single one of those complaints there was absolutely no foundation, it was unsubstantiated and ed sweeney said to me on a telephone conversation along with joe duffy, they said we have spent an [inaudible] and the roof deck. well, by just last week, we were told that the permit was approved finally and we certainly appreciate that. we're hoping this is an opportunity to get the wall and deck built. there are some extenuating circumstances that i also want to bring to the commission's attention and that is that one of our owners was trying to reenter the united states from yuan europe and was told that she could not do that right away because there was an abatement assessed on her property and as a result she had to go through -- yes, she had to go through some issues with the customs department to explain that we were trying to get this thing resolved and u.s. customs was saying this is on your name. we're trying to find a way to take this issue off her name and place it on to the condo association itself. that might be a side issue, but you can see that that, along with the fact that per

thank you, mayor sweeney, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i send to the desk a privileged report from the committee on rules for filing under the rule. the speaker pro tempore: report the title. the clerk: report to accompany house resolution 585, resolution providing for consideration of the bill h.r. 4660, making appropriations for the departments of commerce and justice, science and related agencies for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2015, and for what purpose does. and providing for consideration of the bill h.r. 3445, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2015 for military activities of the department of defense and for military construction, to prescribe military personnel strength for such fiscal year and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the house calendar and ordered printed. for what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota seek recognition

whoe turn to cory johnson is with me in the studio as well as paul sweeney in new york. she could not get very specific. you basically lead out every possible option. what do you make of the response? >> we were previewing her talk. i said to mark crumpton who is theoring the show that question of what is yahoo! comes up. questions a relevant for this company. it has over struggle between being very involved in search and being a technology company. she handles that question artfully so. efferents a competitive set when it comes to subscriptions in the market. the alibaba state, she wouldn't talk exactly how she would spend that money. yahoo! to havere a clear method of what it is. >> paul, there are a lot of questions of what yahoo! is the bat -- about. the share price of alibaba, what do you think of it? >> many investors view yahoo! as a technology driven media company. real think about the opportunities and mercer mayer and the management team of what to do, we think the proceeds of this will be north of $10 billion. i think we will find is that they will do somethin

>> it wouldn't be a planning issue, it will be just a simple -- okay commissioner sweeney is going to stop me there. >> this is visible from the street, definitely has to go to planning. >> it has to go to planning so -- that's a time issue. you could still get stairs that would work and do it in a cost efficient manner. would that be an over-the-counter permit? >> definitely. if he renews it, he has a set of plans, he might have to modify that, i don't know how fancy his plans are. he could stick with the plan or he could modify the plan. >> let me ask this. can he do this, put in a set of plans for a temporary stairs now. that's kind of generic, whatever, just to get the violation out of the way, but then he resubmit his expired permit for the stairs in full like where he designed it? can redo that? he would have to call it a temporary set of stairs. >> we're talking about clearing the abatement order, giving them four to six months to complete, however they want to comply with the novs and if they want to go through the big process they can do it, if they want to simplify, they can

>> it wouldn't be a planning issue, it will be just a simple -- okay commissioner sweeney is going to stop me there. >> this is visible from the street, definitely has to go to planning. >> it has to go to planning so -- that's a time issue. you could still get stairs that would work and

this week we have a dozen john j sweeney todd to go on and seeing a friend oh and the lives of other such foundation and an expired on asian politics when speaking about the elections in afghanistan and the country's political future. and if all that is a brief introduction of

so first before i take another comment it was commissioner haney and councilmember sweeney did you have a comment >> mr. steel can we shut this off. people in the audience please private conversations outside so our panel can answer questions and hear the questions and thanks commissioner haney. yes >> well, i have some comments i know this is 92 just the beginning first of all, thank you for your extraordinary work and in sin sigg's this report how quickly you turn around and putting forward thoughtful recommendations is extraordinary. one thing i want to add commissioner norton brought it up the first question is disconcerting this is not going to be taking into consideration go it was not going to be reflective and this was just another progress and if there's anything the lcff wanted to have the community drive the process. i'd like to say over the next couple of weeks we really work together to pit this all out there to open up the questions especially with the recommendations that i put forward i want to see deputy superintendent lee if we can show how we're addressing those i kno

among them, brian sweeney on board flight 175 out of boston and fearing the worst calling home with an incredible, almost methodical calm to his voice. >> this is brian, i'm a plane that's been hijacked. things don't look good. i just want you to know, i absolutely love you. >> reporter: his widow, julie swooe knee roth, is proud to have donated what was her last memory of her husband. >> this might sound odd to some people but i'm glad i didn't answer the phone because i have his voice and his message and his calmness and his thohts and his love for me and his love for his family forever. >> reporter: how often do you cry? >> such a good question. you know, i think we do steel ourselves, those of us who work on this day in, day out, and every once in awhile you see something or you listen to some of the audio and you are back in that place. >> reporter: it's all here, they are all here, the nearly 3,000 people who died in new york, washington and pennsylvania, a remembrance so bracing and powerful there are exit doors along the way for those who don't wish to continue. this is a tough

joining me now with more is paul sweeney. you have never seen "24"? i think i alien?> will get sucked in this time. >> the first season was absolutely the best. >> why bring something back in the form of a miniseries? >> it is a great character, a great series. the movie industry brings back sequels and prequels all the time. why not television? fox is bringing it back as a shorter series. 12 episodes. i think that reflects the fact that people, viewers have a ofrter time horizon with all the programming options that are out there. aey are simply trying to do smaller, shorter duration series. that is where viewing habits have evolved. is binge viewing where we are going? is this what we can continue to expect? >> i think we will see more and more of this. network television has become more of a year-round strategy of programming. we're starting to see more and more networks program around the whole calendar so that they have more flexibility to introduce a shorter series, longer series, flexibility to vary the format. weeku don't want to wait a to binge for you. they

terry sweeney is at the scene of the accident. >> reporter: she lived in that apartment right there. only made it this far on monday. in addition to the tribute to her across the street with the balloons and the flowers tonight, at san le andro high school. as melody tried to sing along to one last sweet song to sister, brittany, you could hear the sobbing in the crowd. 200 friends and students gathered at a candlelight vigil. some still in shock. they paid tribute to this remarkable young woman. >> she was so young. she had the whole world in the palm of her hands. she's gone. >> reporter: brittany's college advice was, don't be afraid to ask questions. one question asked tonight, what can you do when a bright, vibrant teenager is here, and then gone. one second to the next. >> she was everything. i loved her more than anything in this world. she was family. she may not have been blood. >> reporter: brittany was excited about prom night this friday and graduation in three weeks. >> i'm going to walk up with my head up held high and my daughter always in my heart. >> reporter: even a

and to paul sweeney.directv combination will be a hot topic facing fcc chairman tom wheeler on capitol hill this morning. he can expect a grilling over has just proposed new internet rules on net neutrality. peter cook on the hill with more. it is going to be a challenging morning for wheeler but he seems to be used to it. bracing for ae tough morning on capitol hill. he knows it is coming and he has offered a spirited defense of his actions at the sec over the last couple weeks. expect nothing different today from tom wheeler when he testifies in front of the house energy and commerce subcommittee that has jurisdiction over the fcc. his first trip to this subcommittee and six months. he will hear about the idea of consolidation within the media industry and more specifically on his proposal for net neutrality. the possibility that the fcc might allow fast lane for contact. the same time, the sec might regulate internet service providers more aggressively. this is what the chairman of the full committee h

were talking to paul sweeney a bloomberg industries. >> alix steel joining us. thank you so much. theext we'll check situation in latin america and the latest on brazil's economy. bottom line on bloomberg television continues. >> a river series threatens to man --e serbia posner serbia's powerplant. at least 35 people have died in serbia and bosnia in the five days of flooding caused by unprecedented torrential rain. it is the next phase in the search for that missing malaysian jetliner. a chinese ship will start mapping the seabed off of the west australia coast this week. officials believe the boeing 7077 crashed into the southern indian ocean back in march. finding ways to attract foreign investment is one of the things on president obama's to do list this week. he's convening business leaders tomorrow at the white house to advertise success stories in the face of continuing public anxieties over jobs and the overall economy. that is a look at the top stories in the news at this hour. today's latin america report. authorities in colombia are trying to piece together what led to

and allison sweeney.mance by pharrell. >> have a great weekend, everybody. >> see you on monday. >> big stars coming up. here to help. and i will get through this together. ♪

. >> pfizer, the drug giant, is to consider sweeney it's $102 billion bid to buy the u.k. drugmaker astrazeneca. this is a showdown between two big pharmaceutical companies as well as politicians here and in europe. at issue is whether pfizer will cut jobs if it buys astrazeneca. ande is shannon pettypiece brozak.ozac -- as part of the wrangling that is going on, how much of this is about national pride and how much is this about dollars and cents? rex the u.k. elected officials, members of parliament and the prime minister are concerned about losing research and they should be. if history repeats itself in anyway of what has happened in past deals. pfizer has cut 70,000 jobs since 2000. like a small city. it is a good-sized city. they've closed more than seven research labs and they -- if the deal goes through there is all indications that will happen again with research centers and jobs in the u.k.. the u.k.'s government concern does seem to be legitimate and i think that is what the concern is about. youom a strategic mind of from pfizer, why do they need to make this d

then there was sweeney todd.uniquely suited for musical theater. >> for one thing, i had to dig baritones down that is kind of out of fashion now in the recording world. >> but there's one way in which he differs from everyone else who's ever hear him. >> i hate listening to myself sing. >> why on earth? >> it's because i only hear the mistakes. >> 15 years ago mitchell became close friends with ted kennedy who was a big fan of musicals. >> we were talking to each other on the phone that, is usually the first thing he would do. and we would go into this whole duet together. >> after kennedy's death, mitchell sang at his memorial service. ♪ one man scorned and covered with scars ♪ >> which made it even more fitting he would star at the annual gala for the kennedy center and create one more enchanted evening. ♪ >> the audience is the last character of the show that's introduced because they tell you what's funny, what's not. ♪ it becomes this huge conversation with all of these people that are involved and it turns

paul sweeney is an analyst for bloomberg industries who's been watching this, he joins me now.aul sweeny, welcome to the program. for those who don't know, explain more about what alibaba is. >> sure, alibaba is by far the dominant e-commerce platform in china. as you mentioned, it's really a combination of amazon, ebay and even google, if you will. so it's really the dominant player in china and, you know, china is the largest market in terms of internet usage. it is an extraordinarily fast growing internet market, an extraordinarily large e-commerce market with tremendous growth rates and alibaba is actually in the middle of it all so they have a dominant position in e-commerce in china. >> woodruff: who owns it now and why are they coming to the united states and the u.s. financial markets to go public? >> some of the owners right now, the larger owners would be a japanese company called softbank, and also yahoo, a well-known u.s. company, owns about 24% of the company right now. they'll sell about half their holdings in this i.p.o. and then the other owners are some of the

. >> reporter: but james sweeney, a stanford university expert on energy policy, questions the use of public dollars to help build hydrogen stations. >> the state wants to build hydrogen fueling infrastructure with no knowledge as to whether there's going to be a significant number of vehicles that will use those. it's a recipe for risking taxpayer funds. for what may be a total waste. >> reporter: and this isn't the first time california has tried to promote a vision of a hydrogen highway. >> thank you. thank you very much. all across our highway system, hundreds of hydrogen fueling stations will be built and be used by thousands of cars and trucks and buses. >> reporter: arnold schwarzenegger's plan relied on private investors to help build up to 100 hydrogen stations by 2010. but the plan failed. >> i think the original plan timing was ambitious, and i think that the cars really have come so far since the 2004 plan was established. >> reporter: even so, will drivers choose hydrogen when electric cars and other clean vehicles are already on the road? >> when people get to test drive

among them, brian sweeney onboard flight 175 out of boston, and fearing the worst.with an incredible, almost methodical calm in his voice. >> reporter: his widow is proud to have donated what is now her last memory of her husband. >> this might sound odd to some people, but i'm glad i didn't answer the phone. because i have his voice, and his message, and his calmness, and his thoughts and his love for me and his love for his family forever. >> reporter: how often do you cry? >> that's such a good question. you know, i think we do steel ourselves, those of us who work on this day in and day out, and then every once in a while you see something or you listen to some of the audio, and you are back in that place. >> reporter: it's all here, they are all here, the nearly 3,000 people who died in new york, washington, and pennsylvania, a remembrance so bracing and powerful, there are exit doors along the way for those who don't wish to continue. this is a tough experience. >> it is a tough experience. it's a museum about loss, pain, about terror, about history. but it's

in pault to bring sweeney. i saw you nod your head when peter said it might help the merger. is going to say, our central argument here is the broadband business, the pay-tv business, the telephone -- telecommunication business, they're all consolidating and will look like each other. we need scale because of the innovation. the capital spending continues to go up. are fighting in trying to compete against the over-the-top, internet enabled broadband. we need the capital and the scale. we need to get bigger in the face of this new technology, i.e., the internet. does at&t buying directv makes sense to you? >> it does. many of its investors would have preferred of buying dish. they would have gone a lot of the valueless wireless spectrum that dish has amassed. that may be more valuable for at&t, but the rationale for buying directv today is you get a tremendous amount of cash flow from their domestic pay-tv fund the which can dividend. you get the latin american business, which is a great growth story. be one ofgen seems to the last people standing at the dance. verizon may ha

luke sweeney will join us to look at the expectations for the trip and the balance of separating religion and politics. >>> breaking news out of somalia. there has been an attack on the parliament building in mogadishu. six fighters are dead after a car bomb exploded. al-shabab is claiming responsibility for the attack. we'll have more details as they become available. >>> well, ukrainians head to the polls on sunday to pick the next president. the vote could be a crucial step towards resolving the crisis. separatists in the east threaten to block the vote. dana lewis joins us from the capital kiev. it's been a violent run-up to tomorrow's elections. what is the security situation like where you are now, and to what degree is the government stepping up efforts to ensure peace of elections? >> reporter: well, good morning. they say that they are stepping up effort, but, i mean, we know that it is a great challenge for them. in kiev we are told around maydan square, they've been stepping up security in terms of keeping a closer eye on who was coming past of the camp, who was coming in. they

-bound teens olivia van amsterdam and katelyn sweeney built this rowbot to help search and rescue divers they see someone fall through. >> reporter: 19-year-old maria hanes is a huge football fan. her passion for the game and accidentally dropping her cell phone inspired the concussion cushion. she added a soft layer to the outside of hard helmets testing her theory with foam and gel padding. >> so the gel really absorbed the impact and dispersed it while the foam kind of absorbed it but sends it right back. >> reporter: although this year the foecus is on girls in science, plenty of boys got into the action, too, like peyton robertson. he designed these sandless sandbags using polymer and salt. they're also reusable after they dry out. deidra carillo is a texan who helps build and race electric cars. >> battery management comes into this, a lot of strategy, because it's batteries and we want it to be efficient. >> reporter: it's that kind of thinking the white house hopes these science fairs will continue to foster for 0 years to come. for cbs this morning, nancy koor cordes, washington

in eastern ukraine which sweeney's a lot of supporters say yes we've got what i can tell we've got. close polls on a proposal from kiev window next where. he's going to pull people who protested foul play next and you know to say for a national. is making it into the mainstream media. if you watch some of the western media you would think that the entire country is involved in the. testing against the government to. soften the truth and one of the reasons i'm here is because the eastern part of the . support of the government and this kind of message in these kind of stories and this kind of political stunt never makes it into the mainstream media this is the reality on the ground it's not just kids it is this the mainstream media is missing in this part of the story we want to cover it. a and then the question is where the opposition coming up because if if you get opposition. cold. we're just going to change the venue of the demonstration that means anything. actually. says me who's been here for the. last time i was in the u.k. and it was twenty years ago. that's. a kind of entit

lots of reporting just do direct talks between sweeney toadies and the rebels looks like it may be a long one tonight as we don't really know when they're going to hold the final conference what's going to happen what to expect the rebels are saving the poor out of the top city moment so for us that would be. breaking news probably it's a major story. shows how. nervous nerve wracking the negotiations are it was probably either. a nervous negotiator or a nervous correspondent during the life. you know you know you never know when nature what what's going on here. and so i don't slip on anything like that and break my neck that would be. ironic if i just the first real steps for. when they would think. a lot of us. oh right now we don't know what's going on because there are these rumors that the talks have been postponed the syrian opposition is out. because they don't know yet if they are then this whole meeting is just like screwed. my producers just called me and said i want to go outside. so there's going. some sort of flaw since representative is going to be a subset. of the why

we are in eastern ukraine which sweeney's a lot of support for the government saying if we've got whati can tell we've got a. big team cooks and two correspondents on eva pushing tom kean i mean don't expect where. he's going to pick up a new protest in about twenty minutes and you know to say kenya chill is making it into the mainstream english media in terms of home pro-government protesters he she wants some to waste a needle with empathy and. holes in the consciousness of testing against the devil . you so cool little solace in the truth and one of the reasons i'm here is because the eastern part of the. are they supportive of the government and this kind of message in these kind of stories and this kind of political stunt even makes it into the mainstream media this is the reality on the ground it's not just here it is this the mainstream media is missing in this part of the story we want to come to it you have these protests. day and the question is whether or not they'll be opposition coming up because if if you get opposition. he told. me just going to change the venue of the d

become an apparent target on the sweeney spine and. right on the scene.first for you and i think that you're. on our reporters' twitter. and instagram. to be in the know. on the. if you saw on sunday the effect of what the way media election where the pro-us stare at a prime minister was re-elected and her popularity in the polls went way up as a result of this using the fear of russia to panic the nationalistic parties and that's really the problem how do you get parties for the last twenty years in the baltics for instance to support austerity you say well the alternative is to be pro russian i think it's dish really really important in ukraine because of the long history of antipathy but the pro. progress in separatist progress in terrorists they can't be pro russian if they're russian this is what's in there i'd like to refer to them as pro self humans create their pro self just this morning i'm going to be pro me. feel good. thanks for staying with us here on r t international the son of the u.s. vice president has taken up a new job in ukraine's lar

and allison sweeney.e, coming right up. >>> well, good morning, everyone. happy friday. thanks for joining us. i'm scott mcgrew. >> and i'm peggy bunker. we do want tote will you know, new at

sweeney when the audit team came in one of the going to look for. so that's what we're going to be graded on. why can we do the same thing? because to me if you find it in audit it's too late to the regulate winter effect and you've got all this time where we are not getting it right and i would read it in front of it and did it right and to caroline to you've got to do xyz. okay, fine. i will do it. >> the only problem with that is until you win having a federal government does audits on law enforcement, on child support, and when i took over the office we weren't collecting very much child support but we are passing every audit. so they were so busy checking the box that the new they're going to be looked at, no one was asking the question why aren't we collecting more child support. because they were busy. you've got to be careful when you do that because in institutions trained themselves to be audit responsiv responsesd to getting at the underlying problem. ultimately, it's not that they passed the audit. is that victims are getting services on