steiner has sold over 25 million of game used dirt and his goal is to sell 100 million. investors home to see their collectibles rise in value because forgery is the industries dirty business. with all of the money printing in washington and inflation creeping up. some say it's smart to holding collectibles to your lineup to stay in the game. >> we need to gis distinguishbed investments. and some of these can be rewarding particularly if we see higher inflation in the years to come. >> you can easily unload yourb u can for a stock or bond. there will be a healthy demand for the yankee slugger that built the house but now houses the dirt. babe ruth went for record prices. >> he is the face of baseballanp in time. >> not to mention a good facef . john stocks would you mind signing this? >> have you got a basketball? >> susie: on wall street traders popped open thgnchpaame on hopes a fiscal cliff deal was imminent. big board volume climbed to 730 million shares. six stocks were up for each one that was down. over on the nasdaq volume was more than twice as heavy at 1.5 bill

join ming me today from america university and journalist mark steiner who is host of the mark steiner show on pbs, and founder of the center for emerging media, and also from huffpo live, an msnbc contributor and editor, and thegrio.com, and a woman who gave me a holiday and vacation, joy reid, and nice to have you all here. and thank you so much for coming back, joy. i wanted to start with you this morning, what are they holding out for? at this point, three days before we are are heading over the cliff? >> right. >> what are they holding out for? >> well, basically the republicans at this point in the negotiation want three things. they want cuts to entitlement programs because they want to turn around the democrats and say they cut the entitlements. and they want to cut food stamps and cut school lunch programs, and thirdly, they want to p protect the wealthiest estates from any changes of the estate tax because they will have to give something on the rates, and they want to push the threathold of the rate increase as high as they could and go back to the $400,000 that they were of

two of the other streets i believe steiner and ellis are part of the dpw infrastructure and i say that in quotes a little bit because it's recreation and park garden staff maintains curb to curb in those instances. the true responsibility relies in two departments, but the reality is that parks and recreation garden staff will maintain the trees overtime. this is part of the clean neighborhood, $3.3 million to address this and other park improvements. >> thank you. >> good evening commissioners carla short, department of public works urban forestry. i don't really have anything to add to what dan said, but we did indicate this trees a tree appropriate for removal based on the recent limb failure and the presence of decay already. we're already seeing the signs of decay. the limb -- i didn't see it when it came off the tree as well, but based on what remains and i will switch photos on the overhead. basically this area is that limb that failed. so it does appear that it was probably a similar size to the other limbs, which is very typical for this species. they have a form that is not i

if you have been past alta project, you will see it on the steep slopes fronting steiner and clay streets. it tufts and mounds. by the description design not to mow. it does have somewhat of a water quotient but lower than regular turf. of course it is more maintenance-free. we don't have to do the mowing. we propose to put it on the non-usable areas, like at alta plaza we have steep slopes that are difficult to mow and are not really usable for park users because of the grade. you can also see it at cavello park. >> the puc is using it at sunset reservoir and the medians. i think a little at jefferson. >> there is some along the eddy of the jefferson street project. >> it looks like green uncut hair. >> but beautiful hair, wouldn't you say? >> denny, what part -- >> chia pet. >> what part of cavallo point. on the playground? >> the playground they actually mow but in between murray circle and the main office, then interspersed between some of the -- the hillsides area, there is no mow. >> in other words, we can't use it on a putting green? >> your ball won't go in the hole. >> it would c

the landmark district is bounded by waler, steiner and scott streets and the northern boundary of deboy park. there was public testimony in favor and opposition of the proposed landmark district but the hpc recognized the department's outreach efforts as well as supervisor wiener's efforts and recent amendments to the mill's act program to incentivize local designation and will meet next here. they have ceqa amendments and the hpc passed a motion to basically supporting the planning commission's motion on the item, so those comments will be forwarded to the board of supervisors when they take up the matter and will be for thed to supervisor wiener for consideration. the hpc also redelegated the administrative certificate of appropriateness process to planning department staff. this delegation allows for staff level review and approval of certain scopes of work for landmark build the hpc acknowledged and scopes of work delegated to staff and extended it for two additional years. finally the hpc had an informational presentation and discussion about social and cultural heritage documentat

around the crowd which would obviously quite shocking steiner's the police are usually on the side of the president that really means we have got to see but at the moment people are still trying to get a president trying to get the constitution and his power grab and i think actually at this point much like john you're. going to have been knocking him can leave don't come out very well what do you know what the situation is because we've heard the has actually left his residence do you have any indication of just how much danger he was in can you confirm that he has left and where is he going to go if he has gone. i mean i was standing outside the palace and we were. meeting with the president left out here to the pool i actually you know because i'm not coming out of like i want to compete i'm not i don't think could be protected by any means we're trying to. film the politics not the great pretty violent you have to target it and it's very you know wild duck and i'm angry but you don't count the people there and i didn't see them storming. in a violent manner. maybe that will happen

. >> rob steiner with advertising agency wieden and kennedy was there when it all came together. >> my personal favorite was the wind screen wipers. they look quite messy. one of our jobs in the commercial was to talk about product specifications. and one of the product specifications of this particular honda accord was that it had rain sensitive wind screen wipers. >> and all of the sudden it becomes this weird creepy sci-fi creature. you feel bad for the poor windshield wipers that are emboweled. >> the cog actually set the tires in motion. but did it all happen in one continuous shot? well, almost. >> let me say that the whole sequence actually worked. a two-minute sequence works. when we came down to the shoot days, we made a damage limitation decision. we decided just so we had a better chance of succeeding to shoot it in two 60-second segments, and in post production we would join in the middle. it was half a second's worth of cgi on the exhaust books. between the two 60-second sequences. but you can't see it. >> one shot or two, this is a hit.

there was a -- it was a documentary about cia agents, two of them were killed in washington by emily steiner. they cannot find them. he went back to afghanistan. in no way to get them out until they put a bounty of 100,000. the cia agents wife said that is turbine. the family raised it to $2 million within several weeks. they got a lead, found him, brought him back to the united states and he was executed 2004. not the united states, but how about the united nations doing this, put a bounty on the people, the coach team and. who is selling? causing this genocide? >> you know, obviously you issues. we decided to treat this individual has a criminal. people outside the cia. and, you know, we invite people to bring it up. that may be what you have to do in order to get these people and bring them to justice. i would rather have that in u.s. hands and have a u.s. court decide. >> host: abcaeight. jim in indiana. >> caller: i think that george washington summed it up best when he said keep strong american borders and stay out of other countries wars and squabbles. eisenhower, a wild eyed radical