i also want to thank reuben, a native san franciscan who grew up in the mission district and is now aactor based here in san francisco. he has a 10-year history of hiring san franciscans at well above 50% as his way of giving back to the community. he has a compelling story about how he took over a project in the bayview where there was a great deal of attention between workers from a former contractor who have really messed up the relationships on the contract. he came in and hired young people off the street, just asking for jobs, hungry for work. he put them to work on the project, and they were there for months, for the duration that was left on the project. a pastor from one of the churches came up to him afterward and thank him for what he did. he helped to lower the murder rate by giving the opportunity to these young people. that is a story that mr. santana tells over and over again and tells -- speaks to the power of this local hiring legislation. third-generation bay view resident and member of the hunters point shipyard cac, she is an out of work electrical worker and a mem

next, reuben garza. is mr. garza herer? * here -- is mr. garza here? no? toby eastman? sue rosser? is there any other applicant whose name i have not called? why don't we open it up to public comment? each had two minutes. >> i'm very much here supporting ms. davis in the position, but that is not what i'm here for. i'm here to speak on the general picture of this agency, which you are calling the mayor's office of economic work force development. setting up this, in my opinion, rubber stamp advisory committee. first of all, that department, which has the acting director, which i'm sure you have not even met yet -- the department has taken over the responsibilities of the redevelopment agency in san francisco as it relates to the african-americans, particularly in the former western addition. right now, currently, redevelopment agency is under the auditing, and i think we need to check out the mayor's office of economic work force development, by now -- economic workforce development, find out what they are doing. i'm not here to bash anybody, but as you guys are the supervisors pu

now gray will also announce the replacement of re chief dennis reuben. new fire chief will be kenneth ellery. someone that folksin the department are already familiar with. ellerbee was a former assistant chief in the d.c. fire department. he left to become the fire chief at sarasota county, florida. now he always kept hisouse here in d.c. ward seven and again he is going to be appointed later today as the new d.c. fire chief. now, vient gray will make the formal announcementuring a press conference later on this afternoon. but, again, two very high profile, very important positions. and we're gng to learn more later on this afternoon. eun, back to you. >> all right, megan mcgrath in northwest washington. megan, thank you. >>> former british prime minister tony blair is in d.c. today to talk about how america an other countries can help countries in africa. blair will speak at the fairfax hotel at embassy row in northwest d.c. the center for globa development is hosting this event. blair will talk about creating the africa governance initiative, which op

next, reuben garza. is mr. garza herer? * here -- is mr. garza here? no? toby eastman? sue rosser? is there any other applicant whose name i have not called? why don't we

ellerbee will take over for chief nnis reuben who announced he willot stay past the end of his contract on january 2nd. >>> marion barry can breathe sier. his stolen car has been found, safe and sound. on saturday, barry parked his car outside the patricia harris education center in southeast. the car thief didn't have to work too hard, though, as barry left the keys in the ignition. the 2002 jaguar was recovered on tuesday in ward 7. no one's been arrested. barry so had a car stolen back in 1993. >>> the shocking murder of a university of virginia lacrosse player is back in the spot lig this morning. a judge is now reviewing the medical records of yardly love after defense lawyers for the man accused of killing her made an unexpected request. news 4's craig melvireports. >> repter: a few days ago there s actually talk that toevs for george huguely, yeardley's onagain off again boyfriend were close to reaching a deal. day those same attorneys asked for yeardley love's medical records. the defense team hopes to prove that huguely's actions, while traumatic, did not cause her death. at a

ellerbee will take over for current chief dennis reuben, w announced that he will not stay past the endof his contract on january the 2nd. >>> the murder investation of a university of virginia lacrosselayer has taken an unexpected turn. a judge is now reviewing the medical records of yeardley love because fense attorneys say something else may have caused her death. jeff rossen is on the universy of virginia in charlottesville. good morning. a new twist in this case. >> no one really expected this. it's all coming from george huguely's defense tea if you look at the actual autopsy report the official cause of death is blunt force trauma to the head. but gege huguely's defense team is saying not so fast. yeardley love was on prescription medication, and if she was overusing, maybe, they say, maybe that's what caused her death. not the beating. it may have caused her heart to stop. so what happens is the defense lawyer came into court yesterday inthar lotsville, virginia, not far from the campus where the murder allegedly happened and said we want to see her medical records for thpast se

. >> jamie reuben was the state department spokesman during the clinton administration. jamie, good morning. seven times richard holbrooke nominated for the nobel peace prize and more than a few people thought he should have won it and talked about for secretary of state. someone who has been influential, really, since vietnam. what does this loss mean for the country and, in particular, as we know, that this meeting is going on right now between the president, the vice president, the national security team. what does it mean for afghanistan? >> well, let's start with richard and his role in american foreign policy. what richard did perhaps as well as anyone is to a diplomat that can get the job done with foreign leaders and with rebel leaders and with others in a complex negotiation, but, also, the principles behind american foreign policy and particularly during the bosnia crisis in this country. richard not only helped negotiate an end to the war, but richard was important with others in dramatizing the importance of the united states caring about the people of bosnia

as my colleagues who have covered him and were there throughout, jamie reuben in the state department, warren christopher for whom he worked, no one could have driven that, through the force of personality, through backing down this man milosevic and others who were accused of being war criminals, no one else could have pulled that off. >> andrea mitchell, thank you for making time for us on short notice. nice to see you. >> you bet. >> joining us now is steve clemons, good friend of richard holbrooke. he's author of the political blog, the washington notes. i know you were close with richard, i'm sorry for your loss tonight. >> thank you. i think many people who worked with him over the years are really feeling this enormous void right now. so -- >> steve, for americans who didn't know him, he's not a household name for people who don't know about foreign policy and don't follow foreign policy closely. but for americans who care about american power in the world, who care about not just what we can project with our military, but the rest of our power too. how important was richard ho

so it went from the pearl harbor in 9/11 into world war ii, and then the world trade center reuben'snd then we were in a whole different dimension. this which began with 9/11 infamy and then it became much more complicated. >> tie together hiroshima and iraq. >> well, the tyee is hiroshima and 9/11. that was the real tight because ground zero was an atomic bomb freeze, that was the association and that would put you into the question of terror bombing or deliberately targeting civilians and that is a practice that comes out of world war ii. you wanted to destroy enemy morale, the anglo-american powers in the united states, and it was done in germany and culminates in hiroshima. so the ground zero 45, grant zero, 2001 is the link. the iraqi link was a choice to begin with because we go from 9/11, the war of choice by the islamist terrorist to the japanese war of choice earlier and there's a parallel and then suddenly we have a war of choice against iraq. then we have a terrific failure of intelligence and iraq, just a disaster failure of intelligence on the part of the united states s

. >> jill, if you would, watch with us former staent secretary of state jamie reuben, his reflectionsambassador holbrooke on cnn this morning. >> richard, obviously, was an intelligent man, but he also had the ability to operate at several levels. he operated as a -- in the world of politics, in the world of policy, in the world of the press. he was quite a formidable & in the media and he also operated in the world of people. so he put all those components together and i think his probably signature element was his historical analogies. he was always making a grand analogy says this is the guns of august and -- like in world war i or that it was related to vietnam. so he had this unique ability to use all the tools of historic and geography and politics and diplomacy and put it together for one purpose. i think there are going to be some, you know, difficult times now finding someone who can do all the things as well as richard could do them. . >> jill, how difficult is it goss going to be the to find something someone to fill shoes that can't be filled? >> oh, i think quite difficul

andrew reuben says it's his understanding that those two things stands. this does not cancel those. if you got insurance for your sick child last month, you're okay for the time being. >> for the time being. but as you said the three-legged stool with two stools, everything gets affected by this some way or the other. >> you have to pay for it. >> some insurance company says i can't pay for it now. so i can't do this on this side. this complicates everything. >> it does. >> but at this moment -- i'm thinking of the people who are saying, oh, i just got my kid insured. it stays the way it is at this moment. >> the thing that has been severed as the judge says, that section 1501 hasn't gone into effect and isn't going to. >> the requirement where they said to every american, hey, you have to get insurance whether you like it or not, that wasn't going to happen until 2014 anyhow. you and i may be talking in a couple of years and some court may reverse it. it's absolutely possible. >> for the moment, if you have been struggling on how to handle insurance. for the moment, nothing changes