tonight on piers morgan -- >> piers: i'm a womanizer and i'm gay. >> i'm selfish. >> piers: let's talkbout your private life yufrl private life has attracted more headlines than probably anybody else i would consider -- >> come on! >> piers: you said this. and this may have been a terrible error. i can't make my mind up. you said i love talking about women. they're a constant study. and you're always learning. >> i don't know where that came from. at one point, i'm assuming, i used to host a show called the other half with dick clark. and it was like the view but with men. so topics, women's topics seen through the eyes of men. we would say sort of those things. >> piers: what have you lettear about women? >> i've learned that i don't know anything. i've learned to be patient. i've learned to accept that we're completely different and it is much easier to agree and move on. because we try to debate and argue. we lose and it's pointless. >> piers: you've back submissive doormat. >> no, no. that's not what i said. that's not what i said. i've learned to be more of a teammate than try to

they know the pier. people like dave and ron who are very famous investors know this place very well. what this creates is a culture in the community that you can't replace. you can go down the street and open another pier, put us there instead. i hate to see that happen, but you're not going to have the same kind of atmosphere that you would have here. it's like taking sand hill road and putting it in berkeley. it's a difference of culture and atmosphere with the surroundings. i both invest and mentor and advice companies, so i see a lot of companies from spain, italy and south america coming here, some wonderful talent and they love the culture and the support network they have at pier 38. short story is this event has to take place. it would be a shame to close it. a lot of people here will be adversely affected if it did close. i would hate to see that happen as well. thank you. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> hello, i work in an italian company. we moved to there in january because we wa

that is likely to the improvements to piers 30, 32, no. waterfront, public assets -- access benefits. in addition, the port must identify 2.3 acres ofbay shoreline property that can be entrusted with the trust that is not currently encumbered by the trust. we would have to do that prior to the transfer of title of seawall lot 330. this is a fairly significant to. it fills one of the major city obligations, and we are hopeful that the legislature approves it and the governor signs it. that is my presentation. bill and myself are available for questions that you may have. >> thank you. we do have public comment. maryland's men's -- marilyn smith. i am sorry. is there any public comment on this item? commissioners? brad, in your first slide, it says the bill was introduced february 2010. you said february 2011. >> i am sorry, 2011. it is not a two-year bill. that is me rushing after vacation. >> understood. you said it is in suspense but was hoping it would be passed. i do not remember all of my legislative history, so -- >> senate or assembl

>> yeah, i play golf with one happened. >> piers: with one hand? >> yeah. >> piers: really?yeah, drive a ball 180 yards. >> piers: can you really? >> yeah. >> piers: that's extraordinary. >> you do what you have to do if you want to do something, you just do with what you've got. >> piers: going to take a little break and come back and talk to you about your love for a doll finger the words i never thought i would use to you, morgan freeman. >> i never thought aid hear them. >> well, to begin with she just moves as wet silk but how would you keep the doing a gone thing on? there's nothing there, there's nothing to attach anything to. it's preposterous anyway, trying to put a tail on a fish. and nobody in his mind would even try. luckily, i'm not. >> not what? >> in my right mind. >> piers: from your new film "dolphin tail" in theaters now. you play dr. mccarthy who builds a tail for this dolphin, a true story. >> base and true story, yeah. >> piers: a dolphin called winter and this prosthetic tail is attached by the end of the movie in some real sort of weepy, heartwarming f

eugene gartland trust swap -- pier 70 trust swap. anytime there is a trust swap, the agreement needs to be authorized. assemblymember ammiano introduced the bill in february, sailed through without problems. this morning, it is up in state senate appropriations and is headed to the suspense file. we are optimistic about it coming off and being voted on the senate floor. over the past month, we have been negotiating a series of technical but important amendments with the california state lands commission staff. i will go over those in the presentation. for the public who may not be familiar with the public trust, the public trust is -- represents the port's mission as enshrined in law. the doctrine originated in roman law, transmitted through the night mcartor, to the original 13 colonies. as each state was admitted to the union, it obtained public trust rights to, basically, the waterways in those states. in california, the public has certain rights in submerged lands and kind land between mean low and the nine died. whether those ar

>> yeah, i play golf with one happened. >> piers: with one hand? >> yeah. >> piers: really?>> yeah. >> piers: that's extraordinary. >> you do what you have to do if you want to do something, you just do with what you've got. >> piers: going to take a little break and come back and talk to you about your love for a doll finger the words i never thought i would use to you, morgan freeman. >> i never thought aid hear them. >> so, ah, your seat good? got the mirrors all adjusted? you can see everything ok? just stay off the freeways, all right? i don't want you going out on those yet. and leave your phone in your purse, i don't want you texting. >> daddy... ok! ok, here you go. be careful. >> thanks dad. >> and call me--but not while you're driving. we knew this day was coming. that's why we bought a subaru. if by blessed you mean freaked out about money. well, we suddenly noticed that everything was getting more expensive, so we switched to the bargain detergent, but i found myself using three times more than you're supposed to and the clothes still weren't as clean as with tid

the history of pier 70 is quite interesting. i will not get into many details, but i will walk through days maps that brad has prepared to give you a flavor of why we have this opportunity in the first place. as you know, most of the land that the ford owns in the portfolio is subject to the trust. virtually all of it came to the stadium the burton act. most of the land owned by the state in the city was subject to the trust. pier 70 is a major exception, and it has given us this rare our opportunity to do an internal trust swap without having to look outside of the port's own holdings to effectuate the trade. so let us look at one of the earliest conveyances of property, here at the site, in the light green area at the bottom of the matp. the time the land portion of that rectangle down there was owned by the state. they were conveyed to the pacific mills co. back in the 1960's, one of the first industries in this part of san francisco. they had a major iron mill that was operating on the up land portion. they have perhaps alre

at pier 70 and turning public trust restrictions on sea wall lot 330. >> good morning, commissioners. special projects manager for the port. dianne is passing out to you some maps of pier 70, which will be used in the presentation. just bear with me while i get this launched. i am here representing the port team that has been working on pure 70 for many years, the master planning process. many others in the planning development group. there was a key component of the master plan that looked at realigning the public trust designation at pir 70 in a way that will help promote the master plan. the core of the master plan is to have revenue-generating uses on the waterfront development site. commission has awarded an exclusive negotiating rights to the force city development team for that right. that will be the economic engine to save a lot of historic buildings, build the parks, do the other thing that we all hope peer 70 can be. assemblymember ammiano has come to the port's aid again this year. h

>> yeah, i play golf with one hand. >> piers: with one hand? >> yeah. >> piers: really?rds. >> piers: can you really? >> yeah. >> piers: that's extraordinary. >> you do what you have to do if you want to do something, you just do with what you've got. >> piers: going to take a little break and come back and talk to you about your love for a dolphin the words i never thought i would use to you, morgan freeman. >> i never thought aid hear them. ♪ ♪ [ dog barks ] [ birds chirping ] ♪ [ mechanical breathing ] [ engine turns over ] ♪ [ male announcer ] the all-new volkswagen passat. a new force in the midsize category. ♪ a new force in the midsize category. somewhere in america, a city comes to life. it moves effortlessly, breathes easily. it flows with clean water. it makes its skyline greener and its population healthier. all to become the kind of city people want to live and work in. somewhere in america, we've already answered some of the nation's toughest questions. and the over sixty thousand people of siemens are ready to do it again. siemens. answers. just having some

as part of the grant street pier project, part of the redevelopment of pier 30-32, you can see the water mark condominiums that we were talking about earlier. at that time, we thought we had a good understanding of what the historic resources had been. but it was not identified as a historic resources and was not analyzed in that fashion. subsequent to that, when we were actually doing the detailed analysis for the embarcadero historic district, that is when our historian at the time identified of the source, triggering the need for subsequent environmental review. it was only through the patience of the community of partners that we were able to pull together funding from alternate sources that ultimately led us to our partnership. producing this environmental impact report before you today. in coordination with the environmental national policy act document, the army corps needs to prepare to do their portion of the work for the demolition of pier 36. the combination of federal, local, and state approval, coalesced to be able for the project to move forward. in that context, this has b

turn it into pier 36.. there is no doubt in my mind that they're going to create number pir 36 which is fenced off, rundown building attracting drug users and so on. it's my neighborhood and also i'm one of the tenants. i am being evicted. i'm not the biggest revenue generator in the pier 38. however, it's mind boggling that we can get a man on the moon and we can bring back "apollo 13" and save lives when we need to, but we cannot fix a pier that generates perfectly good revenue and provides a shelter for a lot of people and jobs. thank you. president chiu: thank you, next speaker. >> hi, i'm bob christopher. i'm a tenant at pier 38 here to support the cause. a little bit of background. pier 38 is a recognized piece of landscape in the investor world. there is parts of mountain view and parts of pier 38 in san francisco. i ran an event there once a

this is piers morgan tonight. >> good evening. "new york times" columnist, nick christophe is here with me. first, we want to turn to a devastating day in the markets. asian stocks reacting, south korean shares down 3.5% and australian stocks down 2.05% and a huge recession and the dow dropping 391 points. nasdaq and s&p 500 didn't fare much better. we had lots of turmoil but there is expectation from analysts and experts we could be heading to another form of recession. what's going on here? >> i think insecurities are feeding on each other and even though it's fixable in economic sense but maybe not political sense. our 401(k)s depend to some degree on agreeing parliamentarians to solve their political problems and our own problems in washington don't help that. >> there's a sense -- a real disconnect between politicians almost everywhere in the world and reality. is that the sense you're getting? >> yeah. certainly, the problems in this country were very much inflamed. you look at confidence levels in this country, they were hu

hundreds of companies are created at pier 38 for the past few years. some of them saw wonderful exits ranging to up to millions of dollars. this is a unique place that a lot of international people are coming to start their business. i have been to london, paris, madrid, amsterdam and tel aviv and any of those international cities would die to help us if they could. this is really sad that this is happening. thanks. president chiu: next speaker. >> hi, my name is glen jones. i'm a resident of pier 38 as well. i have two businesses as well. one we do environmental restoration work. another is a contracting company and we build homes in san francisco. i would like to say i don't think we have been treated very fairly with the eviction. we have been associated with carl and have taken the tenants to carl on that we are, as has been stated, really a great group of people there creating jobs, making jobs for san francisco and the community and at large, we are doing a really good job and we would like to stay there. i'm a general contractor, like i said. i

piers morgan starts right now. >>> tonight, a sensational trial of dr. conrad murray day one. >> ladies and gentlemen, the evidence in this case will show that michael jackson literally put his life in the hands of conrad murray. >> the jackson family looks on while fans from around the world crowd outside the courthouse. >> the evidence is not going to show you that michael jackson died when dr. murray gave him propofol for sleep. what the evidence is going to show you is that michael jackson died when dr. murray stopped. >> as the world watches, what is the truth? who caused the death of michael jackson? >> dr. murray's repeated incompetent and unskilled acts that led to mr. jackson's death. >> the scientific evidence will show you that when dr. murray left the room, michael jackson self-administered a dose of propofol that with the lorazepam created a perfect storm that killed him instantly. >> tonight dr. sanjay gupta, michael's lifelong friend kathy hilton. the trial of conrad murray. this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. an extraordinary fi

it was right off the bat, piers, when the prosecution began the opening statements. the lead prosecutors within a few minutes, he showed this photo of michael jackson. boy, if the jurors weren't fixated to begin with, they sure were at that point. of course, family -- it was a very emotional moment for the family in the courtroom as well and for everybody to see that image of michael jackson. obviously, what they're trying to hammer home here, what they were early on in the opening was that this was the victim. he was an international star. and every one of those jurors, they know it, has an opinion and lass some connection to michael jackson. they knew that in voir dire. they threw that picture out and they established that connection searly. >> the perhaps even more extraordinary moment i felt came when david walgren played this recording from murray's iphone this which you hear a sedated michael jackson. i'll play that to you. then we'll discuss it afterwards. >> ted, that was one of the most sort of pathetic and pitiful things i think i've ever heard from a celeb

. >> piers: great guy.e people, been together over three years now. >> you are a bit older than him, respect you. >> a bit? i don't know, in my spirit, i feel like i'm younger. i mean, look at this face, honey. >> piers: does he quite qualify for toy boy status or no? >> no absolutely not. and one time you call made cougar and never again. i was like what is that? and then somebody told me. >> it's a big cat that lives in the mountains. >> i have a lot of energy and i think it's spirit and, i don't know. >> in a few years time, you will be a milf. >> piers: simon. this is not that kind of show not the kind of show you that do this is your new album. >> yes. >> piers: the single from the album, called "killer love." single is called "don't hold your breath," is that some reference to getting some compliment from simon or -- >> yeah. don't -- >> piers: excited by this? >> i have released the album in the uk. been really positive. >> number one. before to release it here. i'm a little scared trkt is my baby, b

that is between pier 27 and kurt 29 area. it is an approved, we have an extremely compressed schedule to deliver it in time for the event. in order to meet the date stipulated in the host and venue agreement, the general contractor needs to place the order for steel now because of the long lead time. this process begins shop drawings, purchase of steel fabrication and installation. the poor recognizes the city may disproves the event, cruise terminal, or both event. we acknowledge to place the order now, prior to the project approval is at some risk to the port. however, this is the best course of action because of three reasons. now is a great time to purchase the deal. prices are low and we have indications of prices will escalate. if the cruise terminal project it disapproved, the court to cancel the fabrication. 3, this lower-cost deal could be reduced. as indicated in the memorandum, no construction worker insulation will occur at the site until after the regulatory approvals are granted, including environmental review u

this is "piers morgan tonight." on the eve of one of the most important speeches of the obama presidency, days away from the tenth anniversary of 9/11, a critical time for this country and for the white house. when the president goes to capitol hill tomorrow night he's expected to unveil a huge $300 billion jobs program. with new spending on highways and rail systems and targeted tax cuts paid for in part by closing corporate loopholes and raising taxes on the wealthiest americans. democrats familiar with the plan. with some congressional republicans already planning to skip the speech, will this be a turning point for america or business as usual in war torn washington? joining me a man with strong opini opinions. tom friedman, author of "that used to be us." how america fell behind in the world and invented and how we came back. you wrote a damning column this morning in "the new york times" basically saying as all the middle eastern dictators get toppled because they've been found wanting in the truth department,

of the philippines at pier 80. this increase our revenues substantially.e negotiated a lease with the chinese province for 30,000 square feet of space at the pier 27 bulkhead. and he negotiated an agreement to serve a long and other countries, bringing in an additional 100 teu's a week. he was involved in the purchase of the bethlehem shipyard property at sea wall laot 349. he was also presented an award of distinguished service for his efforts in the success of our mandate 1987. army day was a holiday to draw attention to national defense. i just wanted to take a moment to praise him and remember him for all of his great efforts. we have probably long gone up some of the things that we are working on today started many years ago. i do not think i see any members of his family today, but our condolences and gratitude for all of them have sacrificed for the city and port. thank you. >> is there any public comment on the executive director's report? >> item 4b. informational presentation on assembly bill 418 delegating to the california state lands commissio

i'm a resident of pier 38 as well. i have two businesses as well. one we do environmental restoration work. another is a contracting company and we build homes in san francisco. i would like to say i don't think we have been treated very fairly with the eviction. we have been associated with carl and have taken the tenants to carl on that we are, as has been stated, really a great group of people there creating jobs, making jobs for san francisco and the community and at large, we are doing a really good job and we would like to stay there. i'm a general contractor, like i said. i can repair everything on the list within a month easily and pay for it. so i would plead our case to stay and continue giving revenue to the port and the city of san francisco. with us leaving the pier in their 25-day notice to depart, the city is going to lose a significant amount of money due to our departure and rent loss. then the pier is going to sit, from what we hear, from two to three days while these minor repairs are taking place while it degradates as does the p

the 20th street buildings are six buildings at pier 70 in need of rehabilitation. in february we began talking about having individual entities partner with the port to rehabilitate these great building set on the street, and now it captivated over 100 people half -- and now we up calculated over 100 people have toured these buildings. beginning september 23, 2011, we will close the process. anyone having responded to the process will request to summit in the proposal process. we are looking forward to the creative ideas we seen so far and coming back to talk to about what great things the future holds for these fantastic buildings. of all holds true to plan, we hope to be back in the winter to talk about the request for proposal. not your head enthusiastically. thank you. that concludes my report. -- knod your head enthusiastically. in >>> items on the consent age. item eight a, request authorization to award construction contract #2744r, roadhouse to heating, ventilation and air-conditioning central plant upgrade project to evra construction come in an amount not

38 on the right, but not the pier itself. we obtained a copy of the september 2010 agreement between the city and race organizers, that identifies pier 38 as an area for spectators. the president says the agreement refers only to the waters around pier 38. now pier 38 is declared unsafe. >> this is a source of revenue to the port. so why would they kick out all of these tenants, if they didn't have other plans for pier 38? >> reporter: the inspection report lists about 30 potential fire, plumbing and electrical hazards. >> to confirm, whether or not it's absolutely necessary for them to meetly move. >> if you're moving from one apartment to the next, it's a pain. if you're moving from one business to another, you have to move all the code. >> reporter: odds are, they won't be coming back. in san francisco, rob roth, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> bart is having to explain a questionable move. one that it acknowledges was a mistake. ktvu obtained internal emails showing bart's chief spokesman solicited riders to speak at a news con

38 on the right, but not the pier itself.ined a copy of the september 2010 agreement between the city and race organizers, that identifies pier 38 as an area for spectators. the president says the agreement refers only to the waters around pier 38. now pier 38 is declared unsafe. >> this is a source of revenue to the port. so why would they kick out all of these tenants, if they didn't have other plans for pier 38? >> reporter: the inspection report lists about 30 potential fire, plumbing and electrical hazards. >> to confirm, whether or not it's absolutely necessary for them to meetly move. >> if you're moving from one apartment to the next, it's a pain. if you're moving from one business to another, you have to move all the code. >> reporter: odds are, they won't be coming back. in san francisco, rob roth, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> bart is having to explain a questionable move. one that it acknowledges was a mistake. ktvu obtained internal emails showing bart's chief spokesman solicited riders to speak at a news conference

i started a petition to save pier 38. when i started to mention that it was going to be close, it raised a lot of concern with people. they have been looking at pier 36 for a decade and they are murren that we are going to end up with another location like that. these are some of the questioner that the petitioners raised. there is a space where the company used to occupy. that space, according to my knowledge, has been done with all of the permits, inspected by the port. the latest rumor i have heard is there are toxic gases trapped in the walls. can you answer what kind of gases you suspect? we had pg&e expect a place for gas leaks and other toxic gases. they could not find anything. another question is why did the port close the rolling door on the south side of the public access area? why did the port direct offenses on the north side to limit public access as well? another question i have is why the port has done absolutely nothing about safety problems in a timely matter. most of it is easy to fix. the original repo