and girls club of san francisco, catholic charities, community housing partnerships, mercy housing, rubicon, tool works, and walden house. thank you for your cooperation. [applause] and to our development partners who we have come to know, cherish, lived with, talked out a lot of issues, at the state level, local level, and of course, the treasury -- a treasure island community development. chris, thank you for being here. [applause] have i gotten everything else? i know we have other speakers here. we have a number of the board of supervisors that i want to thank each and everyone of them. we have jane kim, carmen chu is here, scott wiener, mark farrell. they are here as well. there may be more coming. i want to give a special thanks. i know not only gain, but her staff, has worked hard to spend the time necessary to explain to everybody but this is all about, and to also make sure the commitments that were made by the city family are actually carried out. whether they are affordable housing or transportation, or open space, parking challenges that we will face, or whether they are simple

rubicon strongly favors the development of treasure island and the treasure island initiative. we have been offering landscaping services to treasure island since 1992. creating long-term jobs, we focus on individuals with similar barriers. most of them that come to us have considerable difficulty elsewhere. the recent issues that have come to us, health, stamina, mental illness under developmental disabilities, coping skills and social skills, prior criminal convictions, housing issues, ongoing legal issues, in substance abuse. if that helps me to find a steady support of environment for complete medical and other benefits and job training, specifically in landscaping responsibilities. thank you very much. supervisor chu: thank you very much. i'm going to call a few more names. [reading names] bu>> nine years ago, i was at rk bottom, homeless, jobless. they gave me the skills to keep treasure island clean and green, and i'm also lucky enough to live there. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning. i m executive director of catholic cheerios -- cathol

. >> well, look, anderson, assad has crossed the rubicon.dren, you also have unicef basically talking about the abuse of children, the killing of children, the murder of children has been part and parcel of the practice of this regime. are these indeed the parents -- the father and uncle of the poor boy? we don't know. and if they are there, we know why they're there. they are terrified and they have other things to worry about. we know they have other members of the family to worry about. so i think the mask has fallen and we can see what this man is all about. the dream that he was a reformer, the ideal that he will change, the ideal he will break with his father. i think the syrian people are beginning to in a way think about a future beyond assad. today they're meeting in turkey, syrian opposition, to think about a new syria, and that's what this is about. >> ann marie, have the protests gotten to the point where they really threaten the regime? it doesn't seem like they're wide enough or deep enough at this point. >> they haven't been y

this man has crossed the rubicon and this regime is completely exposed. >> it's so frustrating to seeh of these people and we get tweets about this all the time, what can we do? what can the u.s. do? what can the international community do? is there more to be done? >> there is more to be done. the human rights watch report, which i recommend everyone should read, it's very powerful, lays out a list of things that the u.n. security council can do, that the arab league can do. a lot of this is diplomatic condemn mags, but diplomatic condemnation expresses the weight of the international community, and that then can be a basis for global sanctions. the eu and the u.s. have targeted sanctions is, but human rights watch calls for targeted travel and economic sanctions against individuals. thereby possibly causing defections, changing the political balance and ultimately, anderson, we have the weapon that you always use, which is truth, which is keeping them honest, it is holding a mirror to the syrian government and showing the world what the syrian people see rather than what the syrian

which to clear violation of the constitution that's similar to caesar marching estridge across the rubicon into rome or the two thousand years ago this is classical tyranny and it is it's this move globally for standardized laws that are created at the corporate level of just last week wiki leaks released documents on the north american union meetings that ban canada in two thousand and six judicial watch and sued previously and got some of the documents and they talk about stealth these are quotes stealth north american integration and then merging that with europe so this is a global corporate governance structure that's trying to transfer power out of our congress into the i.m.f. world bank world trade organization and so that's why more and more we see congress becoming really ceremonial or the schedule and i know i've read that in terms that it's very interesting in terms of the people who get invited for example a not very well known man back in one thousand nine hundred one was invited his name was bill clinton he of course then went on to win the presidency twice in a row so i know

. >> rose: some have said he's crossed the rubicon in the way he has treated his own people. >> well, some of the reports are extremely disturbing but when all that... there are some destructive elements of the opposition as well who started out by attacking the syrian government forces, et cetera, et cetera. so one needs to keep that in mind as well. >> rose: what could change russia's mind? >> wl, it's hard to speak theoretically. what we know for sure is that they have announced some important reforms. they have circulated amendments to the constitution. they have announced amnesty and, in fact, let some pitical prisoners go. they have announced they're going to investigate that horrible story about a boy who was allegedly tortured, et cetera. >> ros what do w kw abo that? >> we know there a reports of a 13-year-old boy who participated in the protest was detained and tortured in detention and now this is being investigated by t syrian government. there was a huge outcry about it but we believe that there is still a chance of peaceful transformation d that the initiatives of presid

the other is above the rubicon bay. they hopefully can reduce the chance of a wildfire. >> we want to check in with sal, keeping a close eye on the commute. >> reporter: good morning to you. traffic does move along well around the bay area but there are spots. the bay bridge. we have a typical delay. i was thinking maybe some people would be taking a vacation surrounding the holiday. you'll be waiting for about 15 minutes before you get on. now there is a new injury accident on 101 in both directions between sharepoint and oift per point. if you're going to san francisco, be aware of that. we'll try to get that coming up. this one just came. 237. the traffic is moving along relatively well. let's go to the south bay. traffic is doing okay. a little bit of slow traffic on 280 near the choke points at 880. moving to livermore valley, slow traffic and hayward is slow. again, we have that crash in shout san francisco on 101. we'll update you on that coming up. steve? >> mostly sunny. the high will burn off the fog. we have