so adding up to the 60% is traffic fatalities, during like you're on the highway or something. these are not the classic things that we've been led to think of when we think about workplace fatalities but we don't notice -- people say hey, look we got osha and then look what happens. workplace fatalities declined and injuries and so on. but the point is they were already declining at an even faster rate before we got that.

is no air quality control and the city and county have basically enforce -- that basically enforce osha codes. they don't comply with dakota. -- the code. coming back to part of this plan, it is not some much -- so much leaving the title alone, put some grass, and that is in a. -- in it. as of right now, i don't see anything in the 45 or 50 points in your agenda today that describes anything related to what i have spoken about right here. i don't think you need a plan of this nature. [chime] president chiu: next speaker. >> i have lived in north beach for 50 years. i want to point out that the eir is defective because it treats the current parking lot of the triangle as if it is a permanent land use. the eir and staff contend that this is the only way. more open space will be provided than the proposed project without losing the historic resources. this is not necessary to build in a triangle in under to provide additional public space. the triangle purchased to provide an open space part of the park counts as designated open space. this is a huge effect in the eir because all of the pr

is no air quality control and the city and county have basically enforce -- that basically enforce osha codes. they don't comply with dakota. -- the code. coming back to part of this plan, it is not some much -- so much leaving the title alone, put some grass, and that is in a. -- in it. as of right now, i don't see anything in the 45 or 50 points in your agenda today that describes anything related to what i have spoken about right here. i don't think you need a plan of this nature. [chime] president chiu: next speaker. >> i have lived

. >>> new at 7:00, cal osha today released three citations against a psychiatric hospital and the hospital was fined $17,000. george anderson was assaulted by a patient that he was walking with. anderson suffered skull fractures and is unable to work. >>> investigators hope data from michelle le's cell phone provider will give them new information. >> reporter: missing posters still blanket the streets. the 26-year-old nursing student was last seen friday night in hayward. mobile phones regularly emit signals to nearby towers whenever they're powered on. today hayward police received a pattern that le's phone followed until midday saturday. >> it has taken a while for us to get that information from the providers could we are garnering the information now and trying to put it together to get us a location. >> reporter: they say they have also processed le's suv. >> we hope to have information back on that evidence within a two-week period. >> reporter: investigators have questioned le's family and friends including interrogating a woman with which le had a falling out. >> we ended up havin

cal osha is investigating. >>> san jose's police chief announced this morning his department is getting help from the federal department of homeland security. two agents from the immigrations and customs agency will join the gang task force. it's part of a six-year-old campaign called operation community shield. >> these direct -- detectives have experience in street gangs like ms13. >> san jose police said plot agents frr immigration and cuss -- from immigration and customs, they will not participate in deportations. >>> a zombie march, then pan overnight camp out at city hall. kraig debro explains. >> reporter: they wanted to emulate worker hops wanted to keep bargaining rights. >> a lot of people slept over. we want to stand in solidarity. >> reporter: later today the san jose city council hold as special agenda meeting. according to the website, the mayor will declare a fiscal and pub lick safety meeting. >> we are in a crisis that we need to drails. >> reporter: council members will begin discussing changes that would allow san jose to reduce its contribution. some union members ar

cal-osha is investigating an accident that injured two caltrans workers in antioch. the men were putting up a retaining wall along westbound highway 4 near summersville road. authorities aren't sure yet, but they suspect the wall may have fallen on top of the workers. the men suffered minor injuries and were taken to john muir medical center. >>> in a couple of hours, city leaders will hold a meeting so controversial people stayed there overnight in protest. they will talk about what to do about san jose budget crisis and how much public employee unions will be affected. john alston is live with more. >> the city council special meeting will start at 1:30. but before that, in an hour, there will be a special blessing service outside city hall in support of collective bargaining. now, overnight, a number of people camped out on the steps of city hall. to make that very point about collective bargaining. the group of labor activists want to avoid declaring a fiscal emergency, which mayor chuck reed already suggested as a way to deal with the rising pension costs and to

the difficulty firefighters ran into fighting this diamond heights fire and the latest into the cal-osha investigation. >> late word on a contract deal that could save the jobs of more than 100 local police officers. details at noon. >> complete bay area news coverage starts right now. this is ktvu channel 2 news at noon. >> good afternoon, topping our news the city of san francisco is officially in mourning today after the death of a firefighter. a second firefighter remains in the hospital critically injured. flags are flying at half staff at san francisco city hall. a ktvu photographer took this video this morning. mayor ed lee ordered city flags to be lowered in memory of 48- year-old vincent perez, a 20 year veteran of the fire department. the first san francisco firefighter to die in the line of duty in eight years. we have continuing coverage on this house fire, which we first brought to you yesterday at noon with two reports. jade hernandez is at the scene of the fire where investigators arrive this morning but we begin with david stevenson at san francisco general for the latest

cal-osha is investigating an accident that injured two caltrans workers in antioch. the men were putting up a retaining wall along westbound highway 4 near summersville road. authorities aren't sure yet, but they suspect the wall may have fallen on top of the workers. the men suffered minor injuries and were taken to john muir medical center. >>> in a couple of hours, city leaders will hold a meeting so controversial people stayed there overnight in protest. they will talk about what to do about san jose budget crisis and how much public employee unions will be affected. john alston is live with more. >> the city council special meeting will start at 1:30. but before that, in an hour, there will be a special blessing service outside city hall in support of collective bargaining. now, overnight, a number of people camped out on the steps of city hall. to make that very point about collective bargaining. the group of labor activists want to avoid declaring a fiscal emergency, which mayor chuck reed already suggested as a way to deal with the rising pension costs and to

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the national institute of occupational safety and health and the federal osha both recognize violence in the workplace as being about those health and safety. workplace violence is the second leading cause of occupational death in this country. each week an average of 20 workers are murdered and 18,000 are assaulted at their place of work. workplace violence is clustered in certain occupational categories, an estimated one million workers resulted each year at work, the majorities occur in settings such as hospitals, nursing homes and health clinics, the risk increases in an acute care setting and increases with the setting of an emergency room but the psychiatric facility and trauma center, all of which san francisco general has. we're not here today to ask you to reject the cost savings. we're here to ask you to reject d.p.h.'s prop j, send them back to the bargaining table to have a serious conversation with the union about the right level of security and a way to save money. the union proposal on the table saves $3 million to $4 million back in the general fund which will give you

osha proposed and now announced it will finalize a $500 million burden reduction initiative, and we have a number of initiatives that actually were announced long before the president's executive order that promised over 60 million in hours in annual burden reduction, and i don't know how much an hour is worth, but if it's worth lill, which i don't believe, that 60 million hours turns into a lot of money. >> so as you described in your testimony now that you've had this, this comment period and the public process, i think you said now through august, the agencies are actually going to be looking at a more exact way that they can cut regulatory burdens and start implementing the plans i would assume, august-september; is that correct? >> absolutely. >> i hate to do this, but i suggested to chairman stearns we have you come back in the fall after labor day and talk to us about what process is made over the summer because like you, we are very committed to common sense regulatory reform, and like i said to you before, at least my view, i've always been a proponent of regulatory reform, but

the entire budget of osha-- supposed to deal with tens of thousands of american workers who lose their lives-- is $520 million. >> hinojosa: how many times have you seen that number printed in a major newspaper of record? >> almost never, but you see, the pentagon budget, which is half of the federal government's operating expenditures, isn't auditable. the government accounting office of congress every year says the pentagon budget is not auditable. you know what that means? that means they don't know where their inventory often is, they don't know where the money's being spent, they can be stolen from and there's no accountability because there's no auditing system in place. and that's why blackwater and halliburton and all these people are ripping the taxpayer off like crazy. >> hinojosa: so a lot of people probably, you know, if they go back and they look at what it was like for you-- yes, you were leading a team of people, but you... you basically were at the head of this movement... >> mm-hmm. >> hinojosa: ...and you were confronting major corporations and the government, and you

the one we saw with osha. to try and get through the redundancy and overlap. there is an enormous number of rules and regulations in the pipeline that come out. we're trying to bring rationality to them, especially at a time of crisis and the impact they could have on this. we have been very strong. the group reviews all of these, we looked at the cost benefit of them. we analyzed that heavily. we put a great priority on that. there are some rosa cannot be looked at by legislation but as far as our attempt to get control of this, try to make sure that each of these rules, there is a cost-benefit analysis that is real and rigorous. we are doing that. i appreciate your comment. >> i'm from wisconsin. we were producing naval ships and crane lifting. now we do construction all around the world. one of the issues we're having, the president said many months ago that he wants to see and to double exports in the next few years. the with all these barriers, we cannot do that. there's a lot of finger- pointing as a businessman, many somebody who is going to get the job

the on demand affecting facility that was in full compliance with osha, then mosha appeared to be it was in a state that starts with them. mosha's regulations were different than osha regulations, so we didn't know which set of regulations in the factory we were supposed, because if we followed mosha would be in compliance with osha and vice versa it was complexing. this wasn't good for manufacturing in america. now i am in favor of anybody of a safe workplace. we have to apply a level of cost-benefit the interrelationship to the government manufacturers. like many here i watched occasionally show on tv there is 1i recalled how it's made and to get by the op noxious music it's quite extraordinary the sophistication we have a manufacturing and every one of those little shows is about american manufacturing and how diverse we can be difficult to to keep tax rates competitive globally and african balance regulations so that the consumers and public and working americans are safe yet we can compete with other manufacturers around the world we will stay ahead of china. we are well-educate

the fire department, the national institute of occupational safety and health and cal o osha are all investigating. >> as the investigation progresses stay with ktvu for continuing coverage on air and at ktvu.com we'll bring you the latest information as we get it. >>> they announced today it has cleared sheriff's deputy in the fatal shooting of a man last year saying it was justified. the deputies were investigating a large scale marijuana operation in a rural part of the county last july. they said they opened fire on jose soto and he came at them with what looked like a real gun. it turned out to be a pellet gun. the da say the deputies acted in self defense. the district attorney also cleared three police officers of any wrongdoing in another fatal shooting last august. 42-year-old brian casey was shot and killed in his apartment. the officers use of force was justified because casey threatened them with a knife and said he wanted the officers to kill him and casey had already shot himself. >>> police officers are set to start voting on a tentative deal next monday that could sav

cal osha tonight is investigating the incident. >>> actor peter falk has died. falk is better known for his role in colombo. a family spokesman said falk had been suffering from dementia since 2008. >>> a large colorful crowd in san francisco can mean many things. this time it's about gay rights here on a big weekend. >>> and it is a big weekend around here and the temperatures they're going to cooperate. we'll have the forecast for both saturday and sunday. i'll show you where that fog will be for the morning hours. or we could get no sofa. negotiating, eh? you got it! >> san francisco assemblywoman fiona mom is calling for a investigation. it is a story we first told you about wednesday right here on ktvu challenge two news at 5:00. in march, the pilot's cockpit microphone got stuck open and his comments went off on an faa channel. he had to under go diversity training before going back to work. the congresswoman said she has chosen a different airline to fly and is urging others to do the same. >>> both sides of the gay marriage issues crowded the halls of th

the fire department, the national institute of occupational safety and health and cal o osha are all investigating. >> as the investigation progresses stay with ktvu for continuing coverage on air and at ktvu.com we'll bring you the latest information as we get it. >>> they announced today it has cleared sheriff's deputy in the fatal shooting of a man last year saying it was justified. the deputies were investigating a large scale marijuana operation in a rural part of the county last july. they said they opened fire on jose soto and he came at them with what looked like a real gun. it turned out to be a pellet gun. the da say the deputies acted in self defense. the district attorney also cleared three police officers of any wrongdoing in another fatal shooting last august. 42-year-old brian casey was shot and killed in his apartment. the officers use of force was justified because casey threatened them with a knife and said he wanted the officers to kill him and casey had already shot himself. >>> police officers are set to start voting on a tentative deal next monday that could sav

can to recertify instructors and train new swimmers, however until the training is completed, per oshaments no members may be used as rescue swimmers. now our media partner contra costa times not only was that true in 2009 but right now, $20,000 is being spent to recertify firefighters to attempt water just. firefighters are now shifting their story a little bit saying the suicidal man was 6'3", weighing 300 pounds and possibly armed and dangerous. there is new policy in alameda, senior firefighter on the scene of a water rescue will make the decision as to who goes in if anyone. >> eric: this morning, a coalition of community groups in oakland is planning to outline how they will respond when former bart police officer johannes mehserle is released. he will be free men less than a year after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of unarmed bart passenger oscar grant. it happened back in 2009 on the platform at fruitvale bart. grant's family and many in the community wanted to see mehserle convicted of murder and spend more time in custody. last year some of

. >>> cal/osha is fining napa state hospital more than $16,000 related to the december attack of a therapist there. the agency faults the hospital for not having an adequate alarm system or escort procedures. the hospital has already been fined $100,000 for safety violations related to the killing of a nurse allegedly by a patient. >>> on the economy watch tonight california's unemployment rate is down for the fifth month in a row. the state labor department report released today puts may's unemployment at 11.7%, but it's not all good news. a federal survey shows 2.1 million californians remain out of work. in the bay area unemployment fell in all nine counties except san mateo which had no change from april. solano county had the highest rate in the bay area at 11.3%. marin county has the lowest rate in the state at 7.4. >>> jobs are certainly indicators of a healthy economy, but in the bay area this are other markers and very few are encouraging. ktvu's robert handa shows us the trouble signs. >> reporter: desperate home ors crowded into save the dream at -- owners crowded into the save th

. >>> cal/osha is fining napa state hospital more than $16,000 related to the december attack of a therapist there. the agency faults the hospital for not having an adequate alarm system or escort procedures. the hospital has already been fined $100,000 for safety violations related to the killing of a nurse allegedly by a patient. >>> on the economy watch tonight california's unemployment rate is down for the fifth month in a row. the state labor department report released today puts may's unemployment at 11.7%, but it's not all good news. a federal survey shows 2.1 million californians remain out of work. in the bay area unemployment fell in all nine counties except san mateo which had no change from april. solano county had the highest rate in the bay area at 11.3%. marin county has the lowest rate in the state at 7.4. >>> jobs are certainly indicators of a healthy economy, but in the bay area this are other markers and very few are encouraging. ktvu's robert handa shows us the trouble signs. >> reporter: desperate home ors crowded into save the dream at -- owners crowded into the save th

yesterday the psychiatric hospital received a nearly $17,000 fine from cal osha that included three citations for failing to correct unsafe work practices. the fine is linked to the december assaults on a therapist named george anderson. he was attacked by a patient, suffered skull fractures and is now unable to work. >>> cal train investigating an accident that left one man dead. it happened yesterday about 7:00 p.m. southbound lane train hit a man on the tracks south of the san antonio station in mountain view. now cal train is trying to figure out why the man would you describe was on the tracks. this is the seventh death on a cal train track. of the others three ruled suicide and three others still under investigation. >>> 5:07. if you're getting ready to head out the door, sal is keeping an eye on things for you. >> good morning. traffic is doing well around the bay area as we look at the east shore freeway and traffic coming out on 80 westbound. it's at the speed limit. it's getting more crowded as you head to the toll plaza but not too bad. as a matter of fact it's going to be light th

yesterday the psychiatric hospital received a nearly $17,000 fine from cal osha. that included three citations for failing to correct unsafe work practices. that fine is linked to the december assault on 79-year-old therapist george anderson. he was attacked by a patient, suffered skull fractures and is now unable to work. >>> one man is dead after being hit by a cal train. yesterday around 7:00 p.m. a southbound train hit the man on the tracks south of the san antonio station in mountain view. now cal train is trying to determine why that man was standing on the tracks. this is the seventh fatality on the cal train tracks. other others three ruled suicides and three others still being investigated. >>> your time is 6:07. sal's watching the roads. you're everyone watching the incline. why? >> that's right. because there was a stalled bus up there on the bridge and cal trans crews are up there with their trucks now. this is not having a major effect on the toll plaza because cal trans was out there rather quickly to get it out of the way. traffic still a little slo

think really the question is should either of those groups be the mechanism for social policy deliver osha there will be nothing more than mortgage market structure, financial market in the years. and the likelihood is that fannie and freddie at this point are going to come out the other side it seems, not with the same names, not with the same structure, but i think that some of the franchise i would be retained. it's still unclear as to what manner. >> thank you. >> thank you very much, gretchen and josh. [applause] >> is there a nonfiction author or book you would like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> talk about the experience of two americans in china during the mid-20th century. lynn jorde is the author of "honorable survivor: mao's china, mccarthy's america and the persecution of john s. service," and lawrence kaplan is the author of "homer lea: american soldier of fortune." >> we are in for a rare treat. doctor lawrence kaplan's book, american soldier of fortune, tells the story of homer lea, a strong-willed pers

there are such panels to osha and e.p.a., and i offered it to the financial regulatory reform bill, to the consumer protection financial bureau, and it's part of that mechanism now, so there was a model that we adopted from osha and e.p.a. from 1996 where we had a democratic administration that's worked exceptionally well. so i thought well, why not apply it to every agency? well, absolutely not. so i said okay, what can we do to work it out? so i talked to them on the other side of the aisle, we changed it. we said for the three years that this bill will be authorized, we'll do it, you know, for nine agencies, three a year, to see how it works. the nine biggest agencies that had the most effect on small businesses. so i did that. i might that change because i thought, you know, we'll try it out, okay? to address the concerns that were expressed on the other side of the aisle. and so then we said we should start requiring the agency to do what they are supposed to do by law, so you think it's a little redundant to ask them to do what they are required to do already, which is to review

for 15 years the farm work advocates had told cal osha to help those working in the heat but they were always ignored. so i carried a bill in the california legislature that required that farm workers and all outdoor workers had basic protections from the heat, water, shade and rest periods. it was the first law of its kind in the nation. a decade after that law i am in congress, and while some farms obey the heat protections, others are flagrantly violating it. the power act will stop these violations. it would have let someone go to the authorities without fear of retaliation. it would have let him continue to work while he cooperative with cal osha to take them to court and would make sure that they treated all workers fairly from then on. and i hope that because of the power act a son will never have to watch a father die in this way again. the power act will bring abused workers out of the shadows. it will give employees the courage to stand up to the world's biggest and strongest companies. the power act will fundamentally change the very structure of workers' rights in this coun

i understand that cal osha is on their way here. there may be another agency out here as well.n you take a look at the first two and the three stories, you can see the windows have been barbed barb -- bashed out. on the bottom doesn't look like windows. this is cement siding. that's one of the things investigators will be looking into. reporting from san francisco, kraig debro, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> injured firefighter anthony valerio is receiving a large show of support this morning from both his relatives and his firefighter family. ktvu's claudine wong continues our live team coverage. claudine, you've been seeing family and friends coming and going. >> reporter: he hasn't gotten an update on the condition of anthony valerio but he wanted to thank the community for all the spomplet he said they've will someone here all night. as far as he is concerned they have a man down and he will never be alone. we talked to valerio's brother. they've gotten a lot of support from everyone overnight. the last of the siblings arrived. so today he will have his entire family at his bedsi

osha has announced it will finalize a $500 million burden reduction initiative and we have a number of initiatives that were announced long before the executive order promised sixty million hours in byrd reduction but even if it is worth relatively little i don't believe it is a lot of money. >> now that you have that comment period, through august agencies are going to be looking at more exact ways that they can cut regulatory burdens and start implementing the plan by would assume in august or september. >> exactly. >> i hate to do this to you but i suggest to chairman stearns we had to cut back after labor day and talk about what progress has been made over the summer because we are very committed to comments as regulatory reform and as i said to you before at least my view, on all always been a proponent of regulatory reform but i don't think regulations paris they have a value attached to them. i don't think they are inherently good or bad. some regulations are helpful. if you let us know what progress you have made that would be helpful. >> i would be delighted. >> one of the pri

cal/osha has to conduct their information.e. >> are your chp officers on the scene there investigating right now. >> we do have officers at the -- out there at the scene, just to ensure that it won't interfere with the flow of traffic. other than that, we're just there for traffic control. >> all right. that's sergeant trent cross from the california highway patrol. ktvu's news chomer 2 is osen -- is also on the way. >>> in other news, right now, this morning, young people are waking up on the steps of san jose city hall after staging a very unusual march. kraig debro is joining us live. he's out there right now with the message from this group for city officials. >> reporter: dave, waking um and wiping the sleep out of their eyes, behind me, they actually moved. now they've gone out -- the glass-enclosed rotunda. the group of young people say they are part of next- generation bay area, a group that works for social and worker justice. they say they spent the night here as they show a solidarity with the young people who prote

mosha's regulations were different than osha's regulations. we didn't know what we were supposed to follow. it was very perplexing. this is not good for manufacturing in america. now, i'm in as favor as anybody of a safe workplace but we have to apply a level of cost benefit to all of the inner relationship between government and manufacturers. like many of us here, i watch occasionally shows on tv. there is one that i recall that is called "how it's made." it's really quite extraordinary, the level of sophistication that we have in manufacturing and every one of those little shows is about american manufacturing and how diverse we can be. if we can keep our tax rates competitive globally and balance it so that the consumers and working americans are safe, yet we can compete with other manufacturers around the world, we will stay ahead of china and we're well-educated and pro productive from chinese workers but we need to have a good competitive workplace. we need to be able to trade and we need to be able to continue to have a well-educated w

osha plans to a proposed rule that would result in half a billion annual savings for employers.40 million, over half a billion. to eliminate unjustified economic burden on railroad the department of transportation is reconsidering a rule that requires railroads to require equipment to create certain equipment that is expensive which would save potentially over a billion dollars over 20 years. these are st illustrations. there was a reference to a cultural change. the art tends tcreate that. while a great deal has been done , an unprecedented effort and a substantial savings have been achieved, the agency plans are preliminary. they are being offered at all levels emphatilly including the business community for view and perspective. suggestions are eagerly welcome. we need your help in order to make these plans as good as possible and do as much as possible to promote economic growth. agencies will be assessing comments before plans are finalized, and we have a number of weeks and months to do that. to change the regulatory culture we need a constant exploration, not a one shot e

were's regulations different from osha.did not know which ones we were supposed to follow, because we might be in noncompliance. this is not paid for manufacturing in america. i am as in favor as anybody of a safe workplace, but we have to apply a level of cost benefit to the interrelationships between government and manufacturing. i watched shows on television. there is one called "how it is made," and it is really extraordinary the level of sophistication in america, and everyone of those shows is about how diversity can be. if we can balance regulation so the consumers and working americans are safe, yet we can compete with other manufacturers around the world, we will stay ahead of china of. we need to have a good competitive workplace. we need to be able to trade, and we need to be able to continue to have a well-educated work force. we do not need the government to tell us how to succeed in manufacturing. >> as is often the case, we have a lot of questions, because i know you are busy. i just want to thank you for you

i osha is the founding fathers statement in terms of benjamin franklin, he who sacrifices libya for security deserves neither. we lost that spirit and i think that's what the blinking in. we were trying so hard to prove our american that we forgot that being an american is holding our government accountable, the essence of being an american. the other issue that emerged was that was almost an official handing over of the baton. it was the young generation whose folks had full confidence in the american identity to say, this is not making sense. they are the ones who stepped forward center stage and said i can challenge you and your i'm less of an american. and i won't accept you to make the claim. [applause] >> after 9/11, i think the arab-american and muslim-americans, they face with the question whether we wanted to be, you know, integrated or we want to be assimilated. and you know that's very political culture. and because there are certain level of years, i mean, if we are assimilated actually we would be accepted by the larger american community. but if you're integrated and kept our c

example, every year americans spend almost 1.9 million hours a year filing redundant requirements for osha alone. from an employer's perspective, that if i given about 200,000 extra days off each year, something i'm sure no one in this room would find a track days. we are going to eliminate those redundancies so workers spend less time filling out paperwork and more time being productive on behalf of view. these are just a few of the many steps were taken to strengthen the economy. president obama supports investment 21st investment 21st century infrastructure, passing patent reform, reauthorizing manufacturing tax credit as well as expanding the r&d tax credit and making it permanent. we chose these priorities because companies like yours has had these tools you need to come meet in the global marketplace and therefore have an opportunity to have more of our fellow citizens back to work. of course the guy to take a moment to recognize about these programs require support of congress and we do hope congress acts quickly. we simply do not have time for more political games or for what we se

over there and see if a member of your organization, doesn't matter which agency with your it is epa osha demint you think that's predictability in regulation? >> it's clearly not predictability. whatever is going to change, i would like to make a point without being sucked into the yes or no and that is we've been talking about jobs all day, and if jobs are really being created while these rules and the environmental protection agency should be implementing the jobs analysis it's got under 321 and the other rules. there are mechanisms if you go through everything that congress has done for the last 30 years you have the least restrictive alternatives. it's never applied. you have unfunded mandates any times it is over 100 million there's an entire list of issues. you have within each of the environmental statutes some form of this continuing jobs analysis. we have it there. it's not being done. so there are ways to bring a resolution to this issue but going back to the question yes, that is the regulatory uncertainty but if you look a going forward between this health care which i'm not

i am here to sing the praises of osha. you need to do that. it is still out of sight, a lot of mind to 1% of of the money raised in this country -- all environmental money raised, when% goes to marine issues. we do not think about the oceans has anything but something we could put as much into as we want, and as much as we want out of it. my job is to get people to stand up and say this is wrong. >> patrick, you have a more hands-on approach. donald mentioned the turtles getting caught in traps and nets. talk about your efforts to reduce debt. -- and that. >> awareness is up. i think the shrimp fishery that i am participating in has a good story to tell when it comes to turtles. a big time management action started in the mid-1980's, when we started looking at this problem on the decline and the mexican coast. it was in real trouble. in 1990, when we got over the hump, and got compliance issues out of the way, we were able to convince the fisherman that we could do it effectively. >> that is what? >> a turbo-excluder-device -- turtle excluder

still, this year osha, the occupational safety and health administration, issued a hazard warning toisk of these products, saying some of their air test showed levels higher than the accepted limits. members of congress have asked the fda to start regulating these items. >> essentially we want to make sure that consumers know what's in those products and that the salon workers who use them know about it, too. >> formaldehyde exposure can be extremely toxic to your skin. you can get a rash that is red, blistery, and weepy. if you inhale it, it can give you some type of cancer. >> reporter: dermatologist says formaldehyde is almost everything, things we sit on, things we wear. but the danger comes when it's heated and turns it from a liquid to a gas. >> when it smells bads, that's how we're programmed. we're supposed to get away. >> reporter: ventilation is a top priority at 901 salon in west hollywood california where smoothing treatments are applied daily. >> we're opening our windows, turning on the fan, to get enough ventilation to make the client feel safe. >> if you're going to p

osha senator collins and members of the committee providing me the opportunity to give you a glimpse into what my life is like with diabetes. i look for to answering any questions you might have. [applause] thank you, jack. you did a great job. kerry, we will hear from you next. >> good afternoon, senator collins, lieberman and members of the committee for inviting me to testify. i'm from virginia and was diagnosed with diabetes 13 years ago when i was 4-years-old. unfortunately diabetes' wasn't new when i was diagnosed. my older sister was diagnosed when she was four. shortly after her diagnosis, i was enrolled in a clinical trial for first-degree people with type 1 to determine if they were at risk for the been the disease. i received daily insulin injections and hope to avoid or delay the development of diabetes. but it didn't work. sometimes clinical trials don't. i was diagnosed with type one diabetes one year later. then what seemed like a flash ten years past. ten years filled with insulin injections, finger sticks, and this carbohydrate counting and worry. ten years of turnin

a contractual dispute should be to contract law of the state in which they bring their dispute in oshabe the contract law of morocco? and so, courts for hundreds of years have been enforcing foreign law in these circumstances. although again, usually because somebody has are both parties have very strong contacts with the foreign country. you know, generally speaking this has been uncontroversial. after all, it's too americans are in morocco and they have dispute, that start indian estates we've got the moroccan courts to apply american law. as opposed to moroccan law. moroccan law is not sharia law so i don't want to be misunderstood by that. there are conceivable circumstances where some foreign country has incorporated sharia law into their own law and that might be appropriate for those rules to apply to some kind of dispute between people in those countries to end up in the united states. that might be okay. i have no problem with it. i don't think any lawyer would have any problem with that. >> host: professor posner, this is from frank arena the meaning and, good afternoon, plea

osha plans to a proposed rule that would result in half a billion annual savings for employers. not 40 million, over half a billion. to eliminate unjustified economic burden on railroad the department of transportation is reconsidering a rule that requires railroads to require equipment to create certain equipment that is expensive which would save potentially over a billion dollars over 20 years. these are just illustrations. there was a reference to a cultural change. the art tends to create that. while a great deal has been done , an unprecedented effort and a substantial savings have been achieved, the agency plans are preliminary. they are being offered at all levels emphatically including the business community for view and perspective. suggestions are eagerly welcome. we need your help in order to make these plans as good as possible and do as much as possible to promote economic growth. agencies will be assessing comments before plans are finalized, and we have a number of weeks and months to do that. to change the regulatory culture we need a constant exploration, not a

-- present plans to omb to do this sort of review that i mentioned that we saw in one agency with oshaand try to get rid of the redundancy in the overlap. but there is an enormous number of rules and regs that are kind of in the pipeline that come out and we're trying to bring some rationality to them, especially at a time of economic crisis. and impact that they can have on those. we have been very strong. cast some steam who runs the group within omb to reduce all of these, we looked at the cost-benefit of them. we analyze that very heavily. and with a great priority on. that some rules, the cost of them only the benefit side by legislation. but as far as our attempt to try to get control of this, and try to make sure that each of these rules that are being proposed as a cost-benefit analysis done, that's really rigorous, we are doing that. but i appreciate your comment. yes, sir. >> thank you very much. my name is albert. i'm from madison, wisconsin. we were producing coast guard ships. now we are pretty common of construction all around the world. what issues were having right now

i can't imagine how much poorer the world would be without gracey and her younger sister, osha, who isut every day of our lives for valuing their daughter's lives enough so they could become our daughters. as governor of utah, i supported and signed every pro-life bill that came to my desk. i signed the bill that made second trimester abortions illegal and increased the penalty for doing so. i signed the bill to allow women to know about the pain that abortion causes an unborn child. i signed the bill requires parental permission for an abortion. i signed the bill that would trigger bans on abortions in utah if row vs. wade were overturned. you see, i do not believe the republican party should focus not just only on the economic life to the neglect of our human life. that is a trade we should not make. if republicans ignore life, the deficit we will face is one that is much more destructive. it will be a deficit of the heart and soul. from life, i'll move to liberty. i stepped off the plane from china living in that country for two years. coming home after living 10,000 miles away give

epa, offshore drilling moratorium, dodd-frank, obamacare, osha, you name the seven initials or the law and he will get an answer as to why. it's because those agencies and those laws create uncertainty and reflect hostility towards business, job creators in this country. one of the things the would be interesting is what is history telling us? if you go back and look at the great depression, we had to dips in that depression. one in the early part of the depression, that we had another one in 1937 were 48 that could have been avoided. now what happened to cause the second dip? federal debt grew by 150% between 1929 to 1938. what's happened here between 2006 until today? 150% increase in debt. federal spending grew 77% between 1932 to 1934. what happened? between 2008 and 2010? federal spending grew by more than that. tax rates increased by 24% to 79% and federal revenue fell by half. we just read through one uncertainty about tax rates six months ago. fortunately we kept them low. 18 months from now we have got the same old debate again. you look for work and don't know what your tax r

epa, obamacare, osha, you name the initials or the law and you will get a clear answer as to why. it is because those agencies and those laws create uncertainty and they represent hostility towards job creators in this country. what does history tell us? you go back and look at the great depression. we have two dips in that depression. one in the early part of the depression and another in 1937 and 1938 that could have been avoided. what happened? federal debt grew by 130%. what happened here between 2006 and today? a 150% increase in debt. federal spending increase. what happened between 2008-2010? federal spending grew by more than that. tax rates increased from 24%- 79%. federal revenues fell by half. we just went through one uncertainty about tax rates six months ago. fortunately, we kept them low. 18 months from now, we have the same old debate again. you do not know what your tax rates will be as a business person. there was great hostility. the roosevelt administration ordered more executive orders all the way -- of the administration's all of the way through bill clinton c

osha plans to a proposed rule that would result in half a billion annual savings for employers. not 40 million, over half a billion. to eliminate unjustified economic burden on railroad the department of transportation is reconsidering a rule that requires railroads to require equipment to create certain equipment that is expensive which would save potentially over a billion dollars over 20 years. these are just illustrations. there was a reference to a cultural change. the art tends to create that. while a great deal has been done , an unprecedented effort and a substantial savings have been achieved, the agency plans are preliminary. they are being offered at all levels emphatically including the business community for view and perspective. suggestions are eagerly welcome. we need your help in order to make these plans as good as possible and do as much as possible to promote economic growth. agencies will be assessing comments before plans are finalized, and we have a number of weeks and months to do that. to change the regulatory culture we need a constant exploration, not a