mayor baits is here and mayor ed lee and oakland mayor kwun which were named as part of the rockefeller foundationesistant foundation requirement this is to rebuild the urban resistance in one hundred cities around the world-class they were the only cities in the satire global network that are piloting a resistance i'll talk about that in a minute but first, let me give you just a brief description of one hundred resistant cities is what we aim to achieve. everyday somewhere in the world a city has their functions disrupted to deliver the services to their receipt and maintain capacity over the long-term. they're not hard to images where the next big earthquake or a health pandemic or a atrocity attack. those shocks are becoming more frequent and intermittence their impacts ripple across the regions macon city completely don't think another. they deal with chronic distresses as well and chronic sprez are constrains on the water supply or rising sea levels and inequality. those stresses make it hard for cities to respond effectively to shocks and it's difficult to restore functions in the wake of c

the city and administrator to accept and expand a grant in the amount of 440,000 from the rockefeller foundation to hire a officer for san francisco, and amending ordinance, 160-13 to reflect the addition of one grant fund position in class, 0933 at the office of the city.ordinance authorizing the office of the city administrator to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $440,000 from the rockefeller foundation to hire a chief resilience officer for san francisco, and amending ordinance no. 160-13 (annual salary ordinance, fys 2013-2014 and 2014-2015) to reflect the addition of one grant-funded position (.25 fte) in class 0933, manager v, at the office of the city administrator, for the period of april 1, 2014, through march 31, 2016. >> in order to hire the chief officer, position and also to amend the annual salary ordinance >> good morning, to add one grant funded position, in order to serve as the chief resil ans officer, also referred to as cro, the rockefeller foundation, through the 100 city challenge in the process of developing a worldwide network to insure people and communities an

rockefeller foundation hosted the event as part of it's 100 resilence cities challenge. to help cities withstand and bounce back from catastrophic events. >> not easy take the long view or plan for the unseen. and unknown. but it's the right thing to do. >> the foundation is investing $100 million in this effort. >> a plan to rename a mountain top in yosemite is running into opposition. a bill would change the name to jesse benton fremont. she chronicled her husband's expeditions. nation park service saying jesse fremont has no link to the mountain but the mountain is named mammoth because of its size. >> whatever you call it, it's a nice day to be outside today. >> cooler, gorgeous >> yes. it's beautiful here. breezy at we do have warmth coming though. clear skies right now, and we take a look at our view from our camera, high thin clouds into upper 50s to low 70s. 70 degrees in santa rosa. and here is a view from lake ta who camera clear, breezy tonight. sunny and warmer next few days spring starts thursday morning at 9:57. here is a cold front came through didn't do a

san francisco, oakland, alameda and berkeley and the rockefeller foundation's 100 resilient cities program. it gets a grant to help them recover from the next catastrophic event. the big concern is earthquake, fires and hurricanes and poverty and affordability. >> when you have those kind of chronic stresses cities don't rebound as effectively, they don't have neighborhood cohesion, they don't have resources to fall back on. >> now each city will get funds to hire a chief resiliency officer. >>> rental listings usually don't make our newscast but one posted in san francisco has the real estate market buzzing. four bedroom luxury home. how much to rent? $45,000 a month. after the owner's dropped the price from $50,000 a month. the listing agent said renters can unpack beginning april 1st. the luxury property has four bedrooms, a library, and two kitchens. moving in will be a breeze since there's an elevator. that 45,000 a month plus utilities. in is south bay you can't rent this house but you can visit. the owners of the one chester mystery house is making some changes. the haunted victoria

>> guest: oh, you just contact the rockefeller foundation. they'll send you an application. it's quite competitive. but lots of scholars and creative writers and creative artists and potters and sculptors, dancers, musicians apply. i think there are 14 or 15 scholars and artists in residence at any given time and you stay for five or six weeks. you're very well treated and it's a glorious experience. c-span: i'm going to jump to something that you and i had in common, after i read this book, and that was growing up listening to john r. >> guest: you listened to john r.? c-span: well, i remember him as john r., john richberg and i also listened to somebody by the name of gene nobles. >> guest: that's right. c-span: now why did we both listen to that same radio station in nashville, tennessee? >> guest: i guess you're an octoroon and you've been passing all this time. c-span: who was john r.? >> guest: john r. -- i saw an article about him in the times in the '70s and he was this white guy who sounded black and loved black music and black culture. and i think many of us would

. >> reporter: a new grant from the rockefeller foundation has bay area leaders thinking the worse. the oakland, burkery, alameda and san francisco is the recipient of the cities program, each city splits a pot of $100 million for disaster preparation. >> we know the events are one the bay area ought to prepare for but might not be the next big thing that hits. >> reporter: they will hire a new chief resiliency officer. san francisco's officer says the city is working to address soft story buildings, which are particularly venerable to quakes. >> we know making sure these buildings are here are important to the recovery efforts but the fabric of san francisco, as we know it. >> reporter: jean quan says affordability matters. >> oak land had more than its share of natural disasters and one of the cities with the highest percentage. >> reporter: the foundation hopes the 100 chosen cities will share ideas, repeating the time honored montra not if, but when. >>> in the south bay, are you brave enough to spend the night at the winchester mystery house? it allows visitors to sleep at the

and if i can share this with you, you know, we can see -- in a 2012 report by the rockefeller foundation, it was estimated that more than $279 billion could be invested in retrofitting of existing buildings for energy efficiency. this goes back to the point we were talking about job creation, leading. this investment, they said, the rockefeller foundation study, could yield more than $1 trillion of energy savings over ten years, reducing united states emissions by as much as 10% and could create -- this is the kicker -- you're creating energy savings. you're making the emissions reduced, creating healthier environment, dealing with cities like mine that are on these heat islands, the one -- newark and camden, heat islands that ratchet up as marks lower those -- ratchet up asthma, lower those emissions, lower the heat in those areas. has many collateral benefits. but this is the one we should be talking about right now, we're aa coming oust a recession. it could create more than 3.3 million new jobs direct and indirect in the united states economy. that's just by invest in retrofitting, g

to put that in context, the rockefeller foundation will give away about to 2.5 times that. and they operate around the world. we operated in one city. the very different model of having an effect. in the way we set ourselves up as we promised our donors, we have put in sophisticated sense of accountability and we view that as a relentless application of benefit cost analysis as an undergraduate. putting in a sophisticated system that we take account for as to how these dollars are used no matter what we've used them. whether it's a micro learning program or a prekindergarten program or an afterschool program and emergency food. whatever we are doing, we measure the effect of that on the low income residents of new york city. to bring these together we wrestled the following thought. we spend $150 million per year. if you look at our website and the materials that we put out, i like to believe that we can convince you for every dollar that we spend on average we raise the living standards were between 10 and $12. that is what we can do. that is what private sector can do. an

scientific ideas, you know, hughes medical foundation there's just a whole ton of things rockefeller foundation, if you go back in time, they invented things that the government research projects were not moving into those areas, not doing that work. the march of dimes invented the polio vaccine. you know, the thing that we're using to go out and eradicate, make it the second disease after smallpox that gets eradicated, this is the oral polio vaccine. that's 10 doses, and this thing costs $1.30, so 13 cents per kid. that was philanthropic money, march of dimes money, that caused both its predecessor called ipv, which was the salk shot -- this is the sabin oral -- they created those things, so philanthropy has, you know, some amazing hits to go along with lots of money that was probably wasted. >> now, there's a related question to my last one, which is the number of people who talk about charity and free enterprise as if they were in conflict. they believe that capitalism, that people who trust capitalism because they don't believe charity is a good solution to problems, etc. in other words, th

genetically modified foods by monsanto is part of the weekly program launched by the rockefeller and ford foundation to shrink the world's population. as in the government is making sure we all eat crappy food so that there will be fewer people to deal with almost half of the people polled believe it is one of the theory. some people in the media were all in all the stupid americans believing cleaned the car sydney the fifth wheel of the house revealed that half of the country is aware that can't trust their government can prove to me and the government so obviously control the flow of information so tightly. i really believe the west as long as they're not coming out of politicians or talking heads. what the reality is that when people think their government. we only had enough. the american reality of handling it today. i mean is that needs to tell me that i eat and talk about that but as the rest of it. ch we knew we were. will the tiniest line. i need to tell. techies government has blocked access to the social left clicking trying to protect the move comes after the posting of corruption allega

very scientific ideas, you know, hughes medical foundation, this is a whole ton of things, rockefeller foundationf you go back in time, they invented things that the government research projects were not moving into this area is, not doing that were. the march of dimes invented the polio vaccine. the thing that we are using to go out and eradicate, make it the second disease after smallpox that gets eradicated, this is the oral polio vaccine. that's 10 doses, this things -- this thing costs $1.30, so 13 cents per kid. that was philanthropic money, march of dimes money, that caused both its predecessor called ip, which was the salt shot, this is the sabin oral. they greeted those things. so philanthropy has some amazing hits to go along with possibly that was probably wasted. >> there's a related question to my last one, which is the number of people who talk about charity and free enterprise as if they were in conflict. they believe that capitalism, that people who trust capitalism because they don't believe the charity is a good solution to problems, et cetera. in other words, there's an antagon

wells located in the rockefeller institute the carnegie and russell sage foundation, he endowed universities and bureaus of research, the future church, he hoped, would govern all of america. what he was hoping for, brooks saw in wells was hope for clerisy. semi secular but in some deep sense religious group, in the compteian cents whose underlying values would define the country. i am not going to get into it but if you think about the members of el bj's cabinet how many of them are ph.d.s, how many come out of the universities, there is a famous moment when john gardner, supposedly jokingly began a cabinet meeting when he said welcome, faculty. because that is what it was. literally, not just metaphorically. book by wells, let me try this with the same two people again. had the most influence was not the time machine which is what he talked to teddy roosevelt about, were we all destined to become the beasts or eloi. was about -- not even our to some bondsavants . explains monogamy, faith in god and respectability and the speculation about motorcars and electrical heating. exactly right. fo

santo is part of a secret program launched by the rockefeller and ford foundation to shrink the world's population as in the government is making sure we all eat crappy food so that there will be fewer people to deal with almost half of the people polled believe in at least one of those theory when the study came out some people in the media were all let all these stupid americans believing crazy crap but to me this study reveals something else it reveals that half of the country is aware they can't trust their government and since the media and the government so obviously control the flow of information so tightly people are willing to believe the worst as long as it's not coming out of politicians or talking heads mouth what kind of reality is that where people think their government is purposely poisoning them that's the american reality of paranoia today and i don't need a study to tell me that tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter adds the rest of it. with plenty of being sleep we turn to russia threats of sanctions and high costs to be paid continue at a steady

some of these organizations: aspen institute, rockefeller brothers fund, lilly endowment, trilateral commission, pew charitable trusts, the norman foundation, the catherine t. macarthur foundation, the charles stewart mott foundation these are--support the--is it called--is it pronounced saguaro? >> guest: yeah. c-span: what's that mean, by the way? >> guest: saguaro is a cactus out in--out in the west. we use it as a metaphor for social capital. because the saguaro--it's one of these big cactuses with the big arms, you know. saguaro cactus, as it turns out, grow invisibly, almost underground, for the first 20 or 30 years before they shoot up these big stalks, which then turn out to be hosts for many different kinds of communities -- for birds and insects and--and people. so we thought that was a kind of a metaphor for social capital--it takes a long time to develop, and then it serves lots of unexpected purposes. c-span: carnegie, the li--the lila--is that the way you pronounce it?--wallace reader's digest foundation. >> guest: yeah, lila. yeah. c-span: why are all of these groups--and, by the way, a lot of our viewers--i don't know what