our dedicated real estate staff led by susan reynolds, our maintenance staff led by tom carter who hasis place look just amazing for all of you today. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. our maritime staff led by peter dealy, and our finance and administration staff led by elaine forbes. so, it is now my honor to welcome the man who has dedicated his life to transforming and improving our city, mayor ed lee. (applause) >> thank you. thank you, monique, for that wonderful introduction. and mr. redding, thank you again. welcome back. >> thank you. >> for a moment i felt how it is to waste some time. [laughter] >> don't do that very often these days. and i'm sure my colleagues at the board of supervisors also don't know how that feels very much. but i want to thank and welcome everybody here to our waterfront. this is the kind of event that we're happy to not only engage in, but to bring more people to our waterfront. that has been the purpose of the port for so many years. and i want to just congratulate the port, its commission and the staff, because this is in fact 150 years of celebratio

office of disability, carla johnson and her staff, from the port, a number of deputy directors, tom carters, susan reynolds and elaine. and from dpw, our city engineers. next, we are honored to have a city representative who has given us a great deal of support to this project and many improvement projects that the city enjoys. he's also someone who values partnerships and works to seek out ideas from san francisco residents, business owners and entrepreneurs and community leaders. he's the president of our board of supervisors and supervisor for this district 3. please welcome supervisor david chiu. >> the sun is shining on jefferson street. everyone excited to be here? say, we proved them wrong today. i came to san francisco as a tourist. i want to thank all of you who are part of this incredible community. mayor lee and i talk about how important it is for folks to come together. this is a project that for years has involved a lot of community conversations and some community debate but i really need to tip my hat to all of you from the fisherman's wharf, thank you and congratulations. [

port staff and john davey who is here and erin and anita who is here plus sidney, peter daily, tom carter, the maintenance people, denise turner, a huge group effort. they prepared for it well and took it upon themselves to be out there and i appreciate all the great and -- i can't think of the word, voluntarism, for lack of a better word that they did night after night and i want to thank the ferry operating partners and the emergency water transit authority and bay crossings and mtc for coming together to make this happen so i will pause there and let you know if you have questions. i know there is a little public comment on this particular topic. no questions? okay. do you want take public comment on this topic now or wait until i go through the whole executive director's report? >> i thought you wanted to wait until everything was done. >> okay. i have quite a few more -- >> why don't we take the public comment? no. there are two. >> [inaudible] >> madam president, commissioners, ditto what monique just said. thank you to the staff and having a fabulous facility here in san francisco

i'm also here with tom carter, the deputy director of maintenance division, ann cochran executive director thev san francisco conservation core, and troy henry who also works with the conservation corps ~ and the representatives from the subcontractor team, jamie fountain from the [speaker not understood] and sales bryant from the a. philip randolph institute of san francisco. so, the item before you would authorize the port to enter into a one-year contract with the san francisco conservation corps to provide paid work experience to at-risk youth to help maintain the port's property areas and public right of ways. the contract would be for $285,000. by way of background, since 2005 filing competitive procurement process, the port has contracted with the san francisco conservation corps which is a community-based nonprofit organization to provide such paid employment opportunities for at-risk youth. this contract is part of the port's youth employment program. as you know, the port sponsors a number of work force development efforts targeted at youth and young adults, including this propos

host: tom is up next from carter springs georgia on our independent line. good morning thomas.aller: good morning. i've been watching you all since about 1983. first time i ever called. here's my question, i have been doing for the last 11 years, i made my living helping to repair nuclear power plants around the country. there is a very specific difference between nuclear waste and fuel. nuclear waste is a much bigger by weight size problem but it's not a big problem because it's much lower level. stint fuel is a very serious problem but it doesn't take up much space and it can be reprocessed. you keep saying, nuclear waste and i'm wondering could you kind of separate those two when you're talking to people? you can really confuse the issue and panic a lot of folks that they think nuclear waste. it's not nuclear waste. it's got a little bit on it. host: thanks for the call. guest: when you take these laws ousts of the reactor, it's not like you're saying, there are various stages of this. that's the stage one. these things do get less radioactive over time. when you are taking

army staff sergeant ty carter risked his life to save his fellow soldiers during a deadly firefight in afghanistan that was back in 2009. wt ch wtgg reporter tom fitzgerald has more. >> reporter: it is the nation's highest military honor. >> the medal of honor to specialist ty carter. >> reporter: at the white house monday, ty carter was presented with that honor and it was one born from a battle he survived against all odds. >> the battle is a part of me. >> reporter: october 3, 2009. ty carter was at the remote outpost keating on a dangerous mountain range in the afghanistan/pakistan border. >> only those closeseest to me see the scars. >> reporter: he was in a valley where insurgents controlled the mountains when 300 of them attacked from four sides, ty carter strung into action. >> the choice it seemed was simple. stay and die or make a run for it. >> reporter: the u.s. army says carter ran into heavy enemy fire six times, killing insurgents resupplying ammo, treating the wounded and saving the lives of three soldiers pinned down by enemy gunfire. >> ty would later say we weren't going to surrender. we were going to fight to the last round

. >> when ty carter's unit arrived in may 2009, troops from cop keating had already died. including two camp commanders, captain tom bostic in 2007. captain rob yeskus one year later. enemy fire also took the lives of sergeant buddy huey, private chris pfeiffer and staff sergeant ryan fritschy. dozens of others had been seriously wounded. an army investigation would conclude that cop keating was seriously vulnerable. >> cop keating was tactically indefen indefensible. that's what they were asked to do, defend the undefendable. >> the taliban video shows them testing the defenses. they did this from the day cop keating was built. >> you see the muzzle flashes? >> by the time ty carter's unit arrived, the rate of attacks had tripled. >> that summer it would be every other day or sometimes it would be every day. sometimes twice a day. and it wasn't just, you know, pop shots. sometimes they would shoot rpgs or a recoilless rifle. so it was continuous harassing. >> and your future months there, how much was it just a constant fear that you could be killed at any moment? >> the anxiety was high, but the fear only hit whe

tom ackerman, farmville, virginia. >> to talk about the impact dr. king and the march on washington has had, we are joined by political analyst, dominic carter. it's a pleasure to have you here on this saturday morning at the beginning of what will be a special event really for a lot of americans, not just black americans by the way >> for the entire country. >> for the entire country because i think so many minorities and people that are under-served, black, white, asian, gay, straight, have related to this speech. and it's changed them, and it's inspired them. how far have we really come, though? >> well, it depends on how you are looking at it, stephanie. if you are looking at it from the arena of politics and elected officials, then the country receives, i would honestly say, an a grade. but if you look at it in terms of progress that's becoming undone for example, some recent supreme court rulings. >> the voting rights act. >> the voting rights act, then many in communities of color would give the country perhaps a c or maybe even a c minus. >> what about for people, just when it comes to the every day, when it comes to the ability of a

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carter. in 2000 10 the award went to governor and secretary tom bill sack and u.s.enator john colbert, 2011 and went to state senator mike grunts all. award went to tom harkin. i am pleased to announce that this year's award goes to secretary hillary clinton. [applause] i have with me on stage, before i give a little bit about senator and secretary of state hillary clinton's bio, i have someone here who are here to accept the award on her behalf. bit ofgive you a little bio information about secretary clinton. newcombeill have, joy except the award on secretary clinton's path. hillary rodham clinton was sworn in as the 67th secretary of the united states. she did -- she joined after four decades of service as an advocate, attorney, first lady, and senator. she attended local public wheres before graduating she met bill clinton. in 1974, secretary clinton moved to arkansas and then married bill clinton. she became a successful attorney while raising their daughter chelsea. she was an assistant professor and wassas law school, appointed by jimmy carter to serve on the

carter. it went to state senator and the majority leader. last year's award went to tom harkin. this year's award has gone to secretary hillary clinton. [applause] i have with me on stage some north iowa democratic women with me hereto except the award on senator clinton -- secretary clinton's behalf. on january 21, 2009, hillary rodham clinton was sworn in as secretary of the united states. secretary clinton joined the state department after nearly four decades as an advocate, attorney, first lady, and senator. she attended local public schools before graduating from wellesley college, where she met bill clinton. she married bill clinton and became a successful attorney while also raising chelsea. she was an assistant professor at the university of arkansas law school, and she was appointed by jimmy carter to serve on the board of the legal services corporation, which she later chaired. during her 12 years as first lady she was chairman of the co- standards committee and served on the board of the children's hospital and children's defense fund. in 2000 hillary clinton made his