i've actually had the opportunity to take a segway tour from fisherman's wharf. i can speak to the professionalism of the staff that was there. in the 50-minute training i had, the safety, courtesy towards other vehicles and pedestrians, very thorough. had no hesitation whatsoever in actually going out on the streets of san francisco. in fact, we brought our entire ticketing staff back, because we had such a great time on our tour. and my wife reminds me that i've promised to take her out as well. our tours crossed paths on at least three different occasions, despite the fact that our dock captains make segues make speed bumps, we never had any safety concern or any hesitation about sharing the streets with them. i did want to speak as well about the professionism of brian and his staff. he's on a number of boards as great community leader and love the fact that this is an alternative mode of transportation and the fact that it's renewable, we pride ourselves that it's a green business. no hesitation whatsoever in recommending this company. president kim: thank y

they currently operate a new fleet of 40 segways. they have as many as 100 customers per day in their current locations. each unit is equipped with safety features as well as rain ponchos. the financial benefit -- they propose the greater of a minimum annual base rent of $36,000 or 6% of sales. projected revenue to the department over the next five years goes from about $79,000 to about $115,000. prior to the issuance of the rfp, we placed an ad in the san francisco chronicle. we notified folks of the issuance of the rfp, and we emailed notification to our potential bidders database and other interested parties, including all identified tour operators in the bay area. we reached out to the following groups and individuals regarding the recommendation. i will not read them all. it is an extensive list. support for the initiative has been passed -- has been expressed by supervisor elsbernd, the japanese tea garden, the san francisco visitor bureau pie, pier 31, and others. upon successful negotiation of the lease, we will return to the

so, very few people understand the new deal segways into war. they beefed up the military bases like fort mason. my 1943, they are all killed. the war did what the new deal couldn't do, full employment. there were reports, it's still with mind numbing statistic. we have to rely on other people to do it. the these projects enriched the lives of millions of people and does so today all the time. i have become aware of it, but very few people are. i have also become aware extraordinary people. here's a dedication of roosevelt. on the left, who painted the murals in the social security building with her husband and steph an kennedy. it's been a privilege to meet these people. just recently, i found this statue of roosevelt. is over looks oslow harbor. they revere roosevelt, because of what they learned from the new deal about how to build a civil society. they didn't get rid of it, they expanded it. just like other scandinavian countries are consistently rated as the happiest in the world. the new deal continues to live on there. thank you. [applaus

so, very few people understand the new deal segways into war. they beefed up the military bases like fort mason. my 1943, they are all killed.

. >> what is the segway? i am not sure. but anyway. talking about a pretty good weekend. oh, jeff, jeff, jeff. good weekend. it looks like a beautiful day out there today. plenty of sunshine. clear conditions. it looks like we will continue to see clearing conditions through the overnight. making the temperatures drop. get cool. 35 degrees right now. out there at bwi thurgood marshall airport. continue to go cooler around the state. those temperatures will fall. and winds are calm. pretty much across the state. but winds are measuring 3 miles per hour out of the west and humidity levels 82%. our high today 62. not bad. low 35. this morning. precipitation none to talk about. but rain gets here probably early part of next week. so dry weekend. pretty much for the most part. right now, maryland satellite radar composite. looking at clear skies. few high thin clouds west of oakland out there in garrett county. to the east of us. no cloud cover. that storm pushed off far enough to take the clouds with it. that has been setting up over new england for several days. %-the 40s an

>> i want to tie into the first speaker and segway the opportunity for public, private partnerships and collaboration. i have an exand pl in california that's local to the san francisco, puc, the california commission has listed grant under their renewable fuels program and they are reported to supply several millions of dollars to demonstrate the viability of product that can be commercialized. all the good establishments in urban areas to convert to bio diesel fuel. these collaborative opportunities are available and have been used for many years now throughout the various states and, i think the opportunity is right in front of us to take advantage of these opportunities. in this particular case you have the state of california, you have the region nine, epa, so you have a regulator, san francisco ucuc. all contributing to funds offered by the california commission. so i'd like to suggest that we, as a group here, recognize that those opportunities are out there and that we leverage those opportunitys for the sake of reducing the carbon footprint and if we do that, these are near tur

he later fell off his segway scooter and he had two accidents on bicycles. you can go way back and find press accounts of close shaves with the commander-in-chief. in 1902, president theodore roosevelt was thrown from his carriage when it was hit by a trolley car. all the aforementioned presidents survived quite nicely, with an occasional bruised ego. if president obama was destined to have his own mishap, it's not surprising that it occurred while he was engaged in his favorite sport, and a very physical one. maggie? >> rodriguez: sharyl attkisson at the white house. thank you, sharyl. shopping is not a spectator sport, especially not today. it's black friday, and for many americans there was barely enough time to finish the thanksgiving turkey before it was off to the mall. an estimated 138 million americans will shop this weekend with expected sales of $42 billion, which is up more than 2% from last year. elaine quijano is right in the middle of it all in times square. elaine, good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you maggie. here in times square it'

. >> we can segway from hair to qe 2. >> it's a boat, right?is back to reality, please. what's happening here? arianna -- >> i'm surprised you went there. >> i just read the script. i go off-script too often. the debt commission. do you buy the notion it could be a political ticket back for barack obama, but some back in the limelight in the position of leadership. >> it would have been possible if there was a jobs commission at the same time. the problem is, before we see the debt commission report, the fact there's no jobs commission and the emphasis is on the deficit rather than creating jobs is a problem. the reference points of that commission, we are talking 2037. that's when they are talking about balancing the budget. it's not the short term. the short term, the national conversation should be been about job creation. >> fascinating point. that's right. >> the white house has been reluctant to step forward. health care comes to mind. can president obama enact a series of unpopular proposals. >> he made it an art form. >> one thing you c

maybe on segways or waking up, walked home. your viewers in "way too early." >> yeah, they're not an automobile-owning group at 5:30 in the morning. >> fair enough. willie geist, thank you for breaking this down. good stuff. good luck to vandy this weekend. >> going to be ugly again. >> follow us any time on twitter@chuck todd,@savannah guthrie. ♪ trouble, trouble trouble, trouble ♪ ♪ trouble been doggin' my soul ♪ since the day i was born ♪ worry ♪ oh, worry, worry worry, worry ♪ [ announcer ] when it comes to things you care about, leave nothing to chance. travelers. take the scary out of life. >>> have you still be feeding pumpkins to your squirrels in your front yard? that's what i'm doing. holiday season arrive at 30 rock. the rockefeller christmas tree arrived this morning in the plaza. special escort al roker of course. a giant 74 -foot tall, 12-ton norway spruce was donated by a new york city firefighter who is among the hundreds of first responders who rushed to ground zero on 9/11. this year's official tree-lighting c

and i think that gets us into the natural segway of net neutrality which is making headlines everywhere. just before lawmakers went on their break, we saw the beginning of a compromise of sorts that was introduced by waxman over at the full committee. it seemed that some republicans could have supported it but ultimately did not whether it was because of the timeline, the fact that it was introduced so quickly or the fact the election was coming up, there are no shortage of reasons on that alone. so i guess the question is going forward, if gop does end up taking the house, does that compromise come back? does the gop never even broach the subject of that compromise? >> guest: i think one thing you need to recognize is the different approach and motivation for any type of broadband regulation legislation. you know, on the democrat side, you know, i think a lot of the democrats including the leadership of the committee believe there's a threat to internet openness in the absence of at least fcc oversight, if not also congressional oversight. on the republican side, they don't believe tha

. >> admirals, it seems like a good place to segway. i noticed on pbs you had spoken about the generosity of the american people. how they're willing to be generous if they can see in fact that their contributions of the global health of developing countries are in fact effective. and i think an important point that might get missed by some of the g-20 countries is the link between prosperity, product tivity and hethsdz. and you're talking about 450 million people. many of them children. the children die from the illness but the adults doesn't make for a very vigorous workplace. so i guess the question is, against the scenario painted by laurie, do you believe that the legacy of president bush will be protected by the sort of the new dimension forming in congress? >> that's a good question, because everyone is asking. we have set tremendous expectations in the world today with the success of the programs. and i'm referring back. there is one of the major shifts that have allowed us and collective multilateral countries to work is the in

. >> nice segway. >> i was stuck in a difficult place. >> i have the picture stuck in my mind. >> good for you mike. >> i was hoping brian wilson would break out the orange cleats for the parade. let's talk about what is going on outside. we are stuck in the 60s fremont los gatos and also san francisco. mid to upper 50s in most neighborhoods but cooler for this time of the year. these temperatures are two degrees cooler in fairfield and oakland but otherwise everybody else warmer than yesterday. that is because of high clouds kept some of the warmth from yesterday down in our neighborhoods. now, they will help jump us to mid-70s from san francisco through the north bay valleys. look at owning into the east bay valleys, palo alto southward into the south bay we're talking low 80s for you and low to mid-70s. monterey 75 but the rest of the bay in the low 80s as you head inland mid-80s. this is the last day we make a run at higher temperatures. cooler weather and increase in clouds and sea breeze returning. a small chance of showers friday night and saturday. but the real deal is on sunda

. >> that was a good segway suege. >> it's easy to park at b.a.r.t. jump on the train and get to the airport. we're expecting record riders since we opened the airport extension in 2003. this will be the highest number of people going to the airport. we predict for thanksgiving travel season. 64,000 customers. >> wow. so one of the things that people may not know is that you guys are offering or you are lengthening your trains today an to acouple date people getting to the airport without any major delays. is that correct? >> that's correct. >> you said friday because it's time to go shopping. a lot of people have bags to pick up their gifts and -- i guess get them wrapped up and ready for christmas. i never buy stuff that early. >> linton john san says they have extra long trains today and on sunday to accommodate people going to and from the airport. hoots will go to steve. >>> all right, sal. thank you. it's cold out there. freeze warning out until 8:00 this morning. lows generally stayed in the upper 20s. there was enough of a breeze, a few droppe

. >> that is another great segway. i want to get into this. we will get some questions from the audience as well as folks watching our web cast. send it to questions. mike had something. >> i just wanted to pick up on your question whether or not anybody disagrees with rick's characterization of the stimulus. i always appreciate his perspective on the world. but i do disagree. i don't think the stimulus or jobs bill was destructive. i think they were good things and i was wholeheartedly in favor of both, and actively supported the passage of both. i also don't think of these things are mutually exclusive. the stimulus money actually provided a great deal of resources that helped boost our capacity in any number of different areas. we were able to improve our on line capacity. we were able to improve our language programs for english-language learners. we were able to overall curriculum. we were able to extend data systems. we were able to do all kinds of things at the same time we were working on improving the efficiency in the system. these w

whereas with dynamic stability kind of like a segway if you push on it, it'll actually move out of theort that push. the same thing happens when you interact with the environment and push on objects. you can use your whole body to interact so it puts your back into it and be able to still maintain the stability of the whole interaction. >> so what's the -- tell me what the big gain is. let's talk about it whether it's a rescue or something. now the robot is not something i have to be careful of or position a certain way. this is now a real helper. >> yeah, this is a real helper because he can move around fairly freely. he can interact with the world and you don't have to worry so much about, okay. what happens if he gets pushed? what happens? because fundamentally in the end he's just going to move and then adapt to that and come back. >> what, tell me where this is in development. who is likely to use it? >> so at the moment this is in the early stages of development. right now we're testing the things that make the robot think about the world and how it will use its body. later on we

to segway into another discussion. we saw is outside money. this is a campaign, $4 billion.: and they were -- host: they were very active. there's more talk about opinion outside money. there's democrats that found money fundraising easily. i talked to democrat operatives. we lost the battle of outside money. he's in your corner. a major funder of democratic candidates and say. he decided he didn't want to play this time. i'm not sure that was the republicans fault. well, money is a given. it's both parties will raise tons of it in the presidential year. it's hard believe we have a shortage. it steve, i'm not a reformer. i take it as a given. however it is. however it's there, i got to evaluate and see what impact it's going to have. it will have an impact in the second and third tier races particularly in the house. remember, a lot of the early republican outside money, american, what is the name of that? american future fund. was that it? it went to the early senate races. the wave really built not house. >> host: based on your handicapping saying he just called pelosi bre

. >> that's a nice segway into some questions of the deficit. we have a presidential commission on addressing the deficit and the debt. those recommendations are due december 1st. democratic leaders pledged earlier in the year to take any recommendations that were forward. takes 14 of the 18 members to sign-off on what these recommendations are -- do you -- just on quick prediction, do you see those recommendations being forwarded? and do you see any type of action taking place? >> one of the most disturbing things is that were pledging to block it. on the right people were saying, we're not going raise revenues. the whole point of the independent commission was to try to come up with new ideas. people on both sides when they're honest say we can't get there without doing both. and people have said we're going to block one or the other. if they do that, they're going to block a real opportunity. we might get this entitlement spending and the long-term debt under control. but if we don't, we're going to be passing more debt to our kids. >> i was