sophie is here with us. tell us about this role. >> reporter: as you know, she's got european backing, so that's not the issue. we're expecting her to declare it. there's a feeling this time around it shouldn't go to a european. having a european would make it difficult for the imf force to actually impose anything that the europeans didn't want and secondly that for them the balance of economic power has changed in the last few years and this is no longer something that should be astute to be a european job. she also has a legal issue hanging over her in paris which is potentially a problem. it's to do with an arbitration that she set up over damages awarded in a case that reaches back many years, but this is something that could pose some sort of obstacle because right now the french don't want to have a candidate that has any suspicion of any wrongdoing at any point hanging over them. >> let's go into that case. it seems what christine lagarde did was probably quite logical. it stopped endless legal wrang

[bell] they made that motion, and it was passed, but when it got to sophie maxwell, what happens?hing. and one of the things that caused a lot of hurt in the community is on days when you have a passing issue, i have written it down, and i cannot find it now, but -- supervisor cohen: perfect timing, because your time is up. when you find it, come back. all right, mr. mcray. >> supervisor, james mccray. we support this project, the executive park project. we believe this project will go a long way to assist with the task of reversing the alps migration of african-americans from the city and county of san francisco -- the foulke migration of african-americans. -- the out migration. we believe this is a good project with the right developers. >> mr. everhart, you'll be speaking after mr. burke. >> i am the original developer of executive park. in 1975, my country joint venture with the scavenger companies that owned the property. world war ii housing was pretty ugly. it was the desire of the scavenger companies to change the visual entrance way to san francisco and to make it an offi

for girls, the top name and it's been for a while is isabella followed by sophie and emma and for the the top names jacob, ethan and michael. >>> the social security administration puts that list out every year. and in case you're wondering, frank's going to love this your name came in at 302nd. >> it's kind of common. >> lawrence 458. >> me... 954. not very popular name. >> but you spell it differently. >> but the most popular miss popularity, elizabeth. her name comes in 12th. congratulations. >> can we get a we who? >> i wanted to be called libby in high school. our audio guy still calls me libby. >> libby came in 250th. >> what should we call you? libby, elizabeth? >> diva. [ laughter ] >> traffic diva. >> princess? traffic goddess? [ laughter ] >> elizabeth. >>> it is 5:26. to outsource or not? budget problems putting a crunch on airport security in san jose. >> the city's short term decision coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, san francisco. a place with natural beauty and a forward-thinking spirit. at bank of america, we've been fueling economic growth here for over a century. today, we'

and let me take a moment to thank former supervisors sophie maxwell, evan dufty, and

>> he took sophie maxwell and they started walking down the hall, across the hall to room 200, the mayor's office. when it came down to it, bevan dufty said, after talking to the mayor, newsom made an argument as to why edwin lee should have the job. >> supervisor daly, having witnessed several progressives vote for a moderate saw the progress of dreams away. >> we ostensibly had a majority on the board of supervisors. we had an opportunity and we made the biggest fumble in san francisco political history. >> once it became clear that ed lee had the votes to win, nobody wanted to pull the trigger. so they stopped the meeting -- at midnight -- and decided to have another meeting that friday. at the end of the day, so many people had been put up for consideration, and here is the one person that had not and he ends up being the person who the board ends up with. that is a huge shock. >> when the board finally made their appointment, i was joyful because i thought it would be much more difficult. >> supervisors avalos and, thus ask that the meeting be recessed until friday to allow for a meet

and sophie meunier, a research scholar in the woodrow wilson school of public policy and international affairs at princeton university. she also co-directs the european union program at princeton and has written several books on french politics. how important is dominique strauss-kahn in the scheme of things? >> dominique strauss-kahn is very important because the international monetary fund, the institution that he still heads, is very important. he was very important in making the imf as important as it is today. before the global financial crisis when he took office in 2007, the imf was sliding into irrelevance. it's set up to give money to countries that are in trouble. in 2007 the world economy was doing well. the financial crisis hit. the imf... what strauss-kahn did was had a strategy and a grand mission on making the imf a central player in the world financial markets and making the imf a much bigger institution. he did both. he very skillfully strategized, brought the big countries together especially the g-20 economies which includes the u.s., the u.k. and the major emerging

here for working very closely in the past with our predecessor and supervisors of the maxwell -- sophie maxwell. the shutdown of that power plant was a delightful achievement for many reasons. i have entrusted the port and the department of public works. their steps oversee the preliminary investigations of the power plant site. focusing primarily on the shoreline and offshore areas of the site, and what needs to happen to make it safe, i have also contacted pg&e. pg&e will be working through a plan we are timing them on to a public process to complete site investigations and to determine the appropriate cleanup efforts. other government agencies will be working closely to make sure the speed the process is working and is complete. cleanup of the shoreline areas will happen in later phases, because this area cannot be fully addressed until the power plant buildings are dismantled and removed. as these environmental issues are addressed, the city can work with marant or its designee to determine the future use. the office of economic development staff will coordinate with the landowner t

>> he took sophie maxwell and they started walking down the hall, across the hall to room 200, the mayor's office. when it came down to it, bevan dufty said, after talking to the mayor, newsom made an argument as to why edwin lee should have the job. >> supervisor daly, having witnessed several progressives vote for a moderate saw the progress of dreams away. >> we ostensibly had a majority on

the german business climate data in addition to the usual suspects as jobless claims and us wall sophie attention to housing data out of the u.s. on the corporate front in russia investors will be looking at wednesday when dixie will release its first quarter numbers in addition on thursday lukoil m.t.s. and x five also released their first quarter numbers. russia could cut its budget deficit by more than half this year that's according to finance minister alexey cooper and this is record oil prices will also help this investment and pay off debts incurred during the crisis. if we're using actual revenues to cut the budget deficit that's why this year we're planning to decrease the deficit from three point six percent down to one one point four percent this is possible that oil is trading over one hundred five dollars per barrel plus extra oil revenue will also be used for investment. that's all the latest business for now we'll have more for you in just under an hour's time stay with us for news headlines states. down the field official on t. obligation chobani phone called touch from

sophie shevardnadze sat down with russia's education and science minister today for sanka and believes that the country's education system and its reform to better attempts to changing times without. and i don't listen to rush of education it's great to have you with us with the arab league used to be very proud of the soviet educational system we inherited say that our sixth grade school student studies things that americans didn't sound study until four years into the university of slavery one of the reforms it out as what is going to change not only in the system but more importantly in the mentality. first of all we used to have a good educational system of law it was very adapted to the country we lived in a time and it had its flaws one such issue was that when the country changed completely here those who had previously received a good education failed to adapt this to god the lesson learned here is that as we reform the educational system students to adapt to change our world to succeed it must be at the heart of. why are we doing it today our country changed back in the ninety

from the arab countries the us trying to spread the hard disk and sell a fusion into the peaceful sophie muslim region of afghanistan mostly and that's. at that time of the. time it was osama bin laden turned out as the run of the most main financier in organizers of the arab mercenaries who keen to make money and to spread their violent and extremist ideology the beach was financed jointly by the saudi arabia but mostly directed and trained by the united states of america and. work orchestrated by the central intelligence agency it was really interesting to note is the current going secrets. defense robert gates at that time three years ago it was on to his direction one when he was in charge of the cia when they keep these scandals and started as freedom fighters thirty years later was rebranded as terrorists only panels of what's happening in libya then because we're seeing u.s. backing for. the rebels some are saying it could be is the missed rebels in there as well as not being len's from afghanistan that he's can. the parallels i would. i would be more cautious jumping to conclusio