system. it is one of the few transit systems in the united states that reaches basically our entire city, and some form or another. but we have allowed the system to deteriorate over time, physically. and we have done this by systematically under investing for decades in the system's infrastructure. and we have not to the extent that we need to control the system's costs. and although, some recent strides have been made for a long time in the forms of the system languisted. >> the system's struggles have real-life consequences for the city. when service is unreliable, people are delayed and frustrated in getting where they are going. leading to negative economic impacts and reduced quality of life. when service degrades, people choose other modes of transportation, particularly the private automobile. congestion and pollution, thus increase and traffic and pedestrian safety decrease. when muni struggles it is at risk at going in a downward spiral. ridership with suffer, resulting in lower fair collection and public confidence in the system goes down making it harder to convince our city to in

and the quality of life in san francisco when the system is good. and to do the things that enjoying san francisco and the con is also true. >> supervisor kim? >> actually, so speaking of kind of the quality of the system, but also looking at the graph of where we see the population and job growth and i know that we are talking about just the funding the existing need and how we are not even there yet and looking at this map and we are looking at south of market and mission bay. >> all the way down to the bay view, the natural question is what are we thinking about in terms of rethinking even the lines to be able to absorb new residents and new employees. because the way that you know, muni has traditionally worked, east, west, west, east, thinking that you are coming at some point west, headed towards downtown to go to work. of course we have more north south and in terms of thinking of how we improve the quality of the system. yeah that is a great question and it is true, and first i would say that i don't think that we have a choice between do we

in the transportation system in the last generation and i think that is true with a lot of the infrastructure in the city, and it is true of our health facility and of our streets and our sewers and certainly true of the muni system, and this shows the annual structure deficit for the mta and 300 million a year and so this is just looking at the assets that we have and the services that we provide, the cap between the resources that we have to operate and maintain the assets and verse what his we need and we he is made that to be on the order of 320 million 70 of it in operating budget and 260 in the capitol. that is where we would need to bring the system into a state of good repair. the chart just shows really just one way to look at how we have failed to keep up. we as a city have failed to keep up with one metric which is population of the city, our service hours, you will recall when we started the recession, or even before, muni started cutting service to just balance its budget and while there has been som

and if it just reformed enough it will fix the system. the numbers that we have seen today are stark in terms of the hundreds of millions of dollars, just in maintenance and data repair and capitol money that muni is not getting year after year after year, and that all adds up to the... i think that it is $2.2 billion dollars for the maintenance in the system and not having enough rail vehicles and not being able to rehab tait it and i think that as it continues to reform internally we need to make sure that the state of capitol investments are being made so that the system keeps up and that it accommodates the future growth and you know the growth is coming in san francisco, and in the bay area, and we have a choice about whether we plan for it or don't plan for it. and if we don't plan for it, we are going to be in a world of hurt. and i think that it is also important that it is very tempting to in the city we have a national pasttime here of being angry about muni and i think that we all fall into that including myself. but in the end,

the system works well. if the new system has got to be virtually perfect, with virtually no errors in it. it's going to be delay, delay, delay, we may never see it happen. >> my opposition would be because we have a current system handles around 180,000 new regular concentrations a year. the bill brings about millions we have to add to it. the bill is a staggered role to give companies time to adopt the system. which is worked out on a bipartisan agreement. i don't think it's the best way. senator grassley. you get the closing remarks. the clerk will call the roll. >> okay. you have to remember it's a big part of the underlying concept of this legislation you heard senator graham say several times that e verify is even more important than border security. .. an. >> [roll call]. >> before i go to let me know if senator blumenthal is here or his role will be cast fitch share votes no. >> the amendment is not agreed to. senator frank is. >> where is my amendment in the vote to order? >>. >> without objection th

works very well and is better than the diesel systems. we have the energy from the sun. >> according to the world bank, botswana has 143 cell phone prescriptions per 100 people, more than the u.k., germany, the united states, and japan. cell phones here are as you begin with this as bernanke parts, wild animals -- as the awlaki cards and wild animals. now we can offer a better, cleaner way to connect to the old diesel systems consumed 30 two hundred gallons of fuel every year. that did not improve the fuel used to drive trucks across the country and maintain an refuel generators. in the country chronically short on power, users say it towers have been remarkably dependable. of --have a lot [indiscernible] >> botswana as one of the highest solar energy industries in the world, a cloak -- according to the u.n. the system uses solar panels to run a cell phone microwave equipment and charge a bank. at night, factors like these in this remote town power the system until morning. it has changed the lives of people like this 19-year-old uses his

boston built the first modern sewer system in the united states. ours was completed between 1877 and 1884. with this wonderful new sewer system, we were taking our filth and moving it out to the ocean. of course, all of this was untreated. in the 1960s, we were still pumping all of our sewage out to moon island, untreated. we would get swimmers here, never knowing, in the middle of summer, why you would have a cold. well, we were swimming in diluted sewage. melosi: the major way to deal with pollution, at least until early into the 20th century, was through the process of dilution. the assumption was that the capacity of rivers and streams, and even the seas, allowed for certain levels of pollution that eventually would purify themself. as we get later into the 20th century, it becomes clear that the volumes of waste made dilution unworkable as a single solution. and so treatment became the ways in which we deal with pollution. narrator: to protect public health, starting in the 1950s and '60s, there was a push to put in wastewater treatment plants

two-party system, the paper plastic system. democrats, republicans. everyone to call them. in the 30's there was the third large political party that was operating the that was very much supporting civil-rights. as a matter of fact, it is called the common party. democrats and republicans. can you talk about that? >> it is interesting. if you demythologizing the demonize the communist party and go to the south where the communist party was really important in integrating the black light and no one else has been willing to touch the race issue. there is a very great history. there is also really lousy history of the communist party, authoritarian, dishonest commanded not have the vision of mind that i would support. yes. you know, i do not think -- i do not like where the communist party was proposing and still you have to say some of the gas or influenced by marxist theory and communist theory did wonderful things in the south, particularly very, very courageous in many parts of the south and paid for with their lives in any cas

in the downtown area of atlanta, the sewer system and the stormwater system are combined and there are overflows during storm events, and so the purpose of this system is to relieve that flow, take it into the tunnel, transport it to a brand-new treatment plant, clean up the chattahoochee river. narrator: instead of the combined sewage overflowing into the river, it will flow into this tunnel that acts as a storage tank. the water will then slowly empty into the new plant for treatment before it's released back into the river. man: the system in total is about 8 1/2 miles, 27 feet in diameter. most of the time it will be dry. the only time it will fill is when the sewer system is overwhelmed by the storm. it is a massive project. we've worked about a million and a half man-hours. hunter: it is an incredible amount of work. our capital program right now is $3.9 billion. over a period of less than 10 years. franklin: so it's very expensive. the bottom line is, we, as atlantans, as georgians, don't have a choice to protect the river. we need to leave it better than we found it, and it's r

i believe the w visa system cannot be sold the american people as an effective system if we can't tell them we know when people complete their work and whether or not they've left the country. and what we've got in this system, and many of the visa programs, colleagues, you have to know, you've got large numbers of people coming annually. they're supposed to, some of themre supposed to leave at various times. they're coming with their family. they're staying ltiple years. in large numbers of em, history tells us, will not leave. so therefore, we're not going to achieve the lawfulness in th system that we've promises the american would bechieved if the bill passed. we've had a couple of ves on that system. we'll continue to discuss the need for biometc. >> will the senator yield? i want to make one point. this system is just what it should be you come in, you have a passport. you're obviously a person coming in on a visa. you then on the way out you have to swipe the passport, it's not, again, not forgeable. and it integrates with the whole system to see when people are here and when pe

but largely within the existing system. but as the growth comes to the city, as democrat ogg regardvses and menomic development folks expect, some of these issues are going to become more challenging, notwithstanding the work of the t.e.p. ~ and i think mr. solomon made some reference to this. as more cars come into the city, that's going to challenge the operation of muni, what we're already have the dubious distinction of being one of the slowest transit systems in the country. the t.e.p. is going to help that. as the growth comes, those gains will be challenged. vehicles are currently at capacity. many vehicles are during the rush hours. and as you know, we have some vulnerability in the way our system's designed and some bottlenecks and hot spots that in the long term we're going to need to address. but the lack of resiliency of our system to address service disruptions is going to become more acute and more pressing need as the demands on the system grow. so, what we're focusing on and kind of the initial kind of thinki

that is the duty of our system. stakes do happen, but as i was saying earlier, it works, most of the time. i think these are dramatic cases that you have discussed in your book, and they are awful mistakes that have been made, but for the most part it works pretty well. >> i was thinking when i was listening, the eighth amendment, which she now prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, or other things as a in the book is everyone knows what that means. you cannot torture someone. you cannot in fact cruel and unusual punishment. no one ever says, did the conduct of the wrong york, was his actions or her actions against the accused in any way cruel and unusual? we ask that same question in the same way. we protect, obviously it becomes part of the case. the prosecution itself. >> we do on sentencing. at sentencing much is made of how much the defendant made the victim suffered. >> absolutely. how heinous the act was, the impact and the cruelty. >> that is the sentence that ben referenced where we get the judge so convinc

solutions are to the criminal justice system here. to the black community, he talks on and on, indignant but right. mostly he wonders how change happens. sometimes i think about what is it, this mahatma gandhi thing. he cracks your head and you say thank you. he cracks your head again. you have to be animal when you do that. it's an outrage. he pauses and collects himself. i'm not talking from bitterness. he says this and yet how can you let go of bitterness. like a dog licking a wound keeping it open and raw greg bright revisits his past wonders if it's a happy ending because he lives in a yellow house, my pot of gold at the end of a rainbow after finally receiving $190,000 in rest tuition. unending that could go either way. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. before we kickoff the first panel we have a special treat for you. we are lucky enough to have the filmmaker in one of the subjects that premiered at the sundance festival called gideon's army. they fight tooth and nail in possible odds. you are going to get a sneak

allbee: let's frame the systems in terms of the proper context. we have around 16,000 wastewater systems. we don't have a single wastewater system -- we have 16,000 of them. we have about 54,000 drinking water systems. narrator: issues facing new york city are very different from those in los angeles. and challenges facing small towns are very different from those in metropolitan areas. man: we have to have water supply for health purposes, for fire protection, and the economy. without it, things simply can't exist. woman: we have good health in this country, in part, because we have clean water. and we shouldn't forget that, and we shouldn't take it for granted. melosi: in the late 19th century, serious waterborne disease epidemics were having devastating effects. roy: but then, in the early 1900s, we began to treat our water. and since then, we've seen a rapid decline in the incidence of waterborne disease. narrator: most cities treat drinking water through filtration, chlorination, and sometimes ozonation to kill pathogens in the source supply.

that's in the system. the entry system works. it's the simple we don't read it when they exit the country, and that's the hole in the system. now, senator hatch's amendment makes some progress, but as i will show to you now, i think pretty conclusively, there is no reason at all to be this long about this process, and that the entire system as current law requires should be implemented at land, sea and airports. we can do this. it's what the whole system has been designed for. and it's a retreat from current law, a weakening of current law even with the hatch amendment. and i would just note we just had an amendment on hearings on deportation. that weakens current law. we just had an amendment that said an asylee who comes to the country doesn't have to tell the world he's oppressed or deserves asylum for over a year. now they can be any len of time -- length of time. another weakening of current law. and step after step after step in this legislation that weakens current law. now, i did not know until friday that there has been a

it looks like the justis project replaces the cable system. my understanding is that it is a database for local background check, i want to get more of the big picture perspective and also want to find out - my understanding is that the cable system was not a system connected to any databases. i am wondering if the justis system will be different, connected to any federal database like the fbi or department of homeland security. >> i am the justis project manager. justis is designed to replace the aging cable mainframe system. each department is in the process or has completed the implementation of the wrong department specific case management system. though specific case management systems connect to justis is a way to exchange data between departments. since justis is at that how point, it gives us the ability to all information and roll it up to public data as well as criminal justice data. what was your other question? >> i am wondering if justis is any different. >> i know their systems in the city and county of seven san francisco to coll

but the people are saying we want more democracy in our democracy. we want a system that lets the majority of people that want candidates to have to appeal in order to move forward to all of the electorate not just the ideologues, so i think the people are finally getting that point, they are fed up to here as i have become. i am republican. always have been one. i have a lot of friends who are democrats. i love them all, and i want them to sit down together. we want you to do something for this school which deserves whatever good you can do for it. if you want to do something good for this school, a new facility, a new building, where should it be, how much should it cost, what should you do in the building, how many rooms, what equipment coming you all get together and form of group and say let's make a decision and not one person in this entire room what say okay all the republicans sit over there and the democrats over there and let's come up with different plans and fight it out. we don't do that except the way we run our country. and we cannot continue to do th

that the court system was taking. nd we took a snapshot of over 2500 transactions in 2012. that comes to $23 million. and coming through us the process is that you pay your assurity or your entire bail. going through the bailbonds industry that 10% represents $10 million. >> let me make an announcement that we will take questions from the audience. if you want to ask one, there are cards that you can signal to amy who will hand you one. we would love to hear your questions. mrs. dewitt, it's been a while since you had the podium or the mic. there has been a lot said, i am wondering when you hear this talk about eliminating money bail system. is this something that can realistically happen or were we able to achieve that, there would be a move to reinstate what your organization does? >> let me first off thank you, matt, let me first say i feel like a minority among the panel. but i am not overwhelmed by it. i think we have a little misconception here and what we forget all along, the public, the taxpayers. the bail ind

the system? >> well, i -- >> too hard, too harsh in the sense that it provides protections for the accused and, therefore, the victim feels left out of the process? >> i don't, i don't think it's correct to look at it as providing protections for the accused. i do think it's providing protections for everyone. that's the beauty of our system. mistakes do happen. but as i was saying earlier, it works most of the time. i think these are dramatic cases that you've discussed in your book, and there are awful mistakes that are made along the way. but for the most part it works pretty well. >> i was thinking, as you know, the eighth amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. you can't torture someone, you can't inflict a cruel and unusual punishment. no one ever says did the conduct of the wrongdoer, was his or her actions against the accused in any way cruel or unusual? we don't is ask that same question in the same way. we protect -- obviously, it becomes part of the case -- >> but we do. we do

so what happened was there was a crackdown on people who were abusing the system in the early eighties and there was a backlash to the crackdown so what ends up happening is as people were taken off the disability rolls who were misusing the system a couple of people who were genuinely disabled work in the middle of that and so there was a public outcry and congress passed a law called the social security disability benefits reform act of one thousand nine hundred four which changed dramatically the eligibility criteria for social security disability so it used to be you had to prove that you were really incapacitated you had a stroke you had cancer or something like that but according to the new rules if you had back pain if you had mental distress you could qualify for disability benefits also you could use your own doctor's opinion your own assessment of your own health as opposed to the government's position the examination of your of your health so a lot of those things combined meant that a lot of people started saying well i have back pain or i have mental distress and they star

, the sanitation systems. not just to put people back to work, but to build the foundation for future economic growth. where is that legislation? has he ever been heard. and one committee controlled by our friends in the opposition party. no. no. well, we will take up the transportation act, soon. t will there be adequate funding? probably not. the president called for an american jobs act. not even heard in committee here. americans want to go to work. they want jobs. they want to go work. and we have a program on the democratic side to do that. and we want to deal with the big problems facing this nation. we want to deal with the fact that we have millions of people that want to work in america. and we have serious problems to solve. we ought to put aside this business of repealing the affordable health care act. change it? yes, make a reasonable change and let's talk about it and make a proposal about how to make it better and we'll talk about it. but which aren't going to talk about repealing it. we aren't

in my mind the bedroom -- biometric system is the failsafe system. the problem is, we have not been able to do it. me thatschumer assures the biographic system with a photograph cannot be changed. i do not happen to necessarily believe that. the other problem is the cost. what i keep hearing is this incredible cost that it would raise the bill to cost. becauseeal frustration we have had homeland security executive after homeland security executive come in, commit to timelines and not be able to carry those timelines out. so, i have to think a lot about what i am going to do here. the department just has not seemed to be able to do it. my understanding is that it adds $10 billion to the bill. >> $25 billion. >> $25 billion, over what time? >> 10 years. biometric system in atlanta and detroit, and just did not work. more people got through. the system that we have in place -- of course, the present law is terrible. we know that. what we have tried to do is put in the best system that is workable within a reasonable amount of time. >> what you are tellin

the next step, we want to connect the district attorneys system bidirectionally, and the modules for discovery, an investigation and operate a case management system to a web-based version. we also want to connect the adult probation case management. and connect the course case management system; we note that they recently had budgetary challenges. we will be working with them next fiscal year to do that an expanding the interdepartmental notifications. phase 2, we want to help the juvenile probation case management system hook up as well as the department of emergency management calls for service. so quickly to acknowledge that none of this would be done without the work of the justis and the justis council. they worked around the clock when the servers were down. the justis governance council participants -- they attend every one of our council meetings and provide valuable guidance and recommendations from the police department i will acknowledge susan -- andrew and rodrigo castillo. at this time if you have any questions? >> thank you very much, this is an important part of the pu