there are shell trade routes all over the southwest. shell was a primary material for making jewelry, for using in burials, and you had to walk 600 miles to get it, down to the sea of cortez, the water that's in between baja and the main land of mexico. and i tracked routes all the way down to the border over years and then across the mexican border into sonora and then it a place called penacate and then a dune, 5,000 square miles of sand dunes, a beautiful landscape, but no water out there. but pottery, broken pottery all over in certain places and pieces of shell left behind where you could see that the people were crossing these dunes to the sea and picking up shell and then crossing back and then moving it up to phoenix and then from phoenix distributing it throughout the rest of the southwest. the first trip i took out there, we hit this mountain range right at the edge of the dunes. and we were carrying, i don't know, on that trip we were maybe carrying 80 or 90 pounds of water and moving it out to the sand and then we'd drop a c

it's at this point that we will have signed the confirmation with shell. we will then be at this point financially obligated under this program. the opt out mailers then will begin to be sent with this detail. we will do multi-language, english, chinese, spanish. we will have customers able to opt out respond to us via snail mail or email. we will make sure that we meet the minimum requirements of the law, which is two of the notifications must be mailed before service occurs, and then two of the notifications must be mailed after service has occurred within a 60 day boundary before and 60 day boundary after, so customers will know from us what we think their bill experience will be. customers who don't opt out after the first two notifications and get enrolled in the program see their first bill and decide they don't want to be part of the program will then receive again -- again they will receive an opt out notification and tell us no thank you at that point. they can call, let us know by various means that they want out, and throughout this time period

i hoped to carry your ear shell with me. i read the manual from beginning to end a manual for the master's and the slaves much the master hates the slave. not the [inaudible] we would like your spirit. it is what we seek in the dark pits of the capital. what else could be accomplished or desired. the speaking the words i make you utter all of the language we use between us this not what i'm after. i will not pretend. information like a dog and we beat and kill the dog, no it's you i want that with held piece. what shall i call it except love. why cant you give it to me? why? even at the end the pit's death defeated you it howls in the night even then when your vagina has been opened like a ripe plum. why? how? do you still with hold it from me. i'm only a man after all and i cannot live without it a school boy of these americas. thank you. [applause] >> take us to the back woods of georgia where i believe it's the first week of hunting season. in 1955, the spanish explorer desocietio arrived in south that >> with wild pigs i

mortar shells and similar schelling's ha. -- shellings take place. the government enjoys air superiority and is using it without reserve. but these rebel fighters are already getting ready for a full series. they are training for the creation of a future syrian army. >> after liberating several areas, our thinking is that it shifted the for the syrian national army. our main goal is to topple the regime of, but we need to find an alternative to a takeover. >> organized and eager. they have inherited a lot. >> thousands of people have taken to the streets for the third time this week, protesting a number of arrests, targeting city officials. >> thousands have taken -- the ministers bodyguards are arrested, accusing the government of being sectarian. >> this crowd is not political or sectarian, but represents everyone became for the marginal elevation. when we say the injustices happen, it doesn't mean we want to take the country to a civil war. >> the governor of the prime minister has denied allegations of adopting sectarian policies. >> this is an e

august we will be determining whether the puc should sign the confirmation with shell and once again that is when we become financially obligated at approximately $38 million a year during the sales period of 4.5 years. the statutory opt out notices would be sent then in mid-august for the first one and the second in mid-september. opt out -- the program launchs in october and then we do the final two opt out notices in november and december. all of that has the wrap around multi-media components that we have been talking about, social media, advertising, word of mouth, all those efforts are under way throughout that time frame. so then let's take a minute with what that is going to cost. our final slide addresses the cost components by the periods we're in. early notification, statutory opt out period with community outreach with the broadcast cast media. on the bottom are the two polls we're are expecting to conduct for total 1.4 million in expenditures over this year, this coming year. that completes by formal presentation. i am happy to take any other questions. >> colleagues, co

missile by missile, war head by war head, shell by shell, we're taking this bygone era apart.e chose this moment, this is the first national security speech since he was reelected. he chooses to talk about nuclear weapons. to underscore his personal commitment to it, to reaffirm his vision that he expressed in prague in his first speech as president that this is important to him and he did it at the national defense university with his entire nuclear security team in front of him. this was as much a message to the bureaucracy as it was to the american people in the world. this is important to me. i intend to see this through. >> his personal commitment on this issue is something that's made it an issue to watch since he first became president. frankly, since he first became senator. how do you judge his first term in terms of keeping his promises or aimed toward the things he wanted to get accomplished in this field? >> he's kept almost all his promises in this field. there's a fact checking site that ran the numbers down today and judged that in most cases, he kept his promis

killing, killing, killing, shelling, shelling, mortars, jet fighters, helicopters, rockets.t what? civilians. enough. >> thank you very much for talking. >> thank you. >> you heard the fear of sarin gas is real tonight. what are people facing if the regime does use what they have or believe to have? i spoke with cnn former contributor and chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta. bob, we talked about this last night but explain again what one warhead filled with sarin could do. >> you know, one of these shells and the standard shell of syrians put this in is a 122 millimeter shell which goes artillery piece and if they were to drop this in to a dense area, in to damascus or a suburb of homs, doesn't matter which town, it would instantly kill 18,000 first the few minutes. >> just from one shell? >> go up there. one single shell would immediately kill 18,000 people. you know, this is a liquid. it's dispersed. it sticks on you. you get a few -- a little bit in your system and you're dead. >> sanjay, what does it do to somebody that comes in contact with it? >> it affects the pa

master agreement -- once that is signed then shell is able to present to us a portfolio of resources and a price that they are willing to commit to for the four and a half years. that's going to be the price that actually sets the actual rate. in order to have that firm commitment they need to make a quick turn around decision with us. they will survey the market. they will look at the resources at hand. they will make a price commitment. we will need to say yes we will take it in a fairly short turnover time, like 48 hours, and so that allows us to know the -- the not to exceed rate allows us as staff to know what is considered affordable when shell comes with a final rate that we can factor into the rate model. is that going to result in a rate below not to exceed and if it is we as staff will come to the commission and may the general manager sign this confirmation with shell, and that's what a lock in the price that we will pay to shell and that we will be the basis for what we charge our customers for four and a half years. it's that approach that allows us to commit to a fixed

no turtle has this shell, like an army helmet.is a very, very valuable tortoise. >> stahl: based on his own research, goode says a tortoise like this could sell for $60,000 in asia. to try and stop the trafficking, he and his colleagues have begun doing the unthinkable. it's a drill. oh, my god. >> goode: yeah. he has to be very careful not to hit the bone because then we'll draw blood. so he's going just that very carefully 16th of an inch into the shell. >> stahl: they want to leave an indelible gash, a scar, that makes the tortoises undesirable to collectors. i have to tell you-- watching angelo do this, it's painful. it is painful to watch. >> goode: yeah. no, it's very hard. but i think we're at a point where we're down to so few animals, there's so few of these tortoises left, that we have to really take extreme measures. >> stahl: scarring the shells of these animals, defacing them, etching-- is that working? can you tell yet? >> goode: it is too soon to know if that's working. it breaks your heart to have to do that to thi

they fought on hill's 63 in the men described to me how the shells came over like freight trains. the shells could destroy an entire hedgerow, small mound of earth and barry men alive and that is exactly what happened. a fox for several weeks in this place and what is amazing is a small team of four men, known as the fabulous four, the fabulous four found a bunker in a small path that had been worn out. it looks like it had been utilized, the entire battery surrounded by hundreds of thousands of lines of barbed wire, machine gun nuts, pillboxes, extremely heavily fortified but found a well-worn path and decided to go down it. they went down the path and found a small pillbox, broke through the door and captured all men in the pillbox. remarkably the lieutenant was educated in the united states and he said i am ready to surrender. lieutenant edmonds said to him take me to the commander of the fort and that is exactly what he did. with his tongue begun in his side the fabulous four went through the battery, down an elevator, went through an amphitheater that looked like a football f

celebration. >> the 15-minute show is carefully planned and electronically timed. >> the shells are timed every time they are supposed to go off. >> reporter: this is video from last year. this year is expected to be just as big with more than 4500 different shots of dazzling lights in effect. 250,000 people came to the embarcadero to watch the fireworks last year but with clear skies and dry weather expected tonight, the crowd could be even bigger. new year's eve partiers say there's only one way to get to the city tonight. >> public transit in general is a great idea. park something a nightmare -- park something a nightmare. >> i would -- parking is a nightmare. >> i would say b.a.r.t. >> reporter: caltrain and sam transwill have free rides after 11:00 tonight and the last caltrain line will heave san francisco at 2:15. in san jose, vta is also free after 7. on party you will have to pay for your ticket. the trains will run until 3:00 a.m. partygoers say the free rides and extended hours are a much appreciated public service. >> it keeps drunk drivers off the roads. people safe. >

a massive shell hole that was created. he swam his way out and then they started climbing the slippery ropes but the roads were slippery and wet because of all the seawater that had hidden them. many of the grout those didn't work when they tried to fire them. and on top of that, the germans were on top of the cliff started cutting the ropes. cutting the ropes is sort of the lease of the problems. they started firing down on the rangers with machine guns that can fire at a rate of 1500 ground or many. one of the first books that has the germans side of pointe du hoc. these german machine gunners on top of the cliff changed out their barrels because they're getting so hot and they were warping. they fired down the rounds at the range, many of them were hit. there were 68 men and dog company. 27 were killed on d-day the next couple of days. as they climbed the top of the cliff the germans were throwing grenades. then the cliff was rained with ivs. they took old french artillery shells, suspend them on wires around the cliff

there is a website "change.org" and misinformed about shell oil and it's connection to this program and maybe it's not completely misinformed but certainly under lying there is no mention of clean power and how we have no currently and relying completely i will say hard energy sources and fossil fuels and that sort of thing, and even in my own personal campaign there was a hit piece that came out about how i was in bed with shell oil and nigeria and active vifts there and we know that is true and disappearing and what not and i don't think we should under estimate the type of political quagmire that this program will find itself in and the attacks are unwarranted and misinforming and certainly i'm not suggesting they're all coming from pg&e, but certainly there is a motivation to maintain the monopoly they have held in the city around providing energy, so with that being said i just wanted to close my comments and i am glad next week i think we're at lafco hearing the task force recommendations. that is critical and sometimes we pass the policies and our actions never conform with the p

concerned that the pln has a stagnant rate of power on the open market and -- dear the duration of the shell contract. a proposal is being delivered right now that will shape or improve the developments and resources and financial modeling and make the economy more sustainable and provide economic benefits to our people and effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. the way cleanpower sf has passed the board of supervisors is as opt out program and the language used in the outreach plan changes the character of the program the way the legislators envisioned it when passing cleanpower sf. we are concerned changing it in way discourages residents and more cost to the ratepayers. we hope we can take the basic structure of the document and required notifications and adjustments and also engages residents in civil discourse and community power but the lifetime of this program. thank you very much. >> thank you. i have one other card. anyone else that would like to comment please come forward. thank you. >> i am david mccord and el cerrito and the chair of the sierra club bay chapter energy subc

the shells keep the rebels back from the strategics strong point. the bbc was invited to visit its detention center run by air force intelligence. we were not allowed to see the cell blocks. human rights groups say tortures happen here. they paraded six male prisoners. the men said they were not speaking under arrest. the government, who would not be filmed, said they were making the wrong assumptions about syria's secular state. none of the men had been in court that. all have confessed to being in the hottest, al qaeda-style group -- jihadist, al qaeda- style groups. >> they produced the algerian passport of a man who said he was also a french citizen. >> i decided to do something for the children of syria, for the families, for the powerless. i decided to join the jihad rather than crying in front of my tv. >> he would not answer when i asked if he had been tortured. all of the others said they had not. two said they were part of the front which the americans might soon name as a terrorist group. i cannot vouch for what they said. one repeated ho

so, really just creating the shell and allowing for future tenants to come in and make those improvements into the facility, which reduces much of the cost. and i guess i'm just wondering, should there be a situation where it's not 58 million, it's a different number, a higher number, is there sort of an upper cap? is there sort of a limit? because i think you spoke to -- you started to speak to, which is right now the expectation is that in 20 years we would have paid off some of this -- the equity that or paid back the equity on it with the rent that we would not be collecting basically on that site. and, so, really we wouldn't start to collect the base rent until 20 years later. the expectation is that might move back depending if more is needed to fix up the facility. is there sort of an upper limit to what those expenses will be and how does the port intend to control those expenses? >> we -- that's the due diligence we're doing right now. we realize there may be one or two of these buildings that there isn't immediately a cost-effective rehab. we may come back with a refined project

. >> one of these shells and the standard shell the syrians put this in is a 122 millimeter shell, aandard artillery piece. if they were to drop this into a dense area, into damascus or a suburb of homs, it doesn't matter which town, it will instantly kill 18,000 within the first few minutes. >> from one shell? >> one single shell would immediately kill 18,000 people. you know, this is a liquid. it's dispersed. it sticks on you. you get a few -- a little bit in your system, and you're dead. >> sanjay, what does it do to somebody who comes in contact with it? >> it affects receptors in the brain, and let me preface it by saying it's odorless and tasteless and it's colorless. it's hard to even know, you know, that it's there because of those things. also by touching it as bob was talking about, but also by inhaling it or eating food or drinking water contaminated with it, you can also get poisoned. you see this is a substance that can affect you in many different ways and you might not know it's there. from top to bot dom if someone is affected by it, it's like the on switch in the bod

not far from the shell oil refinery. alan wang explains what this means. >> reporter: carol's home lies in the shadow of the shell refinery in martinez. the refinery has its own fire department in case of a major catastrophe it would receive aid from station 12 of the contra costa county district that could end due to lack of funding. >> i know, i'm not happy it is nice having the fire station across the street. >> going to impact response times to the areas around the station. >> reporter: if station 12 is shutdown, people living near the shell refinery would rely on a fire station in downtown martinez, it would add four minutes to response time. 12 with three ours could have been saved by a parcel tax measure that failed last month. supervisors were grappling with the decision to shutter four of the 28 stations. >> it is a difficult decision. we did say that we would listen to what the voters said. and they either would want us to continue the current service level or they would not approve it. unfortunately, it did no