the treasure island museum which closed by the navy in 1997 when they left and stored all of the cleckedses. the museum association of which i am president managed to put on exhibits using other resources. we want to show the challenge of the island in the past to build it, the navy, just to save our country from attack and so forth all of it will continue with understanding what is a sustainable society. we have a model out there and our museum will challenge the visitors. in the past we hired volunteers people living on the island. imagine what we will do once there is a center and a population. we are the people that can answer a lot of questions about what happened here. we are thrilled the development is going forward as quickly as possible. >> thank you. we are almost done with public comment. >> i am here to tell you how jazzed i am about treasure island. the parks, transit and housing and the jobs. we have had a presence on treasure island since 1997. we have a unique locational training program for disadvantaged folks. these individual include people with disabilities. there are scant options for this pop

my name is mimi manning, and i'm a member of the board of directors of the treasure island museum association. over the last several years the developers have been very supportive of our organization as we re-envision our museum for the next chapter of the island's life. we look forward to working with the developers and citizen groups in making treasure island a wonderful new neighborhood and resource for all of us. we hope that this project will move forward, in spite of the existing conflicts, which we hope can be resolved fairly. thank you very much. >> good evening, i'm andy thornly with the bicycle coalition. i'll limit my comments to the transportation issues of the ceqa analysis. we're concerned and skeptical. the parking ratios are probably too great. but as previous speakers have said, we are evolving towards unaffordable driving, and the peels of this project that compels us to afford -- piece of this project that compels us is the pricing. this product has the state's first roadway pricing strategy in place. it is legislated as ready to go. and we have faith and will work to make

i am president of the treasure island museum association. i would like you to get a picture in your mind but taking the ferry boat over from the embarcadero, and you come to the island and you go in through the dock. you get up and walk over to building one, and after you have gone through building one, you see the opportunity for retail, for something to eat, something to buy, but along the way, you say to yourself, "how did this all come about? how did this get billed? we understand it is an artificial island." if that is where our museum comes in. it was established as a bicentennial project, but was closed in 1997 by the navy to protect the collections, but those collections on the history, the building of the island, the clippers, the navy, would be the basis of the museum, together with a new way approachable by younger people in this century that deals with the innovation, the fact that this island is built to be green, to be sustainable, and these assets, bringing together this team of innovation past, present, and future, will be ver

victory and today a federal commission will call for a new smithsonian museum dedicated to latino american history. the associated press reports the museum's site will be on the national mall near the capital reflecting pool. no projected opening date or cost yet. a federal report will be sent to congress and the white house later today. >>> howard's here with the beautiful weather forecast. >> for this afternoon, if you don't mind a little bit of a breeze, and then tomorrow we've got clouds and showers. and then saturday is okay. then sunday we've got some clouds and showers for mother's day so we'll have to worry about that unfortunately. good afternoon. we'll get you going with a look at the day planner. we've got a nice, sunny day. temperatures are already running into that 60-degree range right now. we'll see them climb to the mid- 60s over the next few hours with plenty of sunshine and wind. northwest wind sustained 15, 18 miles per hour, will gust in the mid-20s, maybe near 30 at times. so a breezy afternoon. by 7:00 still mainly clear, 64 and by 9:00, still mainly clear, 58 but we'll see a few clouds star

national humanities metal and he is senior vice president for external affairs at the metropolitan museum of art. his associate, craig symonds is professor emeritus of the u.s. naval academy and former naval officer. he is a very famous on these grounds because his wife worked here for many years and craig was a volunteer cross country coach. my favorite of all his books is lincoln and his admirals' which i am going to use in the fall semester for my class. it won the lincoln prize which is exceedingly prestigious in the field of the civil war. he also has written the best biography of joseph johnson and patrick clayborn. our third participant is annette gordon-reed who received her law degree from harvard and had a youthful fascination with thomas jefferson. she has written several books on sally hammons and her third major book is andrew johnson. annette gordon-reed has a string of awards that would occupy the bulk of our sessions so i can't quite do it. she is a professor of history and law and recipient of the national book award, the pulitzer prize, macarthur genius award, on and on and on. an extraordina

associated with being black. i worked very hard to establish a museum in the bay area called the museum of the african diaspora aboutfive years ago in oakland. for that, our mayor, willie brown, decided we were going to put this but me sam as part of the five-star saint regis hotel in the convention center of san francisco. as mayor he could make them give us a space but they couldn't make them pay for it. so i somehow got chosen to be the person as i was minding down my career, to raise almost $6 million for this museum in two years. i did because it represented all that i respect. the oneness of the human race, the fact that the earliest relics of human life come from the african continent and the theory by the leading scientists at both berkeley and stanford arafat indeed this is a true story and this museum is dedicated to telling that story. and so while i was doing that, to raise the money of course i got these fat-cats from google and so on would be my first ones that i would get to -- and they would write the check. not one of them did. in fact, one man of color who bought the top floor of the saint regis ho

museum in my office. thank you very much. >> tuesday on washington journal, the associate editor of "the atlantic" chris good looks that republican presidential candidates. then bill gertz talks about u.s. military operations. the house recently passed a spending plan the president has threatened to veto. and then major paul kremer. plus, a your emails, phone calls, and tweets. >> the c-span video library makes it easy to follow campaign 2012. get instant access to events from announced and potential presidential candidates. all searchable and free. it is washington, your wife. -- your way. >> earlier today, president obama named his nomination for the replacement for admiral mike mullen. this is 10 minutes. >> all right. good morning. in a few moments, i will be joining members of our armed forces for the memorial day observance. we will honor those who gave the last full measure of devotion and service of our country. it is the ultimate sacrifice, but it is one that every man and woman who wears a uniform is prepared to make. the men and women of our armed forces are the best our nation has to offer, and they deserve nothing bu

associate it with me, with firsthand experience. the dilemma of writing fiction is telling the truth but behave as if you are telling a fairy tale. >> rose: here's a review. about the museum of innocence. >> this is the greatest novel of the new century in its senseuousness of the life observed, its olympian insight into the clash of classes and profession and fearlessness in tapping the great themes of human existence without dilution, showiness, tricks or superficial y'allity, evokes great novels of love and obsession by baldz ago, toy stoy and man, that's good company, sir. >> thank you. >> rose: i'm not sure how many of them have a nobel prize though. >> what is the gift that all of them have, that you have. >> i don't know whether i have it, is that sort of a conviction, almost god given gift that your experience of life is important. that your sense of daily things can can be expressed in such a way that it will be news for other people. that your sense of an experience of life can be communicated with your craft. first you have to learn the craft of expressing yourself through sentences and the art of the novel. then and more important thing now that other parts of