the star spangled banner. this nation's national anthem. our native people. they sang these songs. it pays homage to the first of this land. our eagle staff. these flags, the national standard. our american flags. our eagle staff fought on the same battle fields. today, they stand side by side with each other. remember our veterans with these songs as well. [singing and chanting] given up one more time for the singers, dancers, veterans. leaders in our native american community as well. calling up joaquin to present the native american health center with a mayoral proclamation. >> we share a responsibility for vibrant communities, and we have an opportunity to share recognition. last year, the native american aids project honored november as native american heritage month, and we will receive the proclamation from mayor newsom. we are proud to be partners with kqed. let's thank them. thank you so much for your hard work. thank you to the native american aids project for bringing the spirit into the room. thank you for all of our dancers, singers, but veterans, we salute you. on behalf of mayor newsom, the city and county of san francisco, we proclaim november 2010 as americ

is among the nations calling for the release of the nobel prize winning group called the double standard. the noble prize is granted to lucille ball i don't want to pass any judgment on use now but in effect what is implied is it's really been targeting of china on it's your political sense organs it has nothing to do with what your child is actually done and you come to the conclusion that cries based on political considerations rather than on anything tangible well i saw the statement by the russian media regarding assad and i think that what you see with regard to the silence is the most that it's going to silence this now being threatened he's being targeted for releasing information to kill the son agency the national standards of the so-called international community where a son is targeted for knowing what's what he should be doing which is releasing factual information which should be known to the public and then you have the other case where the same people will be pushing for a candidate which is a dissident within the people's republic of china using the nobel peace prize to j

planning to cut a third of their budget, yet their caseloads are already at twice the number of the national standards permit, so you have got that kind of economic pressure. there is also another type of pressure that comes from the lack of professional independence, the way we structure our public defense, especially our contract systems. when i was doing research for the commission, i interviewed the public defender's office, and they were brought into the office. they were not elected. they were selected by the chief operating officer, whose main bottom line is economics, not justice, and they said, this is the budget you are going to be given. you either do the job with that budget, or we get someone else. are you willing to take the job? that was the condition and made bluntly. i happened to be on the panel. everybody was talking about stakeholders and how we wanted a team player. i think the culture makes the player. now you hire somebody that is going to be a team player. we need independents. i am not sure i would go with the reelection everywhere. in san francisco, you have got an intelligen

planning to cut a third of their budget, yet their caseloads are already at twice the number of the national standards permit, so you have got that kind of economic pressure. there is also another type of pressure that comes from the lack of professional independence, the way we structure our public defense, especially our contract systems. when i was doing research

i think the observes could find a way to modify the question i have is the national standard or is the incentive on the marketplace here. for us, this entire conversation is talking about the conversation there have been devastating consequences frnl i don't know if you want to respond to that. >> i'll have something to say about that. i'll agree with the point. secondly in response to the specific question. it is about standards the first lean, second lean issue also about resources. dealing with foreclosure and modifications the not because rule also be an end all, be all. to think about how all these things will i don't we don't fix the market going forward unless the key driver on the loans. they really do have a big roll to play playing a broader role in this process. requesting that all services to acknowledge the circumstances there seems to be somebody talking to the borrowers saying clear clear >> completely upside down. it is your turn that that is our solution with the single point contact. >> that would be another one of our institutions. we do agree. in the kofrntss we are

that mean we would not need these other remedies, but we are a long way off from that being the national standardunfortunately. what i work with people on every day as cleaning their records up to the extent allowable under california law, so cleaning your record up to the extent allowable under california state law is really different from saying "clean slate." i feel like we are at best raising expectations unfairly because there is no clean slate in california, but we are trying to improve the laws that there are and expand them. actually, this session and assembly -- my coworker who works on policy in my office has been successful in working with community partners and putting forward ab 2068, and it is really a technical fix, not sending terribly exciting, and if i say it, your eyeballs will fall out of your head, but it basically updates penal code section 1204a the expunge men or dismissal remedy, and brings it up to the same level as 120 3.4. the point is in some cases, people who can get that a remedy for cases when they did not go to prison, there will be eligible to legally say -- some

the national standard promulgated by goals states there should be one investigator for every three attorneys. we found that most offices in this state don't comply with that. they don't meets that requirement. some had as many as nine attorneys to one investigator. that problem is coming pounded by the fact that attorneys also are overloaded. more than three out of four public defender offices reported excessive attorney caseloads were a significant problem in their office. you have a multiplirefect. if there are mot enough hours in the day to investigate the cases obviously some soft cases don't get investigated. that's the problem that we're seeing. now other problem of course deals with well, why is that situation? public defenders represent the lion's share of all of the cases. yet what we see, you would expect them to have rough parity with the prosecutor's office. we don't see that. what we see statewide is for every dollar spent on prosecution only 53 cents is spent on average for the indigent accused. yet in some counties as much as 95% of all the cases involve indigent defendants. c

and that is well within the national standard. reporting live in east baltimore, mike hellgren, wjz eyewitness news. kai. >> mike, thank you. authorities are investigating the cause, which the fire department says is routine. >> as mike told us, gusty winds made that fire especially hard this morning. and it is also making things feel much colder out there today. in towson, people bundled up against the bitter wind chill. and we're looking live outside now. the temperatures only going to dip lower as the sun goes down, of course. meteorologist bernadette woods is updating the temperatures and the wind chills. bernadette. >> >> ed the winds are still a major factor out there. and because of that, the winds are still in effect for most of the state. and it is until tonight. let's take a look right now. we will show you as far as the advisory goes, that we do have the advisory in effect until tonight. and here are the winds that we are discussing. we are sustained winds. between 20 and 25 miles per hour for most of the area and are gu

cost-effective ways to meet the stringent standards california has proposed for chromium-6 in drinking water. the authors of today's study urge the epa to act quickly to set national standards. the epa plans to issue a review of chromium-6 in the water next year. bill whitaker, cbs news, los angeles. >>> and the boston pops had a shaq attack. the celtics shaquille o'neal was a guest conductor. the 7'1" center towered over the podium and got into the christmas spirit. ♪ o'neal said he has a whole new respect for conductors because his arms were killing him after dress rehearsal. come on, shaq. >>> this morning on "the early show" an exclusive interview with larry king. i'm terrell brown. this is the "cbs morning news." [ female announcer ] keurig has over 200 varieties of gourmet coffee and tea to choose from. it's the way to individually brew fresh, delicious coffee in under a minute. way to brew, hon. [ female announcer ] choose. brew. enjoy. keurig. [ female announcer ] choose. brew. enjoy. ah, it's stinging a little bit more than usual! yeah, you'll get used to it. the longer you keep your high mileage car, the more it pays you back. get castrol gtx high mileag