army pacific from a three to a four-star position. you said that this was due to the and predictability of the korean peninsula and the overall strategy to the white house and everybody. the white house announced an try to bring down headquarters staff and sizes, flagon general officers, particularly with an emphasis on command staff. about could talk briefly the position, why you elevated it, and some concluding thoughts about the army's role? >> first off, we will reduce our headquarters 20%. we're working on that hard. we are making some decisions in the army that will go down to two-star level headquarters. we are doing a review of that. we will look at how we go about doing that. , therms of a four-star navy and air force have had a four-star in the pacific for a long time. we reduced significantly the amount of our officers in europe. we used to have a four-star, now a three-star, we eliminated a headquarters in europe. so we are in the process of eliminating those positions. based on guidance, we have reinvested it into the asi

he added so how did the pacific ocean become the world's largest trash dump. yeah well you know in consumer economies we have to consume more and more to grow in the more we consume the more waste we create and this is unfortunately made its way into the pacific ocean not just from the united states but also from consumer economies in asia as well now as you mentioned there's this whirling currents in the pacific the largest one is between the west coast of the u.s. and the hawaiian islands and as you mentioned i mean this is an area larger than texas and in fact i mean this is millions of square miles that are taken up by this gyre where trash from all over the world is circulating and creating this you know unfortunately massive trash now it's not all together every single square inch of this multi million square mile area is filled with trash in fact most of it is actually beneath the surface so we can see it right and i think it's yeah you made a good point i mean this is not just the united states this is pretty much the effect of humanity's overconsumpti

abbi so how did the pacific ocean become the world's largest trash dump. yeah well you know in consumer economies we have to consume more and more to grow in the more we consume the more waste we create and this is unfortunately made its way into the pacific ocean not just from the united states but also from consumer economies in asia as well now as you mentioned there's this whirling currents in the pacific the largest one is between the west coast of the u.s. and the hawaiian islands and as you mentioned i mean this is an area larger than texas and in fact i mean this is millions of square miles that are taken up by this giant where trash from all over the world is circulating and creating this. you know unfortunately a massive trash now it's not all together now every single square inch of this multi million square mile area is filled with trash in fact most of it is actually beneath the surface so we can see it right and i think it's yeah you made a good point i mean this is not just the united states this is pretty much the effect of humanity's overc

army pacific to a three and four star position.ou mentioned this is partly due to unpredictable of korean peninsula. in the mine time, secretary of defense announced an initiative try try bring down headquarter staff but particular emphasis on headquarter staff. if you can talk to us a little bit briefly about the position and why you elevated it and what you think concluding thoughts about the army's role. >> first of all, we are going to reduce our headquarters 20% we're working that very hard. we're making some decisions in the army that will probably go down to two star level headquarters. and reduce all of them by about 20% if not more. we're doing a review of that and we'll look at how we go about doing it. in terms of pacific, first of all, the navy and air force had -- we reduce significantly the amount of our general officers in europe. we used to have a four star in europe and that's now three star. we eliminated a headquarters in europe. we are in process of eliminating general officer positions. we reinvested it based o

so, we have a strong affiliation with asian pacific americans. frankly, they set the standards of the academy art university and we welcome them with open arms because of their work ethic and their diligence. and in fact one of our alums who is sitting here in the audience, actually designs the poster and instructs for us now. do you want to say hi in an academy of art grad? [ applause ] and as you know, we are art for industry, and we are creating portfolios for students so that they can get jobs for the 21st century. and i am proud to say that asian pacific americans are leading the charge in getting those jobs for the 21 century. and we are, very, very proud of them as students and i am very proud to be here today. thank you. >> [ applause ] >> thank you, and mark from at&t? [ applause ] >> thank you, it is a pleasure to be here and represent at&t, this is, this is 6 or 7th year that we have been around since the beginning, i believe of supporting this important month. and we, it is very much a part of our culture and heritage as well. and whe

i'm happy today to sign this legislation to approve the california pacific medical center's hospital rebuild project and development agreement that the city, through its board of supervisors, just passed this last tuesday. this historic agreement ensures that two brand-new seismically safe hospitals for our city are going to be built, while guaranteeing important health care and other benefits that san franciscans will enjoy for years to come. i want to thank everybody in this room, in particular all those that are standing behind me for getting us to this day that we can sign this agreement. and, yes, it's been long, it's been arduous, but i believe that we all agree it was definitely worth the effort. together and through our consensus building approach, we made it possible to build two seismically safe hospitals, advance the state of medical care in our city, and put thousands of san franciscans to work. i also want to take this moment and mention my personal thanks on behalf of the city, if i will, and i know the board will join me. i want to thank cpmc for their deliberate parti

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europe, just like us, will benefit greatly as well from stability in the pacific, in asia.and by the way, there is no reason why we cannot bring greater focus to the asia- pacific and keep our eye on the ball in the middle east. folks, that's what big powers do. to use the vernacular, we can walk and chew gum at the same time. that's what big powers do. and there is no evidence that we are taking our eye off the ball as we should in the middle east, leaving europe or not intending on following through on our rebalance in the asia-pacific area. folks, we're better positioned than any time before to be able to do it all. i know you'll think it sounds like a campaign assertion i've been making for years, but america is back. when i was last in china, as i pointed out to the chinese leadership, it's never, never, never been a good bet to bet against america. the resiliency of the american people and the nature of our system -- america is back. to paraphrase mark twain, the reports of our demise are very premature. our businesses have created 7.2 million jobs since we've taken o

islanders on this board for standing strong with the asian pacific council it stooped with a strong voice for the many asians and pacific islanders so thanks all supervisors for the process and i learned a lot through this and i feel we've got a great budget i'm proud to support today >> supervisor campos. i >> i want to thank the spent e extended committee thank you to each and every one of you and supervisor avalos and supervisor mar and breed and let's see supervisor wiener, of course. having been on budget a couple times i know how much work is takes so thank you to each one of your 5 offices and staff. and chair farrell i've seen many budget processes since i've got here and congratulations for the smooth efforts. i want to note i think what's amazing about this budget it really strikes a balance to make sure we're taking care of the nuts and bolts making sure we're funding infrastructure throughout the city neighborhood needs that specific districts have and i i know there are a number of us funded projects throughout our respective districts but i think this decide about be r

ocean is halfway between hawaii and california called the great pacific garbage patch. more accidentally found the garbage patch in one thousand nine hundred seven was selling through a gyre ocean currents circulate and collect trash it's a piece here a piece there it's not a solid island but in general what we say is a soup of plastic not really an island of plastic next year captain moore is planning to spend a month at the garbage patch to research its effects on the food chain it is difficult to see the collection of trash from above because it's mostly made up of pieces of plastic the size of a fingernail researchers believe that there could be two million of these little pieces of plastic pursue where mile millions of creatures are dying every year tangled in plastic it's not just the wildlife that is being fooled into eating this stuff and getting tangled in it it's we ourselves that are our changing. biological being with the chemicals in this hyper consumptive atmosphere that we live in scientists at the scripps institution of oceanography in san diego have als

those have been in south pacific at guadalcanal and places that were reminded of the south pacific. even though there was a knowledge of this kind of terrain that they were going to encounter, there had not been sufficient thinking by those who should have been thinking about it of how we're going to get through it and how this is going to complicate our lives and how it's a nasty place to fight. omar bradley, for example, says that he was vaguely aware of it but couldn't begin to imagine how bad it was going to be. well, that's a failure of bradley's intelligence and his imagination. he should have been aware of it. there were studies that were done that were presented to omar bradley and the other senior commanders saying, look, this is going to be unlike anything that you've seen before. these aren't english hedges where they're neatly clipped and easily penetrated by tanks. these are fortresses, essentially. and to figure out exactly how we're going to deal with it is something that we need to be thinking about months before the invasion. well, it doesn't happen, and it really -

very hot in western and central japan, due to the summer pacific high, still sitting on top of western and central japan. to the western region, the humid flow from the western region of the area. developing a lot of rain clouds. we're still talking about very heavy rain in the korean peninsula as well as inland china. possibly we're looking at additional amounts of 200 millimeters, some places in the korean peninsula. lots of heavy downpour to be found yet again. temperatures in the mid-30s in ti yoet oh, at 35 degrees. tokyo 30 degrees yet again. we'll see the rainy season come back starting tuesday. >>> that is all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in to o tokyo. do stay with us. we'll be back with more at the top of the hour of the.

stretch from india to the pacific nation of the americas.is home to a middle class of about a billion people. some of the fastest growing growth rates in the world are within that region. emerging markets whose choices will shape the character of the entire global economy are within that purview. we reached out. we reached tout deepen economic ties and promote open markets and rule-based competition for the 21 century. we finished a free trade agreement with south korea as well as deal with panama and colombia. we launch negotiation on a new transpacific nancy pelosi will connect diverse economy as diverse as singapore and peru. we work toward a more constructive economic relationship with china including through the strategic and economic dialogue, and i open the fifth round of the diagnose just last week. with the security personnel and how to assess our global posture and where do we need to involve to match the moment in the asia-pacific we saw a region of remarkable promise. also genuine uncertainty and political risk. many nations of e

>> mike rideron with pacific gas & electric. the property will continue to be maintained in the same way that the existing lot is being maintained. as far as local hiring ordinances apply in san mateo county? i am unaware. i know that our transmission and regulation team, which would be responsible for maintaining this public safety valve, are from the local office in san carlos. >> right. >> beyond that i don't know of any local ordinances applying. >> thank you, mike. my concern is not the specific purpose of the easement, but rather the easement and the land itself. because you are gaining a greater right-of-way; right? so then the question becomes is there a maintenance component related to -- because you are either going to take over the space or simply travel over the space; right? if you are simply traveling over the space and you are not going to maintain the space at all, there is no jobs component? if you are going to take possession of the space, then there is a jobs component and i understand, and appreciate the diff

in term of a four-star in the pacific. first of all, the navy and the air force had a four-star in the pacific for a long time. we reduce significantly the amount of our general officers in europe. we used to have a four-star in europe. it's now a three-star. we eliminated the headquarter in europe which was another three, two, one-star eliminated. we are in the process of eliminating general-officer positions. based on it we reinvested based on the priority which is asia-pacific. and we have a, you know, we have there's a four-star in korea. a u.n. commander. the u.s. commander. what we needed is a four-star who would work the rest of the asia-pacific region and be on par with their counter parts. whether it be in china, whether it be in thailand, whether it be in japan, whether it be in india. so we thought it's important for us to have the representativation that allows us to work the many tough issues we have in the asia-pacific region. as i said earlier, the eight of the ten largest army in the pacific. they play a ma

here is a look at the pacific satellite picture. area of low pressure developing here in the pacific. what we're going see is cloud cover heading into wednesday and into part of thursday. you can see it coming from the south. and thursday morning we'll see cooler weather wednesday, and thursday. here are the highs for wednesday in the south bay, 82 degrees in san jose. still partly cloudy skies is what we'll call it. upper 50s near the coast, breezy and going to be a cooler day. 60 degrees in the sunset district. into the north bay 83 santa rosa and sonoma. inland communities temperatures not as warm as today. 90s in livermore and fairfield. 88 pleasanton. cooler for your thursday, mid-80s inland, mid-50s coast. temperatures starting to rise over the weekend. low 60s to low 90s and will hold you there next week. live doppler 7 on twitter for latest weather conditions rain or shine plus get video forecasts, power outage information and weather tweets from your favorite weather team. >> that is you guy autos how could you forget? >> t

plus a chinese prepares to build a canal bridging the pacific and the atlantic right back yard and the rest of our top stories in just a moment. the civilized world produces more food. people die of hunger in other countries. millions of victims every. where a meal is the most trying. to blame. without trained. to anything. there was great. reason to help comes too late and with good intentions. diplomacy and business. good of you to join us here on r.t. today i'm rory sushi in moscow and france has reportedly been running a surveillance network against its own people comparable to america's infamous prism program reports of that broke just days after president francois hollande lashed out at america for spying on european countries the details now to. these building behind me in the eastern part of paris or rather the story from cantonese that is the epicenter of the fresh spy scandal they had schools as the country's security services and it's from here that it's now france's big brother snoots people money touring millions of phone calls text messages and e-mails. live. legal. limit

i'm pacific islander on campus and one of the few pacific islanders advocating for all the pis [speaker not understood]. i'm happy that you're here because all of these people live in your jurisdiction. so, thank you so much and john avalos. i just want to state that six years ago i started at ccsf and this fall i'll be transferring to sf state. it took me six years, but three years throughout my six years to advocate and ask for resources and ask for implementations on policies that affect my people, my pacific islander folks. the same people who are here to attack and judge accjc were the same people who resisted change in this college. and i'm standing here as a student and as an advocate, it is a shame. for me to see this happening when we all could have just been like let's work together. that was the problem. we are judging these people that came in, that i saw that problem six years ago. they just barely got here a year ago to address the same issues that i've been fighting for, undermining the work that students who are making a change part of a whole new program to address equi

"pacific rim." that big movie is coming out. and applause ] "its always sunny in philadelphia." charlie day. >> steve: a delight. >> jimmy: and -- talk about good chef. we got a ton of great restaurants right here in new york city. quest, you've had to have eaten at a couple of them, right? >> questlove: yeah. >> jimmy: she knows what she's talking about. tonight, we're cooking with chef april bloomfield. [ cheers and applause ] spotted pig. >> steve: oh, my god. i'm there. >> jimmy: oh, i love her place. i love her cooking. right now, it's time for "late night hashtags," you guys. here we go. ♪ hashtags, hashtags hashtags, hashtags hashtags ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: you guys are on twitter, right? you guys are on twitter? [ cheers ] all right, great. it looks fun. we use twitter on our show every single week. so if you watch our show and you want to play along, we do this thing every wednesday night where i send out a hashtag and we ask you guys to tweet out things based on that topic. so because jay-z's new album jus

influence in the pacific.s worry that it could send jobs overseas and undermine environmental protections. joining us from washington to explain all of this wallach, director of public citizen's global trade watch division and a certified tppftawft expert. lori, welcome to "the war room." >> thank you very much. >> david: so walk us through the trans-pacific partnership. what is the tpp? >> so it's been branded as a trade agreement. but actually trade is the least of it. i would say a fair description would be that this is the biggest, tellthy corporate power grab we have ever seen. here is how it works. you sit down and just as the executive branch you renegotiate the major parts of the u.s. law we all rely on. the prices of medicine food safety financial regulation, even whether or not our tax dollars can go to buy america procurement, putting our money back into communities to great jobs here. incentives for job offshoring stuff that should not be in a trade agreement. tpp has 29 chapters, 5 of them have to

blood centers of the pacific opened three of its bay area locations the day after the crash.w the center is as for more donors especially people with "o" negative and "a-b" types "lisa bloch/blood centers oe pacific 15:29:15;02 alot of the vic who were treated were stabid but now they face multiple ongoing surgeries and tream so we will still need blood quite some time to come jusr these patients. " blood centers of the pacific serves about 40 hospitals of the pacific serves about0 hospitals including san francisco general hospital, saint francis hospital and kaiser. to put it all into perspect there have been twelve commercial airline crashes s-f-o since the airport oped in 1927. brian hackney is here with incredible footage of one disaster that was eerily sir to the asiana flight. on saturday it was an asiana flight... in november 1968 was a japan air lines dc-8 fell short of the runway. a how! "it will be at least months before federal officials fi out why this plane landed oe bay instead of on the runwa" (chyron: november 22, 1968/n francisco bay) it's novembe, 1968. afte

"pacific rim" finished only third place at u.s. box office. $38 million.million to make. marketing pushed it back to $200 million a week. "pacific rim" getting bested by foulmouthed comedy, "grown ups 2" by sony. comcast universal, animated sequel, "despicable me 2", finishing the number one at the box office for the second week in a row for almost $45 million. where does that put us in the dud zone? summer flops were after earth, will smith and the actor's son. the big budget disappointment for sony after it cost 130 million to make and brought in only 215 million. the studio only bring keeps half of that. sony's white house down, only made 30 million in two weeks. biggest flop likely the disney's "the lone ranger," it cost well over $200 million to make and so far lassoed less than 120 million bucks. for hollywood executives, movies like these may be the inspiration for one word, flop-sweat. liz and dave? liz: we were wondering what is the problem? seems like big budget, big budget, sci-fi battle movies aren't doing well. >> that's wrong. david: no chara

we are here with supervisor farrell from district2, which includes the marina, pacific heights, st. cliff, and the neighborhoods surrounding the presidio. supervisor farrell started his first term this january, so he is new to the board. we will get to know him and talk about the toughest issues facing the city. welcome, supervisor. thank you for joining us. tell us about your background -- where you grew up, went to school, the kind of jobs you have worked. >> i am a born and raised san franciscan, first and foremost. very proud of that. i am also a born and raised district 2 residents. i grew up close to the palace of fine arts. my parents still live in the same set of flats i grew up in. i went to grammar school at stuart hall in district 2. i went to high school in st. ignatius. i'm a very proud wildcat. i went to college at loyola marymount college in los angeles. i had a scholarship to play baseball down there. ended up going to ireland and getting a master's degree at university college dublin. came back to the states and went to law school at the university of pennsylvania.