patrick roth expected a better outcome from his hospital stay.i'm worse now than i was." was." consumer reports says hospitals are not required to make all their safety data available and many don't, so at this point its ratings cover only about one-fifth of american hospitals. the advocacy arm of consumer reports has called for a nationwide system to track and report medical errors to the public.tom rodgers, fox45 news at ten. after 40-years of searching.... find out where one man found his ástolená car.... ...and coming up in just 5 minutes on the late edition... edition...--steam wheeler nats, ppl yelling "woah"-- "woah"-- a steam boat loses control....the chaos that occured at a festival on the water. and dress code controversy. why a drug store believes its new rules on clothing will cut down on crime.

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rob roth has more outside the courthouse. here's more. >> reporter: tori, the jury deliberated and they were responsible for the verdict and awarded $25 million each to the rosier children--- reizer children. >> we wanted to make darned sure the children were taken well care of. they would have the psychological help that they needed for the rest of their life. these children would probably never be able to go into the workforce and we wanted to make sure it was an amount they would be able to live with. >> the verdict tells us they e fatically -- tells us they emphatically rejected everything said about this person and gave more money than asked for. >> reporter: rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> all right. thank you, rob. we have complete coverage of the case on our website, including our one-on-one interview with hans reizer from prison. just go to ktvu.com and click on the tab. don't be alarmed if you smell gas today near redwood city. pg&e is conducting pipeline testing to test 200 yards of pipes alone. tom vacar is liv

rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a researcher is taking a different approach to finding a cure for hiv and aids. he is head of a stanford lab targeting heading reservoirs of the virus. he found new compounds that have been shown to activate hiv reservoirs and give doctors a way to flush out the virus. >>> a bay area drug maker said it is laying off hundreds of workers. they will close its mountain view and santa clara offices and cut 300 jobs. the company says 100 jobs will be located to other facilities. they are best known for its flew mist inflewentiona vaccine. >>> walmart started hiring for its new store. they will take over a vacant building. the store is set to open this fall. >>> california has the worst cret rating -- credit rating in the country. california is the only state with a a minus rating. they blamed over spending, late budgets and sky rocketing pensions. a bad credit rating effects the interest states pay on their bond. >>> dismal earnings, news that will add more fuel to the public pension debate. they reported 1% in annual investment returns for the year that

ktvu's rob roth is live now. >> reporter: president obama is due to arrive here at the fox theater in an hour and a half and protesters began lining up two hours ago and the protesters debora villalon showed us could be joining them. among them are supporters of medical marijuana upset with crack downs. >> reporter: dozens medical marijuana supporters rallied this afternoon. one man said his son has epilepsy, and pills are not working. >> i have been telling him to kiss me, he couldn't even kiss me. now he can give me a kiss. >> reporter: they are upset they have targeted duo of the largest medical marijuana dispensaries in recent months. >> please, president obama, i don't want to see my son in an ambulance again. >> reporter: the obama administration has said it would leave pot clubs alone if they fallowed law. but they became a target because they got too big. they said they obeyed all laws, paid taxes taxes and still threatened. >> if the u.s. attorneys are allowed to come after us, no other medical marijuana dispensaries will be safe anywhere in the country. >> reporter: we are b

rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. >> from rob roth, to another angle of the protesters, there are a lot of supporters of medical marijuana who are protesting the president's visit. there are other groups as well calling for immigration reform and wanting to stop the war in afghanistan and the fox theater is in uptown and as a result parts of telegraph and san pablo are shut down and there is a strong police presence to keep people away from the fox theater. we will have more through the this newscast and at 6:00 on ktvu channel 2 news. >>> today fremont's police department became the 7th agency to receive a suspicious package. on friday a letter arrived that hayward police department. it contained a white powdery material and authorities said it was not anthrax. fremont police gave the letter to the fbi. five other police agencies received similar letters. >>> a police officer has been released from the hospital after a accident. the officer was responding to a robbery when his car collided with another vehicle and crashed into a building at 1:00 a.m. this morning at 18th street. invest

rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a blood drive is underway to help a summer time supply shortage. red cross hopes to collect 3,000 units of blood during a month long drive. one of the organizers is a former oakland police officer, he wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for the generosity of blood donors. >> i call it the awareness syndrome. most people are not aware of how important giving blood is. honestly, giving blood is the one gift that truly comes from your heart. >> today drives continues till 7:00 p.m. on southampton road. >>> the fog is getting squished at the coast. fog showing up along the coast. getting notched out to the north because there is a bit of north wind warming things up. san francisco, avenues, coast, dense fog. i suspect you will see that again tomorrow morning when the fog gets squished down it is hard to see through, hard to cool things off. that is why it was warm today. you will have poor visibilities tomorrow morning along the great highway, towards the golden gate bridge. highs from today. fairfield, antioch, 98 degrees. livermore 98 degrees. big numbers

my name is sally roth. i live in district eight. i am speaking in support of keeping the sunny side as i have been doing. people in district eight have worked long and hard from the beginning to help save it from destruction. and some of us who are friends of the conservatory have worked many hours recently as the last three years photographing the plants and making plant lists for it, that sort of thing. it really would be lovely if you could find a way to do that. once upon a time when back earlier in this process the population was nicely balanced between the two, between the district sene and district eight i realized district eight has bulged out on the top and now it has been shrunken on the bottom, i find this some what problematic and i do indeed wish there was some way for you to find the ability to include the sunny side conservatory in glen park. which is an area of strong support. just because the name is not the same as the sunny side conservatory does not mean that the association does not support the sunny side conser

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his name and his age. 64-year-old albert carl roth the iii. carl loved living large, driving his mercedes is and throwing elaborate parties. one of his best friends was on his way to his house the night he was killed. >> i was on my way to his house. i was a half-hour behind him, and i tried to turn here, and i saw a tree, and all the emergency equipment, and i thought, wow, i don't know what happened, and i had to drive miles to get over to his house, and he wasn't there. i thought, well, he's probably just having dinner or he's late. i called him, i said, don't go down georgetown pike, there's a tree on the road. i didn't know he was under it. >> roth is survived by his 20- year-old daughter. >>> montgomery county executive ike leggett is issuing an order that all champion model ride-on buses get off the streets after another one went up in fire. >> how many buses to have burn before you get it, you realize we have bad equipment. >> reporter: gino renne is president of the union that represents the ride-on bus drivers. he's thankful that cha

ktvu's rob roth is live with why what the students lost goes beyond the hardware. rob? >> reporter: the burglary was brazen. happened inside this building on third street. and missing lab top computers students were using for their summer project. >> reporter: the center for arts and technology students are working to replace what they lost. the lab tops are now gone. >> -- laptops are now gone. >> it is troublesome. >> reporter: it hurts? >> yeah. a lot. >> my hard work i put into is for nothing. >> reporter: they are a non- profit organization that teaches students skills. the founder says the building was breached through a second floor window. the thieves repelled down this wall, broke into the cabinet and took the laptops. >> it is shocking. shocked everybody. we wanted to provide a safe environment. >> reporter: they launched a campaign to replace the laptop. but unless the computers are recovered a lot of work will be lost for good and perhaps something else. >> this is a non-profit trying to help people. i don't think they would be a target for this kind of stuf

ktvu's rob roth is live with why it is almost impossible for police to catch the offenders. rob? >> reporter: the smell in this escalator here at the bart station was so bad today we saw people holding their nose as they were riding. it is what workers found down there that was really disgusting. [ music playing ] >> reporter: on any given day inside the bart station is dotted with homeless people and at night some camp that base of the stair well to relieve themselves. >> every day it is smelly when i ride. >> reporter: bart work crews were fixing a broken escalator when they made the discovery. >> they found human waste in the area and it was unsafe condition. >> reporter: so much human waste a hazmat team had to come in. >> nasty. >> reporter: officials don't know if that is what caused the escalator to break down but still 5-9 are located downtown. homeless people say they don't econdone such behavior -- condone such behavior but they understand it. >> you can't use the rest rooms normal people use because they won't let you. >> reporter: many passengers are sympathetic. >> w

rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> authorities say the week long robbers fire was started by a person. containment is 70% and many evacuees were allowed back home today. they are still investigating whether it was accidental or intentional. people are outraged. >> morons and they deserve to be in jail. ridiculous. they could have destroyed hundreds of lives, thousands. >> many coming home today showed their gratitude to firefighters the fire destroyed one home. containment is expected by saturday. >>> they agreed to settle a lawsuit over a 2007 wildfire. they denied liability despite agreeing to the settlement. the blaze was sparked by employees. it destroyed 65,000 acres. the settlement is the largest federal recovery ever for damages caused by a forest fire. >>> bombing in syria killed two top government officials and one of the president's relatives. >> there were scenes of chaos after a bomb exploded at a government meeting. the blast killed the interior and defense ministers and a deputy minister. the defense secretary said the united states and the allies must step up their effo

ktvu's rob roth was in the courtroom and tells us what the district attorney said about the allegations. >> reporter: vincent calvarese had been working inside the san francisco county jail on the top floors of the hall of justice, but this afternoon, a few floors down, vincent calvarese stood before a judge, facing charges of domestic violence. inside the court, lieutenant vincent calvarese pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor assault, battery and false imprisonment in connection with a fight he had with a man he used to date named elvis. >> what was this fight about? do you have anything to say? >> reporter: authorities say the fight happened inside gold's gym last thursday. they approached vincent calvarese and accused him of lying about their relationship, and they say vincent calvarese, who appeared in the documentary the butch factor, said he was a captain who would have him arrested. >> we have zero tolerance for domestic violence. it does not matter who the defendant is or who the victim is. >> reporter: vincent calvarese's attorney said that the other man started the fight. >> did

>> started with david lee roth.played the music festival last year, about 60,000 in front of our stage. people on that week like bono and paul simon, a lot of rock groups. when david lee roth said, that's who i want. what? kool and the gang. >> they bring the party, they were the party group of the 80s and we are the party rock group. they wrote the long, ladies night. >> i love it. >> reporter: there was have somebody else. somebody would have gotten something else, their favorite group out of that concert. you know how time goes. maybe you need to chill out a little bit because you have a big show. you were there on the road and you were there last night. >> we're going to party >> you're going to party? >> yeah. >> i'm going to do my part and let you go right now but it's been a great hon more having you. >> i don't think you need an introduction. have a great show tonight. q every day, an average of 5,000 people switch from cascade to finish dishwasher detergent. that's about 150,000 a month, over 2 million

rob roth. >> a parolee is in jail after a shoot that sent a 10-year-old boy to the hospital. richmond police announced today that the 20-year-old is under arrest in connection with the june 28th shooting. very maniors say he was riding a bike when he opened fire at a passing car near south 15th street and main avenue. the boy was shot as walked with his mother. police say he is now out of the hospital. >> the governor has now signed a bill allowing the temporary release of a convicted serial killer so he can help search for his victims. the so-called speed freak killer is on death row, he was convicted in the murders of four people but authorities believe that he -- they may have killed dozens. >> the governor is on track to sign off on funding for the high speed rail and it's happening in san francisco. the governor is said to be at the transbay terminal construction site tomorrow afternoon to sign a bill authorizing the state to borrow up to $4.5 billion for the project. the governor will be at the union station in los angeles earlier today for another signing. >> strong se

with the assistance of tim roth, he has also coordinated the indoor rock climbing, mountain biking, and even ventures. he has taken on outdoor recreation to the kids by having a mobile recreation where his crew sets up the rock climbing walls, state parks, perhaps, in various neighborhoods where kids would never have the opportunity to try these activities. everyone who knows rex knows that he is an active employee who encourages his co-workers. we are honored to have such a dedicated employee. >> our new recreation model has been one of the bright spots for this department and we have been able to expand significantly the types of program we are offering. not just asking people to come to us, but we have gone to the neighborhoods. rex is such a key part of that. the energy and creativity you bring, you know, my own children have had the pleasure of being in your surfing classes, my kids came home with a script knee or two -- scraped knee or two, but is all good. thanks to your talents, we are starting to deliver the program the kids want. happy that your peers are recognizing you today

roth, it's those audit practices in question.here's so much here ma makes people scratch their heads. up until a couple weeks ago, the nfa was uncovering balances buy using postoffice boxes. the process has been a mess, and only right now, according to the testimony, you're going out and you're going to survey the firms about their bank balances, i assume investors thought that would be going on all along. >> number one, our average experience in our compliance department is over six years. number two, the bank confirmation process, the address that we sent them to here was a po box. most of them use a po box because it helps them control the flow of mail. >> what went wrong then -- >> contacting the bank directly, sir -- >> go ahead. >> i'm sorry. granted a lot of financial institutions use po boxes, but at some point over the line they didn't contact the bank directly independently? >> we did, we thought we were mailing confirmations to the bank every single year. we did not do verbal confirmations of the written confer nations

she signed his affidavit of birth, it was ellen roth. i never met her. he was doing slot machines and pinball machines when i was a kid. they were in our basement, wherever we were. he was moving them around. it was made illegal in canada. it was the early 1940's. i was in high school. he tried other businesses. he failed. he got a heart attack. his brother brought him out to l.a. to cool out. he was broke. he became a truck driver for yankee doodle pop company. i got a job in the valley. i went to night school. i lived on the corner of ninth and burlington. it is still there. the building is still there. mom wanted to be a lawyer. her parents emigrated from poland. they did not think women should go to college her brother was sent to college. i think he went to law school. he never practiced. he was a playboy. he was not interested in that. she regretted it all of her years. when they moved here, she got a job in a department store. she moved up to the drapery department. tavis: candy to drapery. >> she became known, the holly of holly carter hale. i ra

it killed adam roth when the 150-year-old tree fell on his car. an arborist said the tree was an accident waiting to happen. >> it did not have a root system. what was there was completely hollow. normally when you see a tree uprooted usage rights everywhere. >> it had under minded the fallen tree as had an even trimming to accommodate power lines. and of a huge tree was cut down as a precaution. >> the computer glitch that brought trains to a standstill has been fixed. it was a faulty computer module the size of a pizza box. all safety systems are up and running. we have learned speed restrictions might be put into effect because of today's heat. >> backers of vincent gray rallied in this show of support today. a rally outside of the wilson building this morning. it was a response to calls from 3 councilmembers. last week a supporter admitted at intercourse she helps run an illegal $600,000 shuttle campaign for the mayor. -- admitted in court she helped run and a legal shuttle campaign for the mayor. >> victims include the syrian defense minister

. >> reporter: rob roth is working on this story and will have the latest this afternoon. live in san francisco, christien kafton, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you. >>> california state university students are criticizing trustees who improved pay raises for three new presidents ktvu channel 2 news will earn 9- 10% more. the chancellor says it is necessary to attract top talents. >>> this promises to be a crucial night for suspended san francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi. his wife ellana lopez is set to testify tonight before the ethic's commission. ellana lopez flew back from venezuela. the commission made decide whether a inspector will testify. >>> the san francisco board of superrers passed a budget but -- supervisors passed a budget but there was controversy around one item. they called that wasteful. asked the money be used for projects jump as pedestrian safety or capital improvements. >>> governor jerry brown will be in san francisco to sign a california's high-speed rail construction bill. the $5.8 billion measure barely made it through the senate earlier this mont

rob roth.channel 2news. >> a ground breaking treatment credited with saving a small dog from the east bethea had eaten poisonous mushrooms. >> the wonder dog. the miracle dog. it's amazing. >> reporter: a quick thinking vet did some research and found a doctor who had success with a mushroom treatment for humans. it involved draining toxins from the gall bladder and keeping the patient hydrated. he did it for the dog and it worked. the dog was the first dog to receive the treatment. she is now recovered and is as good as new. >>> it's not unusual in the bay area to see a deer dart across the road but on a stretch of interstate 280 it's more of a serious safety issue. that's why caltrans, uc davis and fish and game are studying deer behavior trying to reduce car accidents. starting friday wildlife officials say they will sedate about a dozen deer and put tracking collars on them. >> windy, chilly out there and a little bit of drizzle as well. that's what happened this morning, going on tonight a

our richard roth squeezes in. >> reporter: since new york city wants to build new, tiny apartments -->> reporter: how big is the apartment? i came calling in greenwich village to see how residents in existing shoebox-sized apartments survive. >> you're having to duck under, but i'm -- i'm lucky that i'm short. >> reporter: genevieve has been living here for seven years. >> 105 square feet. >> reporter: much smaller than the microsized apartments the city would like to build. >> living room. >> reporter: mayor bloomberg walked a floor plan of the potential 300 square-foot apartments. he says micro-apartments are critical to attracting young people, those priced out of the market. >> if you don't have the housing that they need, they can't do that. >> reporter: i cannot stretch my arms fully. new yorkers like ariana gansz are renowned for overcoming cramped challenges. >> this is annoying. that get to be annoying. again, i've adjusted. >> manhattan can be pricey, even with 50,000 yen. >> reporter: kramer adjusted in "seinfeld" which japanese visitors needed a place to live. >> good nigh

i love the idea of getting the free money and switching to the roth and if you have money go back ande rest of the 401(k) and put everything you can in there. >> if you have an issue you want our experts to tackle, upho loaa 30 second video. >>> last time we checked americans had a pretty low opinion of congress. take a look at the numbers with me. a record low. 11% of americans gave congress a thumbs up when we asked them. 11%. i guess you'd count these two guys among that small minority. >> too good of a job. >> they need to take a break and pat themselves on the back. >> you don't have to be such straight shooters. you have a hard job. you don't have to be so honest. >> those are our concerns. >> those are our concerns. >> those two guys spoke to cnn to promote their new movie. they will be live next hour. >>> just a short time ago, senate majority leader harry reid did announce a deal to fund through next march. dana bash. i know this means we he not have another standoff as we did right before the all important november elections. >> that's right. this is first and foremost to av

rob roth.annel 2news. >> a ground breaking treatment credited with saving a small dog from the east bethea had eaten poisonous mushrooms. >> the wonder dog. the miracle dog. it's amazing. >> reporter: a quick thinking vet did some research and found a doctor who had success with a mushroom treatment for humans. it involved draining toxins from the gall bladder and keeping the patient hydrated. he did it for the dog and it worked. the dog was the first dog to receive the treatment. she is now recovered and is as good as new. >>> it's not unusual in the bay area to see a deer dart across the road but on a stretch of interstate 280 it's more of a serious safety issue. that's why caltrans, uc davis and fish and game are studying deer behavior trying to reduce car accidents. starting friday wildlife officials say they will sedate about a dozen deer and put tracking collars on them. >> windy, chilly out there and a little bit of drizzle as well. that's what happened this morning, going on tonight as

it's not on the menu not selling is not the profit from the fog roth and simply giving away as a guest from me. dirichlet's about two dozen protesters showed up at dinner time holding graphic pictures monday police have responded to complaints and the humane society in a local resident s.a.t. day was breaking the law that police say the law is confusing and have handed off the case to the santa clara county district attorney's office and fax the presidio in san francisco says it tomorrow in honor of the steel day the club says they're exempt from state law because the restaurant sits on the federal lands protesters this since it comes to the paid neil is almost a sale. did waves is in violation of the california fog rabin and taken more medical delicacy than complying with the law and violated his lawyers have to wonder what a loss of violating? the waves owner george of the was facing a protester along with a handful of restaurants supporters the remaining five across a glass to the weekend and it won't buy any more until the laws cleared up. dirichlet's so it is now in the hands of t

i believe emperor penguins on the roth ice shelf are not affected. now here's the wrinkle. the banks that determine libor also employ traders who make bets on what that rate will be. they're not supposed to talk to each other but you'll never guess what happened. >> traders at banks like barclays were essentially conspiring to fudge the data to boost their own trading profit. so one part of barclays would say to another part of barclays you can please submit data that makes us-- that either is high hooer or lower than it really is in order to boost our profits. >> stephen: now personally i don't see anything wrong with some work buddies doing each other a solid. you know the old saying, you scratch my back, i make the global financial system your bitch. it's all detailed it in e-mails between barclays traders and rate setters like please go for 5.36 libor again. very important that the setting comes as high as possible. thanks. and dude, i owe you big time. come over one day after work and i am opening a bottle of bollinger. now i know what you are thinking. it was unethica

kevin roth shows us what appears to be a mischievous ghost caught on camera. >> reporter: at a normal poise leah when things start disappearing -- pizzeria when things start disappearing, there's usually a good explanation. >> when i came in the next morning, i found both of these over on the floor. >> reporter: someone or something had been throwing around kitchen supplies for weeks. >> tabasco sauce hit me in the back. lorimented to get to the bottom and -- lori wanted to get to the bottom and here's what she saw at 6 in the morning when no one was in the shot shop. >> you can see them come up like this in the video, if you watch it close enough and then they go this way and end up on the floor over there. >> reporter: another security video from a different day, shows a bleach bottle taking a dive, but that area of the store is sturdy ask the items in question were resting on rubber mats so they certainly didn't slip off. >> they're not going to fall off that tray. >> reporter: last the explanation. >> something out of that world. >> reporter: but ghosts don't really exist, do they

welcome back to spotlight i'm now going off in just a reminder that my guest on the show today is a roth did that whole u.n. director general of the european organization for nuclear research mr hoyer one of the main tasks one of the great mysteries that the collider has the soul than everybody is expecting that is the is the higgs boson on i mean i mean the existence of the higgs boson well what makes you sure and i know that you are sure that this mystery will be so very soon. yes you see we know everything about this famous he explores on the part of the stone armada we know everything all its properties the only thing we don't know is if it exists ok so that's a slight problem however because we know its properties if it exists then we know how many collisions we need in the large hadron collider in order to significantly point your was this expose on so i can predict depending on the way the collider is working when the view of this can give an answer on the shakespeare question of this expose on to be on not to be and what does the discovery or not of this elementary particle mean

i want to introduce andre roth bat. he specializes in residential remodel work as far as i know and is a real kitchen expert and rachel whiting is a good friend who is going to cook today. shem has a blog called a kitchen of her own.blog spot.com and for the first time in her life rachel has her own kitchen. what is that like? >> it's fantastic the it's really tiny like a lot of san francisco kitchens. but it's going to have a stove and oven which i love. >> no remodeling, in the works? >> not yet, no. >> a lot of people have their own kitchen and want it to reflect their own needs and used -- uses and desires and a lot of other things in their life. what drives people, andre, to want to remodel their kitchen? >> there's lots of reasons. really kitchens have become the most important room in the house and people use it as a means to express themselves. they use it for investment purposes and kind of become a status symbol. people want really handsome kitchens that reflect and express their own personal style. >> i see a

criminal investigation has been opened into a field of spanish lender bunk kiya and its chairman rodrigo roth two who resigned when the bank one boston made the judge is looking into claims that he must have no bunky is trouble when he launched an i.p.o. last year traders have lost around three quarters of their money after the lender revised twenty eleven earnings from a three hundred million euro profit to a four billion euro loss and some more news from europe cyprus has rejected the terms of an e.u. bailout and has turned to russia for money the country's president told the european parliament that russian's loans are cheaper and they have less strings attached cyprus is reportedly seeking around ten billion euro a vicious spending cut force the e.u. bailouts the cause of violent protests by people in greece spain portugal and in italy and now back to russia we're checking out of russia. in equity markets and as you can see there are trading mixed at this hour the r.t.s. is shedding more than three quarters of a percent the my six is a staying in the block but just a life in europe it's a

if you don't have one, set up an ira or roth ira at your bank or mutual fund company.e thing -- when your direct deposit hits your account, sweep it over. if you think you're going to wait to the end of the month, there's not going to be anything left. >> i know. what about excuses? i can't do it this month, i have this or a special thing -- >> the excuses which i call the rationalizations and the justifications, they're endless. let me give it to you by the generation. in your 20s, it's i've got my first apartment. i need furniture. i need a nicer car than the car i've been driving. i want to drink and party with my friends after work. in your 30s, you're saving for the first house. you've got a baby coming. you've got to do the nursery. you need a new minivan. in your 40s, you've got hungry teenagers and all their friends and the sport activities. in your 50s, you're starting to save for weddings for your kids. grandkids. there's always an excuse, randi. >> we've got to get rid of those. >> you got to ignore them. save first. >> okay. that's good to know. let's talk

it's crystal clear. >> richard roth joining me live.stand mayor bloomberg, richard, almost didn't sign this bill. what were the reasons behind his concerns? >> reporter: well, he had some concerns which he expressed on the eve of signing it and the concerns of several people connected to this story that women who were passengers in cabs, what the mayor might said have a sporty look, mentioning even his teenage or 20-year-old daughters, that they might be perceived as involved in some type of sexual trade and sexual work activity and there are others who said they would be unfairly targeted and they ajusted this bill a few weeks ago so that there would be no misconceptions. the mayor heard it from all sides, and in the end he signed it. >> all right. so when exactly will it take effect? >> in about three months the law takes effect. it will probably be a video course that cab drivers will have to take, a course many cab drivers in new york, the ones behind me here at penn station in new york speak a lot of different languages as our cab