i am going to see now if eva pirring is here now. >> hello, everyone. my name is eva pirring, the represented -- [unintelligible] i have lived in the tenderloin for 23 years and have been married for 21 years. i have raised four children, one of whom used to be a foster child and is now under my guardianship. the ages of my children are 20, 19, 18, and nine years old. two of my children are attending universities, and one is attending a beauty school. one is a fifth grader. all my children have been raised in the tenderloin area. i am an active member of the tenderloin filipino-american community, and a fundraiser manager at the street barnabas church. my past job was working in a bank. i worked there for 19 years, until i got laid off, and i found a new calling in health care services. currently, i am a full-time healthcare provider, in addition to working part-time. being a tenderloin resident for a long time has given me a different perspective of our committee and of the residence in it. our community needs change, but we want this change to address

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. he has offered ab418, and today's presentation goes over how this will facilitate the trust exchange and also how we can facilitate one of our major part requirements under the host agreement with the america's cup event of poverty. -- authority. in anticipation of getting force city on board as a development partner, trying to further the entitlement process at your -- pier 70, much of the staff reached out to the california state lands commission january and started talking about legislation to a effectuate the eugene gartland t

the shelf one of the television also says the shelling was a response to rockets fired from gaza at pir suffer. ok time now for the latest. and welcome to the program as i was told you earlier moscow's international air show takes to the wing in less than an hour the organizers expect more than ten billion dollars worth of contracts to be signed over the next few days the russian government will be the biggest but i would have authority of deals in the defense sector also become troops and so one hundred of its new medium range present planes like this is always through project for producers boeing and expect no big deal as a twenty level however burn has been talking up the market here saying it expects one hundred ten billion dollars to be spent on u.s. craft in the country in the next twenty years. russia's so weakly capital fund outflows jump over ten fold in the beginning of august to four hundred fifteen million dollars many believe russia's upcoming elections are starting to influence investors' minds but allocated out of the capital believes that politically there is little to w

. >> as he explained the tax cuts are due tochl pir at the end of the year.d have little chance of reinstating them. and next year, they can win the white house and majority in the senate. they'd he need a filibuster proof majority to get back to bush tax cuts after expired and that doesn't look to be in the cards now this, fall, we'll see how well the president play that's hard. cheryl? >> thank you. and increasing concern sparked a selloff on wall street. dow opened above, end of the day under 12,000. the dow has been down eight days making it the worst selloff since october, 2008, beginning of the economic crisis. here is a look at numbers, dow dropped 265 points. and s and p 500 closed down 33. in another money matters americans cut back on spending in june for the first time in nearly two years. the commerce dep reports consumer spending dipped .2% in june, the weakest growth since september, reflecting little hiring this spring. general motors increased sales by nearly 8%. powered by sales of fuel-efficient vehicles, and stole nearly 25,000 cruise model

the bush-era cuts due tochl pir at the end of next year, he can let cuts expire and republicans wouldry difficult time reinstating them. dan? >> thank you mark matthews reporting. president obama says politics is the only thing holding america back from a stronger economic recovery, wrapping up a bus tour with a town hall meeting in a family-owned agriculture plant in illinois. announcing plans for a major speech after labor day where he'll unveil a new plan to create jobs and help america's poor and middle class. he says regular americans need to make their voices heard. >> i need you to send a message to folks in washington. stop drawing lines in the sand. stop engaging in rhetoric instead of getting things done. it's time to put country ahead of party. time to worry more about next generation and next election. >> republicans quickly mocked the president for announcing the speech. >> we appreciate the fact that he's trying to devote sometime to it. not just on the bus tour or vacationing on martha's vineyard but giving some thought to the american people. >> a spokesman for republi

gadhafi becoming less of an international pir rye ya and western companies being able to do business in libya. but the cost to him is that his weapons facilities were not only inspected, the officials who did the inspecting left libya with 55,000 pounds of documents and nuclear components with the blueprints of a nuclear bomb with sent tri funlgs, thousands of them, with scud missiles and most importantly with highly-enriched uranium. gadhafi's entire nuclear program was moved, basically whole, to the oak ridge national laboratory in tennessee, with are we still have it. one thing gadhafi did not give up, however, was a bunch of raw uranium and chemical weapons. he did sign on to an agreement which forbids making or using chemical weapons but what about his existing stockpiles not yet destroyed? who guards them? quote, there are still some 500 to 900 metric tons of raw uranium yellow cake stored in drums at libya's lone nuclear reactor east of tripoli. and, quote, the scheduled destruction of some 23 tons of mustard gas. didn't start until last year and only was halfway used when the

lived in crippling poverty since the collapse of the central state in 1981, yet it took 17 years for pirscome a problem in somalia. you don't see relatively poor areas producing more pirates. in the south, for example, really, it's much, much worse than the north, where i was, and where piracy really originated from. you don't see -- you see very little to no pirates operating out of the south. and -- >> so -- so what do you attribute it to? >> to geography. why the north was so -- was so, such a crucial epicenter, because if you see footland, north of the country, it's in the northeast in a country just to the intersection of the indian ocean and gulf of aden. one of the biggest shipping lanes in the world. two, there is a government there. a lot of people don't know that there are actual many different functioning governments with somalia itself. in footland, that government, basically it ran out of money in 2008. and stopped paying its security forces and, really, it's ability to control its coast completely collapsed. so you had basically a situation where thing was not at chaotic as

survivors returning to this little piece of land, a place they ran from almost a month ago under heavy gun pir, but today vowing to take this place back. the prime minister of norway has been here to speak to these youngsters. also today we know that they are going back to the areas where they hid from the gunmen. they're trying to come to terms with what happened here, and also trying to move forward. the prime minister and others have said that now is the time for the end of the mourning, though they're very quick to point out they will never forget what happened here. that's the very latest. just off the island, i'm jay gray. now, veronica, back to you. >> nbc's gray gray in norway. we appreciate it. thank you. >>> does rick perry's west texan drawal sound familiar? there's a long list of similarities between rick perry and george w. bush. we'll talk about them. that's coming up. >>> also, the sobering discovery from congresswoman gabrielle giffords. the story coming up next on msnbc saturday. [ dr. ling ] i need to check on the blood work... and see katie before she goes home. [ male annou

we also fully recognize that, at some level depending on where we take the cuts, pir fore -- our forestructure takes a hit. there are cost and schedule requirements that are in jeopardy and will be under scrutiny as we go forward. i am confident we can meet the target we have been given bus bar -- thus far. we understand that if those cuts were to double, we have looked into that abyss. 's view ise chief that that is dangerous for the country. we will continue to focus on these national security requirements, the demands of which are still out there and will be in the future. >> you said you hope dequestion -- sequestion will not happen. the defense department says hope is not a strategy. mr. chairman, you said you could not allow the cuts to go so far and so deep as to risk national security. with respect, the question is, if dequestio -- sequestion happens, how strongly do you feel -- sequestration happens, you feel you could remain in office? >> i did not come into this office to quit. i came into this job to fight. buy a ticket is to fight to make sure some common sense prevails here. the