so that is my request of the ta staff. supervisor campos: supervisor wiener, i know we have a board of supervisors meeting that is coming up. unless there is in its aborted the presentation, maybe we can open it up to public comment. but i do think it is really important for the ta to play that role and make sure they analyze every option, including those that may not seem as good or viable options on the service. i think is a good to have that information. thank you for raising that suggestion. i think it makes a lot of sense. unless there is anything else, let's open that up to public comment. any member of the public who would like to speak, please come forward. again, i would like to thank supervisor wiener and his staff. >> commissioners. some six months ago i was in washington, d.c., and as part of my deliberations over there, i met some key people who were not in favor of the light rail. and i made statements to this effect, and i know mr. jose, you like to smile, and i caught you smiling. so let's keep smiling now w

the full funding of the dtx and completion will require a complete support from the mayor's office, the ta, the board of supervisors, and city departments. on the consideration of an additional opportunities to reduce costs for the transbay program, we're excited about working with the ta on ways of optimizing the scope and cost of the downtown extension. the current alignment of the dtx is the result of more than a decade of the engineering study and environmental review that was culminated in our eir adopted in 2005. i think it is important, as jose luis mentioned, the context of considering alternatives that will not distract from the current status of the program as ready and able to accept funding and move forward into a construction should and additional funding becomes available in the near term. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i am wearing two hats today. a bart director representing much of the city, as well as livable city. i have to say, this is the most exciting project that has come to the city in a generation i need transpor

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supervisor wiener has also worked hard here at the ta, and makes sense. commissioner farrell: any further nominations? with that, nominations are closed. we are going to take public comment. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? >> i approve the nomination of the chair david campos. as some of you supervisors have alluded to, he has stepped forward to do the right thing for those segments of our population that need help, whether they are the physically challenged, or students. i do not approve your nomination for vice chair, but that is your prerogative. as somebody who has been following transportation issues for a long time, i do not approve the nomination for vice chair. i do not know what basis it is. some flimsy reason that somebody has worked with somebody for a year. that is not how i would adjudicate such a serious position. as most of you know, you are on the board of supervisors, but here you are commissioners, so you are given added responsibility. we need the vice chair -- commissioner farrell: we will have p

mayor lee and his department heads who are here, the ta, but i want to thank the people in particular. first of all, someone who is not a bureaucrat or politician, but helped move forward a vision of the city, paul gillespie. we support you for your idea. and mr. lieutenant governor, it is great to see you back here in san francisco. thank you for working with my board colleagues and planting a goal that none of us, frankly, thought would be achieved. and i want to thank all of you from the taxicab industry. what was accomplished from this ordinance should be the model of how we promote future for rums, when we talk about the taxi world here. we had a hearing at the border supervisors about future reforms. we know there are many things we need to fix in the taxicab world. i hope it is through a model of ideas from taxicab drivers, from the industry working with city officials, to make sure that we are leading the way when it comes to taxis. thank you so much for being here. [applause] >> our next speaker is the person everyone has been referencing, a former taxi cab driver, also the p

talked about, he points out that john boehner and top republicans in both the house and the pl, appeif the ta cuts were not started. what happened last year when speaker boehner paid a political price. for about two weeks as the republicans looked as if they were obstructing -- blocking essentially the kax preal shift inside their own thinking, and there was a moment, a chief of staff to a freshman republican who, you know, over that weekend and right before christmas on sunday, he had been telling me about how they were ready to fight, fight, fight. and when they had given into the democratic demands, he also said to me, well, i think we just learned our limitations. they don't control the whole place. they can't get everything they want. and i think there was a real -- they touched the stove right before christmas. and they got burnt. and they realized that for the first time. >> in fact, you write in "the washington post" that it was speaker boehner's worst political crisis of his tenure. >> yes. tlut that w there was open public division between mcdonnell who had signed off on during the

let me now welcome back bill fowler, who will pick up the story line and tell you of the ta dangerous two years after yorktown, 1781 to 1783. bill? [ applause ] >> thank you, bob. very kind and flattering remarks. a few moments ago bob asked what i would like him to say about me when he introduced me and i simply told him that he ought not to hesitate to exaggerate. but thank you. but at the same time i must also caution you that, you know, sometimes we're raised up to be let low? this is the season of course and student teacher evaluations. and i was just reading mine this morning. it was pretty good. good, good, good. and then i came to one. the student decided to make a comment. the student described the comment. he said if i only had two hours left on earth, i'd want to spend them in professor fowler's class. and then i turned the page. and he continued. he said because professor fowler's class goes on for eternity. so one must always be cautious. on the morning of january 6, 1783, the doors of the continental congress in philadelphia opened to admit three senior officers of the c

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numerous furry groundhogs appear and try to predict if spring is near the most famous groundhog is punk the ta phil punxsutawney phil this morning in pennsylvania he predicted another six weeks of winter but as already correspondent christine for the alex plains you could say every day in washington d.c. is groundhog day. it's groundhog day once again but in washington that day comes much more than just once a year when are we going to feed a couple of years ago no matter when you turned on the t.v. the reason you may have seen this is what's in the best interest of our country or this i spent my whole life chasing the american dream or this that these kids have a shot at the american grand like. the weeper of the house then there are those perpetually unresolved issues in congress the white house will ask congress to increase the limit on the federal government's borrowing and the president is asking congress morning chris to the debt ceiling of one point two trillion dollars a little incentive for those job creators not only is extending the payroll tax cut important for the economy as a who

. >> what i had i gives rise to the central constitutional issue is the starting observation ta this is a fairly unique or completely unique provision of law. there have been a lot of crises in this country over the years that economic other where congress might have thought that forcing individuals to purchase a particular good or particular service might be a useful means of government action. but the government never did it. just to take an example that as i was resonated with me because it's so recent and seems to me so obvious that a compelled purchase would have been an even more effective regulation. there was the famous cash for clu clunkers program involving a series of incentives to get people to help the car industry by giving them incentives to purchase cars. it seems to me it would have been much more efficient and effective for the government in accomplishing its objective of boosting the automobile industry to simply say that everybody over a certain income level just had to buy a car. much more direct way to accomplish that objective. the government has never really se

to make the numbers work to make the tas and spending balance out he will have to cut almost twice as deep in spending as paul ryan's budget does. he will have to cut every single domestic program including social security, medicare and medicaid all of them by 36%. 36%. you know who relies on domestic programs like those? seniors and the poor. think all the seniors voting republican want a 36% cut to social security and medicare in order to pay for romney's tax cuts for the wealthy? i sort of doubt it. the budget doesn't show us where the two parties disagree, shows us where they do agree. taxes are lower under both obama and romney than if we let the bush tax cuts expire and turned to clinton era rates. taxes near 20.4% of gkp. you wouldn't know that from the admiration democrats use when they talk about clinton's poll or the horror about obama's tax ideas, both par is the are closer to bush than clinton. taxes are also lower in both plans than the simpson-bowles proposal and lower in the senate gang of six proposal, revenues of 19.9%. taxes in both these plans, are frankly historica

it requires authorization from the corp for the construction of any structure such tas the keystone pipeline, in, under or over any river in the u.s. it requires authorization from the corp for the discharge of dredged or fill material into waters of the united states. utility line projects may require permits for temporary fills such as access road ways storage and work ways temporary and permanent impacts. when discharges of dredged or fill material is expected to cause no more than minimal effects individually may not require a permit. it's processed through the standard permit procedures t corp is neither a opponent or supporter of any project we make decisions that protect the environment and are not contrary to the public interest. the authority to make final decisions on the terms is among all the departments. it may be used to authorize on utility line construction. the permit authorizes the discharged of dredged and or fill material in association temporary or permanent activities with the removal of utility lines provided it does not result in the loss of.5 acre of wetlands for a s

grants if them have a self-interest in the company or their family has a sel self-interest in the company ta they should not be making decisions awarding grants and loans. i think the idea that you should not make money off of government is an important one, but it's not just congress that this applies to. it should apply to the executive branch and we should not have hundreds of millions of dollars in loans even billions of dollars in loans dispensed by people who used to work for that company or whose family still works for that company. thank you. i yield back my time. >> senator from connecticut. >> mr. president, this is one of a series of amendments in which our colleagues are applying ethics rules to the executive branch although the bill is focused, of course, on the members of congress. in this case, this supplies probably the harshest penalty that has ever been applied to members of the executive branch. the packet is that executive branch employees are already subject to an effective and some ways broader ethics regime than we face now. and it's backed up by criminal sanctions. as

second largest lender be dropping more than half of a percent and looking ahead to the rest of the week ta monday says that russian investors will be waiting for new economic data from europe and the us. as well as german production coming. out some numbers on the market turns to. look at those numbers as a reflection of how the overall economy is improving and the implication of that is also in the euro zone if we can get a soft landing in china and that stuff and some of the tribes which markets are numbers we could expect he's still names in particular to run a. whole row so the world's largest diamond miner by output may so fourteen percent in an i.p.o. according to commerce and they leave the floatation worth over one billion dollars may take part in the second half of this year. in other news germany's beer lovers will soon have the opportunity to enjoy any flavor of their favorite beverage and that's because russia's six largest brewer has decided to stop production and the european country the company plans to increase its presence in the german market held for this year by brewing

and we had a chance to speak with mark jones of the m-ta. your buses and all rail lines moving on schedule for you this morning. over to you charley. >> mitt romney followed up a digit double digit loss to newt gingrich with a route of his own in florida. abc2 news sherrie johnson looks at the gender gap that came to play in the sunshine state. >> reporter: the exit polling shows gender gap is one reason mitt romney scored a double digit victory in the gop primary. women abandoned gingrich in droves. returns from 98% of florida's precincts shows romney with 46% of the votes to 32% for gingrich the former house speaker. for the first time in the campaign, exit polls showed a gender gap worked in rom neigh advantage e lead 52 to 28 among women votes and was winning man by a smaller margin of 41 to 36. gingrich has been married thee times. only about half of women voters said they had a varvable -- favorable view of him as a person compared to 8 in 10 in romney. gingrich vowed to press on despite the setback. sherrie johnson. >>> following the

. >>> the virginia senate has killed a proposal that would have repealed the mandate ta girls get the hpv vaccine. it helps prevent the human papillomavirus which can cause cervical cancer. some conservative lawmakers feel the law promoted casual premarital sex. the state mandate usurps parental rights. the general assembly will most likely not take up that measure until next year. >>> we've been spoiled, folks, now it's time to get those umbrellas handy again. the rain is rolling in. >>> veronica johnson is in storm center 4 with an update on our weather. nice today, veronica? >> that's right. get your umbrella ready as you look at the blue skies, you're not going to need them for the evening rush, pretty nice day today, right? yesterday we had temperatures in the 60s, 64 was our high temperature yesterday. today in the mid-50s, a lot of sunshine across the area, so who's complaining, right? the wind out of the east-southeast pretty light too. at three miles an hour. take a look at the neighborhood up to the north. we have 50s, low 50s, montgomery county in gaithersburg, you folks ar

makn when does the budget balance? ta i think that's a great question. and you were put to the test by the ranking member, my friend from new jersey, when he asked a you that question in different ways in different times.at and he claimed that you never answered the question. you know, dante's inferno is a s terrace and we're looking at ito right now.terr the budget that was presented to us, not that long ago, mr. chairman, your budget, your budget, was balanced on the positive in terms of the ced o percentage of gdp in 2063. let me finish, please. 63. >> okay, but if you want the accurate -- >> i'm going to get back to you. i always allow you to speak. 2063 -- 50 years. balanced budget. >> that was when the debt was paid off. >> you took, in your budget, and i thought you were courageous to presents one. hear me out.meout. i said that to you once before. you took revenue off the table, oil revenue. no increases. the cbo said we had annual deficits of 3.5 and 4.5% of gdp. so it was estimated that in the budget that you presented, and t please correct me i

huge so, hunters tend to stay out of the tahoe area, in nevada most live in a small corner of the state near taoax the nevada hunt is tiny, it hit a nerve. >> people in tahoe are wildlife friendly. we want to live with the wildlife. >> so... the nevada commission is considering a compromise. >> to maybe restrict the hunting in the tahoe basin to not have hunting there. >> one proposal calls for no hunting inside of the tahoe rim trail, following the rest of the mountains around the lake. one group says it should be farnler from the lake. >> this is crazy. three million people visit the basin and hike on that rim trail. the hunters used trail. the bears use the trail. this is a recipe for disaster. >> the wildlife commission will consider starting the season later in the year. >> that will eliminate a lot of the tourist traffic. >> with restrictions critics say it is cruel ask there is not enough research on the number of bears in california. oof the commission votes this weekend but there is no certainty it will pass. two sides cannot agree on whether bears killed because they deent agree on wh

the, tas are different in different counties and different states. that can have a huge impact. next is environmental rules. there are different rules about what kind of gasoline they have to have. two more things you should know. one of the distance from supply, so the effort that it takes to get the gasoline to where you are can add to the cost. and the other thing, and this helps explain what we're seeing in orlando is competition. if you have an area that has a lot of gas stations, you might see lower prices. if you're in an area where you have to return a rental car and there's just one gas station, where there's less competition, then you'll see it be higher. that's a good explanation of why it's so different. a blue map we have, that shows you the percentage of your income that is going to gasoline. monday over there, 10.6%. north dakota, 10%. in the northeast, about 5%. and this has a lot to do with incomes in different parts of the country as well as how much people are driving, other factors. i've got all sorts of information for you, including how to save money. faceb

here is another example of the violence ta seems to occur. two days ago on 63rd street between 9:00 and 10:00, a car pulls up, a man looks down the street and then, just begins to firing. we can't see what he's shooting at but is he shooting a lot. he gets back into the car and drives away. >> there is a major disruption at san francisco international airport. hundreds found themselves stranded for hours. the bomb squad checked out contents of a carry on bag. abc 7 is at sfo with the story of a false alarm that took time to unravel. mark? >> this did. an elderly woman in a wheelchair set off a string of red flags, after a scan of her carry on, it showed a canister. she couldn't identify it. whatever was in the suitcase police didn't want anyone, near the front of terminal one. >> everything shut down and they forced people down to the gate quick lism people not through, they forced them out of the door. quickly. >> the bomb squad arrived and passengers called airlines and families. >> as of now... your flight is being held. yo boarding. >> cha

let me open it to public comment, and then the commissioners can ta. i would like to hear from a permit officer first, and then i would like to hear from officer moore. >> commissioners, mr. chang was visited by me on august 13 last year. at that time we warned him he was operating in a karaoke establishment without a permit. we advised him as we o y time we comeacrosome eratg wiout a peitwe take e first step of information and education, as you have heard many times before. on august 13 we visited and explained the process. we said if he was going to o e sinee neededto aly forermi he was revisited again on october 15 by myself and officer moore. at that time, he s continui toeratwit peit o the 15th he was cited by officer moore for city permit requirfo operating raoke business without a permit. he did not submit his application until october 21. we ve merous talks. we have warned him on the 13th of august. we warned him again on the 15th. a hwas cite officerore is here. -- moore is here. he can talk about otherroblems likealcoholsalesotheecon floor, w

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crayola, for example, is letting kids take art projects up a notch without the mess. >> ta-da! it to the gallery. post it to facebook or e-mail to a friend. >> i do like a tall guy in a uniform. so what are you doing later? >> reporter: where's waldo is also in the app world. >> 49, 50. ready or not, here i come! tag. you're it. u're it. >> so this is actually an example of a brand that's been around quite a while that was rejuvenated by the app market. >> reporter:

what's so powerful about the model is that the owners decide. ta es not a fwroop of outside investors that are doing so. the model has been around in its modern form since 1844 and works in all different size of businesses. >> if you think this sounds like a great idea, what do you do? >> for businesses there's purchasing co-ops from every sector, hospital, furniture, plumbing supplies, air conditioners, whatever it is you might be in. there's also other types of cooperatives, producer co-ops, welch's or farmer's natural. housing co-ops where consumers own the co-op and finally worker co-ops where workers own the business. it depends on what people's interests are, the type of co-op they want to join. >> what questions should you be asking? >> i actually have a question about, what about freelancers and service-oriented people? can they create co-ops? i feel like there's a rumbling of collectives popping up that act like co-ops but might not know it. what about independent people who are marketers, accountants, lawyers, can they rally together to g

the eulogy. >> it didn't ta you long to find out she was still that little girl from new jersey. >> reporter: he was a close friend of the superstar and recalled the last time he performed with her on stage. >> we sang together i go to the rock and it is that rock of salvation, that rock, that faith that we have in jesus that sustains us during times like this. >> knee 48-year-old houston was found in the bathtub of her beverly hills hotel room. they are waiting for toxicology results to find out what killed her. her family has asked for privacy and her fans understand. >> if this is the only way for us to grieve and mourn, then that is why i am here. >> many are still holding out hope for a public memorial. >> houston will likely be interred at the same cemetery where her father is buried. >> a nice and warm day. take a live look outside, the usual chill of winter noise where to found. i think it is still chilly out there but i don't know. >> not for february. >> okay. but you know, i mean, let's not get carried away here. >> i have not got my speedy on but u don't have long underwear on either