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

and today, in our language, we still have that expression, crossing the rubicon. which means a momentous decisi decision. an irrevocable decision. as he came down the peninsula, the italian cities opened their gates to him, the towns welcomed him. they saw him as somebody who was more or less on their side. and the oligarchic, the elite, aristocratic party, realizing they couldn't hold rome against him, went to greece where they felt they had stronger support. and eventually, ceasar took his army to greece and beat pompei and won the civil war and came back and there he was at the height of his power. >> how old was he when he was at the height of his power when he became emperor? >> when he became commander. >> commander, i'm sorry. >> it wasn't emperor. >> was emperor next? >> yeah. augustus took that same permanent, well he called himself the principate, the first citizen, literal hi. yeah, but he really started the emperor system. of course ceasar was still working with the tribal assemblies and still encouraging the people's tribune. the tribunate was a peopl

. >> reporter: john carnahan is chief technology officer at internet ad company the rubicon project ines. what would it take for you to wear a tie? >> a wedding. funeral. >> reporter: he always wears flip-flops. >> you're judged by the quality of your work, right? you're judged by, you know, the output of how much you're building. >> i would never wear flip-flops to work, never. >> reporter: this account manager prefers skirts and wedges. as a kid, her mom refused to let her wear sweats to school. >> there was a young lady who came in and interviewed in shorts and cowboy boots and i was shocked. i was so shocked. >> reporter: boss craig roa wants employees to feel comfortable, though he draws the line somewhere. >> i think underwear. >> reporter: coming in to work in your underwear you would not approve of? >> probably not. >> reporter: good to know. etiquette expert jules hearst says first impressions are made in four to six seconds and clothes really do make the man or woman. >> yoga pants are a no-no. big earrings, we don't need to hear you before you get there. >> reporter: in the

>> you know, we've already crossed the rubicon and that's by putting a negative watch as of march 1st and the most important step is down grading. we're unlikely to take a positive action unless and until we see significant progress with the debt to gdp. as far ons our taking additional action, i don't know. we probably won't because we've already sent a signal to our clients about the conditions. so i think we'll probably take away and see the approach and hopefully things will get back on track. >> susie: that will be great. thank you so much for coming along and talking to us this evening. >> thank you. >> susie: we've been speaking with sean egan of egan jones the credit rating agency. >> tom: the lack of a deal to raise the country's borrowing limit sent stocks lower. the dow fell 91.5 points, the nasdaq slipped nearly three and the s&p 500 off 5.5 points. volume rose from yesterday's pace, with 835 million shares moving on the big board and 1.75 billion on the nasdaq. still ahead, our "word on the street" is "gold." alix steele of thestreet.com explains what record-high gold pri

it is crossing the rubicon. we were the first rating firm to do that.that. we felt as though we had no choice. basically it's a reflection of, as i said, the dramatic rise of debt to gdp and hopefully some steps will be taken to ameliorate the problem. >> even if they raise the debt ceiling, there's some talk if it's a patchwork, short-term deal, that you might get company, and other rating agencies might also downgrade. what happens if that's the case? what do you expect in terms of reaction in financial markets? >> the short answer is no one knows because the u.s. has been at the aaa level since 1914 or thereabouts when rating firms were organized. it's not clear what's going to happen. >> are you hopeful? >> i am very hopeful. i think this is a fantastic country. i don't think there's anyplace on the face of the earth like this. i think that if anybody has the resources, we should be able to do it. if we don't do it, it will be looked upon -- this is really an inflection point. this has never happened in the history of the country. if we don't do it,

if you want to check it out, you can check out teen rubicon. it helps them the first responders for disasters. of communication and mobilization, not just on the net, but also with supporters about the work that they're doing with social media. i think it is a really great cause. that is an example of not needing an organization to ask you to be involved. another couple of other ways our applications if you have 10 minutes and a cell phone, you can volunteer. i can sit at the airport, which i will be doing later today, and i can volunteer through my mobile phone. all sorts of all some ways that people are getting involved. the san ramon fire department has an application for your iphone that if you are cpr certified, you can download the at any uses steel and services so that if someone in your immediate vicinity goes into cardiac arrest, it will send you a text message and tell you there is a person three doors down the need cpr. you can go over and probably say that person's life and a lot of ways. that is one of the most innovative and inspi

spades yesterday when a whole bunch of republican senators embraced the gang of six and crossed that rubicon to say yes, we need revenues that's a way out of this. >> then, of course the problem reverts to the house. we saw that senator reid said on the floor na the ball is now in the house's court. we don't know whether john boehner can bring any of his members or enough of his members along. our poll also as you know says that when asked should democrats cut sbiet legitimates 52% said a clear majority said no. >> look, both parties are crossways with their base on some elements of this proposal. but the upshot of our poll is that democrats are more aligned with independents now than republicans are. what that means is that republican members of the house are squeezed between primary voters, their base activists who don't want them to compromise and general election voters who do want them to compromise. it may not matter for a lot of house members because they've got safe districts. they're not going to face challenges, but the party as a whole has a big problem there. that's why john boeh

i would say that was there, like ruby rubicon was in like you were, then one of the general said one day this is the reason why we are never going to have three and four-star women who are generals because if you are not in charge of combat or you can show that you are in combat when you move up the chain and you are competing because you know it is move up or get out at some point, right, with the officers? if you can't show that in fact you have been part of what the marines is really about, the guys will get promoted over you. so how do we change that? what do we do about that? how do you react to that? >> guest: of course it is a difficult issue because women are excluded from a lot of jobs in the military. all the combat roles essentially and that means offensive grounds units such as infantry, artillery, armored units and things like that. and it creates of course a vacuum that women cannot -- they reach a certain plateau and it is hard to get promoted after that because they can't get any of those other experiences. >> host: so would you say we should change it and what would