smith considered killing himself and that of the responding officers as evidenced by a phone call the made to his doctor prior to the incident. the message he left his doctor was, just call the cops. the number was inaudible. then he stated, not my house anymore. i am going to try to take them out when they come to take me. it is all over today, doctor. it is all over today. bye-bye. for his heroic actions, the police department has offered officer suguitan the bronze medal of honor. [applause] in the audience, i would also like to acknowledge his partner, samuel fung. if he could remain standing and let everyone know who you are. congratulations. [applause] officer fung, we think you every day for the work that you do as well. i would also like to the knowledge the presence of angela kang. now if i could have officer michael peregoy and officer james trail come up. >> on wednesday, march 10, 2010, at 1653 hours, officers trail, peregoy, and obot were in uniform and part of the seven dale housing team responding to a report of shots fired on the 1800 block of sunnyvale ave. officers t

what is the first incident you want to respond to and why? what is the second incident you would respond to, and why? you would continue this process until all the incidents have been addressed. and you have to always remember what's the model of the nert program? come on, everyone, let's go. do the most good for the most amount of people. those who pick priority 1, 35 people reported missing or injured. what's the goal of the nert program? let's repeat it again. do the most good for the most amount of people. so, thus, what's the second incident you would go to? 9 elderly people. this is what you have to deal with. once you dealt with people, then you would respond to other incidents. what is the mission of the fire department? save lives, protect property. life is much more important than property. all right, let's move on. so we've dealt with the people. once we dealt with the people incidents, they will now do property. so no particular order now. there's no particular order, we're just going to discuss this. a building is fully involved

i think it is unfair to allow her to respond in writing. i am inclined to support a continuance under these terms. >> commissioners, shall we call the motion? president peterson: call the vote. >> commissioner fung, the motion is to continue this matter until next week to allow the distribution of permit holdersubmittals to the board with note submission by the appellate? commissioner fung: i believe my motion was to accept additional information provided by the permit holder, and we will accept any response to that information by the appellant and to maintain the schedule the hearing on adoption of findings for december 15. commissioner hwang: a question, when was the e-mail that you referenced earlier sent to the appellate, copied to the appellant? >> it would have been i believe on december 1 or november 30, thank you. >> commissioner fung, would you be allowing ms. morgan up until tuesday to submit? commissioner fung: that is correct, or orally at the next meeting. >> the motion is to accept the supplemental information which we are to

first, the health and compensation package for 9/11 responders, workers, and survivors. as we heard earlier, a last- minute compromise led to senate passage of a bill to provide up to $4.2 billion for monitoring and treating illnesses related to ground zero and to re-open a victims' compensation fund for another five years. the house had earlier passed its this afternoon, legislators from the new york area and supporters held a press conference to hail their victory. >> on 9/11, our country was attacked by terrorists. certain men and women, the strongest, the bravest among us, raised up those towers when everybody was coming down. they were the ones who went to the pile first to look for survivors, then the find remains. and then to do the cleanup. and they never failed. they never stopped. they never waivered, they never had any concerns for themselves. our government said the air was safe, but they didn't care, they were there because they were answering the call to duty. i want to thank them. >> we have gone eight christmases without federal assistance. we have gone e

the 9/11 first responders bill is still not law. it still has to get through the senate.t could pass, a majority of senators are in favor of it but it cannot come up for a vote because it is being filibustered by senators. congressman, thank you very much for being here. as somebody who worked very hard to get this through the house, how do you feel about the fact that it is still being held up in the senate? >> all we want is a vote. we just want a yes or no vote. this is nine years later, quite literally people are dying as they're watching this show. you're right, there really isn't a substantive argument against this. yesterday in the house of representatives and today the president signed a bill that gave tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires in the amount of about $70 billion. this is a $7 billion program for a dissecret group of people whoever day are coughing. the challenge that we have here is trying to stop the moving target of what the objection is. is it that they don't like the bill because it's just for new yorkers? it's not that. frankly, 435 districts

there responded and the limited time they had at the october 6 hearing. under the law, you cannot take away to people's right to pursue their livelihood after they got a permit and spent over 100,000 hours on something. thank you. -- $100,000 on something. thank you. commissioner garcia: that is to say if they accept the premise that they had a vested right. you are not saying that this board has a right to revoke a permit that has already been granted, right? >> yes, that is a case that is on point. they have a vested right because there was a permit that was supplied to dbi and the planning department and they spent some money on. commissioner garcia: maybe i asked the question poorly. it would be required, the basis that would be required is that it would be established there is a vested right? >> correct. commissioner garcia: you made it sound like any permit that came before the board we would not have the authority to overturn, and i wanted clarity on that. >> let me repeat -- commissioner garcia: if there is a vested right, but that has to be estab

the men and women here today are the voices for the thousands who are our first responders. thousands were picked comes and thousands of men and women who answered the call to duty when they were asked. when senators hear their stories and learn of what is happening to them, their horrific diseases, the n have, the terrie sacrifices they have made, i know that they will come together for this bill whose moral obligation we have to our first responders and to all those who hurt the nation call and answer that call on 9/11 and thereafter. now i'm going to ask my colleagues each to speak very briefly from their hearts about this bill. senator schumer. [applause] >> thank you, everybody. and we are here together with a plea to every senator and house member. keep the call, don't delay, pass the bill. the bottom line is very simple. i believe we now have the votes to prevail. the only thing standing in our way is people who might want to run out the clock. they can't succeed with the vote, so they are going to try to delay and delay and delay until time runs out. we plead with th

we are holding meetings with all four respondents on monday. we will sit down and be able to have a dialogue to have a frank dialogue and to make clear what needs to be included in the responses. and give them a bit more time to let them explain to us whether her or not that is what they want to do. and putting together their packages, it just wasn't included in what we saw. and give them some time to provide the follow up material and go through the scoring process. that is what we are thinking, and we should be able to be on the december timeframe for having selected primary responders. commissioner mirkarimi: commissioner campos would like to ask you something, but can you tell us who they are? >> they were respondents to the last rfp that was ultimately unsuccessful. we got a response from a firm called noble america's. we got a response from consolation and a response from show energy -- shell energy. commissioner mirkarimi: these are not small companies, to say the least. >> three of them for sure. commissioner mirkarimi: interesting chan

we also again as a first responder we are a first responder because we have to get the power on f law enforcement and ems so say can do their jobs. we engage in the eoc's the county eoc's the policy groups for the cities and counties. we are active in san francisco. we as a company can be told what is the priority of the policy folks here the decision makers of where do we turn the power on first? where do we put the gas lines back in place. we are trying work together as a time. prior to here i worked with the california highway patrol i had opportunities to be in many emergencies one that stuck with me i was brought over to a structure during the parade earthquake. i was the sdmacommander for a 1w shichlt i'm trying to go through the cries and fear and concern, one of the things that stood out was what i saw were people from the community from west oakland wanting to help the foeblgs stuck on the structure andment to help their neighborhood. there were rat in a maze. they didn't know what to do but want to engage. the involvement in the community and training is critical for everyon

and in the revised plan, we responded to the comments about the building being too tall. this has a high of 9 feet, we lowered this by another 4 feet. we want to emphasize that in the revised program, we responded to their concerns, and in the next meeting, we will be meeting at 8:30 and we would like to invite all of you to be in attendance. hot it may be helpful to address your concerns as well as their concerns. thank you very much. >> other other items -- are there other items? if not, public comment is closed. >> i have a piece of good news that i would like to share with you. the challenge to the environmental market for octavia to be invalid. >> this is not major. >> we will now start with a regular calendar. item number 10. an ordinance amending planning, section 409 to provide clarity and technical amendments. >> good morning. this has been reduced by mayor newsom, in follow-up to the article four provisions. to create a new article four. the changing of all of the fees in the planning code was a big project. and some things we've noticed, we would like to correc

. >> reporter: aaa set a record responding to 25,000 calls in one day. southern california is on pace for the wettest december in history. in the sierra nevada mammoth smashed a 40-year record. 10 feet of snow in four days. a weather system like no other on the move. >> it's going to go east and south and become the problem of the rockies and the plain states and parts east. >> reporter: already in utah, the virgin river is raging. xion national park is closed and a small dam could fail and evaluations have been ordered. forecasters have said all along that wednesday may bring the biggest punch. tomorrow at 4:00 a.m. we're expecting driving rain, pounding wind and potentially, tornados in this area. brian, for the folks that live along this river they're watching the water levels. >> all right. thanks so much. that's miguel almaguer. >>> as for the weather disaster overseas we've been talking about here this week it's still a mess. heathrow airport in london still at least partly paralyzed. hundreds of flights have been cancelled. holiday travelers are t

so why now are lawmakers so slow to respond to their medical needs?ng them honest tonight, we're going to show you which lawmakers are playing politics with 9/11 first responders, lawmakers who once said the issue was beyond partisanship. and an american aid worker thrown in jail in prison, one of the worst you can imagine. the allegations, get this, he kidnapped a 15-month-old child after turning the boy into a zombie. that's what the father of the child says, but he and the medical team that worked to save this child's life say the little boy died and they have a death certificate to prove it. >>> and later is it america's got talent or murderer's got gall? a person of interest in his wife's death and why some people are suspicious is he learned his wife is dead and then turned around and auditioned for "america's got talent." we begin as always, keeping them honest, on an issue we never thought we'd have to keep anyone honest about, caring for 9/11 first responders. seems like if anything could get universal bipartisan support it would be meeting t

you are going to respond to immediate needs in your area following a major disaster. what about here in san francisco, major metropolitan area. what are some possible areas in the city? golden gate bridge, right here. beautiful sunset today, i was watching it as we got here. what else? the bay bridge, candlestick, monster park, 42,000 will be in attendance on any sold out giants game, 62,000 on a 49er game. what else? b of a building. transamerica. this is a major -- so these are -- those are buildings. but what else might you think about? bart, transportation. we'll talk about that. hospitals. city hall. these are possible target areas. as we mentioned, civilian safety is the most important. point to yourself. your safety is the most important. when you are sizing up what are the dangers, what are your capabilities, what are your limitations. terrorism is no different from a natural disaster. you are going to respond the same way. be nice is not nice. b stands for biological. n is nuclear, i is incendiary and c is chemical. on the bottom scale, we have a likelihood i

the one that is just completely puzzling to me is this 9/11 responders bill. you may have seen jon stewart had a terrific show on this last night where you had these first responders who have cancer and they're saying on this show, why are we not getting some help? you know if the shoe were on the other foot and if were democrats, not republicans who were blocking a bill, the republicans would be saying they are spitting on patriots, on 9/11 responders, they're spitting on them. but democrats don't play as rough so you don't see the democrats right now saying the republican obstruction in the senate are spitting on patriots. so if -- i think if this notched-up to the next level of public consciousness, you may even have an outside chance for what the senator called a christmas miracle and this bill going through. >> and all of this was backed up because the tax cut didn't get to the floor until after the election. >> right. >> the back story there? >> well, the back story there is that a lot of democrats didn't want it to come to the floor before the election.

. >> we responded, fire responded. they took some life-saving measures which were not successful. >> reporter: the sonoma county medical examiner was called to the scene and found what a ppeared to be a gunshot wound to ramirez's leg. the investigation closed down the busy highway for nearly seven hours. the police briefly turned the turned the case over to the chp. >> the coroner informed us that that gunshot wound was actually a compound fracture. >> reporter: now the highway patrol are asking anyone t raveling along 101 early this morning to help them figure out why ramirez was on the road. >> right now, it's a hit-and- run situation. we still can't rule out foul play. was he in a car? was he thrown out of a car? why was he trying to cross? we just don't know why he was out there. >> reporter: now, tonight the highway patrol investigators say they are interviewing his family members to find out why he was on the road. the coroner is still awaiting toxicology results before releasing his final report. christien kafto

jal says it will study the order and respond appropriately with full respect for the law. japanese flag carrier filed for bankruptcy court protection last january and has been downsizing its operations ever since implementing rehabilitation -- a rehabilitation plan. >>> farmers in australia have their hands full coping with the ravages of nature. they're dealing with a severe drought in the western region, but in eastern australia, where the weather has been good, farmers face ruin from a different kind of problem. nhk world's hiromi kurosaka reports. >> the plague spreads across this land. they're locusts. for the last several months they have infested eastern australia. it's the worst infestation in 75 years. the region's unusually warm and rainy weather this year caused the problem. it made soil condition ideal for eggs to hatch and survive. ron hards grows wheat and barley on his 3,000 hectares of farmland. after this year's good weather, hards anticipated his best harvest in five years. but the day before the harvesting was to begin he found newly hatched locusts near

members will be voted on a bill to provide $4 billion for emergency responders.enate passed the bill this afternoon. if approved by the house, the bill goes to the president. i am, signed es sincerely, lorraine c. miller, clerk of the house. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house the following communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. madam, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on december 22, 2010, at 2:17 p.m. that the senate passed without amendment h.r. 6398. with best wishes i am, signed sincerely, lorraine c. miller, clerk of the house. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house the following communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. madam, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary o

one of the main drills will focus on responding to ballistic missile attacks. mock attacks from the two countries ekewind with aegis radar will practice acquiring and tracking missiles. drills will also include defending japan's remote southern islands. jet fighters will patrol the southern air space. and destroyers will patrol the waters to prevent enemy forces from landing on the islands. >>> as military tensions on the korean peninsula and other east asian regions continue to increase, japan and the united states aim to boost their capabilities to jointly respond to any emergency. the two nations also hope that their coordinated efforts will act as a deterrent against possible future conflicts. >>> a chinese government official says the country will keep a close eye on an upcoming meeting between japan, the united states, and south korea, where north korean issues will be discussed. foreign ministers of the three countries will meet in washington on monday to discuss north korea's artillery attacks on south korea as well as recently confirmed uranium enrichm

but then suddenly a torrent of legislation, for 9/11 first responders, don't ask, don't tell for the military, and the s.t.a.r.t. nuclear arms treaty. our team is in place and ready to go tonight. we'll begin in new york with savannah guthrie. savannah, at least they leave town in dramatic fashion. >> reporter: we had some cliffhangers. this ended better than the president probably expected out of the ashes of those midterm losses. the president was able to cobble together a string of bipartisan victories in the final weeks of this congress, and just in case americans busy with the holidays might have missed it, he held a news conference today to draw attention to those accomplishments. as washington wrapped up its business for the year, the president took what amounted to a victory lap. >> i think it's fair to say that this has been the most productive post election period we've had in decades. it comes on the heels of the most productive two years that we've had in generations. >> the resolution and ratification is agreed to. >> reporter: with vice president biden presiding, the se