system by system we have taken the approach to fix them. >> okay. thank you. >> so with -- again this is just some of the things we have done in answer to your question. this slide addresses some of that. the third point being about the articulation harness which is interesting. one of the things -- not only is it one of the key systems but we changed the design of the articulation harness when it went out and that meant we took a 16 hour repair job and reduced it to four. those are some of the things we're continuing to look at. here are some of the things, the brake system in particular. something as basic as a tack comter and smive replaced. they have never been replaced and we started replacing the entire fleet so those are these focused initiatives on rehabilitation are responsible for bringing it up. in addition we continue to work on doing our inspections on time. our inspections are all mileage based and we don't allow trains to be out in service if they're due for an inspection, and we made progress as well because of the age and some of th

on october 11th, director hewitt responded as of october 9th, the retirement system's -- retirement system did indeed hold russian securities valued at a little more than $37 million, constitutesing .22%, so 2/10 of 1% of the total retirement funds. on october 15th, i requested that the retirement system analyze whether or not it could divest from these russian securities consistent with its fiduciary obligation to current and future retirees. and i want to be clear that whenever we're talking about divestment, we always have to keep in mind that the retirement systems' first responsibility is its fiduciary responsibility to current and future retirees to ensure that the retirement system is solvent and is producing the returns that we needed to return. we did not receive a response and had a conversation at the full board of supervisors on march 4th, at which point mr. hewitt informed us and actually sent us a letter today stating that the retirement system will not engage in that analysis about whether divestment could be done unless a member of the retirement board actually makes that r

and wouldn't it be nice if there was the 250 page book to give to someone to explain the system? there is no such book and i figure is as a tenured a professor it is believed you to write the book that explains the system and if you try to get tenure you figure if you write e will never get a. so i wanted to fill the void and once i got into writing the book i said it sets the platform for what will happen why don't i start making predictions about the future from what i know and the people i have talked to and i have been trained well enough. he has done a lot of research to make predictions because moseley experts don't do so well but we all have to make predictions so i did my best. >> peopled know you as one of the architects of obamacare but before we talk about that how did you become the architect? what was your path? start with medical school. >> it was pretty circuitous. i was a medical school not very happy that we were failing and one of the most frustrating aspects is when i would work in the emergency room as a student we would take care of a patient who had heart fa

and detail you urn system and design the bid for our system we have to have that bid where we need to be. they have on their staff typically engineers and all that who have engineered their own system they take the liability that that system works and we review them but they have the responsibility and liability for that the system they've designed and jergd themselves. it's a fine line distinction >> you guys gave us a bid you designed and i want us to be responsible for it created anxiety. >> so you're going to be sending out less detailed packages so then at that point the design liability will be more likely in terms of they say - >> they'll take it on with their own system that's a prove that system in the market. if they can't take it on they shouldn't be bidding >> well, you, you know, those things don't perform everybody is brought in and someone who's overarching can say don't worry about we're fully on the hook anyway and sometimes donates the project architect they're saying we're in the game maids. the other things i didn't since this is design build you've got issues with

the second system was the w-4 systems which are in n a greenish color at the third level of the bus deck level it surrounds what we commonly refer to as the tense racket it let's light down the roof it extends up to the light column that's the central focus point of the grand hello latin-american and nature ventilation system. next is the w-8 system the ground floor level the bottom level the two tale kind of colors are two bus waiting areas and there's in the muni business plaza and the rest of them are at the park level. their canopies little awning to help keep rainwater from the shafts. we assistant district attorney at the left there's one at the stair tower and one further to the east and going to the far east end one at the elevator there and towards the center is right next to the light column. the last component is in the middle of the park level that's a glass box. that glass box is created to allow ventilation and natural light into the grand hall where the escalators start and up to the park level. and the fourth component of the 8.1 systems are the w tens the 3 skylights the

which includes the avatar system. do you have any questions? >> no, we don't have any questions at this time. >> okay, thank you. >> thank you. okay. i'd like to call up civil grand jury member daniel cress. >> thank you, madam chair, for this opportunity to address the committee on our report. dealing with the use of nonprofit community-based organization s and [speaker not understood] outcomes ~. i'd like to say at the start the cooperation from the people of the department of public health is absolutely outstanding. we had -- we're very impressed with the people that we met and the cooperation that we received. however, it was only during the course of our investigation that we received certain anonymous letters and memos, internal memos which alerted us to a problem, problems that were inherent in the avatar system. a we came to under it, this is an extremely critical system within the department of public health. it serve as a principal billing system for paying cbo vendors and their services. and this is a parti

continue to focus on rehabbing the system. we have as you pointed out a neglected system in a lot of the challenges result from things like having two subway signal systems that have to be maintained, all of those kinds of things. vehicles we're on track to upgrade and replace. security issues. we continue to have delays because of our operating environment and that encompasses a lot of things and again a big event in the fall is the beginning of the integration of the new control center which will start with the new radio system going onto some buses in september, so those are some of the challenges. the next steps to continuing improved service we have talked about most of these. i think what we're focusing on which is the basics to continue to improve the maintenance of rebuild the fleet, run the scheduled service. continuing to improve the supervision. we have done some things and had great cooperation from the work force in terms of changing their approach to managing the service and the system because we will always have

all using the same system. we simply activate only the response modules needed for that specific situation. what this does, it goes a long way in ensuring the use of familiarity with the entire system. inside the erc the responding team is comprised of specialists in the various areas of emergency response. as you can see from this list, i won't go through it all but the team is led by a team leader supported by a range of discipline. and on any one day this team could comprise, and these are all on princess staff, a retired coast guard captain, three or more men become a chief anita, a doctor, a registered nurse, a naval architect and several other qualified deck or engine officers. and, of course, on board the emergency response is managed by the captain from the bridge year looking at the facilities itself, the front video more specifically, the video wall is totally flexible in terms of display that can show multiple or a single image of almost any electronic data. in normal operation we were display about

in terms of bart one of the challenges that bart faces we're an aging system. the ability to provide additional service in the late night hours is extremely problematic. we are faced with replacing tracks and power systems and everything in between. i went out yesterday morning to meet with folks and we're facing big projects that are chooj us from rehabilitating the transbay two as well as incorporating a new fleet of cars. that being said i've worked late night in the operation control center that got off anothers 2:00 a.m. i was able to get on the all bus late network. i ago with the speakers there's a network out there that a lot of people don't know about. one of our golden's is to lend the service that bart provides with the other services that are out there in order to make them more available and expand the connection activities on a regional base. i believe that is for the transit as well we have a project underdevelopment with the acting development to look at a pilot project to improve capacity and that's an ongoing project >> currently, the transbay

regs from our system, we generate regs from our own system and we use the regs from our own system. we've also purchased regs. >> there was opposition to cleanpowersf because it was based on regs. seems like that's already practice within the public utilities commission to practice -- >> yes, it's the practice to in the energy market and sf. coming back to actions and options, i want to spend time on the new revenue source line there. and that gets us to looking at what are our opportunities. we've been talking through this presentation about commercial retail enterprise level paying customers. sort of how did we arrive at that. what this slide shows

a better system will be much better on all three matcher. access to insurance and care, and cost of the your periods. the fact is on each one of those metrics to party had access in the american system and will continue to a success. the last witness who could save every family's been a $2500. first of all, that is not tomorrow. second of all, it gives the background of health care costs going up at like 4% greater than the growth of the economy. the cbo has pointed out, look, premiums have been a lot lower and they are a lot lower the exchange than we are calculated in 20. yes, inflation has come down. not all that is the affordable care act. part of it is the recession, part of it is the affordable care act. whether it will turn out to be 2500 at the end of the decade as project did, we will see. that is the basic case of people have saved money. let me give you a concrete example. if you look at medicare beneficiaries, their premiums for the drug nsa program and part b have in fact stayed relatively flat. i'm talking about pennies differe

we have not put the finishing ed -- funding in that this system needs and this system that now carries 700,000 rides a day. we have a $10 billion need in the next 15 years. that's $10 billion with a b, and we only have about a third of that identified. it's not just muni. bart is in even bigger bad situation. ac transit is in a bad situation. we know the federal government is not stepping up the way it needs to. we have to do it locally. if this task force, if these recommendations don't happen, in california we have to go to the voters. we have no choice but to go to the voters and there is always uncertainty when you have to go to the voters because the voters will make their decision and will live with that decision whatever it is. if this doesn't happen because it falls part in city hall or get taxed to death from every conceivable political angle and we've seen that already from every political spectrum and it gets ripped apart in city hall or develops at the ballot box that is money that will come directly out of the reliability of this system. as we are adding population down ea

we don't have a bus system. the central subway is in front of my place that's great and as a constellation on losing my white zone i'm going to ask or make a proposal for a taxi stand where the utah is or where cabs can drop people off

it depends on the water system. it depends on what's going on with maintenance of the system. >> and then could you give examples of who some of the main wholesale customers are? >> so, over the years we've sold to various raker act eligible wholesale customers. raker act eligible means there are other public utilities. so, for example, most recently we sold to the california department of water, the folks who pumped water through the aqueduct system here in california. so, we're selling to the state of california. they're nonprofit, they're eligible. we've sold also to other publicly owned utilities, but really cbwr has been a pretty steady counterparter of ours in recent years. for example, palo alto, alameda, the northern california power authority, these are eligible entities that we can do business with. >> thank you. >> and, so, just to drive home the idea here behind our customer base and where we receive our -- the lion's share of our funding, this slide shows on the left that same set of retail general fund

and explain to her the american healthcare system. she wanted to know if we could meet for tea. i thought, that's a bit ridiculous. you can't happen and it in an hour, and i said to myself-wouldn't it by nice i there were a 250 page book i could give to someone and that would explain the system. when you look out there, there's no such book, and always figured the reason you're a tenured professor, it's beneath you to write the book explaining the system, and if you're trying to get tenure, you figure you right this become, you'll never get tenure. so i wanted to fill that void. and then once i got into writing the book i began to think, sets the platform for what is going to happen. why don't i start making predictions about the future from what i know and all the people i've talked to, and i had been trained well enough, because one of my colleagues at penn is a professor at warden and has done a lot of research on forecasting forecasting and g predicts, and warns it's a bad idea bus mostly experts don't do so well. nonetheless we a

21st century payment system with a 20th century payment system? like that is something that you cannot just overlook. and so, and then how does a 21st century -- how does a 21st century exchange deal with a 20th century exchange. we are using words like a ponzi scheme very, very -- you know, loosely but how that is an old school problem that works itself out in very interesting ways when you have a potential bitcoin exchange. the only reason why i'm saying this is because, bitcoin offers some amazingly interesting opportunities. on the one hand, one of the drivers behind bitcoin was in an age of what appeared to be western prophecy. you had the opportunity for individuals to create value among themselves where you're not entirely dependent on ostensibly purely politically driven government decisions, right? so you give this opportunity for people to great their own hedge to protect themselves. it creates essentially or in some ways when done right, you know, by cutting out certain kinds of middlemen and by employing minors it at least offers the p

21st century payments system. that is something you cannot just overlook. how does the 21st century exchange deal with the 20th century exchange? is like a ponzi scheme. that is an old school problem that works itself out in interesting ways when you have potential bitcoin. bitcoin offers some amazingly interesting opportunities. on the one hand one of the drivers behind bitcoin in an age of what appears to be western profligacy you have an opportunity for individuals to create value among themselves so you are not dependent on politically driven government decisions, you have an opportunity for people to protect themselves. are in some ways, cutting out certain middlemen by employing minors. and payment transactions that were more efficient and less costly to people in the marketplace. not like it is coming out of nowhere but at the same time when you have the internet and you have the opportunity for human trafficking or hit men, please don't hurt me, obviously both of those problems are age-old problems that ge

the system is incredibly messed up. they said let's use this in order to present the consolidation of banks which is what would have happened in the absence of the deposit insurance which made it illegal to pay interest on checking accounts and capped the interest rate on the saving accounts. this was all done to discourage them from competing with one another and to discourage people from having their savings from one bank to another. and what i want to drive across is coming back to something charlie said, the coalition of the populists and the bankers is what drives the decision. fdr was against deposit insurance. when he was running for president in 1932 he said deposit insurance would make the bank's risky because they would take excessive risks. we call that the moral hazard problem when you ensure someone against us they tend to take more risks. so as steve continued he was definitely against it as was the federal reserve by the way as was the treasury department and carter who had been one of the architects orig

it's going to take time to understand the copayment system but for purposes we choose the simple route so if you look at the percentage of the case students eligible at 60 percent so if we are looking at the copayment we'll be linked in some way we can say that those families those 60 percent of the families let's say at the don't pay any copayment again, this is an estimate there's 40 percent of the family of the 26 thousand students are not eligible and probability going could pay the co- payments so for the 26 thousand 5 families that's 10 thousand 4 hundred families that potentially pay a co-pay pay. following there? did that make sense so if you say on average each of the 10 thousand plus students would pay half and average of half 8 hundred and plus per student we worked generate 8.4 million a year again looking at the unfund portion that's a 8 point one million so where do we find that. if you're following the previous slides into the other portions it could be unfunded for excel and looking at at the o s t it's averaging those costs it's 9 that is 3 million those are for the pu

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does princess employ any man overboard protection systems -- detection system? >> no. or i should save not just. there really is no proven successful technology available yet. >> okay. and that was going to be the follow-up. do they have cameras that are trained down the rails and someone constantly watching those monitors? >> yes and no. there's extensive coverage of all areas around the ship, but it's not monitored. >> what's it going to take to get from you know, we have facial recognition software that law enforcement can use to see, to pick people out. there's all kinds of things that can be done with software. what's it going to take to get this sort of system to bring it to fruition so it can be reliable? >> it's a very good question. it's the right technology, and i, i don't know if anyone else on the panel comment but i have seen any robust technology at. we piloted, we tried thermal imaging technology but is far too sensitive. it would trigger a bird and establish too many false alarms. so right now we rely on human factors, of course, to alert us as soon as

>>reporter: i understand. >> it was the buddy system and another person so we feel the buddy system isy more important process for safety. >>reporter: she told me the buddy system and radio are most important to keeping workers safe. peterson and her team altered the code red system can you get the automatic notification to san francisco police and removing the verbal message. alarm sounds like this now. important to have the button working for you. >> button are secondary system. it's a public alarm system. we actually are concerned that they create mayhem. >>reporter: that worries zoo workers. they have loingtd confidence in director peterson and how she and staff maintain the code red city. i walk through the zoo every day. and it's always on my mind. okay. are we safe? could we be safer. >> i think we should be a world class lead intersafety based on our past experience. >>reporter: worker want a simple test like a fire drill. push each of the 10 code red button and hear the alarm go off. zoo refs. instead testing parts of the system at different times. and staging exercises like t

a continued fragile system. we see continued of doors even after rehabilitation of vehicles which i know is continuing vexing problem they're attempting to address and on the good news bad news front we have increase of buses even though there are more in service. it's a good thing and more people are riding transit. we know we have a growing population. we know people want to ride transit so we see more riding it. the bad news is we're not providing enough service to accommodate everyone that wants to ride in a comfortable way in particular during peak hours so the system is making some progress on some fronts and there are significant continuing challenges and i think it's incumbent upon all of us, not just with our words but actions, to support muni and its ability to continually invest in its system, to improve its reliability, and expand its capacity so colleagues if there are no introductory remarks i will call up john hailey from mta for his presentation. mr. hailey. >> thank you mr. chairman i will -- i

and for any kind of correctly atmosphere climate or jail system or prison system the introduction of tools inside a jail system what about intoimentd but thanks to our program staff we found a way to adversity the tools to the walls so there's accountability for the tools and the instruction that's been provided is a testing ground for us over the last year by having the bicycle repair program to spark interests. accident sheriff's department has been famous that deals with the e emotional side of skill and hard skill side this is where our administration prepares people for the job force. we're increasing visitation. san francisco prior to 2011 had the lottery in visitations hours. had i look at the other of people to visit our jails a maximum up to 12 hours and looked at the complications of poor people to visit their loved wunz ones i thought we should increase and visitation hours we're looking to do that cross the board and tripling them as well. we visit programs that really zone in layers in on the reunification percentage parents who have children's on the outside and unless

or buy into the system, the next gen system.this part of the country -- or that part of the world may not subscribe to that system. >> again, all of this technology is really fascinate, and it's one of the things about what happened to 370 is i think viewers and everybody is learning more about stuff in the aircraft that no one know. david souci, le. s abend, appreciate it. >>> up next, breaking news, a new al qaeda video uncovered by cnn is raising chilling questions. it's showing the largest gathering of the terrorist group and officials believe took place in yemen within the last several weeks. details on this video ahead. >>> also tonight, our doctor, sanjay gupta on the front lines of a health crisis in africa. the latest on the efforts to contain the deadly ebola outbreak. yea. try alka seltzer fruit chews. they work fast on heart burn and taste awesome. these are good. told ya! i'm feeling better already. alka-seltzer fruit chews. enjoy the relief! i'm mom at the playground the kids get trail mix, and you get a delicious

. >> despite this, no system is 100%. and it is possible to scale an airport perimeter fence line, especially under cover of darkness. and remain undetected. and it appears that's what this teenager did. >> reporter: san jose airport officials say they are not going to release that surveillance video because it contains sensitive security information. also not saying exactly what part of the fence the boy may have hopped, because of course they don't want to encourage anyone else to do the same thing. >> if the 15-year-old did in fact survive as he claims, he would have had to endure freezing temperatures and a lack of oxygen for hours. nearly impossible. nbc bay area's cheryl heard caught up with a trauma doctor and a pilot and they can't believe a teenager's alive, but the key word is near hi impossible. >> reporter: that's right. seeing is believing. seeing that 15-year-old walk around on a tarmac in hawaii is the only reason why the two experts i talked to believed that he is alive tonight after being stowed away on t

says we are working on unmanned aircraft systems. every system will have a pilot in command. it is true that aircraft are capable of controlling their own flight. that is what we mean by autonomous. autonomous flight is self-controlled flight. an autonomous car is a self driving car. we are interested in advancing this technology at making it possible for vehicles to really control themselves. we are experienced with this with cruise control. thinkt these vehicles to well enough to behave safely. host: when we read stories about amazon package deliveries and see video projections of drones delivering packages down streets, is that farther off than the work you are doing now? guest: i think it is. the grand vision -- there are a lot of problems to solve. is would be that jeff bezos going to fly a package from broadway -- there are a lot of technological problems to solve. there will have to be awnings and tree branches and traffic lights in the way. the aircraft will have to behave safely. it will have to synch well enough to mitigate hazards. i heard a caller from louisiana a

the >> buddy system and another person we feel buddy system is actually a more important offensive processeter son and her team are cutting the system, removing the verbal message at larm just sounds like this now. [ horns ] >> it is important to have buttons work something >> it's a secondary system. it's a public alarm system. >> that worries workers they lost confidence in the director peterson. how they maintain the code red system. >> i walk through the zoo every day it's always on my mind okay. are we safe? could we be safer? >> we should be a world class leader in safety based on past experience. >> workers want a simple test, push each button and hear the alarm go off. the zoo refuses instead testing parts of the system at different times. and staging exercises like this one from december. devising a scenario in which a gunman is looking for his ex-wife. she signals a staff member to push the button. >> hit the panic button. >> the alarm doesn't sound peterson tries again. miff minutes pass. >> i tried to do it. 2011 system malfunctioned and sent out false alarms 2012 speaker was i

there is no integration in the property map database with real estate information systems. currently individual can go online and find out what is going on online with city property. the building inspection resulted in increase on [speaker not understood]. in response to the city services auditor's report, potive changes were made including adding 26 new efficiency measures. so, we appreciate the opportunity to be of service to the city and county of san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public wishing to make public comment at this time? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> colleagues, any final comments? i have a few final comments. i just want to say that i do appreciate the work of the civil grand jury. i know it's a lot of hours and i don't think you get paid for it, from my understanding, zero? so double your value. just a little. but nevertheless, you do it because you love the city and because you want to make sure that government is doing its part in making sure that money is being used appropriately, that folks are