alice o'connor from the university of california santa barbara discuss the panic of 87 and other crisis and explain how they relate to the 2008 financial crisis. this is about a half hour. >> american history tv is at the annual meeting of historians in milwauk milwaukee. we are joined by two historians who will be speaking about economic crisis and american history. jessica teaches history at the university of new hampshire and alice o'connor, the historian at the university of california, santa barbara. thanks for being with us. let's start with the panic of 1837. what was that panic of 1837? >> the panic of 1837 was what referred to a long period of time. it referred to seven years. both the financial crisis and really hard times that followed it. my focus has been on the experience of panic. it happened between march and may of 1837. it was rather remarkably similar in a lot of ways. it was a credit crisis out of real estate speculation and consumption of goods and similar experience to what a lot of people have just looked through. >> similar in that it was an inherited crisis for

is overflow crowd gathers at the theater in santa barbara all hoping for chance to hear a 49-year-oldpeak her name is kim foobing. >> everyone here in this room has a story to tell but rate now is my turn. >>reporter: she's matured with grace and charm. goodwill ambassador now comfortable telling her story. >> pleasure to meet you. i'm david. >> nice to meet you. >>reporter: upon meeting her i notice she's always at ease. smichlingt remarkably open. our conversation starts with a memory of that painful day 40 years ago. >> i saw 4 bomb. i heard boom boom boom boom then suddenly the fire everywhere around me. and then the fire burn off my clothes. >>reporter: she says the paper is still a daily part of life. never goes away. she rolls up her sleeve showing me her injuries. how many surgeries have you had. >> i have 17. >>reporter: her left arm, her entire back. her neck all disfigured. horrible scarring to the skin. but even more so to her self-esteem. >> every time i look i scare myself to death. that's why i thought i never have a boy friend or get married or even have a baby. normal

is overflow crowd gathers at the theater in santa barbara all hoping for chance to hear a 49-year-old woman speak her name is kim foobing. >> everyone here in this room has a story to tell but rate now is my turn. >>reporter: she's matured with grace and charm. goodwill ambassador now comfortable telling her story. >> pleasure to meet you. i'm david. >> nice to meet you. >>reporter: upon meeting her i notice she's always at ease. smichlingt remarkably open. our conversation starts with a memory of that painful day 40 years ago. >> i saw 4 bomb. i heard boom boom boom boom then suddenly the fire everywhere around me. and then the fire burn off my clothes. >>reporter: she says the paper is still a daily part of life. never goes away. she rolls up her sleeve showing me her injuries. how many surgeries have you had. >> i have 17. >>reporter: her left arm, her entire back. her neck all disfigured. horrible scarring to the skin. but even more so to her self-esteem. >> every time i look i scare myself to death. that's why i thought i never have a boy friend or get married or even have a baby

the university of new hampshire and alice o'connor, a historian at the university of california santa barbara you. >> thank you. >> let's start early in history with the panic of 1837, professor lepler. what was the panic of 1837? >> the panic of 1938, that phrase refers to a rather long period of time t.referred to seven years of both a financial crisis and really hard times that followed it, well into the 1840s. but my focus has really been on the experience of panic which happened between march and may of 1837 and was rather remarkably similar to our own crisis in a lot of ways. it was a credit crisis built out of real estate speculation and consumption of goods, and sort of very similar experience to what a lot of people have just lived through. >> and similar also in that it was an inherited crisis for for martin van buren. >> well, martin van buren. andrew jackson was president and then his vice president van buren took office on the same day in london and new orleans the panic began, so, yes, it was an inherited crisis, but it was a crisis inherited within an administration. martin van

this is santa barbara bowl. this is the forest theater in carmel and these are ccc workers putting huge bolder. here's 6 thousand people getting ready to enjoy oklahoma in that theater. big basin is a ccc project and this one, on the east river, new york. a project built where people from the lower east side could see performances and still do. our parks and recreation. almost all from them. that's the conservatory garden and i photographed that all the time. this is up at jeweliard park. i thought i would show you san francisco. i read they improved every park. i didn't believe this at first. this is the fly casting pools. here was a fly casting champion ship. here it is today. it's still in use. the stables out there. they are meant so the public would have the opportunity previously only available to the elite, as it so often the case, as is with golf. like lincoln park built by the wpa. think of the experiences that people have had and the history which is embodied in them. there is daves tennis stadium. her

he joins us from santa barbara. we are having a little bit of trouble.tle -- morris can really appreciate that little plug there. we are having a little trouble with miller's audio sounds like tunnel but that's the way the satellite is breaking tonight. occupy protesters in chicago. if you were there what would you tell them? >> i wouldn't be there. if you didn't agree with them there is a good chance you would get shoved or punched. people can grow go out and protest in the streets that's their business. you going to start sticking chicago cops with knives. you are going to find out that the reason they wear the checker board on their police hat is if you get in their face and you are a consistent jag off about it. they will crown you. i think that's what's going to happen here over the weekend never have we had this many people out of the loop. i think of all the world a stage these protests have now become show biz for people who lack talent. this is where they get off. this whole passion play on the street. but at some point cops aren't going to take

the sage of california joins us from santa barbara. you did the cher thing. you did it. >> half breed. that's my elizabeth warren song. >> bill: oh, man. i thought you were going to say take me home, you know? >> no. the day i say take me home when i'm on ear phones with you, i want you to put me down in the back stretch. >> bill: that can be arranged. all right. white house correspondent's dinner next year i want you to go with me. i'm inviting you now officially. miller goes with me. hume wants to go too. so we're going to go, okay? are you in? >> just exciting just to meet jonathan alter. >> bill: the "newsweek" guy. kimmel gave a little jazz to the president. we will have him in body language in a moment. you say? >> kimmel is great. is a stone killer. i saw him introduce stevie wonder at a park parkinson's event once. they had to put the paddles on me. obama is the outlier. i'm starting to think he is this generation's george jessel who would have thought it bring back the dean martin roast. this guy is a killer. >> bill: he has timing. you know he doesn

a dramatic rescue of the santa barbara coastline where an arabian horse got spooked during a photo shooteir egos. he blocked off the writer and decided to take a swim. it was almost dark when they finally found him at least 1 mi. offshore. they tied into the side of the boat to bring him back to land. >> coffee does more than help per queue up on the early morning shifts. a new study shows that coffee lovers live longer. the national cancer institute conducted the largest analysis ever of a link between coffee consumption and mortality. researchers found that men who drank up to 5 c. daily live longer than on coffee drinkers and women had a 13% advantage. higher education is also good for your health according to an annual report released by the cdc and national center for health statistics. health data collected by the government suggests that people with a bachelor's degree or higher live nearly nine years longer than those who do not finish high school. the researchers say those with more education tend to avoid unhealthy behavior and have more access to medical care. a shoe company w

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. >>> a dramatic rescue off the coast of santa barbara, after a horse swims more than 2 1/2 miles outcarty reports, the horse got spooked during a photo shoot on the beach. >> it was a daring rescue to save an arabian show horse lost at sea. >> that's one rescue i've never attempted in my career. >> reporter: william, a 7-year- old shoafer horse was the -- showhorse was the star in santa barbara tuesday. these photos, provided by april visesle showed what happened when high tide spooked william. he bolted into the ocean. even as people swam after him, trying to pull him back to shore, william, too fast for anyone to catch, ended up nearly 3 miles out. >> it's like finding a needle in a haystack. it was just barely the horse's nose and eyes above water. >> reporter: william was exhausted. treading water for more than an hour. >> had to be a pretty healthy horse. because that water is cold. >> reporter: with luck and skill, he was spotted. a charter boat captain captured this video and assisted rescue. >> just keep your neck above water. and keep the legs from hitting the propellers. th

but now, she's testing out a revolutionary device in santa barbara.lled the artificial pancreas. >> i don't have to go in and say, my blood sugar is this. therefore, i'm going to do this. it figures is all out for you. >> while many use a pump and glucose monitor, researchers are using a device to connect the two. >> it takes some of the thought process and some of the hassles of interacting with pumps. and sensors. and automates that so that the patient doesn't have to do that work. >> reporter: when the monitor senses a need for insulin, the pump automatically inject its into the patient through a small coil. >> researchers hope the device will be an option for the nearly 3 million meshes -- americans with type 1 diabetes. many suffer with symptoms since childhood. >> reporter: tracy says the artificial pan pancreas would free her up. >> they mean the world to me. and i want to be around for them. >> reporter: and less time dealing with her diabetes. bigat shaban, cbs news, santa barbara. >> reporter: right now, the artificial pancreas is being test

now she is testing out a revolutionary device in santa barbara.e artificial pancreas. >> i don't have to go in and say my blood sugar is this. therefore i'm going to do this. it figures it out for you. >> reporter: while many patients use an insulin pump, researchers are developing a wireless device to connect the two. >> it takes the thought process and hassles of interacting with pumps and sensors and automates that so the patient doesn't have to do that work >> reporter: when the monitor senses a need for insulin, the pump injects it into a patient. researchers hope the device will be an option for the 3 million americans with type 1 diabetes. >> watch where you're going. don't go in the car. >> reporter: the artificial pancreas would free her up to spend more time with her family. >> they mean the world for me and i want to be around for them. >> reporter: cbs news, santa barbara. >> currently this artificial pancreas is being tested at hospitals, but researchers hope to get it to patients to test it in their every day lives. >>> odds are, if

he joins us from santa barbara. we are having a little bit of trouble.can really appreciate that little plug there. we are having a little trouble with miller's audio sounds like tunnel but that's the way the satellite is breaking tonight. occupy protesters in chicago. if you were there what would you tell them? >> i wouldn't be there. if you didn't agree with them there is a good chance you would get shoved or punched. people can grow go out and protest in the streets that's their business. you going to start sticking chicago cops with knives. you are going to find out that the reason they wear the checker board on their police hat is if you get in their face and you are a consistent jag off about it. they will crown you. i think that's what's going to happen here over the weekend never have we had this many people out of the loop. i think of all the world a stage these protests have now become show biz for people who lack talent. this is where they get off. this whole passion play on the street. but at some point cops aren't going to take it, bill will

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. >> reporter: william was the star of a photography workshop along the sands of a beach in santa barbaratuesday. high tides spooked up, and he bolted into the ocean. as people swam after, william, too fast for anyone to catch, ended up 3 miles out. >> it was like finding a needle in a haystack. just barely the horse's nose and eyes above the water. >> reporter: william looks exhausted, treading water for more than wan hour. >> he had had been to be a pretty healthy horse. >> reporter: captain paul norry captured this video and helped with the rescue. three men tried to balance the horse's weight in large swells. >> we brought out a harness that we placed underneath the animal's saddle and we were able to latch it on the side of the boat. >> reporter: his rescuers had to idle back. >> just keep him calm and going really slow. >> reporter: three hours later, william was brought to shore. he was returned to his owner safely. >> it's a story i'll have the for the rest of my life. >> reporter: william belongs to the producer of caddie shack, the color purple, and batman. we are told the horse

the sage of california joins us from santa barbara. you did the cher thing.lf breed. that's my elizabeth warren song. >> bill: oh, man. i thought you were going to say take me home, you know? >> no. the day i say take me home when i'm on ear phones with you, i want you to put me down in the back stretch. >> bill: that can be arranged. all right. white house correspondent's dinner next year i want you to go with me. i'm inviting you now officially. miller goes with me. hume wants to go too. so we're going to go, okay? are you in? >> just exciting just to meet jonathan alter. >> bill: the "newsweek" guy. kimmel gave a little jazz to the president. we will have him in body language in a moment. you say? >> kimmel is great. is a stone killer. i saw him introduce stevie wonder at a park parkinson's event once. they had to put the paddles on me. obama is the outlier. i'm starting to think he is this generation's george jessel who would have thought it bring back the dean martin roast. this guy is a killer. >> bill: he has timing. you know he doesn't write the stuff

dock williams santa barbara says the 10-dollar per person tax could generate as much as $35 million a year. williams wants the money earmarked for race -- race kitts services for human sex trafficking. legislation is currently in the assembly appropriations committee. >>> san francisco restaurant has been in institution since the days of the code is set to service last meal tonight. it's been around for 126 years and claims to be the holdest italian restaurant in the country. they will recently to the corner of mason and san-- previous location on union street. the owner say tough economy is forcing them to close up shop but hope to reopen in another location sometimes in the future future. >> today that turned into it. we'll look at the numbers. >> it's take 2 for some of the bay areas most known movie houses. blockbusterrer deal is rewriting the script. >> and back here just a few minutes forecast and it does conclude a lot. >>> garbage truck fire near townhome complex. the fire was reported just after 9:00 near london and murphy avenue. the two alarm fire and of six townhomes. took

into the santa barbara channel. it took more than two hours to rescue him. he is now back with his owner. >> paying more than $4 per gallon is hard enough but drivers are questioning whether >> the high cost of gasoline has some consumers wondering if they're getting all that they pay for >> julie what puts bay area gas pumps to the test >> he has filled up hundreds of times but he suspects the last time he filled up he was taken for a ride. the tipoff was the receipt >> told me i purchased more gas than what my tank even holds >> according to the owner's manual the tank only hold 11.9 gal. but his receipt shows that he purchased 12 gal. >> we hear sometimes that there are overcharges >> steven says at the price of gas goes up soda the number of complaints about on accuracy but most turn out to be unfounded >> we're testing the fuel pumps for accuracy and we find that most of them actually pass. there are very few that don't >> so we tagged along when a marin county inspector tested the pomp that he complained about it. not only did it pass it actually dispe

it was a long way from there to santa barbara. >> i was wondering when they did the research if there were things that you discovered in addition ed kennedy and the associated press about the military or political figures that you thought were leaders into the military at the time. i didn't. the i think more of what you get out of the book is what you really get is a sense of what it was really like to do this job. there wonderful anecdotes, but get a sense of what it was like to be there every day and to work your way through the war up north and i say one thing. i think there is a lot of work to be done on world war ii and coverage. i don't think we have a good way to describe what reporting was like and how bad it was. the military had two efforts they used to try to control reporters. one was and it may be the earning in the room, but one was getting them to go and write stories about them so they can be sent home. it was a good way to build support and it wasn't a good way generally speak to let people know what was happening in terms of strategy and all that. the second thing is

a horse somehow became spooked on the beach during a photo shoot in santa barbara and went for a swime ran out about two miles. it took several rescue boats tout get him. the horse is set to be exhausted but in good health. >>> it's been four years since the deadly battle. >> one american soldier who sacrificed himself to save his fellow man that day now has the highest military honor. president obama presented the medal of honor to the widow of sergeant leslie sabo jr. they were surrounded by north vietnamese soldiers. he protected them from grenade blasts and used his own. his widow says she knows the medal can't bring her husband back but she's happy he's recognized. >> he held onto that grenade until the last possible minute and let it go knowing what the outcome was going to be but saving a lot of living. we thank him and everyone else for their service. >>> your time is 4:54. here's some news that's bound to perk you up. enjoy extra coffee. why that cup of morning joe could help you live longer. >>> but first, promising more than they can deliver. the price sketcher is paying fo

that horse somehow got spooked on the beach during a photo shoot in santa barbara.valued at $100,000, $150,000. the trainer says he has never swum before. tonight that horse its said to be exhausted. as one might expect but in good health. >> wow. incredible. >> poor guy. >> yes. three miles out. >> so, we got some more changes, huh? >> yeah, more changes. >> good changes. >> great changes. >> saw a great night out there. at the nationals game earlier. what great night at the ball, park. temperatures cooled down. the sun went down. spectacular. still outside. going to like it. step outdoors. if you are stepping out at 11:18. wait, three minutes of weather. stay there for a second. out there right now. temperature into the 70s. after a high temperature today, of 82 degrees. that was height temperature, across the area. temperatures, about 5 to 10 degrees above average. average high temperature. 75 degrees. monthly rainfall. 2.36 inches. a third of an inch above average. still for the year -- we have a deficit over 4 inches. yes we, do need to see more rain. but start

it was a long way from there to santa barbara. >> i was wondering if when both of you were doing research if there was any things that you discovered in addition to ed kennedy and the associated press about the military or political figures that you thought were new or new insights into the political leaders or military leaders at the time. >> i didn't. i think general allen, who was the chief information guy, there he was a great guy who were journalists. of what you get out of this book sense of what you like to do what you really get is a sense through the war up north along the coast and eventually up to paris. this, though. i think there's a lot of work to world war ii coverage. and i don't think we still have a good way of describing how difficult it was and how bad it was. reporters. but one was getting them to go and sit with a bunch of people in trenches to write stories about them so that they could be trenches. a little of that went a long way. it was a good way to build support for the war but not good that. the second thing that would happen is giving them opportunities to wr

>> we are going on world tour starting on the 23rd of may in santa barbara. >> there you go, santa barbarae of the fenix". >> thank you. >> did you ever think you'd hea, >>> in some of the bay area headlines this morning uc- berkeley police and forced the removal of protesters occupying a university owed piece of land and albany. several dozen officers moved in and at least five people were arrested. protesters of taken over the plot of land three weeks ago began planting their own crops. officials offered to share the property with the protesters but officers say they need to regain access to the agricultural research said the research can resume. facebook expected to start selling stock to the public for the first time on friday. it could valued at nearly $100 billion making it worth more of the company does feet and ford and kraft foods. [ male announcer ] it would be easy for u.s. olympian mebkeflezighi to deposit checks at the nearest citibank branch. ♪ like this one. ♪ or this one. ♪ or, maybe this one. ♪ but when it's this easy to use citibank mobile check deposit at home...why woul

>> we are going on world tour starting on the 23rd of may in santa barbara. >> there you go, santa barbara. tenacious d "rize of the fenix". >> thank you. >> did you ever think you'd hear charli who call baltimore home. from funding to help a local business expand their operations... to financing for an organization which provides affordable housing for artists... and partnering with a local hospital to help expand patient care. because the more we do in baltimore, the more we help make opportunity possible. ♪ i can take you higher what this is, forgot? ♪ ♪ i must now remind you let it rock, let it rock ♪ ♪ let it rock >>> gray with rain. what is sharon seeing through a traffic cam? that's after weather. >> i mean, it's just a bunch of rain. it's going to be with us pretty much through the day. forecast will mention spotty showers. the fact of the matter matter is, any shower could be heavy at times. keep an umbrella all day. let's send it to sharon with traffic. >>> the rain certainly not helping things on the roads. first of all, we have an accident still on the topside of the beltway at

santa barbara. and jessica lepler from university of new hampshire. thank you for joining us here on american history tv at the animal me annual meeting. really enjoyed talking to you both. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> this week on the civil war -- harry jones, curator and assistant director at african-american civil war memorial and museum, talks about the contributions of african-american women during the war. this is 90 minutes. >> good evening. when our founding director, dr. frank smith jr. and secretary of state colin powell designated spirit of freedom, african-american civil war memorial in july of 1998 attention was brought to one of the best kept secrets in american history. attention was brought to -- to the 209,145 soldiers and officers that were officially mustered into the bureau of the united states troops. attention was brought to how these soldiers were organized, how they fought, and what they accomplished in the civil war. attention was brought to an african descent community that fought to save the union and free thems

. >> we can tell you an east bay familiar sly traveling to the hearing in santa barbara to make sure their son who was also killed in this attack is not forgotten. the hearing is expected to last several days. >>> 4:35. teenager convict of setting fire to one of the largest elementary schools will spend eight years in prison. trace elementary was badly damaged by the six-alarm fire almost two years ago. they were 16 at the time of the fire. both were tried as adults. the second teen will be sentenced in july. the damaged part of trace is being rebuilt and expected to be ready by the start of the new school year. >>> san jose police have identified a 16-year-old boy killed in a double shooting over the weekend. zamura was koyld virginia avenue near king road saturday night. friends have left candles and flowers at the scene. a 23-year-old man was also shot but he's expected to recover. police believe that the shooting was gang related. >>> a seemingly healthy player with the san jose saber cats is now dead. just days after scoring a winning touchdown. johnny curtain's body was found a

i went to school at uc santa barbara, graduated in 19988 -- 1988. i have lived in the excelsior since 1999. i have had lots of different jobs, but my main job is doing social work force and a disco, i have been a community organizer, i worked at a labor organization supporting janitor's working in our high- rise buildings. i was a legislative aide before .wr. i got to see how it all work from the outside, community organizations supporting young people, children, families, working for labor, and saw how city hall could be an effective tool for change and then considered running in 2007, 2008, and somehow, i made it. >> you were raised in los angeles, moved to the east coast. what made you want to come back and live in san francisco? >> i love cities. i never felt like i lived in a city in los angeles, but when i lived in massachusetts, where i live, i was close to boston. i had such a great time in boston but i did not like massachusetts so much because it was cold, the culture was foreign to me. when i came to san francisco, the first time i came,

at the university of new hampshire and alice o'connor, a historian at the university of history santa barbara, thank you for being was. >> thank you. >> let's start early in the history, with the pak panic of 1837, pwhat was the panic of 1837. >> that phrase refers to a rather long period of time it referred to seven years of boston a financial crisis and really hard times that followed it well into the 18 40sz. but my focus has been on the experience of panic which happened between march and may of 1837 and was rather remarkably similar to our own crisis in several ways, it was a secret crisis built out of speculation and consumption of goods and sort of very similar experience to what a lot of people have just experienced. >> so it was an inherited crisis for martin van buren. >> andrew jackson was president, and martin van buren took office in 1837 which was the same day that in london and -- an inherited crisis, but it was a crisis inherited within an administration. he wasn't exactly ignorant of the situation that was going on. >> with what would the economy have been like in 1839, what

next, jessica of the university of new hampshire and the university of california, santa barbara discussed the crises and how they relate to the 2008 crisis. this is about half an hour. >> american history tv is at the annual meeting of the historians in milwaukee and we are joined by two historians who will be speaking about economic crisis. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> let's start early in history with the panic of 1837. professor, what was that panic of 1837? >> well, the panic of 1837 was a rather long period of time and both of the financial crisis and really hard times that followed it well into the 1840s. but my focus has really been on the experience of panic which happened between march and may of 1837 and was rather remarkably similar to our own crisis built out of speculation and consumption of goods. sort of very similar experience to what a lot of people have just went through. >> and similar in that it was an inherited crisis? >> well, andrew jackson was present. the same day in london and new orleans the panic began. yes, it was a crisis, but a crisis inherited

they don't want to see drilling rigs in santa barbara or in their backyard. in california, we have an uphill batter. >> mother nature has a bit of a sense of humor. 3.5 billion barrels of shale and monterey shale, 15 billion barrels. >> right. california is a populated state with a lot of environmental movement. >> we have more unemployment here and could use the tax dollars. >> thank you very much. chris falkner. >>> you can talk about the facebook ipo, we talk with david sacks about silicon valley's most anticipated stock offering next on "press: here." >>> welcome back to "press: here." we had facebook executives on the show before, but can't do that now because the company is in its quiet period. fortunately, someone that knows the company well doesn't have a quiet period. david sacks is our second outspoken guest of the morning. one of the paypal mafia, the group that made its millions in the sale of paypal to ebay. he is a movie producer and troublemaker. he once got so angry at yahoo, he offered $25,000 to any employee who would leave. the ceo of yamme

. >>> an arabian showhorse is back on solid ground after a dramatic rescue near santa barbara. the stallion named william was spooked during a photo shoot on the beach. glamorous horse. he jumped into the water and swam nearly three miles. that's a long way. harbor control managed to car roll william and get him back to shore. he was exhausted but otherwise just okay. >> poor baby. >>> now, we're going to take a look at the morning road conditions. rain soaks i-95, from the carolinas to miami. also wet on i-10, from jacksonville to pensacola. and i-20, through south carolina. slick on parts of i-15, and 84 in the northern rockies. >> and if you're flying today, short list. expect some weather-related airport delays only in the city of miami. >>> president obama has no public events today, as he prepares for back-to-back high-level meetings starting tomorrow. first up, the top world leaders meet at camp david to talk world economics. then, it's on to chicago, where protesters are already gathering ahead of the nato summit. the meeting will focus on global security. staff members

comment on that or first of all of course i can prove i can i can tell that's where we're really santa barbara. mr yushchenko transferring to russia . i can't be sure exactly what are the conditions stay nowadays in american jail but to what i'm really sure you know is that there are conditions in american jails or another account and what about the yard franco's case and the boots case nowadays it's for us it's some kind of technical work just to use all the international conventions mechanism to bring the citizen of russian federation back it could be different that it did them but still the position of the country is that the russian citizens should be punished in their own country and on the other hand probably what's more important all this is the russian federation as well of all the people all over the world should be a political t. only on the basis of the very probable on the very proper lore so what is disappointing us in all is in the both of those cases is that the country that sentenced them both of them used some not very clear not very transparent acknowledges for a practicing l

. >> until 1933 when the reilly act went into effect after the disastrous 1933 santa barbara -- >> long beach. >> destroyed elementary schools. they were brick. if the kids were in school, we would have lost thousands of kids. that banned brick construction and required seismic designs to be incorporated in buildings. >> there was a major -- there are a number of thresholds over the course of the development. the big one is in the mid '70s, but a whole threshold, series of these thresholds. many of the older buildings, like the 1 across the street have been upgraded to meet some modern standards. this is the williams building that we were talking about that is the replacement of the building that was damaged in the 1906 earthquake. it was built just like it with the plans. >> this building they were going to dynamite it. in '06, they dynamited buildings to clear the path. >> from an interesting point of view, spencer is here, this building is incorporating into the brand-new building next to it, which makes the new building an addition. it is not a new building. it is a brand-new buildi

i went to school at uc santa barbara. i have been in san francisco since 1989, have lived in the excelsior since 1999. the difficulty is, muni often sees it as an industrial area, not a neighborhood. we have to figure out how to make it work as a neighborhood and as a place that can service the light rail vehicles. i have had lots of different jobs. my main job has been doing social work for san francisco state university. i have been a community organizer, a social worker, but i have also been a legislative aide. i worked mostly for community- based organization supporting kids and families, working for labor. i got to see how city hall could be an effective tool to create change. i looked at running in 2007, 2008, and somehow i made it. i have been in politics for so many ways, doing work around central america, supporting people in central america against u.s. imperialism, their right to live, self determination. i did a lot of work on that on campus when i was in college. a bit of work on apartheid when i was in colle

san jose has the standard, santa barbara, santamaria. in addition, perhaps if greater significance, new york city and seattle both have the same definitions. other urban areas with challenges around creating housing that's affordable to residents. san francisco has a desperate need for housing at all income levels, in particular income levels that are not high income. particularly in workforce housing, housing for students, for seniors, for transition-age youth and other populations. this legislation would promote affordability by design it would reduce construction costs that would be passed on in the form of lower rents and this can be done without any public subsidies. the units would be an attractive and affordable option for people who were just entering the workforce, for students, formally homeless people and others who do not require a lot of space. these units also could support a growing national and international trend of what we call cooperative housing, where people have smaller, private spaces but share large, centralized c

any single pollution event to hit the west coast of north america including exxon valdez and the santa barbara oil spills. i'm submitting his letter for the record and one from the juneau based marine conservation alliance foundation which has helped coordinate marine debris efforts in alaska for years. since the event noaa's program has monitored the incoming tides they model drift patterns and tracked reports as they come in. i know noaa has further plans to monitor this but my constituents to be honest with you are asking that this debris already here, what's the plan, how are we going to deal with this? and how are we going to clean it up? in some cases, some think it's a little late. now this summer, but over the year this is debris will be arriving to our shores. that is the purpose of today's hearing, give the debris -- give the clear threat what is our national plan to stem the tide of the tsunami debris. while i heard the debris carries no threat of radiation since it went out to sea before the reactors' failures i want to ask what you know about the possible threat and monitoring don