have i been serious about doing this for the long term, not just the short term. a politician might just do it short templet i'm not one. i will do it long term, correct this problem. i will sit down with jeff and i will say, you want city b or do you want to work with us as one city? i want you to be un-confused in november. you will be confused if you have more than one ballot measure whfment we come forward with you, we will be able to explain in no uncertain terms how our proposals will correct our system. that's what i want for you for your consideration in november and we will absolutely need your help. we will vote on this and we will make sure we've done the right thing. and i have everybody so far. the next three weeks some might peel out. they'll try to get more out of it or less obligation. we'll do our best to keep everybody in play. but our obligation ultimately is to present the board of supervisors with a proposal so that six f. not more of them agree, can put it on the ballot and we think we will have the united family with us and it will be sprevin

it is important to consider the long range the roman projection, and these are in the projections. when considering the available capacity, and the long-range projections, the eir concludes that the anticipated population growth is not attributable to the element policies from the 2004 and 2009 housing element policies. the appellant is incorrect in that the city did not use something for this. they analyzed the potential for new development, and the department disagrees with the appellant claims that the eir does not analyze growth attributable. regarding the other issues raised by the appellant, the memoranda transmitted to the board on may 2 explains the changes to the 2009 housing element and explains that the draft provisions do not increase the severity of the environmental impact analyzed in the eir. the changes are minor and would not have -- there is a response document which fully addresses these changes on pages 265 and 267. with respect to the alternative analysis, the eir analyzed at an equal level of detail both of the housing elements. the eir also includes three alt

>>after suffering one of the largest earthquakes in its history, we look at the long term impact to japan's already stagnant economy. >>if we move well along the way to that more aggressive stance, i think the economy can bounce back relatively well. if we do not move toward that more aggressive stance, i think we'll be looking at several years of negative growth, worsening deflation, and probably worsening fiscal deficits as well. >>the pain in spain, we look at some of the key problems faced by this struggling european economy >>what i see is not good. i see stagnation, long period of stagnation. >>and india's rail network should be the envy of the world, but it is crumbling and losing money. >>they need to develop their infrastructure, they need to make more trains like these >>abirached: hello and welcome. i'm raya abirached and this is world business, your weekly insight into the global business trends shaping our lives. the earthquake and tsunami that hit japan this year stunned the world and came as a huge blow to a country that is losing its economic prominence in the world. and the

the stories of the world's long gone it . does have to be chosen. meeting the diaries of those tests are today. people riding in dog sleds and snowmobiles will cross the pani of the national park before they reach the arctic circle they will make a stopover on the shore of punny on the lake the expedition heading that is taking a shortcut because of the band was an. expedition members driving snowmobiles resolved to go across mt new warren karelians highest mountain a demanding route by all accounts according to the folk epic color voller this place is the gateway to the mysterious land of particular. areas covered with thick forest of the kind you find only in sub-arctic regions pine trees and spruce is fared better than other plants on the ice covered ground here the wind bring snow and cold weather from the arctic moisture and warm air from the atlantic this is why the foothill trees are topped with big caps packed snow. in the old days local is pretty small to warren and it's more than a symbol lashon has if the person habitants of this place fea

we are pushing and i am pushing that this will solve the in the long term. there are certain numbers we have to be at, particularly the contributions current employees must make, including myself. >> will the salaries and pensions be cut? should they be cut? >> that is a separate part from the pension. we have to balance -- we have to have a pension system that pays for itself. we will work on the plan and presented. i predict may be to a half weeks at the most before we have something in front of the board of supervisors to get the ball rolling. salaries are always being reviewed. we have to have the careful balance between excessive salaries and salaries that will attract the best talent, as well as salaries that provide a living wage for city workers. it is an expensive city. i get paid a lot more than others. i want to make sure that those who work for me are satisfied that they can take care of their personal business with a decent salary and pension as they put the years in. >> another reminder that you are listening to the commonwealth of california ra

the investment will make the country more competitive long-term. as we develop the budget for fiscal year 2012, the bar has never been high year for concrete results to justify federal investment. the administration used its budget request to show its vision of real placed on part with other modes of transportation but in today's environment a big vision just won't cut it. we need to see realistic alternatives for slash and burn politics that have taken over the budget debates. i'm disappointed the budget request doesn't offer that. the competition for limited resources in the department of transportation. the transit systems are suffering across the country shutting down service is unable to meet operating costs under constrained state budgets. the next-gen air traffic control system is costly and fundamentally necessary for the future of transportation as well. that's why i need more from you. i recognize the hard work you and the staff have done to protect the agency role as a safety organization and to build the capacity to oversee multibillion-

the mend. somebody that's really recovering. and that's going to go a long way toward her recovery in the future. >> reporter: but why did she have the surgery now, while her husband mark is so far away? >> the expectation is that she's going to do beautifully. so, i think the timing was right, i think she's ready for this procedure. >> reporter: according to the doctors who replaced my skull, this almost always speeds up our healing. >> we've seen improvements, both, not only psychologically in patients, but also documented improvements in terms of motor response, verbal response, cognitive response of the brain function. >> reporter: for gabby giffords, this is a major step on the long road back toward normalcy. >> big day for her. and, of course, remembering looking back with you, bob. but take us again through exactly what they did. >> reporter: well, this is what they did. this is actually the way they do it. they take this, what they had already cut off, probably four months earlier, they put it on like this. they only want to do it once the brain's sw

term what is the long term policy and what it what should the long term policy or the we should be the long term policy is bringing the insurgency into a negotiated settlement as tom pickering and myself and matthew hoh and everybody else has this involved in this on a serious level has advised for the needs of the insurgency brought to the table the need to be some sort of political reconciliation and a strategic drawdown to leave somewhere between in my opinion seventeen to nineteen thousand troops to train and mentor the afghan army and government but i don't think is what's going to happen i think my sources tell me that there is serious negotiations being made right now with the karzai government to leave somewhere between seventy five and eighty thousand and seventy five thousand eighty thousand troops. for another seventy five years as sort of a strategic military arms agreement is one of the could possibly be considered that right now is the most favored this is the not the right policy so you don't believe there will be a political reconciliation one thing that would require i

they rise to the case and so well. >> to sum up, you talked about your view of the long term. but your future is in doubt. health reform is in the courts and we do not know what happened. how confident are you all the long-term plans are not going to result in nothing? >> i am 100% confident of success. i know that this is going to work. we have a crisis in our country. republicans, democrats, payers, providers, we are all in the same boat. it is time to come together and i see that happening, i really do. yes, there are wrinkles and debates and complaints. but we are really on track now. and i have a lot of confidence in this country that we will get to the right place. it may not happen in one year but it will happen in my lifetime. >> if you could fix one thing without any interference from anybody else, what would it be? >> tempo. i would go faster. we are at a pace now we think about three years now from now. my whole senses of readiness. we know what to do in this country and make care say. we know how to make chronic care excellent. we know what i prevention looks like.

the long walk of the polar bear, including one cub, not much bigger than a poodle. just the kind of sighting to given even the skeptics hope. >> they are well inls lated. they have a great supply of warm milk and a beautiful mom. so, life's all good so far. >> reporter: in two years, these cubs will be on their own, and the cycle, in a part of canada that has the feel of another planet, will repeat itself as the polar bear's long journey marches on. i'm neal karlinsky for "nightline," near churchill, manitoba. >> certainly nice to watch from a warm place. a different kind of mother's day tribute. >>> well, mother's day is, of course, sunday, which got us to thinking about the state of moth motherhood around here. and what we found out made us want to take a look at mother's day by the numbers. ♪ [ male announcer ] an everyday moment can turn romantic anytime. and when it does, men with erectile dysfunction

the unemployed. you are excluding millions of americans out of work a long time. old us that that's what many employers do. when we called the restaurant directly about their ad for a manager they told us it was a mistake. >> there is a stigma that, if you haven't been hired yet, why should we be talking to you? >> reporter: there are some basic things the long term unemployed can do to fight back. number one on the list, plug the hole in your resume. >> it really looks bad on your resume. you have to fill it in with something. >> reporter: she recommends doing volunteer work in your professional field. put it at the top of your resume. you don't have to say it is unpaid. tip two, never, ever do this. >> one of the first things i go into is why i have been unemployed so long. >> you are a product. are products being sold by going out there and telling them nobody bought or looked at the product in the last six months to a year? >> reporter: tip three, no sad explanations. say you used your time as an opportunity to train up. using these tips in his next interview,

the 2003 era for about 7.5% for two years. so we're proud of our work in that. but we've got a long way to go. in addition to the reforms that we're working on under the auspices of mayor lee, we have contracts, we have 27 contracts open next year and as we keep looking for efficiencies, we're going to be looking at every single premium in those contracts and see are we getting value or are we not getting value? do other jurisdictions pay this? do we need to reward the driver of a particular vehicle? in some cases the answer is yes. we have premiums that do make sense. we have a premium for somebody who is going to have to go up and do underwater diving which is a totally different set of duties than somebody else in that classification who may be running a lawn mower or something. some of them do make sense but some of the them we have to look, are we getting value for that? we'll do that with each and every contract. certainly the fact that you all are interested in pressing your supervisors to make intelligent decisions about proving those contracts, this is putting appropriate pressure on t

so we all agree that we need to do something to try to slow that path and get it consistent with the long run path of the overall economy the question is how and there are basically two approaches one is the command and control approach that europe uses where they limit access to many procedures or they control the prices that witch doctors can get reimbursed hospitals and get reimbursed and so on an alternative is to have patients have much more skin in the game for patients to pay a much higher fraction of the health care that they're receiving now yes europe has kept its help expenditure more moderates a by using the command control approach a lot of the cars believe that that leads to stifling innovation that leads to over time much worse quality health care sector and quality of health that's going to be available and that if we do that in the united states which has been at the forefront of providing inhalation because you know no other country was doing it that we're going to have an incredibly ineffective health care system that won't benefit the middle class it will be the middle

on the newshour tonight, we have the latest on the damage and the long cleanup ahead. >> woodruff: then ray suarez updates the state of immigration reform, as president obama revives his case for an overhaul of the nation's laws. >> brown: kwame holman reports on the politics of the debate over how much the federal government can borrow, after speaker boehner offered his opening bid. >> without significant spending cuts and changes in the way we spend the american people's money, there will be no increase in the debt limit. >> woodruff: we get two views of the obama administration's stepped-up criticism of china's human rights record. >> brown: from ukraine, special correspondent kira kay explores lessons being learned about fulfilling the promises of the 2004 revolution. >> from the failings of the orange government and the subsequent return of authoritarian concerns comes a warning for current activists in the middle east. democracy building is harder than it looks. >> woodruff: and we get the details of the microsoft deal to buy skype for $8.5 billion. that's all ahead on tonight's n

you do this, and it is not acceptable, and it is not right, and it will lead to greater costs in the long run. thank you very much. >> i am also apparent. i have to say i am confused about the progress. on the one hand, we have all the feedback that indicates parents are not willing to give up their choice. the district staff says her is inequity across the board, but meanwhile, the district staff seems to be going forward with a recommendation to implement this feeder linplan. i do not know why we need to do this in before we get them in safe and secure a good -- get them in safe villaraigosa -- in saves. >> i am the parent of a spanish conversions student greater -- student. i am in support of the system. gooto put it on the backs of the family to force a change of the middle school level is pretty unfair appear later -- unfair. if you told anyone in the district, you are going to go to the no. 1 middle school, no one would turn you down. good if you are going to go to no. 1 or no. 8, that is pretty unfair, so if you make some of the equivalent of #one, they will sign off. i also want t

even have their first job straight out of school i think it's definitely going to be detrimental in the long run kelly i want to thank you very much for joining us tonight. thanks for having me. and now let's take the talk of jobs in the economy one step further your reports show that one in seven americans are on food stamps and the number of americans applying for unemployment benefits reached an eight month high and the group seems to be getting hit the hardest as also the one you probably least expect lindo tells us about the dying american dream for the middle class. sunny southern california long a favorite destination for those pursuing stardom and wealth throughout the years families have lived the american dream of comfort and increasing prosperity but peace days many of those very pam lees are caught up in a nightmare of escalating poverty the economic crisis has touched the before untouchable middle class what we have seen in the last two years really with very fashion is an increase in the number of families for. some of them for the first tasia maybury is trying to raise her dau

this is the frontier of contemporary tourism. this journey is longix hours from kuching, the capital of sarawak. and the boat trip from the jetty upriver used to take two days. now in canoes with outboard motors, it can be done in an hour. even though this type of cultural tourism appears low-impact, it still poses many questions. visitors to the long house see something very different from the cultural centre, but is it any more authentic, and can it withstand the growing number of visitors? can the local people cope with this new intrusion, and is there a danger of cultural voyeurism? [man] do you get the impression, anthony, this is the real thing in a sense-- pretty much the real thing? i think it's pretty much the real thing as it currently exists. i'm not sure this is the way it was 100 years ago, but this is the culture for ibans and the long house as it currently exists. as far as this generation is concerned, yes. i've lived out in the asian micronesian region for about 10 years. i've seen what tourism can do to local cultures. if there is n

no one gets the long form. they agreed it was okay to do it. >> what is interesting, the media doesn't want to move on and starting to throw the race card at trump. >> he's playing basketball. >>> and i mean, you have whoopi goldberg saying i am playing the card and then last night, it spiraled out of control. johnathon altertold chris matthews, they who question the president are saying that dumb black man don't know how to speak without it. >> don't forget and i agree with an drea that they think they are winning. the left and obama thinks he's losing. that's why he did it . the media thinks they are getting ratings . everyone of those msnbc stories is chris matthews attacking. >> he's nuts. >>> and you don't have to go to msnbc to see it. watch fox. >> and what is interesting to me, i attribute to to lack of displinn. goes ophrah and fundraisers and they are not understanding from a presidential reelection point of view they need to go away. >> he goes on ophrah and airs . ing and making opening joking remark

effect that means you can jump in anytime you want but first let's look at the tale of the middle class. has long been the pride and joy of rich western countries but today this is rapidly changing the middle class is in danger under pressure for decades and assaulted during the great recession the middle class is shrinking and there is little evidence that it will be reversed anytime soon long term unemployment in the current economy is is the worst really the worst it's been in the post-war period curly something like forty five percent of all the unemployed have been unemployed for six months or longer the world is fundamentally changing and already the wealthy are getting even welfare money and power are rapidly becoming concentrated at the top and the big global corporations are earning more than ever before for example sixty six percent of the income growth between two thousand and one and two thousand and seven went to the top one percent of all americans meanwhile the middle classes of the developed world are consistently gwendoline as american and european workers are slowly being merged

period of time, that is the most constructive way to address what is in fact a long- term problem. if the changes are focused entirely on the short run, they might have some consequences for growth, and in that case the federal reserve, which is as always going to set monetary policy to meet our mandate, we will take those into account properly. but so far i have not seen any fiscal changes that have really changed our near-term outlook. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i would like to ask about the uncertainties in the global economy. in the meetings, the committee noted that the development increased uncertainties. what is the assessment of those risks for uncertainty such as the tragedy in japan or the crisis in europe, and the crisis in the middle east? what would be the potential effect on the u.s. and the world economy? >> one of the things that our projections includes, we are only producing the forecast today with our -- within three weeks, we will include the detailed projections as we normally do. one thing we included the views of the participants on the amount

we issue commercial paper while the budget is happening and then we will look into the long-term debt after we stabilize the project, and we hope to get a better market for the bond rates. it is not a separate discussion. it will roll out ultimately into the regular bond issuance. it is a bridging tool to make sure you get the best rate when you do not need to go out and borrow the money long term. supervisor chu: to be clear, the issuance or item one, the dollar amount that would be raised per month is included as part of the wsip already approved rates that have been communicated? that's absolutely. supervisor chu: in terms of item two, that will be in addition, but because it is currently commercial paper without a bond that is necessarily financing it, you do not have the impact yet? >> our projections on that, we said it would be about $41 per month for water rates based on wsip. if you add in the new meter system we are going in, we project now that the total rates would be about $49. in addition to wsip, all the other replacement work in the city and the meter program and these

he gave them the encounter because at the end of the long session he said thank you very much. i appreciate what you have told me and one thing wet must guard against is ton hunker down in our embassy embassy, that will give the initiative to outcry the. we will protect our people but we will not hunker down. i took this has marching orders from the top and with some in the state department who wanted us to adopt a very cautious position that this was unwise because of the long term it increase the vulnerability to the outside the. i go in this at some length in the book because it is very important. >> i will buy it. [laughter] >> i would say during my tenure, we had no official american killed lower seriously injured in yemen despite a very forward posture of where we have been now the second question? intelligence people do brilliant work and we have seen that recently i even thought with him in. it is essential. therees is no way the state department competes in that area. it does tend to be nearlyus focused and does not get into such questions as though well on the part oft

the long-term outlook for the city -- the economy is beginning to recover. when we look at the longer-term horizon, we see a familiar picture. even as the economy recovers and the revenues get better, costs will continue to grow at a faster rate. a lot of that is attributable to the growth in employee costs. the numbers of the bottom of the screen are the deficit projections for the next three years. they are projected to grow. it is not just that we have continuing problems ahead of us. the message is that we need to take some actions to correct that. if we do take some actions and make some decisions now, we can bring those numbers down in the future. it will require a lot of difficult decisions that we need to make to start correcting our structural budget issues. i will leave it at that. i am happy to answer any questions. >> thank you. if you have cards, you can hand them over to les. i want to thank kirsen and her staff for making this town hall successful. we have the general manager from the public utilities commission and greg from the department of

it is possible that they would fund the entire 29,000, but we will not know until tomorrow. going a long way to assist with compatibility and the overall city hall and city connectivity issues that we are working on, also with the upgrade right here in the chamber, it would assist by allowing all members of the board to go on to their web sites in this room without getting kicked out of their e- mails, able to access files and graphics. supervisor chu: does that include the presentation? >> that includes the presentation. supervisor chu: the request today is to release for $34,000.500 $15. what's the use of reserves is not on the agenda. -- >> the use of reserves is not on the agenda. supervisor chu: perhaps we can draft a letter to release the reserves and identified that at a later time. the consensus of this committee is that we will try and that if that is not a workable solution, perhaps the right course will be the alternative. please, keep us updated on the meeting. thank you. let's open this item for public comment. are there any members of the public that wish to speak on this i

but not in the long run. n the short run, not in the long run, i don't believe so. >> you don't get it away with in the end. tavis: not forever. in the short run, but not the language long run that. behavior catches up with you and is ultimately not a way to live a life. i've cheated in my life and i talk about that in my book but i discovered when i win in an earnest and fair way and as an african-american male, i've had strikes against me. oftentimes i'm in competition. there aren't a lot of black folks that do what i do on television and black folks deal with this every day, sometimes there are strikes against you through no fault of your own and you get tempted to cheat but when you win through cheating, it's not winning. >> you're a black american, why aren't you angry? tavis: i am angry about a lot of things. >> don't act it. tavis: i try to turn that anger into fear. i try to turn the anger that i have, not into fear, the anger and the fear into energy. i'm afraid of certain things, i'm angry about cert

i experienced it as a user from the very beginning. to make a long story short, i ended up leaving cnn in early 2004 and i was at harvard, and i ended up spending quite a bit of time at a center for the internet in society. i was looking at the rise of citizen media and blogging all around the world, how this is challenging journalism, challenging government, looking at it as a global phenomenon, but because i had a background in china -- i speak chinese and read chinese -- i quickly became fascinated with what happens in china. on the one hand, you have an explosion of internet use. you have all kinds of social networking sites. you have a lot of blocking going on. yet at the same time, the government manages it well enough to control people from using the internet to organize an opposition. the way in which they do that is fascinating. so, because i had a language facility and i was sort of starting to become interested -- i wrote one thing, and then people started asking me more things and i would help them with research, give a talk, and and kind

my anecdotal examples myself of where this is happening and it doesn't saucer really kind of help the long term dynamic for you for the u.s. outlook it's one of the reasons why i'm a little bit cautious about the u.s. and you know unfortunately a lot of the brunt of that does tend to fall on this particular generation demographic and i'm with you there in terms of the i know a lot of people myself that are my age friends of mine who i went to college with that still have yet to even have their first job straight out of school i think it's definitely going to be detrimental in the long run tell you want to thank you very much for joining us tonight. thanks for having me. now if they could talk of jobs and the economy one step further reports show that one in seven americans are on food stamps and the number of americans applying for unemployment benefits reached an eight month high and the group that seems to be getting hit the hardest is also the one you probably least expect artie's among the lindo tells us about the dying american dream for the middle class. sunny southern california lon

prime minister said reinforce the need for the lasting political settlement in afghanistan as the only long-term guarantee of peace and security. does the prime minister agree with me that we need greater urgency for the political solution and engagement in both parts of the taliban that are ready to announce islands? can he tell whether he thinks there are ways we can sharpen the choice in the taliban including by deepening the political process and afghanistan. turning to yemen and al qaeda's remaining stronghold we must do everything to combat terrorism and increase pressure on the supporters and we must also support movements that we get less likely that terrorism will take root. the most effective answer to al qaeda's didier realogy to introduce by the people of north africa and the least. they've not been turning to an ideology of hate by demanding the right to control their destiny with space reform and economic progress. in that context progress has been made in consolidating the democratic gains of egypt and tunisia. what is also being done to ensure the leaders of a promised refor