respondent -- when we give the respondent the opportunity to have it over turned and not act on it. but have the task force the spokesperson and not the complainant? >> if the complainant does not wish to show up. then the task force itself should be able to show up. make sure that the issue was pursued. >> not as the representative of the issue. >> speaking for the task force and acting for the order of determination. >> thank you. >> okay, a couple of things have been become clear to me through this process. first of all, i have felt and still feel that the staff did a very nice job with these. because this is a difficult issue. and we have been trying very hard over the course of quite a while to come up with regulations that we think work, that comport with our view and responsibilities. and take in part what the task force feels is necessary. i think that the staff has done a great job with that. and i appreciate that. that said, when you are doing regulations. it's a complicated process. you hear from the public. you learn things that may alter how one may want, how one may wa

first responders. is there's a lot of people of the p.t.s.d. the things that we saw nobody should have to see and it's a fact that it's affected by life i've. started to lose the. nightmares of things that stop me in the middle. it is in the legs that i know john has approached and everybody i know that word has the. paul ryan voted against the bill twice are our leaders fully aware of the sacrifices you guys have made. john we just have thirty seconds here for you ok i know personally that whether they know they know the sacrifices but honestly we all know that we were just a guinea pig down there this took eleven years to get something that we all knew. happen down there we've buried so many people down they already responded to more and more getting dying right now it's it needs to pick up speed we need to get more money into this bill so the responders and their and their families can see some type of closure i'm absolutely with john devlin kirk arsenal thank you both for being with us. thank you for coming out some politicians are lucky en

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

again the respondent doesn't show up. we often don't have a clear idea why the record wasn't produced. so our recourse has been to send the matter to you for enforcement, for production of the record. and so there a lot in here about, yes, having a choe -- show cause hearing and looking for reasons for information. the bottom line for the complainant and us is that the public records that the public has every right to obtain are produced. and so i think the regulations should be clear in addressing this most usual, i would say, type of matter we would send to you. where we just want your help. to get this information. regardless of why it wasn't produced. because often we don't know. thank you. >> okay. i think there were some good points raised by the public. i think let's take them in chronological order than order of presentation. section g, the complaints. i understand the concern, we are not saying that a task force referral is meant to suggest that there is no, that this is just merely a complaint. as if it were ini

were between 20 and 100 respondents, half of the respondents were over half of employees, employers to 0 to 19 employees are not required to submit data to our office. in total, there was 1.2 billion dollars in health care spending on behalf of 220 thousand san francisco employees. we break that down into three general categories and these numbers were similar in percentages to what we've seen in prior years, 89% of the money goes to health insurance, 4% to have money to the city option, sort of also referred to as the healthy san francisco program x and 7% of the money went to reimbursement programs as a general category, the vast majority of that specifically to health reimbursement accounts or hra's, i think that# indicates and shows that the vast majority of employers who provide health insurance to their workers provides the vast majority to have spending are complying with the spirit and intent of the ordinance. looking just specifically at reimbursement programs as a general category, we did see the reimbursement rate increase sleekly from 2010 to 2011, that number went from

they were the first responders. they were the firefighters, they were emergency medical technicians, they were the paramedics, the peace officers. and they, many of them, died that day. and while it's important we remember those that were killed, it's equally important we remember those that got to live, mr. speaker, because those first responders charged to that terror from the sky. and many of them gave up their lives so others could live on that famous day. of september 11, 2011. that's just the way it is. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentlelady from texas, ms. jackson lee. the gentlelady is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. speaker. mr. speaker i rise on this solemn day in the history of our nation, the 11th anniversary of the terror attacks on 9/11, to honor and pay tribute to a north carolina state trooper who was killed in the line of duty this past saturday morning. mr. butterfield: it was a tragic, tragic incident. trooper bobby demuth serve the stat

brian murphy arrives at the temple responding to a 911 call.page exits the temple, he and lieutenant murphy spot each other and open fire. lieutenant murphy is shot in the throat and crawls behind a car for cover. the gunman keeps firing, shooting murphy 15 times. one round goes through another car's window, but murphy survives. just then, officer sam lindle pulls up. >> saw the individual coming at me. it's just something that i had a sense that this was not right. the way he was marching at me was an aggressive manner. >> reporter: rifle in hand, lindle gets out of the car and yells to the gunman 75 feet away. a bullet strikes his windshield, and officer linda waits no longer. the gunman falls to the ground, but fires one more time, killing himself. >> from what we've seen now already, we know he was on a mission to cause havoc. he had to be stopped and that's why i decided to shoot at that time. >> reporter: linda says he's no hero. >> i'm just an officer who did my job. no different than the other 200-some officers that responded that day.

again the respondent doesn't show up. we often don't have a clear idea why the record wasn't produced. so our recourse has been to send the matter to you for enforcement, for production of the record. and so there a lot in here about, yes, having a choe

they responded to the location at 7:00. officer griffin, the driver, droves through the rear garage area of the identified property. as the approach the garage as the rear, and get a slowly opened. the men saw a car pulling up to the exit, and immediately recognize the driver as the subject they were seeking. knowing his propensity for violence and the fact that he had numerous weapons, griffin and tursi

they responded to the location at 7:00. officer griffin, the driver, droves through the rear garage area of the identified property. as the approach the garage as the rear, and get a slowly opened. the men saw a car pulling up to the exit, and immediately recognize the driver as the subject they were seeking. knowing his propensity for violence and the fact that he had numerous weapons, griffin and tursi made a quick decision to park the police carxgñ?ñ? to prevent the exit. they knew they put them selves at risk. officer tursi exited the car and drove his handgun. he then moved to an area of limited coverage north of the gate. simultaneously, officer griffin exited the car and tactfully moved to the tree line south of the gate. while moving to cover, officer tursi saw the suspect moving to his we stand. he then quickly pointed a handgun toward officer griffin. officer tursi ye

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the other officers responded into the room. macmillan jumped into the struggle and pointed the gun at his head. he stated, let it go, or i will shoot. heckert let the get go. the officers took him into custody and saw fire arm that was formally in his hand was now under his body. when they lifted him up, they saw even more disturbing, a three-month old baby was on the bed to feet from where the two men had just been engaged in a violent struggle. manning told him that they were there for a provision search, and were still undeterred from his mission. hector stated that he had the gun for his own protection. he continued to search your the bed and found another weapon. a semi-automatic loaded pistol just a few feet from the scene of the bike. in this situation, i believe the courage and fortitude the sergeant manning displayed here not only save his life, the lead of his partners, and the life of the three-month old child on the bed, and for that he is being awarded the bronze medal of valor. [applause] >> sergeant orkes will re

to that from a legal perspective, so we did not respond to those. let me close by saying that the department of public health has worked closely with the office of labor standards enforcement from orders of the executive order which was signed in the latter part of 2011 and specifically we have worked to target those employees who work for employers for whom the office of labor standards has identified or were investigated in terms of perhaps not inappropriately, providing information or lack of information to their employees with respect to the health reimbursement account option, we have sent letters tho those employees advocating and stressing two areas, one, their rights under the hra and then number two, stressing how they can use their hra to advance and use it for primary care, preventative care and understanding the range of subsidized service that is are available in the city and county of san francisco, so with that, if the board has any questions, i would be happy to answer them. >> colleagues, are there any questions, president chu? >> n

in response, i believe finding number 3 was what we were asked to respond to and on september 10 or a letter dated september 10 was provided to the grand jury. i don't know if that is -- if you've gotten that or what. i mean, so what i will do is summarize that letter and explain what actions the board of equalization has done in regards specifically to the surcharge. sales tax applies to the sale of tangible personal property and the amount upon which that tax applies is the gross receipts under 6012 which is our reference, the gross receipts are anything that are charged so if you go into a liquor store and you buy some beer and it's 5 dollars, we want sales tax on five dollars, gross receipt ares also going be defined as any surcharges that are added and on a number of occasions, we do come across surcharges, for example, there may be a credit card surcharge, that is part of gross receipts and would be taxable, or in some cases, there is a fuel surcharge when the price of fuel becomes exorbitant, some businesses say, this is what the price of fuel is plus there's a 10% surcharge, t

or if the respondent's and refuses to pay a fine. and by the way, i think finding an agency could be counter productive. not a great idea. >> finding an agency? >> fining an agency. >> fining an agency, don't think it's that good of an idea. >> okay. >> good evening, commissioners, i am dr. eric kerr. the word complaint runs through this document. i am concerned because a complaint is fundamentally different from a

will presumably come out whenever -- you know, next year, and to just respond to the concern that that data is from before the change of law took effect that places restrictions on the ability to give us the health surcharge when we're not spending the money on health care, etc.. >> i'm matthew cohen. i'm glad to be before the supervisors, for one thing, this is the information we had, and when we saw this information, we found that even though we knew more information was going to come out subsequent to that, this is really indicative of a process which we felt was not something that you can merely look away from even with the amendment that was passed, and for one thing, i am kind of concerned that even though money is supposed to be set aside for workers and if you're using the hra's, if the private employers and a considerable amount of them employ their own accounts, this discourages employees from coming in and basically you're telling their employers what you need the medical expenses for, it's an invasion of privacy, i would rather, it's nothing we saw in the revised legislatio

the department responded that the materials, the information was ready. they did not hear back from you for almost a month. can you explain that lapse please. >> the first things i requested included the plans and the notes from the project. and i was contacted by two different people. i did not realize that there were two different sets of information. i went down the next week, after making my request, before fourth of july, and i went to the department -- the planning department, who provided me with two project folders, two project files and allowed me to make copies of relevant materials in those files. i didn't realize that the other materials, because they were all supposed to be project plans, would be different. but they did include some additional different information about the original permit plans. the original permit plans of course are not -- they're not part of the appeal because they're not part of the approved plans. >> commissioner lazarus: why wouldn't you use responses from rec and park which were made on three spate days to clarify w

with that, we were asked to respond to just six of the 13 findings from the c

and how to respond. there is not an understanding of what constitutes an act of war in the cyber rig and what the response should be. the government has defined this. that raises the question of how the u.s. government should respond and what kind of tensions iran in the united states are having. certainly it is a question of are we seeing go back from recent cyber attacks on iran -- are we seeing retaliation for recent cyber attacks on iran? are we seeing the repercussions from that with the iranian government responding and what kind of questions does that create? >> this is one person saying this. it is senator joseph lieberman. >> it is significant. of the home and thhe is chairmn security committee. one of his legacy as is common security and terrorism. -- legacies is security and terrorism. >> there is an an independent review from the state department. >> he did say he and senator collins asked the general to do independent review. he said they would probably want to wait to not overtake the ongoi

i think that we will have to see how they respond to this incident, how they respond to, for example,aintaining the peace treaty with israel. >> i want to bring in nick kristof and look at the cover this week. the agents of outrage. we'll talk about that, as well. couldn't be happier to have the two of you and your expertise in this area. i want to start with what happened in libya and give us your perspective. these assailants were heavily armed. it they seemed to be organized. does it seem to you perhaps to have been timed for 9/11, was it an attack of opportunity? >> i really don't know. but it is unusual in that libya is really the most pro american country in the region. the ambassador was be loved in libya. he had helped save benghazi, the city in which he was murdered. and libya as responded pretty appropriately. the government immediately condemned the attack, you have ordinary libyans apologizing for it. the real failure here has been in egypt where president morsi has been awol. >> what do you make of the president's comments, well, you know, friend or foe, well, neither rea

in kindergarten i would not respond. they would say carol, and i did not respond.on't know why they did it. tavis: your mother responded because you were sent home with a note saying we think your daughter is a little koo-koo because she does not respond. >> how would i know? was four or five years old. i could tap dance, but i could not read. tavis: use at a moment ago that you would not have a show business career were not for gary. that is very kind, and there may be some truth to that, but obviously have some talent in this. >> i could open a door, but once you go through, you've got to do it on your own. he is 10 years older than me. i was an only child until august 8. my brother and sister were both gone. i figured i would meet him. he is a great guy, and he did help me an awful lot. i landed on the odd couple because of jack luckman more than my brother, and then happy days, and that became the spinoff of laverne and shirley. but he was in my movies. he was then jumping jack flash and a league of their own. he was also in the apollo 13. my daughter was then

therefore, he did not meet the responders."this is about my son.re to speak for himself. i have to speak for him. and i will till the day i die. "she doesn't understand why no one will help." i want to see it in my lifetime. it's a very, it's so intense pain that is 3 &pundescribable."too painful to revisit the memorial where her son's name remains apart from others who tried to save lives. susan candiotti, cnn, new york a 9-11 museemmplanned for the site was suuposed to open new york's mayor and the port authority has delayed construction. coming up in our 6 o'clock hour... president obama gets a boost after the democratic national convention...how popular he is.. in the polls, right now. now.but first...ed reed makes p-f-l history against the bengals.the record he broke with this nterception...next in sports. ((break 3)) in sports. ((break 3)) you know what's exciting? graduation. in sports. ((break 3)) ook up into my students faces, i see pride. you know, i have done something worthwhile. when i earned my doctorate through university of phoenix,

nominee paul ryan voted down the nine eleven first responders bill twice president obama has had the opportunity to tout his foreign policy achievements so you can take the politicians out of the memorials but you can't really remove the politics from the state can you. i think that's true megan basically here is it's really a great irony because probably there is no other event in u.s. history that was politicized as much as september eleventh and in the if we speak of the consequences of september eleventh and the political foreign action foreign policy actions that the united states government took and the different measures implemented at home it's been politicized experts say to an extent where even last year on the tenth anniversary the began a verse three of the tragedy americans had nine eleven fatigue and this is pretty much been the case absolutely this anniversary as well and the question here is that the excuse for politicians to not show up this time they say oh we don't want to politicize the event too much will definitely politicize whatever they could out of this even

obama campaign spokesman responded to romney saying we're shocked that governor romney would choose to launch a political attack. published reports claim the embassy's statement of not cleared by the state department and the white house does not agree with it. now the filmmaker said he thinks islam is a cancer and that he fully intented the film to be a political statement condemning the religion. >> susan mcginnis in washington this morning. >>> iran's nuclear program, president obama and benjamin netanyahu spoke for an hour. this follows strong words from benjamin netanyahu criticizing u.s. policy designed to push the u.s. into action. david martin reports. >> reporter: with intelligence reports iran has been working on computer simulations of nuclear explosions, israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu scolded the obama administration for refusing to lay down a red line which would trigger a military strike. >> if iran knows that there's no red line, if iran knows that there's no deadline, what will it do? exactly what it's doing. it's continuing without any interference towards o

across indonesia which is the world's most populous muslim nation have been peaceful the police responded with tear gas water cannons by firing warning shots to disperse the crowd but not before protesters had the chance to throw molotov cocktails to the ties and also to signal explosives also on monday this time the passage in time to stop this happening in the weeks the country where at least one protester has been killed hundreds of protesters six wired to a government office building as well as to a point office and this is allegedly because they were complaining that the demonstrations in pakistan until now have not been receiving enough media attention this is one of those clashes in pakistan over the weekend that happened in the cities of pitch a laugh as well as in karachi we saw protesters marching holding up banners and mourning for the american ambassador to be expelled and for a boycott on american goods and services now also there has been clashes in the afghan capital of kabul where we've seen more than eight thousand protesters six fired two cars as well as story to contain

to respond is going to respond i mean these are the important question which is this cannot predict. and in fact no one can predict all you're on is going to respond but do you have like a guess how much could a war with iran cost the global economy but no doubt i mean as soon as there is the first planes or the first missiles are flying all the wrong i mean the price of oil is going to. jump at least for a while and that would. basically economy problems now. that would be a very helpful incentive for the global economy will says what started talking about this possible strike. the united states is have different views on whether this strike should take place or not what will happen in your opinion after the u.s. presidential election i guess if president obama is reelected he would have time to. work out a plan that would be beneficial for both america and iran up to this point the american. basically can see that the pressure. missing the presidential election they cannot dismiss the pressure from these. i guess president obama would be more reading to take reese for diplomatic ef

but every time we respond to an event, i'm not responding by myself. i'm responding with a team of people. every time there is a event that requires us to activate what we are actually doing is we're activating the emergency response system for emergency support function no. 6, mass care and shelter. i do not do this alone. i have wonderful partners. the american red cross is always there with me, the mayor's office of disability is always there, making sure that our residents that have any sort of disability, that we're on top of that, the department of emergency management is always a wonderful support, whenever i hit some sort of a brick wall, all we have to do is get dem on the phone and they make things happen. so i certainly do not do this by myself. but thank you very much. and thank you for -- to my family that puts up with my pager going off in the middle of the night multiple times during the week. >> and we certainly want to thank your family. i know this is not the first time you've been honored at the board and i sure it's not the last but

let me respond that this bill may not allow fema to respond to a terrorist attack, it's just not true. first, the president used the stafford act and fema to declare a federal disaster in response to every major terrorist attack in this country. there's no question, fema, the stafford act or this bill fully authorizes the president to direct any element of the federal government to respond to a terrorist attack. second, one of the most important reforms made by this bill is to remove the liability cloud hanging over our urban search and rescue teams. when they're called into federal service to respond to a disaster. on september 11, these teams responded to the world trade center and the pentagon. they responded to hurricane katrina and even the earthquake in haiti. many of these brave first responders are licensed medical professionals or engineers who knowingly put their lives at risk. the urban search and rescue teams have waited 10 years to remove this cloud over their head. this bill finally fixes that problem. that's why this bill's supported about i the urban search and rescue

when the responders went down there, we think of them as first responders.n workers, laborers, undocumented workers. all of these people came together to respond. and they did so without any thought as to what the long-term consequences were. it was a real example of a very person sense of altruism. >> tell me a little bit about, we talked a bit about the physical outcome for some people, which is cancer asthma, all kinds of respiratory illnesses, but there's also the scar of the lungs scar of the heart, too and the psyche. there are people obviously you guys are seeing and treating for just the fallout 11 years later of what they saw and endured that day. >> well i think it's so important to understand that 11 years later, so many people as many as 20% of responders, continue to suffer from various psychiatric issues psychological issues, post-traumatic stress. when you start to think about what they experienced, there were 2,700 people that died on 9/11. but they didn't die where you could see their bodies. these people were dismembered. they were falling

and to respond strongly certainly in the threats of kind of rising nationalisms in both countries. now similar to some other stories from around the world at least twenty six people have been killed and dozens injured in an explosion and blaze at a gas plant in northern mexico be jason's pipeline has been damaged forcing the operating company to hold distribution in the area the cause of the blast is yet to be established but the illegal tapping of pipelines has been the cause of many similar incidents. a wildcat strike by south african miners that claimed the lives of forty five people has ended after workers accepted a twenty two percent pay rise the walkout turned deadly a month ago when police shot and killed thirty four people in the strike dozens of minors were arrested over the deaths but charges were dropped after an international outcry the country's economy lost at least three hundred million dollars due to the hold in production. and british foreign secretary william hague has admitted that talks with ecuador over the fate of join a sounders asylum bid have reached a sta