that is the transit first goal. improving the city goal, we see a larger role we can play in the city in terms of its environmental performance, which is really the first objective, the direct impact on the economy, which is the second objective, the use of resources. we want to be a well-run organization as part of the city family and fabric. we want to be able to deliver our services efficiently, because transportation is so important in san francisco. it directly impact the quality of life here. finally, i made reference to the revenue or budget panel earlier, to reduce our capital and operating structural deficits. if we do not address them, we will not be able to achieve much. finally, the fourth goal is really the inward-looking girl. we need to strengthen and support -- strengthen the agency and support the employees to make any of this happened. we have an objective to improve internal communication, to make the workplace environment more collaborative and innovative, and inclusive. to improve accountability

what is the goal with the regime itself? are we willing to accept it or do we want to see a democracy in iran, or at what pace? are we going to have a relationship with this power? >> what's the level of communication within the two countries? >> almost none. right before admiral mom left office, he gave a talk at the carnegie endowment and said right now, there is no communication between the two sides in the persian gulf. if there is -- after 30 years of not communicating, we are misunderstanding each other and we are miscalculating. when you misunderstand and miscalculate, you escalate. >> let me tell the folks at home, our guest is dr. trita parsi, the founder and president of the national iranian council. his background, born in iran, raised in sweden, came into the united states and it is a ph.d. at johns hopkins university. we will learn more about the national iranian council as we go along. "this is america." >> "this is america" is made possible by the national education association, the nation's largest advocate f

.: the first goal broke things wide open. the second goal shows how talented this kid can be. watch giroux. keep an eye at the top of your screen. number 28 here. watch the zig-zag through the neutral zone to present himself at precise ly the right time. finishes with a great backhand. that subtle move to the neutral zone to slow things down and make sure he was ready at the rite moment put him at the top of the scoring. >> bob: 30 seconds later mike rupp scored for the rangers to make things interesting at 2-1. from philadelphia hockey to philadelphia music. here i am, over here. performing live, the grammy award winning recording artist from south philly and jimmy fallon's house band, here are the roots. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the flyers ♪ ♪ ♪ >> bob: the roots performing in their hometown. up next a flyers' legend, hall of famer bobby clarke will join us to revisit the summer series of 1972 which remains one of the sports' defining moments. >> if we don't win the last three games, we are going to be known as losers the rest of our lives. >> score! >> we're not going to lose. we are n

and they came in with also a very excellent plan, and the goal was to minimize the affordable housing subsidy the agency would have to provide. in this case they requested a subsidy of $186,000 per unit. just wrapping up, the team for the proposal is to local firms. solomon, court well, and santos press thought. mercy housing is a local housing developer that i am sure you are familiar with. -- sanots presscott. they have experience in europe. this would be their first san francisco project. they have committed to having local staff working full-time on the project, but it is also exciting that we have attracted new investment to san francisco, but obviously the most important thing we have emphasized is they need to have as much local participation and local members of the team as possible, and they have done that. all the other members of the team are local and they will have a permanent presence in san francisco as a result of the project. with that, we will proceed with negotiating an ena, we will take to the redevelopment theme early next year. as you are aware, this approval is

commissioner torres: where in the resolution is the goal? >> it is of the program is set up. commissioner torres: we are committing to a robust local development. where does it say that? >> is integral to every policy statement we have made. commissioner torres: i would think it is in the resolution. this is the document that we are being asked to approve. >> the item before you was of the entire program, it was the contract. that is why we we did not reiterate the different policy statements. >> my understanding is that they are under contract with local power to develop a plan and timeline for the local bill about -- buildout component. we extended the contract to take us to, i don't know when. >> it is about 11-month contract. >> there will be a plan being developed with the hope that the local buildout will be generated from the first phase of the program. commissioner torres: why isn't it in this resolution? >> i can add it. we can add all of the policy statements if you like. commissioner torres: i think that is great, i just want to see it in writing. >> the different

.: the first goal broke things wide open. the second goal shows how talented this kid can be. watch giroux. keep an eye at the top of your screen. number 28 here. watch the zig-zag through the neutral zone to present himself at precise ly the right time. finishes with a great backhand. that subtle move to the neutral zone to slow things down and make sure he was ready at the rite moment put him at the top of the scoring. >> bob: 30 seconds later mike rupp scored for the rangers to make things interesting at 2-1. from philadelphia hockey to philadelphia music. here i am, over here. performing live, the grammy award winning recording artist from south philly and jimmy fallon's house band, here are the roots. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the flyers ♪ ♪ ♪ >> bob: the roots performing in their hometown. up next a flyers' legend, hall of famer bobby clarke will join us to revisit the summer series of 1972 which remains one of the sports' defining moments. >> if we don't win the last three games, we are going to be known as losers the rest of our lives. >> score! >> we're not going to lose. we are n

the goal of a championship? i am about it on that at coach lovie smith understands he has dealt with on that are trainers at scouts. everybody involved understands the standard will be >> just as formerly expected not expected media leaks higher produce superable if he does that legacy will be assured. >> we all hope he has better luck at the top of the draft than his predecessor did. also interesting to see who actually runs the show up there phil emery or lovie smith? will not make any difference. if they are victorious. >> your thoughts on facebook tonight to weigh in on the new general manager if they are headed in the right direction. if that is the goal somebody fire lovie smith. please fire lovie smith. does not get any love in facebook postings. one man says hopes somebody else from retirement. lovie smith comments on facebook. major warning tonight about state financial system civic federation says state will be many billions of dollars in debt if it does not act soon and judge unusual punishment for a m

start and eventually grounds to hold they never really recovered after that decision last week for the goal stays when they withdrew their monitors now their decision they said was because they felt the mission had failed to hold the syrian government to its pledge to end the violence and it was a surprising decision that's how the foreign minister described it because at exactly the same time that the gulf states made that decision the decision would also be made to extend the mission so just that a very very crucial time with the situation in the country while the then making this mission stronger rather than trying to make it more effective if you have the goal states withdrawing them on it is now he said that that aroused questions we saw the me saying coming up on cheese day where the arab league against three presenting. the findings essentially briefing the u.n. and most gays maimed remains very very adamant that it's not going to back any plan that's going to leave the door open to foreign military intervention in fact again their response to western cool's now that it's said that i

we're looking into the potential of how to reach the goal. i will not go much into the strong cyclists. a lot of these people go long distances in copenhagen. tc[the young ones, they shoulde a chance also. here you have a situation with an intersection which affects the cyclists. there are more visible. -- they are more visible from the cars. we intend to cooperate with09gze society on the other side for how we can improve the possibilities. if your cyclist,, it is different than if your car driver. we're very much interested in a lifestyle if you live in copenhagen, and is very important that you can bring a bicycle in on public transport. that is possible on the regional trains. there are some rooms in the trains, which is space for the bicycles, even during rush hour. you could say that the voters in copenhagen are very positive about this. last election, it was partly run up by some of the politicians, and one of those was our mayor. the politicians now, they say there is something for everyone. the issues which are the most important to a

just right after the goal and flattening them? riemsdyk. getting that as well was lundquist. to a side battle. vvan riemsdyk. ripped one off gaborik and popped it down behind. with the snow falling in philadelphia, turnaround shot by van riemsdyk ricocheted off lundquist and can be gathered in by kimmo timonen. >> eddie: more of the angle trying to catch the goaltender lundquist. just missed it. >> mike e.: according to jim cantore's report, there were flurries nearby. they were in mt. holly. they are not only there now. mcdonagh. trying to play it through with boyle. with it now is hartnell. lobbed one on for max talbot. mcdonagh for the rangers drops back and plays it on for dan girardi. >> pierre: right back over to tortorella. >> mike e.: these are the promising young players of the present and future for the rangers. it is mcdonagh chasing it back off. dubinsky. that ricocheted wide off talbot and cracked off the glass. dubinsky there steps in. forced back along by giroux again. taken by carle. drive by meszaros. it did not w

the goal is always to be able to listen. that's always the primary goal, and so it's getting her to listen to the sounds in a fun way and respond to them, and one of the techniques that we used for speech was oral motor therapy, which means that we are working on the structure and the rerength and flexibility of the articulators because children that haven't heard the first 3 years of life don't really use their jaw strength and their tongue strength the same way as children who have, and so we've strengthened those so she can make all the rapid movements of speech, and i think what you hear with lauren is, she has beautiful speech. i saw him yesterday. and you have to set goals for yourself, and you have to try to meet those goals, and if you don't, you just have to keep on trying harder and harder or lower the goals. say, like, you don't want to start something out, like, too hard for yourself. you want to take it easy, then work your way up. narrator: because their deafness is always discovered first, individuals with ushe

they are go to need the field goal at some point. and marvin lewis deciding he will kick the field goal here. dan: fans disagreeing with this. but they are not doing the math that you just pointed out. ian: the formula obviously if you are this deep you feel we are so close i would like to get that out of the way. but because of the time restraints they have to take the field goal. 23-yard chip shot. nugent converts. it is an eight-point game with 2:39 to play. cincinnati has two time-outs remaining. for those expect to see 60 minutes you are watching the nfl on cbs. dan: two time-outs for the bengals. they don't have to onside kick here. they can stop the clock as long as they keep baltimore from picking up first downs. ian: the game has gotten a little closer between san diego and oakland. 31-25 now the chargers in front. cincinnati is not thinking about backing into the playoffs. the goal all week, this was a confident group that really believed they could go toe-to-toe with the baltimore ravens and win their way into the postseaso

-- city's goals. the puc reaffirms its commitment to pursue the local who billed out component of -- local buildout component of the cca. and whereas the puc anticipates the immediate commencement of the local buildout. once the have completed their scope of work, sufficient revenues are identified, the sfpuc considers the environmental analysis of any physical impact of the local bellout -- buildout program, and approves the budget and timeline for the local buildout. president moran: any questions from the commission on that language? >> second. president moran: procedurally, we don't have anything to make an amendment to yet. let's just do this and a simple way and tell me if it doesn't stand up. let's vote on the language, we can move the replacement resolution that includes that language. >>-secon i can second it. >> are we going to have public comment on the proposed amendment? >> i think we should. president moran: ok. do you want to move the other amendments then? >> why don't we do that? >> other

the goal is to create a map of walking streets. we started off by identifying the factors that would contribute to a pedestrian activity. there is excess, density of people, a pedestrian generators, and come, st. slopes. we've asked all of those factors to create a score so that we can apply the score, and this information how does a measure of each segment appears to each category. here is one example of what we did. we divided the data into 10 groups. we applied that score to the street segments. on both cases, you can see there are lower income areas like chinatown and bayview, these streets were given a higher wages. next, we added those scores together and that is a composite map. the areas in red are high concentrations of pedestrian activity. the final street will be to combine the data based on feedback to develop a walking streets. this map shows the streets that have high pedestrian activity factors. they illustrate where people are walking or what what conditions were better. the key walking streets are shown in blue. the

andre ellington stripped at the goal line. rwin cook came out of the pile with the ball and he was gone. 99 yards the other way. this opened the flood gates. west virginia set a school and orange bowl record for points, embarrassed clemson 70, yep, 70-33. >>> college hoops. temple beat a top ten team each of the last four years. this season it was third-ranked duke. khalid wyatt led with two. every time duke closed the game, the owls would knock down a shot at thor end. 78-73. >>> marquette and georgetown went down to the wire. thompson, the dagger from the corner. hoyas took the lead with 22 seconds left. georgetown rallied from ten down to beat marquette, 73-70. >>> chicago cubs have had enough of carlos zambrano traded him to the marlins for pitcher chris volsted. he wanted to be united with ozzie guillen. >>> nothing more embarrassing than being scored on by a goalie. everton, jim howard booted a 100-yard goal in bolton in the epl. took one big bounce and found the back of the net. fourth goal in english premier league hist

the f.a. cup richard dunne and darren bent given villa a two nil halftime lead but three goals in seven minutes gave the gunners victory theo walcott's fifty seventh minute strike for sandwich between fantasy spot kicks as arsenal completed a stunning comeback and earlier the returning fraser campbell scored sunderland's equaliser as the black cats through one one in the northeast darby with middlesbrough barry robson at the visitors ahead after sixty minutes but just before the hour at the bar a man misplaced a pass allowing games became to play in campbell to score his first goal since april two thousand and ten the replay will be at the riverside on february the seventh or eighth and arsenal will travel to either sunderland or middlesbrough in the fifth round after the last sixteen draw was also made on sunday elsewhere chelsea will play calling cup holders birmingham stoke travel to crawley who are currently third in england's fourth tier the winner of the replay between everton and blackpool will host sheffield wednesday brighton's reward for beating newcastle is a trip to liverpool while

the ball at center. communication issues and no field goal attempted. >> called a play. our head set went out, had called a play. you know, to throw to the end zone. just throw the ball. head sets went out. rex called one on his own. saw it inbounds and hustled to get a field goal team on there. montgomery thought we were just going to kill it. so, of course, you can't kill it, because would have been fourth down. so mixup there relative to communication. >> don't need to drill that point home. obviously it was a mismanagement by the head set, myself and didn't get the field goal. >> i don't think rex wants to talk about it. redskins/eagle game one of only four on the docket with no playoff ramifications. kind of felt like a preseason game. in a game that didn't matter, the redskins mattered less, losing 34-10. what positives can washington take from this season? lindsay murphy has more. >> reporter: there is a silver lining. ten rookies saw action this season and contributed. heading off the rookie class was the first round pick, kerigan. he didn't miss a game this seaso

rather than making this mission stronger rather than trying to make it more effective if you have the goal states withdrawing them on it is now he said that that aroused questions we saw the meeting coming up on tuesday where the as the gaze of three presenting. findings essentially briefing the u.n. and most is maimed remains very very adamant that it's not going to back any plan that's going to leave the door open to foreign military intervention in fact again their response to western cool's now that is said that it's impossible to hold dialogue with the regime here the foreign minister called very irresponsible and indeed unforgivable as i think there's a real sense that this arab league with the want to put unity ready to piss you the resolution to dialogue and to try and calm is extremely volatile situation it's shocking really to see how much the situation is escalating day by day when you've really seen this conflict creeping towards the capital people in damascus who weighed. not to the sound of gunfire fans i bet this arab league mission essentially has turned out to be a dance c

like dante's hit on the goal line, set the tone, set the tempo for what we're going to do and take the points off the board. as long as we have guys flying around, linebackers, d-line, we stand a pretty good chance of winning the game. it's all about turnover ratio and taking points off the board. >> reporter: and another big factor in sunday's game that will be different than the first time these teams met, raj, is the wet weather. head coach absolutely giddy that it's raining because they will have two days to practice in it before tuesday's game. there will be advantages and disadvantages when there's a muddy field but both teams have to play in these circumstances so it simply comes down to which team prepares and plays better. >> thanks a lot, mindy. now, if you and your family have 49ers fever and want to spread it around, we can help you go viral. check out this photograph. it's a cute 49ers fan. she proves it's never too early to cheer on your team. she's so cute. >> she's tiny. >> send us pictures to our home page at nbcbayarea.com. >>> still ahead at 5:00, another gop candida

they are going to have the is the goal statement it is with true at the beginning of the week after the observers have presented their schools to the arab league. the hotel is the most it is said they could buy some of them with switching phone numbers and taking photos with colleagues their bags many of the monitors are now leaving the country and their withdrawal has been seen. as a major blow to the observer mission it seems that could turn out to have been a fatal one a senior source from the opposition with inside the country the n c c has told r.t. that he thought observers were hoping to restart their mission c. and that their decision was akin to a form of protest against the growing violence and the perhaps once it comes down they could resume their work but on the day that the goal statements has departed one observer has hinted to me that the rest of them might not be far behind and it seems the talks of further training for the monitors and increasing the numbers seem to have been forgotten about despite strengthening the mission being more important now than ever. on friday

the goals are simple and straightforward and a think easy to get behind. the strength in a street and make it a national destination and a destination for the future that all people from san francisco will be proud of. it will create an iconic street that we can all relate to. it will certainly address safety through slowing down everyone. comfortable, safe space for bikes. this is certainly important as the america's cup comes down the pike, maintaining vehicle access, and allowing for future flexibility. who knows what the future has in store for fisherman's wharf. the design has evolved. we have a team led by the planning department, not supported by the community benefit district. we have a consultant on tap to help as a senior design adviser. we're working with dpw, the port, and bay trail to come up with a new design. it is in process. as soon as we are at a point where we can share that, i would be happy to do so. the goal is to be ready on a timeline and on budget that is out able to be implemented in time for america's cup 2013. quickly, over the n

>> i think the main goal is to promote lifelong activity and your own self compression. e ones that do commit -- self expression. the ones that do commit and say i want to go to college and july-yard, we point them -- july-yard, we point them in the right direction. and we have student that is want to play and see what it is like. they gain a lot of skills out of it that will be able to apply. there is a great expectation of being able to articulate your wants or objectives or tactic, or things like that and being able to work in a group of people. i am a big fan of telling my students, you don't get to pick your boss when you get a job, or your co-workers, or the person in your cast. so, being able to find a way to work with somebody regardless of how you personal feel about that, it is a skillet you can take with you wherever you go. >> okay. you are excitement is contagious. i am sure you are a wonderful teacher in the classroom. and with texting and everything else electronic, it is easy to not do the face-to-face. so, we will actually let you know that the school --

the goal is the triathlon in september.al hundred people submitted entries through ireport, and this is who we chose. >> my name is nancy, and i am sending you this video on a really chilly november night here in acton, minnesota. >> reporter: nancy is recently separated from her husband after 26 years of marriage. although she's in okay physical shape, mentally she's finding it tough to stay motivated. >> just dealing with life changes, some family changes. and going through a stage where i'm finding yet i'm a bit lonely and i'm finding it really hard to generate the energy needed to get through the day. let alone get some regular exercise. >> reporter: keller is a truck driver from texas. he runs-a call-in ministry. >> i want to let everyone know what they can accomplish, what they can do, yet i'm at least 100 pounds overweight. i need to make a difference in my life. and how much more of an impact would that have on others. we're looking forward to taking advantage of an opportunity to come to malibu and be a part of not

and the rarest of goals in soccer. us, west virginia grinds clemson into puchlp at the oran bowl. >>> we have record temperatures in the middle of the country but will that warmth head to the east coast next? your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> very good morning to you. if we're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports, the west virginia mountaineers barely ekeed but last night in the orange bowl they looked like the top ranked team in the universe. here's nbc's fred roggin with a look at all your sports headlines. >> good morning. every bcs bowl game has been a close one until last night. to the orange bowl in miami. clemson and west virginia. this was a good game for the first quarter. then the mountaineers started to pull away. smith flipped the ball to tavon austin. looked like a handoff but a pass. he threw four of six touchdowns that way. west virginia up 21-17. next play changed the entire game. clemson a yard away from taking the lead. ellington stripped at the goal line. cook

at the very least, san francisco in field goal range. keeping it himself, a perfect play call because the catch, it catches the saints by surprise. 28-yard run. the saints up with 2:11 left. that would prove to be too much time for drew brees, throwing deep in traffic. jimmy graham coming up with it. new orleans back up on top. they have the 2-point conversion to make it 32-29 with 1:27 left. brees attempting the franchise record, 63 passes throwing for 462 yards, 4 touchdowns, and now it was smith's turn to answer. he throws the strike to vernon davis. new orleans could not stop number 85. three plays later, vernon davis in the end zone. it seems to be years of frustration were wiped out by that one catch. he embraces his head coach, and this is one of the greatest moments of the storied history of the franchise. the 49ers stun the new orleans saints and move on to the nfc championship game, 36-32 the final. the 49ers winning their first postseason game since a memorable comeback against the giants 9 years ago. alex 299, 3 touchdowns, r

and the rarest of goals in soccer. plus, west virginia grinds clemson into puchlp at the oran bowl. >>> we have record temperatures in the middle of the country but will that warmth head to the east coast next? your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." ♪ [ female announcer ] everybody loves that cushiony feeling. uh oh. i gotta go. [ female announcer ] and with charmin ultra soft, you can get that same cushiony feeling you love while still using less. charmin ultra soft has extra cushions that are soft and more absorbent. so you can use four times less versus the leading value brand. ah. [ female announcer ] using less never felt so good. we all go... why not enjoy the go with charmin ultra soft. >>> very good morning to you. if we're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports, the west virginia mountaineers barely ekeed but last night in the orange bowl they looked like the top ranked team in the universe. here's nbc's fred roggin with a look at all your sports headlines. >> good morning. every b

over the goal for the american jew of spencer levine and kyle stanley share the lead after the first run of the farmers open in california that west coast paraffin in the opening day on ten on their part stanley hundred nine birdies as he approached the final hole on the twenty four i don't. turn this nice approach into an eagle on the eighteenth levine also a model of consistency on the day he needed a late birdie for a share of the lead the twenty seven year old hitting a great approach on the par five final hole on the relatively simple putt meant he finished tied for the lead with a score of sixty two the joints lowest of his career. right now the rugby world is gearing up for another series of six nations bottled starting next month plenty of eyes will be on reigning champions and then to have a new coach shine a plethora of new faces in the roster following a world cup exit last year in the quarterfinals the reigning champions kick off their twenty twelve campaign on february fourth against scotland in edinburgh arland italy wales some france of course also vying to take out fr