another example of strong cultural patchwork making up the bay area population. those focus on the patchwork pieces, part of our cultural heritage, head over to the santa clara quilt show today and tomorrow. see quilts, learn quilting and force those wiheirloom pieces. come monday morning, check with me, see how we can piece together a smoother commute here on "today in the bay." >>> you'r the bay." >>> a young man's dream of becoming a firefighter cut short. now, it's more than a decade later and his family is honoring his memory with a unique donation. "today in the bay's" joe rosato shows us how they're helping other firefighters. >> reporter: since san francisco's beginnings the waters of ocean beach has drawn visitors looking for escape. the same waters are also famously treacherous. >> may look as though it's -- you can wade or whatever but you've got to be careful because it can pull you out. >> reporter: some 300 san francisco firefighters are trained to respond to water rescue emergencies. >> every day at station 34, we put up the tide chart. we have an

it is like patchwork. nothing to do with sexiness, just trying different items on top of each otherk -- each other. reporter: sometimes, there are just fewer clothes. >> it is not supposed to be sexy. >> it's about the woman, not to he clothes. reporter: adding to the sense of occasion they added some impressive talent, including the ever young snoop dog. >> it is fun and playful joyful, generous, just like the brand. it is for everyone. reporter: showcasing at paris' townhall this designer whose work is in a mosh -- is an homage to freedom. >> it's about passion for creating clothes fabric -- all of it has a history. i'm not afraid to use that cash and create things that can be worn today -- that passion to create things that can be worn today. reporter: paris, fashion capital of the world. >> welcome to encore's weekly music show, coming up. >> looking for some madonna's album, "rebel hearts," out this week. and a debut musical album "sixth sense." he has been making music for two decades. now he is goin

stretch of route 1 that's a contract to be repaved at some point this year, penndot hoping to do patchwork prior to the repaving. this is a busy time of year for road crews. back to you all. >> david murphy is outside our studio with the good news temperatures wise this week ahead. >> reporter: can't do anything about the potholes, i hit one way to hard on the way to work this morning it's dark and you can't see them. we have sunshine breaking out across the region. some of you are dealing with clouds and there's light precipitation that snuck through in the predawn hours that's all gone. morning lows we were cold. 32 in philadelphia. 30 in wilmington. we had overnight refreezing and melting snow. but the temperatures now that the cloud cover is gypping to disburses and now that -- beginning to disburse, we're up to 52 degrees in philadelphia. 45 in pittsburgh and 49 in new york city but that's a lot of nice neighborhood temperatures from here to richmond, virginia. the rest of the afternoon 2:00 p.m., 352 degrees, 54 around # p.m. 4:00 p.m., 53 still feeling comfortable. after that we tak

the patchwork stretched from the delaware county line in haverford to lower marion township in montgomery county. a plan to patch up the bridge in philadelphia is now in the works. city councilman david oh introduced a bill to focus on bridges not only by the city. the bill would allow the streets department to take action if the owner of a dangerous bridge refuses to accept responsibility. the bill would allow the city to fine the bridge owner or take legal action if needed repairs are not done. >>> 4:40. happening later today, governor tofrl wolf will be in philadelphia to discuss what his proposed budget will do for childhood education. the governor expected to speak at a conference at the pennsylvania convention center later this morning. his spending plan calls for a $120 million increase in preschool funding. >>> also today a school in wilmington is launching an anti-crime campaign. students and staff at parkway academy north will hold a moment of silence and balloon release to remember victims of violence. the students say this campaign is their way of saying they're tired of crime

it is not the big corporations, but i am into the smaller patchwork of the smaller farms and the smaller things are inflated the economics take over, and sit is hard to break. >> right. as dire of a situation for commercial operations, local beekeepers like megan and joric show us how to reverse the trend. are where are we headed? >> we are going to go hunt some bees. and it is old school, but what we want to do so get the genetics into our hives. we breed bees, and so the importance of getting the e genetics into the hives. so i will show you how the track down wild bees. >> we aare tracking down wild bees? >> yes, i will show you the technique. >> they have discovered that some wild bees are more resistant to parasites and disease, and by introducing their genes into the beekeepers' hives the colonies will become more e robust. >> this is the equipment that you will need. this is a beelining box, and this is the one i like. so you will have that. and you will need a old piece of comb, and this is the one i like. the darker the better. >> this is a e beelining box this is. >> yes, we wi

. >> reporter: what's also behalfeling is the potential patchwork goals. while the water district can set goals they are only recommendations. retailers are the ones that set goals and restrictions. they are waiting for tonight's vote. >> i think that's a common concern by residents regardless of where they live, is what measures apply and who to report waste to. so the water district's anticipated actions tonight would greatly help that. >> reporter: for example, san jose water, which encompasses most of san jose, allows watering every other day but it plans to embrace the 30% goal if approved. the 5 hund a day fines would have to be done by filing complaints with local police agencies. but there is one way some local homeowners can meet and exceed the goal. by taking out lawns and planting drought resistant plants. that's being done here at this home. >> the whole thing was lawn. now they are getting it down to 50%. in the back they cut it back to 70%. so they minimize water use. >> reporter: the cost for relandscaping depends on yard size and the design

syria has become a patchwork of battle zones. 10.8million people definitely need aid. most are homeless, trapped within syria's borders. they struggle to stay alive becomes more difficult now that isil controls supply lines. >> most syrians rely on foreign aid. here it means the difference between life and death. but now as isil has emerged to take command in some areas in syria security concerns make it difficult to get aid through. >> it's a shrinking humanitarian corridor the it's just more difficult to get supplies from here to there and for sure going deep inside syria where we were able to get fairly easily get into territories, and on the east side of the country. now that road is treacherous. it's very dangerous. >> it's just not fighting that stops aid from getting through. many of the governments and larger charities that supply smaller aid groups will not allow help to be sent to isil-patrol areas. they fear it will, diverted to isil fighters. set up of the start of the conflict, the group's founders thought they would be needed for four or five months. >> j

they're like 90-something small counties patchwork in st. louis suburbs.never even heard of webster groves actually. >> but would you say that officers from different jurisdictions have been coming in to help with the police needs in ferguson? >> at a point, there has been. but one thing i found interesting and this came from folks on twitter earlier this evening, is that for hours protesters were allowed to push up further toward the police probably than they had before and they were taking pictures. a few of them even attached a sign that said racism lives here, to the front of the flag pole which would have been unheard of months ago. they wouldn't have allowed them anywhere near the sidewalk basically. but at some point, officers did come out and folks took notice and took pictures and started circulating images from different municipalities, and it didn't appear to be many officers from ferguson actually out there. >> do you think that might be in response to the resignation that was announced today by police chief thomas jackson, that he was going to

and also without a federal minimum wage or even raising it what you're setting up is a patchwork system where people in california might get a great minimum wage. but the folks in nevada just over the border -- >> because you go state by state? >> yeah. >> which is the whole thing, which it's almost like the state by state immigration, state by state on marriage equality state by state on minimum wage. there's no strong federal national government protecting all americans. >> right. and it sort of makes hollow this concern all of a sudden for income inequality for the middle class. you can't -- you can't reduce income inequality and can't fight for the middle class if you do not have a national strategy. >> but that's the problem that we've got to encounter, those that have always fought against these state by state kinds of things from whatever the issue may be congresswoman. you're an organizer. it also make it is very difficult to organize because you've got to deal state by state and that's what they want to be able to do because if they can defeat you with minimum wage in wisconsin

. >> let me ask you about that because it seems to be a patchwork of alliances where in some countries we are on the side of saudi arabia why and the sunnis and in other countries like iraq we are on the side of the shi'a and iran. can that work? >> let me start by saying as an intelligence officer intelligence has to be part of the calculation of every strategic level decision and my science right now of where the policy is, and i hate to say this but it is almost a policy of willful ignore an. to me, we have some major problems we are dealing with and here we are talking to iran about a nuclear deal with this complete breakdown of order in the middle east. we have to keep in mind their ran is a country with ballistic missiles and cyber capabilities and a state sponsor of terrorism and here we and here we are dealing with them as though we're going to give them a carte blanche, i know it will be some number of years to have a nuclear capability. give me a break. >> well, let's talk about iran because the main point is clearly that iran is on the march. let's put up this map because th

years to get the file an amended return you to provide evidence and documentation -- documentation patchwork. -- that you worked. >> said the statement than -- so the statement benefit individuals may claim up to three years of refunds on income even if they're working off the books or never pay taxes is not true speak with no. they basically have to come if they want to file a committed return to have to file for the income they earned. i noted there are 700,000 undocumented residents on taxes every year with us. so to qualify the earned income tax revenue you had to work. if you file a return you have to provide us with the documentation that showed good earnings that year, you owed taxes and we factored into what if any tax credit you're entitled to. there's not an automatic payment. >> the senator from maryland. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you, mr. koskinen. first of all i really appreciate someone of your caliber has decided to continue a life of public service and to do it at irs. the irs has taken a beating both in the budget, by members of congress. we demonize the men and

industry says the federal government doesn't need to get so involved because they already have a patchworkof laws all over the country governing fracking. nevertheless we'll get a new set of regulations coming up later today. >> an interesting distinction, you said the supplies to federal land so state has some latitude in terms of how they regulate it as well. >> right. >> thank you very much, tracie. >>> it is 5:43 right now. this weekend marks one year since the massive mudslide in washington state. it happened march 22nd of last year, after several days of rain in the small town of oso. the flow destroyed dozens of homes and killed 43 people. it was the deadliest landslide in u.s. histories. leaders are considering a bill to improve mapping of a landslide prone area. >>> police in japan arrested a man allegedly making threats to the u.s. embassy ambassador caroline kennedy. police brought the man through the airport in tokyo. reports of the threats came two weeks after a man in south korea attacked the u.s. ambassador there with a knife. investigators say those events are not related.

in the u.s., the costs of long-term care are covered by a patchwork of insurance, public programs, and family caregivers. the systems are not integrated, difficult to navigate, and are designed for the 20th century. we spend a lot of time talking about medicare and medicaid, but the reality is that neither one is designed to help seniors deal with long-term living. medicare helps patients only for acute episodes and was not as designed -- was not designed for long-term care. it is clear that comprehensive policy changes needed. this amendment allows but does not require the house to consider a deficit neutral bill on long-term care. this could be a pilot program, a change to medicare or medicaid, or a truly comprehensive solution. this amendment identifies long-term care is a priority for the house. rep. price: the lady's time has expired. rep. black: i would like to remind my friends on the other side that medicare is on an unsustainable path, identified by both the cms actuaries and the cbo. at the current rate, medicare will go bankrupt in 2030. i think it is irresponsible to add an

>> with that happy to impose the documentary made she complains about such big oil companies and patchwork china has been a block to the introduction on environmental protection and law enforcement in this field. for example, in the setting of standards and gasoline consumed as well as introduction of wider use of natural gas. my question is is it true these companies are posed enough gold to enforcing enforcing environmental protection month-end policies? if so what steps will the chinese government take to remove such an obstacle. [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] >> translator: i understand the focus of all of your questions is a backpack with environmental solutions, especially small. this is a concern, uppermost on people's mind. i want to value that the chinese government is determined to tackle smog in environmental pollution as a whole and tremendous after that party been made in this regard. the progress we have made it still follows the expect patient of our people. last year the chinese government would declare war against environmental pollution. we are d

consolidating this patchwork of aid programs will simplify the application and eligibility process and help more students understand manage and repay their debt. . we must promote innovation, access and completion. in recent years as the post-secondary population has changed, many institutions have developed new approaches to delivering higher education, including competency-based curriculums and online classes. the federal government should make every effort to support these innovations as they have enabled more americans to earn a agree or certificate faster with less costs and without additional disruption to their daily lives. finally we must ensure strong accountability while limiting the federal role. the current administration has subjected institutions to onerous regulations and requirements which created a costly and time-consuming process, hampered innovation and jeopardized economic freedom. eliminating in effect federal burdens will provide states and institutions the flexibility they need to deliver effectively a high-quality education to their students. we are confident t

. >> well i think it's very -- it's a very uneven and patchwork system across europe and across the unitedrely on self-reporting or peer reporting, that's not going to be very effective and i think that what this incident has shown is how difficult it is. anyone who seems to have known this chap never picked up anything and we see that it's much harder to detect a bomb in the brain than it is to detect a bomb in a suitcase or pair of underpants. this was really it's fair to call it a bomb because it's a long way from the kind of depression that they are talking about, clinical depression it's a long way from a clinical depression to taking an action as drastic as this one, not just to kill yourself but to kill 149 people and destroy the plane. we do know this man was a flying enthusiast very early on. he qualified in his teens and just one wonders, i'm not a psychiatrist but one wonders about some kind of dark trauma inside him which realized he got to the point he realized perhaps he was not able to fly and possibly would never fly again and lose the career he dreamed of and then somethin

that is sort of a patchwork of different court decisions. i think it is time for a legislative solutions that we can make decisions together about how to access and accountability laws should work. host: in independent color, good -- caller, good morning to you. caller: good morning, how are you doing? with the executives coming in, they had a meeting, and i think congress wanted information in regards to that information. and there was never any indication that that was ever revealed to anybody. so to this issue about information and so forth and so on, it is the same old way. it just keep going both ways. thank you. guest: the cheney task force was another egregious example of something that should be transparent. that ended up going to, i believe, a supreme court case between the head of the gao and the executive branch, fighting over whether this arm of congress for the presidency had more power. in that case, congress saw its powers slightly diminished because of the transparency issue. or at least amber riley diminished. i agree, these

another model the partnership for patient is pretty patchwork of programs including some of our pay-for-performance to improve care in the hospital. partnership is a model where we invited about 75% of hospital ceo's in the country to join us in setting up aggressive targets to reduce the patient harm in hospitals. three numbers for you from 2010 to 2013. 50,000 lives saved, 1.3 million patient harm events avoided, and $12 billion in the savings. a couple of seconds. the section 2031 is one of the most inspired sections of the aca. i love it. i would think of it this way. we are scientists, so we are testing models. if we have a model who works, we have scientists to evaluate these models. if they improve quality and the and the cost remains neutral, or option number two, if the quality is neutral and cost is reduced, or option number three the one we all hope for if quality goes up and cost comes down, the secretary of the secretary of health and human services has the authority to expand these models nationally in duration and scope. this is a quick overview of the portfolio testing about 25 diff

"the new york times" writes the administration finds itself trying to sustain an evergrowing patchwork of strained alliances and multiple battlefields. momentarymorally clarity for demands for democracy across the region has been replaced by difficult choices. for more on all of this we turn to msnbc military analyst, and a retired british senior officer and foreign affairs correspondent. and so i'm not sure where to begin. let me start with this and he raised this possibility in the presentation. colonel, when you look at yemen right now, you look at the iranian backed rebels. if they succeed, if they take control of the country, if essentially iran gets a toehold in yemen, what does that mean? >> first of all they don't have to take control of the whole country. it was suggested earlier perhaps things are headed in that direction. they are already in control of quite a few chunks of the country. and the geo politics of the place being what they are, that's -- they're in charge of a lot of it. what the saudis are worried about is their border is so porous, and iran is trying so desper

we can work along those lines and try to put a patchwork of funding opportunities together with local resources that we can move forward. >> i'd love ton our conversation on this. as you know it's a reclamation process. i know there has been conversation about cobbling together resources. this has been 50 years a reclamation project and would like to continue our work on this. shifting now to the sage-grouse listing in december would have significant affects on agriculture, energy, recreation in colorado if it were to move forward and we need to balance the needs of our economy, the needs of our environment. if given the chance to succeed i believe will be best to protect the species. we've seen in wyoming where they have stabilized if not grown populations. what do you believe needs to be achieved in order to allow states to implement their plans for a period of time in order for them to determine that they are best protecting -- that they are best protecting the wildlife within their borders? >> well, thank you senator. what's happening with the greater sage-grouse across 11 western

we have a real patchwork quilt right now. are a lot of advocacy organizations that are working to try to spread these new policies of how you address these issues without locking them up. host: jim in load i, ohio. you are on the air. caller: what i was going to say is that i live probably 60 miles south of cuyahoga county. that is the biggest county in ohio. i did work up there for a number of years. i was a 20 year army career veteran. i did train a lot of young soldiers and a lot of young people. i look at it this way. if the child and the parent and how they bring them up. -- it is the child and the parent and how they bring them up. by easing any of these retributions for crimes that they commit, they are going to commit adult crimes. they'd need to face adult consequences. they are whitewashing everything. it is ridiculous. they are getting slapped on the wrist now. host: i'm going to leave it there. stacy teicher khadaroo, when do officials believe that incarceration is the right choice? guest: yet. serious violent cri

that is sort of a patchwork of different court decisions. think it is time for a legislative solutions that we can make decisions together about how to access and accountability laws should work. host: in independent color, good morning to you. caller: good morning, how are you doing deco -- doing? with the executives coming in, they had a meeting, and i think congress wanted information in regards to that information. and there was never any indication that that was ever revealed to anybody. so to this issue about information and so forth and so on, it is the same old way. it just keep going both ways. iq. -- thank you. guest: the cheney task force was another egregious example of something that should be transparent. that ended up going to, i believe, a supreme court case between the head of the gao and the executive branch fighting over whether this arm of congress for the presidency had more power. in that case congress saw its powers slightly diminished because of the transparency issue. or at least amber riley diminished. i agree, thes

this patchwork of state laws caused confusion among election officials and the public and sometimes resulting in disenfranchisements of eligible voters. this amendment would provide needed information to the hands of citizens returning from incarceration. mr. president, i would like to thank my colleague senator paul for his work in regards to this issue. the two of us are trying to find a way that we can bring forward together a workable way that can help many who have been released from our prisons having the right to vote and participate in our community. in regards to two amendments i'm offering amendment 439 and 440 both are related to my work as the ranking democrat on the small business and entrepreneurship committee. one would set up a deficit reserve fund to deal with surety bonds. we've increased the limit of the surety bond participation by the s.b.a. for small companies which is very, very important. this would help make that a more permanent increase. the small companies if they try to get a surety bond they have to pledge just about every one of their assets in order fo get it.

madam president, america's aging electrical grid consists of a patchwork system of interconnected power generation transmission and distribution facilities, some of which date back to the early 1900s. not surprisingly, the grid suffers from hundreds of major power failures every year, many of which are avoidable. our grid system simply is not up to the 21st century challenges that it faces including resiliency to cyber attacks. it's no wonder the world economic forum ranked ranks our electric grid 24th in the year in terms of reliability just behind barbados. my amendment will invest $3 billion a year for power transmission and modernization projects to improve the reliability and resiliency of our ever more complex power grid. this investment will position our grid to accept new sources of locally generated renewable energy and will address critical vulnerabilities to cyber attacks, an issue of great concern to many of us. another area where we are falling behind is internet access and speed. and this is especially important to rural states like vermont. the organization for economic c

leadership of the energy and commerce health subcommittee, i made it one of my goals to end the patchworkf doc fixes and repeal the sustainable growth rate. now we are here on the floor of the house with a bipartisan policy and a bipartisan set of pay fors. there were many who thought this day would never come. we are replacing the s.g.r. once and for all with a system that allows greater freedom for physicians to practice medicine. we do this without threatening access to health care for seniors. instead of unrealistic price controls, we are instituting a contive process to make our -- cooperative process to make our health care dollars go farther. we are also replacing a portion of the projected savings with real equipment reforms. reforms that could -- entitlement reforms. reforms that could reduce spending by $295 billion in the coming decades. let's not make the mistake of saying that this is saving medicare. the bill makes important reforms that put the program on a better path. but there's much work to do before we achieve that goal. future generations of americans have understanda

another model the partnership for patient is pretty patchwork of programs including some of our pay-for-performanceel where we invited about 75% of hospital ceos in the country to join us in setting up aggressive targets to reduce the patient harm in hospitals. 50000 lives saved, 1.3 million patient events avoided and $12 billion in the savings. the section 2031 is one of the most inspired sections of the aca. i would think of it this way. we are scientists, so we are testing. we have about 50 research scientists that work with us to evaluate these models. if they work and improve quality and the cost remains neutral or option number two if the quality is neutral and cost is reduced or option number three the one we all hope for if quality goes up and cost comes down, the secretary of the secretary of health and human services has the authority to extend the models nationally in duration and scope. this is a quick overview of the portfolio testing about 25 different models. we couldn't talk about all of them today but it's in your package. this is a slide that shows innovation is happening pretty m

right now amtrak uses patchwork procedures that make it difficult for an individual using a wheelchair or traveling with a bike to get on and off the train. the amtrak inspector general issued a report in august of last year that found that only 10% of amtrak stations are fully a.d.a. client which demonstrates the need to not only look at each station's infrastructure, but how each station gets passenger from station to platform to train. we need to make sure that amtrak is serving all of its customers to the best of its abilities and accordance with the law. similar difficulties exist for other forms of transportation such as bicycles. only 38% of amtrak lines provide baggage service for bicycles while only 18% of lines allow for roll on bicycle services complemented by ad hoc policies. mobility is important to reducing congestion. if we improve the boarding process, we improve quality of service and help encourage ridership. this amendment is supported by easter seals, people for bikes, united spine association, the league of american bicyclists, aarp, the national disabilities right