there are russian-language newspapers, magazines, even a radio station broadcasting 12 hours a day. the media company keeps the lines of communication to the old country open. today's russia is very different from the one many expatriates' left many years ago. >> they have come to germany to stay. these are their new homes. most acquired german citizenship. they owned homes here. their children go to school here. most, nearly 95%, stay here permanently. >> a painter and musician did not want to come to germany at all at first. as a child, she had been taught that germans were the villains, the enemy. when the iron curtain fell, she came to berlin to take part in an art project. a deep installed a for her home country echoes through the music of her band. she has overcome the present -- prejudices of her youth. germany has changed for for the better, she says. >> i don't feel as close to people who stayed in russia as i do to the ones here in germany. when i go back now, i have a totally different perspective. >> many russian speakers only return as temporary visitors to the former s

these are the initially, you are going to have all the radio stations will have emergency broadcast system. they will tell you where to go. where's the shelter supplies. initially after any disaster all the radio stations will broadcast on what's happening. the news to tell you what's happening. after that they will broadcast the evacuation centers. where to get medical help. one per floor for fire extinguishers. if you don't know how to use it we will talk about it in class number 2. you need a unification site. if you pick up the home phone and don't hear a dial tone, try again. make sure there is a land line hard wired to the -- not plugged in. if you can make a phone call you should call somewhere further away. if you have someone out of state that way they are not effected. who's okay, who's not, who has not called yet, that way you know who you are waiting for. after an earthquake or disaster if you know everyone in the family is safe you have no worries. if you work in the city and you live in the north bay, the bridge is down. make that phone call. your family is safe, you are safe

item 44 is a motion directing the clerk to work with kpoo radio on a plan to enable the radio station to broadcast weekly board of supervisors meetings and to implement the plan for such broadcasts. supervisor wiener: yes. so, this was introduced by supervisor now sheriff mirkarimi at his last meeting. while i am completely supportive of it, it would be great to get back on the kpoo radio, i'm informed it will cost us money to do that. and in the past that used to be paid for by redevelopment apparently which of course is not going to exist anymore. and so this directs the motion that directs the clerk to work out a plan and to implement it and so i just don't think -- i think it's premature. i move to table this matter. president chiu: motion to table. second to that? seconded by supervisor chu. without objection? without objection, this item is tabled. and with that, madam clerk, could you read the memoriams? >> yes. today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals. on behalf of supervisor campos for the late mr. arnold ellis. on behalf of supervisor elsbernd for the late

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was sent to an airforce base and that first assignment, was a broadcast outlet, it was kind of like a super station like pds and broadcast radioelevision signals to 11 different military installations throughout the tokyo area they had just started a regional newscast and that was what my first assignment was. this newscast had loosely assigned beats, and my beat was guam. so it is hot, it is december, and i get sent down to cover -- >>> powerful stories told by guam at the cultural arts center, tickets are just $20.15 active duty members and veterans. back to you in studio. >>> thank you very much. >> still ahead another check of the five day plus incredible shots of saturn and its moons. >> we will answer today's trivia question for you too. see you on the other side of the break  >>> time to say good morning to our facebook fan of the day the lovely sherry holmes today is her birthday. >> yay. >> she is a big fan of the show and especially enjoys tucker and julie in the morning. if you want to be tomorrow's fan of the day search fox 5 morning news. then post a comment under sherry's birthday. hope you

of course, congressman walden had a small radio station for quite some time, senator smith's representing the broadcast. i can tell you what happened in my case is when i became oregon's first united states senator, i said, look, i'm going to do everything i can for our traditional kind of industries. but i said in addition to that i'm going to try to find some new opportunities for us to really lead and innovate. and it always kept coming back to technology. for example, i'm now the chairman of senate finance committee on international trade. i think the internet is the shipping lane of the 21st century. so i'm very interested and anxious, for example, to promote the export or our digital goods. senator thune and i have introduced a bipartisan bill to do that as well. so if you look at the areas i've focused on -- authoring the communications decency act, that we wouldn't hold the intermediaries liable and damage innovation, i wrote the internet tax freedom bill, in effect, twice, the digital signature law in which people are viewing and listening often use when they're, in effect, signing real estate

radio. cumulus broadcasting said it will take the unprecedented step of carrying the game on all six of its stationsin the bay area. kmbr680, 1050, 107 the bone, kgo radio, ffso and 104.5 and 97.7 all will be carrying the niner game. >>> the san francisco rec and park department giving away two tickets to the game. you can like them on facebook or follow them on twitter. all you have to do is post or tweet why you love the san francisco rec and park department and you have until noon today to figure out why that is. for contest details go to abc7news.com under see it on tv. >> lisa, the weather you have said we are going to have some rain during the game? >> yeah. if you said how much you loved me, i would make is sunny. just kidding. we saw one system push on through and here's the end of it. the heavy snow in the sierra nevada. we are talking about leftover showers this morning and becoming partly to mostly cloudy so we aren't going to see a totally dry day, but still a few light showers. tomorrow the rain moves back in time for the game." it will be with us throughout the entire game on and off.

hundred seventy eight prevented radio and television stations from using the words were made famous during george carlin's seven dirty words segment in their broadcasts. thank. you both. that was my original list i knew it wasn't complete but it was a starter's you know. now those words set the standard for what can and cannot be played over the airwaves however in two thousand and four the f.c.c. further restricted broadcasters from expletives and what they define as indecency and decided that networks could be fined for breaking the rules just once and so that's why this entire supreme court argument comes into play cases and from all the major t.v. but t.v. networks like a.b.c. n.b.c. c.b.s. and fox were taken to lower appeals courts for incidents like these. have you ever tried to get up or not. really. bring. parts of the argument is that statements like that should be allowed to air because the rules regarding and should be excuse me to argue against this holding they should be allowed to air because the rules regarding indecency are overly vague and totally confusing the lawyers the broadcast networks are calling for the fines against them to

of course senator walden has a small radio station for quite some time with the family. senator smith is a broadcaster. i can tell you what happened in my case is when i became make united states senator in 1996, i said i'm going to do everything i can forward our traditional kind of industry but i said in addition to that, going to try to find some new opportunities for us to really lead and innovate and always kept coming back to technology. for example and now the chairman of the senate finance committee on international trade. i think the internet is the shipping lanes of the 21st century so lineberry can -- interested and anxious for example to promote the export of our digital goods. we have produced a bipartisan bill to do that as well. so if you look at the areas i have focused on, offering the communications decency act, we withhold the intermediaries liable in libel and damage innovation, they rogue internet freedom bill. the digital signature law, which people who are viewing and listening often use when they are in effect finding real estate documents and now a group of us are involved in

radio. broadcasting said they would take the unprecedented step of caring the game on all six of their radio stationsso someone says did you hear that game, you can say, yeah, on several different stations. >>> the san francisco rec and park department giving away tickets to the game. you can like them on facebook or follow them on twitter. all you have to do is post or tweet why you love the san francisco rec and park department and you have until noon today to figure out why that is. for contest details go to abc7news.com under see it on tv. coming up next at section, one storm down, more to come. meteorologist lisa will have the latest on what you can expect this weekend. and the rain did not deter occupy protestors in san francisco, who moved into an old hotel and then police moved in. we will show you. [ virginia ] i do have a healthy diet, but there are foods that i had no idea had so much acid in them. my dentist said that the acid in fruit, or fruit juice or fruit teas softens the enamel so that then it can potentially erode. once that enamel is gone, it's gone. my dentist recommended that i

same time these broadcasters are getting rich basically by peddling that misinformation my radio i do a three hour commercial radio show you know during the day and it's on commercial stations all over the country and one of the one of the ironies we used to joke about this we've been doing it for nine years is that both left wing radio and right wing radio don't get these these ads because the republicans are in advertising on rush limbaugh's show because they know what he's already doing they're going to have to and they're not going to advertise on my show because they know that i'm kind of doing their as it were you know i'm in the mode in their their worldview and so it all goes to like music radio and things like that. but it. if and therefore you know i've been talking about this for years it's like you know this is like it's like looking at another world and one of the things i noticed in the last two elections is that whenever one of the candidates in primaries or in the actual election or one of the candidates started really pull and i had all kinds of never negative coverage would come out or all kinds of positive coverage but the other can it until they were nec