present the plaque to mayor brown's unwavering commitment to civil rights. [ applause ] >> thank you richard brown. it's good to see you and thank you dr. parkel. that's all i got. i could listen to him talk all day. that was fantastic. >> christina, would you like to come up again? >> thank you. we have a few special thank yous that we want to wrap the ceremony up with. if vernal, elsie and deanna if you can please come up. we would really appreciate it. and so behalf on the mayor's office we would like to say thank you deeply for your contribution for making these services such a success. >> thank you. >> they are beautiful. >> for you. we have certificates of honor on behalf of the mayor's services. we are good at making certificates of honor. >> thank you. >> okay. and thank you to everybody for your contribution, your time and commitment to showing up today. the sponsors, we appreciate your support. now that concludes our ceremony. please enjoy the reception. thank you.

jim lazarus, david canego, john grism, [speaker not understood], angie brown, richard [speaker not understood], and pastor jeffery garner. >>> good evening, president chiu, members of the board. thank you so much for this opportunity to speak in support of the much needed cpmc rebuild. my name is michael smith wick. i am aes are department of the western addition district 5. i've been a resident there for 33 years. ~ my, how time flies when you're having fun. i'm also the executive director of my tree compassionate care. my tree is located at the corner of noe and duboce in scott wiener's district and we are a 24-hour residential care facility for san franciscans with advanced aids, all low-income. we've been doing this for 26 years. we've served 1000 san franciscans. most of them lost their life under our care, 24-hour nursing care compassion, no judgments. i want to share that with you that we are seeing a change in san francisco. we are not filling our beds with people who are there to die optimistically and encouragingly. we are starting to see quite a waiting list of san franciscans who

. >> sreenivasan: richard bennett and sheldon grizzle, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, a pleasure. >> thank you. >> brownally tonight, the war in iraq, which began ten years ago this week, as seen through a camera lens. "newshour" correspondent spencer michels reports on a new exhibit at san francisco's deyoung museum. a warning, some images in this story are disturbing. >> reporter: it was in 2003 when the u.s. invaded iraq, looking for weapons of mass destruction, american journalists who covered while the bush administration encouraged embedding and said it wasn't responsible for the safety of those not embedded, some journalists set out on their own to see what they could see without american mel tear supervision or restrictions. >> with iraq, this is what i knew about it before i went for the first time. >> reporter: thorn anderson and kale alford, ameri reed couple who live in texas were among the unembedded photojournalists who covered iraq back then. their san francisco exhibit "eye level in iraq" shows the result of their taking chances as they tried to find iraqis in situations apart from the t

just as i came, miguel estrada, priscilla owe yen, janice brown, and then four more in 2004, william meirs, david mckeying, henry sand, richard griffin. then we had a cooling of -- of tempers and a coming to our senses here and a gang of 14 bipartisan group said we don't want to make this a new precedent and we agreed, there was a consensus anyway that except in a case of extraordinary circumstances would there be a denial of a nominee of an appellate judge by a cloture vote. so then five of those ten bush nominees were approved. so the accurate facts -- and the schumer staff and my staff agree with this, and if anybody thinks it's wrong, i'd like to know -- that only in five cases have democrats denied a republican president an appellate judge nominee by filibuster, and only in two cases have republicans denied a democratic president's nominee by filibuster in the case of appellate judges. and as i said when i began, the answer is never in the case of district judges and never in the case of cabinet members with the possible exception of john bolton. i'm glad to come to the floor and correct the record and i thank senator sc

richard lui in for alex on this day. a new poll on same-sex marriage, nearly 80% of americans are for same sex marriage. brian brownconclusion. >> marriage is by definition the union of a man and a woman and apart from all of this inevitability talk, 31 states have voted to say that that is the truth. they've embedded it in their state constitutions. only four have voted against it. there's a myth that somehow this is inevitable. >> joining me now is robert raven who served as democratic counsel to the house subcommittee on the constitution during the doma hearings in 1996 and is now the president of the raven group. thanks for being here, robert. you just heard what brian brown said. what's your reaction to that? >> well, i'm sorry that he feels that way. the first issue is we don't put civil rights to a vote of the popular will in this country. the thing about gay marriage, which didn't exist in this country or frankly where where in the world until 2000, is it is increasingly supportive and it's a tribute to the open hearts and open minds of the american public as americans see in state after state loving, commi