this is where i'm coming down with this. commissioner garcia: i agree more with president peterson than the comments made by the other commissioners, and mostly for this reason -- several reasons. one, there was no requirement for notice. it is troubling there was no address on this, like who would want to, you know, file an appeal on this when they don't know who is going to be impacted by it, so that's trouble. but there's precedent for that. but, you know, the merits aren't there. and i agree, it may grow to be and may evolve to be formula retail, it is not currently formula retail, so there's that issue we tend to look at when we're trying to solve whether or not to grant jurisdiction. i think the thing that's most compelling to me is the fact that having missed out on this process for the l.o.d., possibly reasonably so for the appeal of the l.o.d., it's remarkable to me that this requestor did not avail themselves totally of whatever processes were still available to them. so having this -- absolutely, had i been them,

this presents itself this month. the hospital, real progress has been made, and if we are lucky and supportive to be able to improve our police stations and water system, we hope the folks take a good look get that on the june ballot, so those are just 10 highlighted projects. thousands and thousands of jobs in this fiscal year with projects that will be supported by our capital plan with general fund contributions. work-force development is another big part. you cannot have economic development strategy without work force development strategy. we put in five new district we want to find. that will bring us to 15 at the end of the fiscal year. we have investments for three new marketplace initiatives. we have a new health care accounted for. supervisor maxwell has been working on it, and the academy should provide additional work- force training. year is the news. summer employment for kids. we are going to increase the number of placements by 50% in this year's budget. this is a big deal i think. we got creative fro

this building is 40, which is our proposal. this is 40. this is 35. this is 34. if you look at what this does to the street, it is actually a very nice facade. right now, it breaks up and goes down to atwo stories. the planning department worked very hard with us. 18 different revisions going over up -- eight different revisions going over el lining up facades to make this thing fit with the neighborhood. the planning department, i am really impressed with, their ability to bring up solutions that we had not thought about. to be able to tinker with things. these two facades match up. this gives them a corner window looking out here. the whole thing is integrated in a lace work character. it is not so obvious when you look at the plans. i have never done a project that was so thoroughly research. we hope that we can move on with this and have parties with the neighbors and move on. thank you. >> thank you. are there any additional speakers in support of the project sponsored? seeing none. the hdre requestor gets their time. >> thank you, commissioners. williams on

supermajority in this house already, can pass this bill. but we have been very open from the beginning about the fact that if it's brought under suspension it will die. i regret that and i would encourage us to find a bipartisan way forward on trade and facilitation on miscellaneous tariff bill. with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: i yield myself 10 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 10 seconds. mr. levin: mr. brady, it's your choice. i now yield three minutes to the distinguished gentleman from massachusetts, mr. neil. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. neil neil mr. speaker, i stand in support of this job-creating legislation. this legislation before us today is going to advance american manufacturing competitiveness in an increasingly global economy. and it furthers our goal of dubbling exports over the next five years and yet we hear strong opposition to this legislati

this is this solution to a problem. this is a solution, this chief has delivered results. the supervisors want to submit their names for police chief. they did not do that. they are out of their league. this is very damaging legislation. we have to stop this in the tracks. we need to call this what it is. i am here not mincing words because this is a serious time and a serious business. we have that. let them continue to do our jobs. this has nothing to do with the merits but it is pure politics. >> these are daily things that we do. the pull down and the rest of the command staff are here in the room. we go through this stuff on a daily basis. we are trying to assess why it occurs. when there are no shootings and stabbings, this is a daily staple for us. we are increasingly getting better. in my personal opinion, this is not only very dedicated but this is an organization that leads on a daily basis by what can we do to avoid the next event. we did it with a trial. with this -- we did not just wake up and decide that we wanted to play a bunch of cops. they're trying to av

this was the last boat in order for us to make this dedication. with that, with the mayor's future and schedule, who knew if we would ever get this gathering together. we are really pleased that it all worked out. i had a terrific professional team of staff at the arts commission. smart problem solvers with a good sense of humor. i would like to single out alison cummings, wherever you are. [applause] >> alison, our senior registrar for our outstanding work in helping coordinate this project and her ability to stay cool and calm all of the time, as well as kate patterson, our communication expert extraordinarya. >> and gene -- jean, who took care of several things. and last, but not least, our city attorneys, who worked on the details of the loan agreement and procurement to make sure all sides were protected, and that is what we want. head another contributor. the huntington hotel graciously agreed to not charge for the artist's stay. with so many partners, i have to say this is truly an exemplary public-private partnership. most of the cost of t

this park is a lovely park. this is a park that we go to every day. i understand the city college position. we tried to involve ourselves in the program. i don't have enough time to address this but this is not a situation that i feel has left the park and a good place for a good situation. the club house did not feel like a lively place in such a lovely city. you want to fix this and address this. i understand that you will have concerns. as a neighbor, as going to the neighborhood meetings, they are very reasonable people. they want this to work out. this is a city where the first language of many people is spanish. my child can understand spanish now, that is good for me. this helps to bridge cultural gaps. these are meetings and they are a little bit sterile. this is something that i wish i could share with you. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. since the program was established, i used to teach mandarin in china for 18 years. i could no longer teach mandarin. -- gave me the opportunity to teach mandarin. the action helped me to go to city colle

we did submit to this within 15 days of running this was an option. we rely on the stated intent of the code and a basic notion of fairness. the stated code is to preserve the diversity and distinct nature of the san francisco neighborhoods. when a major corporation with like to open a new store, we believe the strategic intent should be considered. gap inc owns three brands that are considered a form of a retail use. -- formula retail use. there should be additional scrutiny of this brand and others that are owned by major corporations. the lack of notice it eliminates any bylaw with local businesses and associations. this effectively precludes businesses from knowing that they have an issue. >> thank you. >> now we can hear from mr. abrams. >> at good evening. we are here to risk west that the board the 90 request because it -- that the board denied the request because we legally notified everyone. even if this board determines that the jury of the occasion was correct but -- could not have known about letter because of the notice situation, we stil

is that this is about human beings this is about even if these. are illegal immigration broke the law if they live in a community where there is a lot of violence it does it still affects them and how it was affected the united states and our sovereignty no other country would put up with this not no one there is not you know they're not going to and integrate not another country has a system like this in place and you see in europe you see in mexico where there are a lot of people coming therefore they don't get treated like this we are hope to go out and i was told i would raise a lot of expectations on in this issue because the united states is we already are as we are so far ahead of the way we're having now we've got immigrants it's got to be what we're going to serve it's absurd it's absurd well it's i swear i can live i had he has. been so far i've got to say. i got to say is that. understandable though susan i understand that there's a lot you know when you just take about fifteen twenty years to the moment of law breaking in that family m

this site went actually 5 layers deep into this cave. very particular to this region were these shaped storage rooms. this one is about 10 feet high. often they would have door stones sealing them on the top. and they were of all kinds of shapes and sizes, but they specific to that area. that's the smallest one we found. and then this is the largest one, about 15 feet tall. now, where these have fallen over, they have broken open and you can see that they were just full of material. there's a woven mat right up there that's fallen out of that one. these sites were just covered with corn cobs where we'd go in and find a cache of corn cobs about 4 feet deep and 12 feet long, thousands and thousands of corn cobs and woven material all over the place, pieces of basketry, pieces of their sandals. this place is very well preserved. i mean a lot of this stuff is obviously worn, but it's been sitting there for 500 years. and what i found there that was very specific to anastazi were t-shaped doorways. you can see a large t-shape here. this is a

this is another one from the garden. this is the kind, kids don't get up. when they are wondering through the rasp berry fields. >> these are kids living in urban areas. >> these are 7th, 8th, and 9th graders with the chickens. that is the important piece, there. >> right there devoted to the viewing of children. right there in the middle of every school day lies time and energy devoted to the feeding of children. to a joyous education, a way of caring for our health, environment, and community. >> this is the bungalow that we transformed. this is the beautiful little moment. this is about socialization that happens in the circumstances of the kitchen. we have the piano there, after they finish one of the kids plays while they are cleaning up. that is the ultimate testimony to the congenialties that have inspired by eating together. can you imagine growing something like that? you feel like you have magic, to grow a sun flower that looks that beautiful. and shall i ask you a few questions? >> no. that is my day job. [laughter]. >> 40 years ago, back way the

this survey is an important element of this effort. this is in part because while generalhamm and general counsel jay johnson have talked to hundreds of military personnel in many facilities and we have gotten tens of thousands of comments and views by e-mail in response to their request for peoples' thoughts on this, this size sampling is the most significant element of getting the views of the troops. we have designed -- it has been designed in partnership with a professional survey company. this is according to the best practices they have for that industry. i would tell you that i'd put myoar in in only one respect and that was that the original proposal was to sample 100,000 active duty and 100,000 in reserve components. i suggested -- i strongly suggested that they double the size of the sample. i wanted a significant percentage of the force to have an opportunity to offer their views on this. i am aware that there is at least one group that has suggested that gays and lesbians in the service not fill in the report for the good i

where does this all end? one thing about the reports in the newspaper, i think if they change the definition, or the use of one term, i think it would change everybody's attitude. if people came around to believing that the taliban are people who aren't dedicated toward coming over here to kill us, like some of the al qaeda are, but the taliban are only interested in getting rid of the occupiers of their country system of we call them militants. so we go in and we raid and shoot and kill and bomb and then we say, ah-ha we killed 37 militants today. what if we reported this always, like we did in the 1980's, what if we always reported -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. kucinich: i yield the gentleman another minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. mr. paul spks what if it was -- mr. paul: what if it with it was reported when freedom fighters were killed as when they were our friends and allies, the whole thing would change. they wer

this was not accidental. this is the sunshine school. we made the school as beautiful as possible to take the children's minds off their problems. it was also crippled children. this might sound familiar to you if you know the history of president roosevelt. he was paralyzed by polio on the threshold of a promising career. he came back and few americans knew how disabled he was. he learned compassion. he learned he could help other people of different races that he never met before. this is what we used his inheritance for. this lead to the polio vaccine. this is one person who reveres him. suzie. she was born with clubbed feet. it's now for spinal diseases. these were men put to work. you could go to a library and check out toys. these are three themes i identified. beauty, permanence. this is a minor's wife. she doesn't look like a dorothy lang photographer. i am sure she felt better. these are stair cases in new deal buildings. part of the idea, i think this is really an expression of the old arts and crafts movement, which elnor roos

mitch catts opposes this matter. i was actually trading phone calls with him earlier trying to understand what his opposition was based on. could you give the perspective of the department on laura's law? >> i can give the perspective of the department of psychiatry of san francisco general. i'm not sure that the doctor and i completely agree about some of these issues. in particular, i think in the item in the paper this morning, dr. catts, who i guess is not here, you know, i hate to contradict him in public, but my understanding is, for example, that medication is absolutely a part of this bill. the ability to give medication and i know mitch was quoted today as saying that medication is not possible as part of the treatment planning for these patients so that's -- that is one thing that i think is -- it's important to make clear because certainly the vast majority of the patients for whom this approach would be appropriate are people for whom medication is really the single -- probably the single most important a

this was the first spark that tore open this. you saw that in nancy pelosi's private caucus and i'm sure you saw it at the white house thursday. >> these people have cast some very tough votes. they think that clinton cared more about himself and that is one of the reasons they lost the house in 1994. nancy pelosi has been an extraordinary speaker. she is probably would offend the best and most beloved speakers since sam rayburn. the fact that she blew a gasket is fine. >> do you think the president is more focused on the senate? >> yes, a key is spread -- yes, he is. obama does not seem to be as rattled by the prospect and he should be parent. obama has until 2012 which seems like an eternity and the house only as a few minutes left to get it right. >> it is not that it favors the senate over the house, he favors himself over both. [laughter] he can live with a republican house in 2010. it might even help him win reelection this is the same way clinton used new gingrich and republican trove -- control, he used them with great su

this a woman's issue is this a tolerance issue is this islam challenging the west in its own backyard because and looking at this isn't a very complicated story because there are so many different points of view and we have parliaments now in western europe taking action to ban it which by the way very few women in western europe actually wear this type of garment go ahead. in fact as far as i'm concerned it's a symbolic issue but interesting it's not symbolic for the women that wear it despite much of what we hear it's actually symbolic for more variety we're looking at an aging european society which is increasingly diverse and diverse in its values and outlooks in that asian context we are also faced with a deep economic crisis and we find that a lot of the debates that are arising across europe issues of over issues of national identity so in france is this has been a big issue increasingly in the u.k. also this has become an issue what the budget does it manages to bring together three of the main issues that of forefront of the european political map these are the three main con

good to have you with us this morning. a lot to get to this busy day. a plane crash in pakistan, wildfires in california. we will get you caught up with that this morning. >> we begin with breaking news the the deadly crash of a jet in pakistan. it went down the hills of islamabad. cbs news correspondent mark phillips is in london with the latest. mark, good morning. >> harry, the number of confirmed casualties in this crash keeps rising as bodies are recovered from the wreckage. earlier hopes that there may have been some survivors have now been sadly dashed. there has been 152 people on the plane. would american passengers were among those onboard the plane as it approached islamabad in terrible weather. this is the monsoon season with high winds, heavy rains, dense low clouds move through the area. and the conditions at the time of the crash have been making rescue efforts more difficult as well. the initial reports, though, there may have been some survivors have since been retracted. crowds had gathered at a local hospital in the hope that relative

this is an action item.2tÑítritems were delivered on e plans and programs committee. any public comment? 7u$jseeing none, public commens closed. j accept but commissioner campos. without objection. so moved. next item. >> item 10. allocate $3,480,803 in prop funds, with conditions, to the municipal transportation agency for six requests, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedules. this is an action item. supervisor mirkarimi: a denver plans and programs. any further comment, deliberations? any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. moves, without objection. next item. >> item 11. approve the third amendment of san francisco's 2008 lifeline transportation program (ltp) project priorities to include $1,691,391 for the municipal transportation agency's bus service restoration project. this is an action item. >>y

lot of this. i save all of my money to buy my house and i think i will have a good life. >> to -- you got things. housing. translator: she know there will be a developer for a huge building apartment. she's very uncomfortable and can't live for three nights because of the security problem and also because the parking problem. translator: she at the time she working around 0 ferrell street. lunch time she eat a swand witch and somebody come and grab her sandwich and run into the low income apartments. she know those people create problems. now she know those people coming to her district. translator: she has a fear to wait 25 minutes. however, the bus was occupied by the university student like san francisco state and city clean. she could not attend and she has difficulty for parking upon she been living here for more than -- 15 years. she save money for the house. right now the huge problem come over to her and many problems regarding the parking and traffic and security. translator: she say she

this is sort of the first time this has been presented to the department. when i went to urban forestry council, we all looked at these numbers and they are tough to take, but they were all very happy this report has been done. it is a document that i think will be helpful as we move forward. so you're director of operations will be working with the general manager to come up with the implementation steps and a plan. commissioner bonilla: those are yet to be determined? >> those are yet to be determined. we would develop the plan, implement improvements, and that would be in the spring of 2011. commissioner bonilla: ok, which may include some of these elements. >> yes. commissioner bonilla: ok. >> mr. ginsberg? >> i just want to thank the team, danny and rick and caring and gm and kelly. -- and karen and jim and kelly. i feel like i am in class when i listen to jim. commissioner sullivan, thinking long term, echoing the conclusion of the report, is duly noted. i think we obviously have had a lot of conversations about identifying sustainable funding sources

>> this is the highway. this is an underpass over here. this is not a parking lot. these are the roots of existing buildings. chair maxwell: and is there then going to be a buffer? >> in terms of the -- chair maxwell: the roadway and the housing. >> this is how the ultimate project will be constructed. there will be a buffer of green, open space, and they will be basically inserting a new road/driveway to access all the individual units that will be constructed as part of this unit. this whole parcel is what is being rezoned. this back here is part of the open spaces for the building that currently front the other side of the street. chair maxwell: all right. thank you. any questions? i have a number of cards. i'll read them, and if you hear your name, if you would just line up. al harris, edna james, and mrs. godwin. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm speaking to approve this resolution. i think this space has been an eye sore on the community for many years. it is a great dumping ground for people that want to unload. i think the people have done a lot of out-rea

this i certainly hear the phrase pay as -- pay for this. i certainly hear the phrase pay as you go frequently but i don't see it practiced. i serve on the president's fiscal responsibility commission. many people consider that title to be an objectiony moron. we will debate that -- oxymoron, we will debate that later. but the former chief of staff to president clinton had said that our debt is a cancer that can destroy us from within. this isn't republican is verbiage, this is democratic verbiage. so why, why do the democrats refuse to pay for this? why do they continue to engage in what the majority leader once termed fiscal child abuse? again, that's where the debate is. the debate is, are you going to pay for the unemployment insurance or are you going to take the burden and put it on our children and grandchildren yet again? that is unconscionable, unsustainable anit ought to be immoral. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman fr washington. mr. mcdermott: mr. speaker, i yield one minute to the majority leader of the house

now the chair comes and says this program, this program, this program will be cut. how can anything be cut when we are expending $40 million more than what the v.a. and administration is asking for? this is a duty, a duty that we owe to our veterans and we should do it in the proper manner and do it now and should not be pointing fingers saying we want to cut from this and that. we have do it in the past and we should meet that moral obligation. the chair: all time having expired, the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from new jersey. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. the gentleman from new jersey. mr. garrett: ask for a recorded vote. the chair: pursuant to clause 6, rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from new jersey will be postponed. pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, proceedings will now resume on those amendments p6 c1 proceedings will now resume on those amendments printed in house report 111-570 on which further proceedings were postponed in the follo

i would vote for this budget. i have a feeling that not only tonight are pretty strongly worded state laws referring to california penal code sections 85 and 86, which i all know you have seen the memo that has circulated when i first got wind of that the mayor wanted to take items that are unrelated to the budget without a monetary impact and make them part of a deal on a budget agreement. not only illegal, but the wrong course in terms of good government. the legislature passed the law against doing it. it is clear that it is illegal for members of the legislative body to be doing this. there are good policies that we will talk about in a minute. in terms of governance, in terms of good government, even though the document that is in front of us is excellent, i would love to be commending the members of our board and the committee president based upon what i hear about the items, i cannot and will not be a party to this agreement. >> i forgot to thank hayward. he has worked with me for five years. i do not think

i think we need this reform, this issue has been around for quite some time. this is a compromise.ed to get the rent board collected some years ago. this is the third time that this measure has been at the board, trying to get this compromise measure on the ballot as a charter amendment. i am not sure it will happen today, but we will continue to work on this. i think at some point, what we will end up having to do if we can't do it this way is what we have done before, just go out and collect the signatures. if we collect signatures, we're going to be doing it for an elected run board as is done in berkeley and santa monica. >> this is not a regular public comment, right? this is about the rent board. you heard a lot of people talk about the rent board, but i want to tell you in 1979, the evictions. it is at a time when the jonestown murderers had just started. people had been removed from san francisco. we also had another thing happen to us in this city. we also had aids breaking out. we went on and voted for eviction. you need to change things around, the leaders. do what is ri

all right, this guy, this 20-year-old actor in california, this guy 20 years old, apparently he now holds the record for the world's longest tongue. this thing measures 3 1/2 inches from the middle of the closed top lip to the tip of his tongue, beating the old record by .36 inches. >> is he single? i'm guessing after this story he won't be. >> his phone's ringing right now. >> yeah, i'm guessing so as well. oh, i had -- don't look at me like that. >> yeah, jim. >> this next story makes me personally very happy. because an indian has set a record for something that's not scholastic at all. instead, this is for pushups. this little indian kid did 1,500 arm-bends in 40 minutes. >> this is not the spelling bee. >> right. this is straight-up, good old-fashioned -- i guess arm-bends are pushups. they say the kid at the age of 2, the mom noticed how flexible he was so she really encouraged him to be a part of these family stretching exercises. and then basically one day they just realized he was exceptionally good at pushups. they set a goal for him. next thing you know he did it. 40 minutes, 1

and really help this conversation about this country be started. >> i hope to keep this conversation until november, 2008. >> so, pretty powerful. and i misspoke, 100,000 people immediately saw that video. and hillary clinton having to answer the critique of this legitimate conversation you are having, senator. and this video sparked a lot of controversy and it was put on by park ridge 47, and who is this guy? and you remember this 1984 video, apple computer going after ibm. i am told did this in his basement and threw it up on youtube. what do you think when you see that? you have to be proud on some level, and not that you are an obama or clinton, but the significance of this? >> yeah, you said of the numbers, the surprise to me and all of us internally, the amount of media coverage this received. the number of people, the numbers of people that watches this from all over the world, that watched this video. i think it goes to illustrate again, this is something that people wanted. and across this phenomena of youtube, i think has more so that people were wanting a vehicle to distri

on this bill. to be sure, in the early stages of negotiations, wall street and the big banks were very engaged. i think the american people know, however, that in the end, the real influence peddlers on this bill were not wall street lobbyists but rather liberal activists and washington bureaucrats. wall street and the big banks just happen to be the incidental beneficiaries of their success. when chairman dodd and i began this process, we agreed that the bureaucratic status quo was unacceptable and that radical changes were necessary, and with that in mind, we agreed to consolidate all the financial regulators and constrain the fed to its monetary policy role. this was not a result the big banks wanted. the last thing a large regulating financial institution wants is a new regulator. after all, they spent years and millions of dollars developing a relationship with their current regulators. a major regulatory organization would have seriously upset the status quo and cost them a great deal of mone

i do not know if you had anything to do with this in february of this year. this is february. and then in march, the administration develops a policy to open offshore areas to oil drilling, including the gulf of mexico. so here we are cutting the assets is responsible for oversight and permitting, and there are questions about the rubber stamping carte blanche approval. this is the approval signed by your administration to drill in deep water, and then to rush to do more in deep water drilling. this is a list of 33 approvals by the obama administration. there are only 27 operations in the gulf. half are exploratory. have a production. but you rushed to more drilling and cutting the assets. i would like to know how this policy was developed and if you had any party net -- part in it, or what you're thinking was. >> the gentleman's time is expired. let me indicate that the >> do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. if so, answer, i do. you may be seated. let the record reflect that the witnesses answered in the affirmati affirmative. w

and the reason for this is this upper level low.lked about it last week and talking about it again today. it's been lingering so it's preventing this area of high pressure from building in. and we're not going to see changes that didn't happen until middle of the week. by thursday things gooding to start to change. tonight gray sky as cross the bay area. low to upper 50s and a mild, sunny day. and san jose campbell into mid-70s, starting out with overcast and clearing and 68 degrees and at the coast, not much clearing expected. upper 50s feeling a breeze coming through. downtown 62. there is hope you may get clearing earlier. santa rosa going from 65-68. in the east bay there is temperatures into 90s, only 77 degrees tomorrow this, weather is going remain mild. and there is 62 in monterey. 58 to have 82, a narrow range of highs for summer time. this pattern going to stick around through wednesday. one once that low moves warmer days, mid to upper 80s inlnld. low 60s at the coast that. general range continuing for weekend by monday,

this eclipse justice stevens dissented 22 times this term.oking forward, justice stevens, the most frequent justice to disagreeith chief justice roberts is leaving the court which one might think would lead to even greater unanimity or at least greater agreement on the roberts court. second, i think it is fair to say that the court this yearas a conservative but minimalist court. it showed that it would walk tall but perhaps take baby steps. it did so in number of cases in the free enterprise case, the court embraced a constitutional theory that held unconstitutional the four clause provision of the sarbanes oxley accounting board. it left the board in tact so it was a broad constitutional ruling but minimalist results. the court declined to validate that statute across the board on vagueness grnds. the big exception what this -- was the citizens united case. third, the court smed like a relatively happy place. we saw the fewest side court decisions in recent years, only about 18% of the cases were 5-4 decisions. last year, about 30% of the c

us in this. this is a joint civilian military effort of the highest ordination. and we know from intelligence reports that the taliban have lamented our decision because it removed the recruiting tool. >> madam chair, thank you very much for the time. let me just mention that i said -- i began by saying it was 25 years ago i asked this question first, which would suggest that many an administration has come and gone since then, and i'm still not satisfied that we have a handle on where we're going with this, but we do want to work closely with you. thank you. >> thank you. mr. rothman. >> thank you, madam chairman. thank you, mr. ambassador, drshah. mr. ambaador, you were the special -- first of all, thank you for an extraordinary career, your extraordinary career in public service and your continuing to take on matters of great difficulty and complexity and danger. you are the special represtative of the president for afghanistan and pakistan. >> yes. >> i know we're not in a classifi setting, b

and this would be to the i.c.a. and all it does, all it does is it gives us a role on the material changes only. if there are no material changes, then it simply puts the clock at 60 days. meaning if the board doesn't respond, there's no reason for it to come back. but at least this was handed out by the clerk, i believe. it looks like there's some saying they don't have it, but i believe you do. all it does is not withstanding in the planned documents to the contrary, any materials changed to the buy low market change housing plan, the infrastructure plan, open space plan, the transportation plan or the design or development for the project shall be subject to the prior review of the board, city board of supervisors which the board of supervisors may give -- [inaudible] sole discretion. it should deem approved by the board have supervisors unless the board takes action to reject the proposed change within 60 days following the date that it was submitted to the board. we allow them to move forward completely. if pla

none, public -- on this? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, comments? [gavel] i would simply make a final comment on this. even chuck said "the chronicle" indicated following the last time that the mayor's office came to a hearing before the board on this item, how unprepared the mayor's office was to address some very basic questions. i guess one of the solutions when you're unprepared is that you have selective memory loss in terms of statements that are made, especially if those statements explicitly and clearly contradict what you're saying. even if the statement is made by, you know, someone who holds the second highest rank in the police department. clearly the level of preparation on the mayor's office's part has not changed. my only point will be if they cannot make a case here before the board of supervisors, how can they make a case before the public? i think that those of you out there who care about civility on our streets whether it's the sidewalk or not, i would simply urge you t

dana, you spent two years looking into this. is this growth better or just bigger? >> well, people inside don't actually know. and that's the most frustrating thing i heard. is that it's gotten so big that they can't tell whether it's making us safer anymore. but just some of the parameters, we've started out looking at the secret level. and it was so big, there are so many things to count, we can't do this even in two years. so we're going to go to the top secret level and fewer people that work on top secret programs. that's what we did and we still found 1,300 government organizations that were -- that work, half of them -- a quarter of them were re-created or new after 9-11 and nearly 2,000 companies that help those agencies work at the top secret level and of course contracting and how big that has gotten was a big part of the story. all of the intelligence agencies are really dependent now on contractors. it's not just to fill a surge after 9-11. it's really dependent to do their core mission. and lee on panetta -- leon panetta, the c.i.a. director, said as mu

but it's hard for me to answer this question as i had no direct connection to this case or. i can only use data from the u.s. department of justice that was published and posted on the internet it was used as grounds for this report has some information on what this group had been working on over the ten years i certainly do have many questions about some of the things i saw in that report i mean the safety of people working group and work principles for an intelligence agent such as conspiracy principles during the ten years their homes were secretly searched this is something one should be able to detect staying in a pawn and territory any secret agent understands their opponent he should be able to detect signs of such activity like whether he's under surveillance i think during these ten years they would have noticed suspicious signs of someone watching over them could we suggest that someone has betrayed them and if so who could be behind it. i believe the chances are that the information leak took place as a result of possible treason that happened at. about the same t

layers and layers of craftsmanship that went into this. >> of the artists who participated in this project are all bay area of projects. they work in a wide variety of media. metal, glass, natural elements, photography, just a range of different approaches and aesthetics. so we have created a nice collection of art work that is reflective of the current date. art scenes. and we invite everyone to participate and to see the unique art works that have been developed. >> to learn more, visit >> welco" today we are visiting southern exposure in san francisco alison prepares to launch a fantastic new project called beautiful possibilities. we will send them on a two-year adventure crisscrossing the united states to investigate american history and contemporary culture. it is using a traveling road show as inspiration. she will sit down and talk with residents in search of stories and experiences that reveals exactly what makes us americans. >> beautiful possibility is a traveling research project that i will take on a five-month journey across the united states and lower canada. i document this

i would without prolonging this simply ask for your support of this item. chairperson avalos: if there are no further questions, why don't we go to public comment. seeing non-, public comment is closed. -- seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor elsbernd moves this passed to the board of supervisors. next item, please. >> item 4, authoress in -- authorization to the mayor's office of housing to expand soma community stabilization fund dollars under certain conditions in the amount of $2,762,000. >> i am with the mayor's office of housing assigned to the agency. i request the committee recommend the full board approve this resolution to extend approximately $2.75 million to subsidize the development of onside affordable rental housing use its -- housing units at 333 harrison street. i have submitted an amendment makes changes to the resolution from the july 3 meeting. i will read those after representation. the project at 333 harrison is a new project which would generate approximately $3.20 million in soma community stabilization fees, a fee estab

earlier this year? as we are seeing part of the source of funding for our budget stabilization fund, it would get funds from a surplus, and how would this interact with our ordinance? >> to the extent that the board and the mayor and the voters approved a policy decision for a certain spending level, those dollars would be dedicated for that purpose, and any reserves beyond that would apply to the various financial policies that have been approved by the board of supervisors. the charter has required that the city developed at past policies. the actual policies have been approved through ordnance, so this charter amendment would trump any of those provisions. supervisor daly: just to clarify 1.3 the control -- one point through the controller, it will go up and down based on your projections of aggregate discretionary revenues, correct? page five of the charter amendment? that the comptroller shall adjust to the base line based on calculations consistent with a year to year by the percentage increase or

is this the only people that know about this and had a chance to dialogue on this? if it is, it's not really what i expect this commission to expect. thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. we have been following this since it came out and in our world we hear about this so-called economic recovery and see no evidence of it. and in that sense this as stimulative or economic stimulus is welcome, indeed. what we have heard in our analysis is that this is very modest and not used by a large extent but to the extent that it might improve the feasibility and break ground sooner on that ground alone it deserves to go forward. what we like about the i.f.d. and c.f.d. is there is an abundance of process and transporn si and it will have lots and lots of review and meetings and checks and balances into it. and this is not earth shaking or a silver bullet or something that could move forward. vice president olague: any additional public comment? >> i want to clarify something here. this is not legislation. these are resolutions, number one. two, there is a resolution to

to put this, this is absolutely so. we have more police and then what we have had in many years. this is a tool to slug it is talking to the neighbors and trying to anticipate what might happen in the neighborhood is like having the patrol in some areas, just like it is improving our technologies that we can get better. this is simply a tool. peres and approximately 1600 robberies in the city in the first six months. that's still represents a 4% reduction. we have a city where on any given day, there is 1.3 million people interacting in a 49 square mile area. nexpublic safety is a journey, t a destination. we have to get better. this is an area where we are working on the two friends but the cold is committee members will be a bird to seek help. we are looking to have a very diverse group of experts that will be providing the services to people. these are people who will train on crime prevention strategies, how to avoid becoming a victim. we completed our investigation weeks ago. we were waiting for some decisions to be made whether the prosecution would be taken and what the pr

a very warm welcome to the this is our team live from moscow all they have beds this week are russian security services said they broke up a terrorist cell of the southern republic of douglas stung it's believed that six women arrested in a police raid were trained to attack public places across russia two men were also detained one of whom was linked to the deadly moscow metro blasts in march. so young but deemed old enough one of the alleged terrorist change in the russian republic of the good stuff is just fifteen years old that according to officials did not stop her from taking part in planning terrorist attacks she and the other woman were allegedly trained by their husbands. my late husband left the guns here i've held a gun i know how to fire one but i've never done it i know how to use a grenade to. it's i'm fifteen years old and knew there were guns in the house i even held them played around with them and then put them back they all say their handling of the weapons was just curiosity but the wills suicide belts and elements of disguise found in their homes seem to tell but

look at this crowd. this is a huge crowd.d then it stretches across our plaza and all the way in front of 30 rock. i mean, all these people for john mayer, ladies and gentlemen, yes. my people! my people! all right. i love doing this. this is the latest on bonnie. bonnie right now is 80 miles southeast of miami. it is moving west-northwest. it's moving awfully quickly. the track of this system, of course, going to bring it across southern florida this morning and then out onto the gulf, into the gulf, over the oil spill area and then by sunday morning makes landfall so we will continue to track this. the good news is it's going to stay a tropical storm, minimal tropical storm. so hopefully not too much damage. not too many problems. that's what's going on around the country. >>> good morning, happy friday. we'll start off with a live shot over san jose. santa cruz mountains, can't make them out with the fog in place. a little bit of a sea breeze over the morning hours but afternoon sunshine is coming through and we'll get 70s