the city. >> in spite of what city politicians say about you, you are a nice guy. >> i like to think we are work ing for the betterment of our city. >> the localty, not the nation's capital, the local city is only as active as the people in it. >> congratulations. >> i'm going to take a poinsettia as a reward. >> we have plenty. we won't miss it if you take one. they are multiplying every half hour. >>> shots fired. mall doors pushed open overnight. chaos in the country over the air jordan sneakers. >>> one group thinks congress lawmakers have not been nice this year. >> reporter: it's one thing to take a man's truck, but to take his dog, too? the search for cody. i'm pat collins. the story coming up, news 4. >>> coming up in sports, the georgetown hoyas give them a news 4 at 6:00 continues. >>> here is a look at our top stories tonight. a 70-year-old woman is in critical condition after someone climbed through a window and beat her up last night. this was capital heights, maryland. a woman woke up and used her remaining strength to call 911. >>> a pipe bomb was found in loudoun county. it's causing evacuations. the device will be taken away a

the bay view. from the city of san francisco, i grew up all over the city. i am here on behalf of local artists, and many that are underserved by a lot of the events that are thrown through of the city, in the sense that the local artists still have to scrounge in to be the concept of a struggling artist. the city of san francisco is known and by its creativity. imagine san francisco without creativity is like a child without creativity. this event is a great event that will help the many artists as to work with the youth guidance center. many are lacking opportunities. many are very creative and they don't have these types of opportunities with they can reach the world. i urge you to get on the good foot and really try to push forward us being able to give the youth opportunity as well as local artists. >> thank you for talking about this really important issue. i am the president of the san francisco arts democratic club. i have been living and working in the city with a lot of these folks over the years. this presents an opportunity to shine with our arts community to use the arts to

formula retail and the store goes in and pretty much was different influence can override what the local city, we can do to protect its community. we will continue to talk with you about that. supervisor cohen: thanks for being a trellis and relentless advocate. >> that has happened in other places. we are not talking pie in the sky. it is an incentive and we're looking for that out there in the shipyard. along third street and other places we need to do it. supervisor cohen: have you started to put your thoughts down on paper? >> we would like to submit that as soon as we get them. supervisor mar: we with love to -- would love to work with you on that. we have finished our cards. >> i am a native san franciscan. i traveled the world for many years and came back here about 10 years ago. whereupon i got involved in commercial real estate. i come from a small business family background. my dad was an account. many of his clients were small business. i worked the small business -- circuit. i am in favor of protecting our local business that gives us the flavor that makes us what we are. as a pra

city. it will resonate in all the decisions i make. it is the responsible thing to do for any major city now. whether or not we consider ourselves a local city, our regional city, an international city, it is job creation that makes the city run well. for all of us here, i know you have great hope that the city will be able to have decent jobs here that can maintain, that they can spend a good amount of their careers in, and that is why i spend a lot of time with chief adviser kim and supervisor david chiu and the other supervisors talking about how we can sustain the midmarket. that is why we passed a week ago the midmarket payroll tax exemption. we wanted to welcome new companies into the city and understand what it was blocking their ability to stay and to grow. to hear a company -- not just from the cfo, from the president. when i visited twitter, i closed the door and they allowed me to speak to their engineers, to their workers, to the people doing the engineering work atwitter. as we closed the door, i laid out -- ok, kids. what do you really want out of the city? in very plain language, they said, "mayor lee, we like the culture

and people wanted it that way the government the local communities the people who lived in the city they all wanted to have it that way that they would mean dog transgenic to mexico why because mexico is the center of origin of corn and they make mexican government was worried about montagne the integrity of the land races the national general fuss of so it was illegal to plant transgenic corn it is still illegal today.

the addition of more local hiring preferences. some of these are thoughts i have come paid -- conveyed in the past during the city local collier discussions, but i think in particular for this project, i have even more skepticism. there are working-class people and unemployed people in san jose. they are as deserving of a chance at work as residents of san francisco. i do not want to be part of pitting working-class communities in one city against another. furthermore, this project is not a local project. it is being paid for by taxpayers of california and the entire united states. as we began to focus on ways tp ii, we're going around the region say this is not a san francisco program, that they should help pay for it through all kinds of mechanisms. i do not want to give them any ability to save this is actually a san francisco project and should pay for it ourselves. i think the regional targeting has more logic to it, but even there i have skepticism, because the definition of region is very arbitrary. a working-class person who is just outside of the boundaries, i believe it should have a shot at the work. i do not want to see san fr

a single route can mean hundreds of thousands of dollars for the local economy. the city tech companies lobbied the airline hard. >> we can can't afford to have executives and employees going to other airports or sitting in terminals known for delays due to fog and weather. >> reporter: american airlines used to fly between san jose and tokoyo but stopped in 2006. ana which is a member of the star alliance will use the new 787 dream liner for the ten hour flight. that makes san jose one of the first american airports to get regular 787 service. >> the recession forced americans to use less gasoline. refineries exported millions of barrels to other countries. bill on how that move is now costing more. >> reporter: peter had a good idea. keep shipping costs low by loading small shipments onto one big truck but now he is big hit by high fuel costs. his trucks run on diesel. >> costs about $160 to fill up in 2009, now it's over $350 on one truck load. >> reporter: he can't afford to hire more workers, can't expand, this year the average american household will spend 4, 1$55 o

the state's cities. the state's supreme court has ruled that the state can divert money from redevelopment agencies. a lawsuit had been filed to stop them from seizing local tax money. it's not clear what will become of redevelopment agencies. but some cities have already been planning futures without them. >> we have an expansion of the convention center going on today entirely financed by the hotels. we have a baseball stadium we're hoping to build that will be entirely privately financed. our soccer stadium will be under construction this year. >> santa clara will have to reevaluate its plans to partially finance the new 49ers football stadium. and san francisco officials say signed contracts on work already started means that redevelopment money can still be spent on those particular ones. >>> a federal judge has halted enforcement of part of california's controversial greenhouse gas law. the judge says that the first- in-the-nation law for low carbon fuel stations straits against crude oil and ethanol i am -- discriminates against crude oil and ethanol imported from outside the state. companies outside california will not have to buy credits to compl

at the same time you are throwing at 40% of revenues of those businesses that would stay here in the city if they were local businesses instead. finally i would like to point out that -- you have seen me on any -- many occasions fight a big box or a chain store. there are a lot more of them that i would have helped fight. some of which got through. had i been able to i would have gotten involved in. what that points to is that they're under strain. cannot fight every single little fight. we need a broader, stock ordinance to cover all the bases including the banks. occupy issuing weekend do with local banks. -- is showing that we can deal with local banks as well. >> i am with sf loma. i want to make a couple of points. one of the things that studies have shown over and over again is that while formula retail creates jobs, it also costs jobs. as you heard before, especially in urban areas. the job creation is no more and sometimes less than the job loss. one of the things i wanted to point out about what rick said is he said through attrition. he has gotten rid of six jobs. one of the things people do not t

the san francisco bicycle coalition, the carpenters local 22, the chamber of commerce, a city car share, the american institute of architects, and there are many more local businesses, merchants, and businesses in these binders, which i will leave with you. >> mr. chair, mr. president, members of the committee. prior to my years of experience with national issues, this was also as a 25-year member of the planning department and a five- year member of the planning group, so i have had considerable background there, and i currently keep my hand in as a quote interested citizen on the northeast waterfront advisory group, and as such, i have had the opportunity to participate in the planning of east of the embarcadero steady and many presentations and many comments pro and con of this project -- the embarcadero study. one thing i would like to say, i think that the members in this room are probably very concerned about the testimony they heard about the golden gate towers and how it has been finding ways to avoid paying higher taxes on the property and to get around the city rent control bo

san francisco green party and the local grassroots organization of our city. a few things on the amendments that you're going over. an important one is the ceqa issue. what we're seeing out here is that we need the final approval of the shell contract and the program that is being based on it to be contingent upon the build out work -- and by the way, not necessarily the full nine to 11 months, but enough of the build of work being completed in five or six months to inform of the economics of the contract will work. we're not saying that the contract needs to be changed so that it is adopting construction and installation. we are saying that once we flesh out that build-out information sufficiently and, like we said, get the horse before the cart sufficiently, what we learned about how we're going to build the build-out will give us tools to radically affect the economics is some tiny shell contract. i do not believe that is a ceqa issue. because it is not asking for changes in infrastructure. it is just got to change the financial structure and agreement. this

reentry council has previously considered the issue and recommended to the board and the mayor that the city adopts local regulations to regulate the use and consideration of criminal backgrounds for applicants in housing and employment decisions. the human rights commission has also urged the board to adopt such regulations to ensure that people with criminal histories are afforded a fair opportunity to compete in workforce and housing environments, and we look forward to working with you on that. i believe such regulations would complement and strengthen the financial incentives that are being proposed today, so that we could have a thoughtful balance of financial incentives for businesses to do the right thing and give people who have been recently released a second chance and also some regulations to require that they do the right thing by ensuring equal opportunity for people living with a criminal record -- be it 10, 20 years out when that information keeps popping up. i recommend that the committee consider prioritizing people who have been recently released and those currently under supervision f

authorities are engaged in shootouts with terrorists and very often that happens even in the capital city of the region . locals say it's hardly surprising muslims are turning. to radical islam as they see it as an alternative to the hard life in the region the older members of the community believe a large proportion of those who went to the forest to simply bandits from an am dissatisfied younger generation. if anyone told me thirty years ago that life in dagestan would be like what we see now i would never believe that. the locals want the rule of law enforced and respect is again every turn to a time before terror played such a dominant part in the lives of so many minds in the question i see close up in the republic pakistan. has been an insurgent attack against a police station in the afghan capital no one's been hurts but it's the latest in a string of assaults with the taliban has been mounting across the country in recent months now says it's confident it's making progress in the war but out when it's a contributor thinks they need a reality check. the pentagon chief addressing the u.s. forces the forw

the local hiring policy that the city of san francisco is one of the only local mandatory policies on the books. it means that contractors are obligated to hire a percentage of folks by trade on those projects. that is not the case with section 3. it is not mandatory, miss jackson. >> [inaudible] >> miss jackson? >> [inaudible] >> ok. >> the panelists will be here. >> we can talk about it all day long. there is the disconnect. this happens a lot here. another thing that might be helpful is to have those same folks that feel that it is mandatory in these meetings. to my knowledge, those are not mandatory. that is the way we monitor them. >> are there any other additional questions? we can hook up with miss robinson. >> [inaudible] >> [inaudible] >> ok. thank you. i just want to responde to the question. previously, the establishment of the human rights commission was done by what we called chapter 12. you know that, that was about the employment of residence here in san francisco. we still have chapter 12b on the books. however, 12b is the employment ordnance for the city -- ordinance

the city. there were two organizations that stepped up to move it forward. it was the police officers association, and the firefighters local 798. i would like to commend those two organizations for having the idea and making it happen. they have the seed money to get us started with guardians of the city to create a nonprofit public charity. i like to honor them. tom o'connor is now the new president of local 798. thank you. >> i would like tom o'connor to come forward. chief white. >> i am told i have approximately two more minutes. we did become a paid professional department in 1867. we will see adjacent to station 10 -- i served my probation here. the firefighters would come over. it gives you a snapshot of the department history and how we advanced from the beginning in 1867 to where we are today in 2011. as we approach 5:04, we would like to have a solemn moment. the deputy chief will bring the department fell three times. we will observe a moment of silence and reflect back to october 17, 1989. 67 lives were lost. thousands were injured. much property was devastated. people's lives were greatly affected. i will ask

are engaged and should thousand with terrorists and very often that happens even in the capital city of the region. locals say it's hardly surprising muslims are turning. to radical islam as they see it as an alternative to the hard life in the region the older members of the community believe a large proportion of those who went to the fore is a simply bandits from an dissatisfied younger generation. if anyone told me thirty years ago their life in dagestan would be like what we see now i would never believe that. locals want the rule of law enforced and respected again a return to a time before terror played such a dominant part in the lives of so many marginal question r.t. close up in the republic of dagestan. new zealand crafters deliver day to a russian fishing vessel that's been stuck in ice and out for two days the flight delivered fuel and a pump to help the crew of thirty to get rid of the water which is leaking in the ship called spotter has a hole about one hundred meters below the waterline in crewmembers have been ditching according to decrease the ship's weight rescuers say it's if they man

i am here representing the san francisco green party and the local grassroots organization our city. a few speakers were in strong support of the avalos legislation to restore it as a habitat. a few people have touched on the big picture, climate change and other human impacts to habitats. i want to bring that into sharp focus. i want to remind people that last week, climate scientists said human beings have five years to get our act together on the climate crisis or we are facing a serious disaster. any scientist you talk to will tell you the human species and its impact on the climate have become the equivalent of emir of striking the planet similar to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. any biologist will tell you we are already on the way to losing massive numbers of species on the planet. you can see it happening all around us. that brings us to key species. these are threatened and endangered species because they are hanging on by their toenails. they are not thriving. [tone!] with the global warming problems coming into the coast line especially with a berm artificially holdi

peacekeepers in southern lebanon the blast occurred in the city of tire with local media claiming a french on patrol was the target but there have been several attacks on peacekeepers in lebanon since the summer including last month's bomb explosion at a hotel used by u.n. staff. a gunman who killed a police officer in a us university car park on thursday has reportedly been found dead police say they still have no motive behind the cop killing which happened during a routine traffic stop when the attacker water up and killed the police before fleeing virginia tech is the site of one of america's worst ever deadly rampages when in two thousand and seven a student massacred thirty two people before killing himself. a roadside bomb has winded at least five u.n. peacekeepers in southern lebanon the blast occurred of the city of tire with local media claiming a french patrol was the target but there have been several attacks on peacekeepers in lebanon since the summer including last month's bomb explosion at a hotel used by u.n. staff. and three paramilitary troops have been killed and several

local business participation goal. by comparison, san francisco general hospital, has a goal of 7%. i'm not attacking the city here, ok. so -- and i personally respect and ask that you to move this project forward so enable us to hire more people and especially san francisco local residents. thank you. good night. president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> president chiu, supervisors, al norman, bayview merchant, 25-year mechanical contractor from the bayview. and the only reason i'm here tonight is to support that gentleman that just came before you and supporting him in what he wants do with cpmc because my dealing with cpmc is a definite indication that they don't want no black folks on this project. we're talking about different agreements, development and so forth, but you you don't know that none of this work they're doing is going to be put out for a competitive bid nor is it subject to -- i had to deal with mr. lamb to deal with his 14% or whatever but i guess i'm not the right color because they don't want me but i want to come before you this evening and let you know that they discriminate and they

heated exchange, the oakland city council is looking at riresolution that would prevent this, the shutdown of the oakland board. this would urge the mayor to enforce all laws and local codes to prevent future port shuttowns bike this one -- shutdowns like this one. the port brings in millions of closet for oakland, and city leaders are concerned am reggie kumar is live outside city hall where the meeting is still going on at this hour. >> reporter: moments ago, the city council started the public hearing portion of this resolution. there were 59 people sign up to speak about this resolution, so the city council will be here late tonight. there's already been a heated exchange of words between the city council president and occupy protestors inside the chambers tonight. while the port of oakland's executive director was speaking before the city council about the port shutdown on december 12th, occupy protestors in the balcony started clapping. that's when council president demanded that the crowd be respectful. >> will the people who advocate the rights of free speech, you are certainly not giving this man the right of free speech! let me just say this, i wasn't goin

the needs of the city against the needs of your district? >> that is the biggest challenge for any representative, whether it is a local supervisor, assemblyperson, or congressional representative. it is important that i keep in the back of my head that i sit on the city and county board of supervisors. there is a responsibility to the city as a whole. there is no easy way to balance it. you deal with those issued by issue. >> the city is faced with tough budget decisions, including where to make cuts and whether to raise taxes and fees. how will you approach the difficult choices? >> i think the biggest challenge in the budget is the cost associated a city employee pensions and benefits. those are the single biggest driver to our expenses, far exceeding our revenues. i have a single-minded focus dealing with that. for the last few months. we have been sitting down with our various public employee unions trying to come together on a way to balance the city's needs versus respecting the rights of the employees. if we are able to come to some sort of agreement and present the voters in november with a fair proposal, that will address a lot of the