tony hall had all right. go back to the drawing board and give us real oversight. don't rationalize that by keeping this cherawaed in place is just allowing the toxes toxes continued access to the hen house. >> thank you. >> hi. >> i'm concerned about the impacts on the voters, the economy and the tenants. i actually went to that committee to see what was going on after hear something reports about problems there. i made a couple of visits and i did not like what i saw. i think i heard a lot of testimony this afternoon about things getting swept under the rug and you are hearing a little bit of that carpet being pulled up right now and we're seeing reports about some problems there. i think it's not the unusual expiring of sunset and committees. you are starting to see there are issues here and like tony and the other speakers, i think you are faced with a bit of a problem in that have you two choices. one choice is to do something dramatic, like say, no this is not the time we're going to extend this committee. we're going to slow it down. and maybe reconstitute i

supervisor tony hall, thank you for being here today. >> thank you, chair kim and supervisor farrell and supervisor campos, good to see you guys in action doing the city's work. i am former supervisor tony hall and i was the writer and author of prop p that was passed in november of 2002, and matt gonzalez co-sponsored that. now there was eminent need for the oversight committee because prop e eliminated thevores from weighing in, eliminated the need for voters to approve revenue bonds and we're not talking about hundreds of millions, but we're talking about billions. so the prop p, the revenue bond oversight committee was of eminent importance. that is why it passed overwhelmingly. what was its mission? how revenue bond were managed by the puc and city? how were they going to do this? obviously they had to employ outside agency for outside audits and what happens is that the mayor at that time, mr. gavin newsom, along with the controller, mr. ed harrington who later became the general manager of the puc undermined the revenue bond oversight committee so they would have complete cont

i also want to note that we have in the audience former supervisor tony hall and it's good to welcome a former member of this body here. i will keep my comments very brief, because i think that everything that has been said, that needs to be said about this matter has been said by the tenants themselves. and i especially wanted to thank the tenants and the residents of not just sro hotels, but different units in the city that have come forward to shed light on this issue. i also want to thank supervisor kim and her staff, who have been dealing with this issue from the moment that she got elected. and i think that this legislation is in many respects, you know, not the culmination, but it adds to the body of work that already has been done and we need to continue to monitor this. so i'm very proud to be a co-sponsor. i think it's one of those pieces of legislation that is truly a no-brainer and my hope is that it will go forward to the full board where in my hope there will be a unanimous vote to pass this legislation. and it's a long time coming and i also think that we need to make s

it was klugman's long-time friend and co-star, tony randell who halled him through his throat cancernd persuaded him to resume his acting in the 1990s. with just one vocal cord doing the work of two, klugman returned for a stage version and a tv version of "the odd couple." >> let me hear you say police. >> give me a that. >> they continuesed to reprise mayor roles, klugman admitted they were probably too old for the parts. but he added, who knows them better than us? i am oscar madison. when randall died in 2004, klugman says said this to cnns larry king. >> it's amazing. you knee he's going to die. eye know it but you can't prepare for that finality. i don't care if he's 110 and they will tell you he's gone. it knocks me out. i just can't accept the finality of it. a world without tony randall is a world i can't recognize. >> jerk klugman died at his home in neithorth ridge, california,h his wife, peggy by his side. we're all having such a great year in the gulf, we've decided to put aside our rivalry. 'cause all our states are great. and now is when the gulf gets even better. the

this year all three former players are eligible for entry to the hall of fame in cooperstown, new york, but as tony guida tells us, controversy over steroids is in play. >> and bonds hits one high. >> reporter: no one in baseball history hit more home runs than barry bonds. >> he struck him out! >> no one in baseball history racked up more pitching honors than roger clemens. the two stars headline this year's ballot for the hall of fame. neither is likely to be elected, says danny knobler, a writer for cbssports.com. >> i think the overwhelming evidence is these guys cheated the game. >> reporter: bonds, clemens and sammy sosa who joins them on the ballot are the poster children of the baseball steroid era. bonds admitted he took substances but said his trainer described them as linseed oil. clemens was linked to performance-enhancing drugs. and sosa failed a drug test in 2003, according to lawyers familiar with the results. with all three on the ballot for the first time, this year's vote becomes a referendum on baseball's age of steroids. >> there's more to hall of fame than just what your number

it was one person more responsible than any others, it's tony irons, was the architect that was responsible for the revitalization of city halle to my office and said, we cannot abandon this. we can't walk away from this project. we have an opportunity to really take a lot of our values and principles, particularly raising the bar as we did as a city on our green building standards, mandating the most aggressive green building standards for private construction anywhere in the united states. and showcasing them in this new building. >> the city for the sfpuc, it was critical that the building stay as a lead building. the easiest thing to do to cut out millions of dollars, let's just go from lead platinum to lead gold. but that wasn't the objective. this needed to be the best example of energy conservation of any office building in the united states. >> we became involved in the san francisco public utilities headquarter project during the time when the project was at a stand still for a number of reasons, largely due to budget issues. and at the time we were asked to consider an alternative design using concrete rather than t

tony guida give a listen. ♪ hallelujah ♪ ♪ hallelujah ♪ ♪ hall lay lay lieu la ♪ ♪ all year long people fill new york avery fisheroo ♪ ♪ one night a year they come to sing. it's a christmas tradition. 2,000 people strangers uniting as a chorus to perform one of the most familiar pieces of music in the world. handel's messiah. martin josman started this event 45 years ago. he whose messiah for its universality. >> it had everything you could look for mel odjick tunes you could hum along with rich choruses emotions of joy introspection and triumph of human spirit. >> reporter: no wonder there are messiah sing alongs across america and much of the english speaking world. ♪ hallelujah ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hallelujah ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪. >> at a memorial church a few miles from the avery fish err hall, the chorus is smaller but the spirit is just as strong. this was rana strasz phel first messiah. >> it felds joyous and overwhelming. >> john herzfeld has been coming for decades as a cure for the wintertime blues. >> i think these sounds in our animal spirit we're not sure the lights are going to come back. and what can bring light back better

tony wrote about george and me, a play called ghost life, and the first public performance up in ashlan, oregon. halfway through the second act, at long last, george shows up and the fractured city hall backdrop begins to fill with floating lights outlining the golden gate bridge and we hear tony bennett sing his legendary recording of "i left my heart in san francisco." and then the character of george, sometimes mouthing the words, sometimes singing them quietly, moves towards john without looking, for he cannot look at his son. and he touches john's heart and then he moves away towards the city hall of john's memory and john set the stairs in the way that george did, cocky and

tony wrote about george and me, a play called ghost life, and the first public performance up in ashlan, oregon. halfway through the second act, at long last, george shows up and the fractured city hall backdrop begins to fill with floating lights outlining the golden gate bridge and we hear tony bennett sing his legendary recording of "i left my heart in san francisco." and then the character of george, sometimes mouthing the words, sometimes singing them quietly, moves towards john without looking, for he cannot look at his son. and he touches john's heart and then he moves away towards the city hall of john's memory and john set the stairs in the way that george did, cocky and sexy, cruel as all get out. and then the song ends. and i notice the woman sitting next to me crying. and after the play is over, after the standing ovation of tony's brave and beautiful play, as people start to leave the theater, this woman, she remains in her chair and it seems she cannot move. i gently asked her if she's all right. and she nods. and she says without looking at me because she couldn't look at me, "i got to see my mayor again." so, maybe through art we can see again. about a month ago i bra

it was one person more responsible than any others, it's tony irons, was the architect that was responsible for the revitalization of city hallto my office and said, we cannot abandon this. we can't wa

tony wrote about george and me, a play called ghost life, and the first public performance up in ashlan, oregon. halfway through the second act, at long last, george shows up and the fractured city hall backdrop begins to fill with floating lights outlining the golden gate bridge and we hear tony bennett sing his legendary recording of "i left my heart in san francisco." and then the character of george, sometimes mouthing the words,

agencies the hedge fund industry the politicians are down in the wide hall and they're involved in a criminal racket a racket tony now where is the optimism and then i don't see how you're going to get around the fact that this needs to be prosecuted as a racket that's a very good question why do i find the optimism and the answer is that's one area where i really do not find any optimism where i find optimism is in the potential for things like bottom up organization for the potential for people to actually start connecting again and start you know finding new ways to do business and the really really huge piece of optimism i had is that we're actually starting in a hole to white to do want to hold the g eight and seriously now my really big point is want to this condition fessed up because when the soviet union fell apart there was nothing to keep capitalism up honest anymore as a result all of the debates post washington consensus of being about. that the titles the operational matters he is there they haven't been about the broads. sweeps in the strategic functions that governments are meant to have as govern

tony guida reports. ♪ >> reporter: all year long people fill new york's avery fisher hall to listen to music. ♪ >> reporter. it's a christmas tradition. ♪ >> reporter: 2,000 people strangers, uniting as a chorus to perform one of the most familiar pieces of music in the world, handel's "messiah." martin started the event 45 years ago. he chose "messiah" for its universality. >> it has everything in it you can look forward to. melodic tunes, rich choruses, emotions, joy, introspection, and triumph of the human spirit. >> reporter: no wonder there are messiah sing a longs across much of the english-speaking world. ♪ >> reporter: at the memorial church a few miles from avery hall, the chorus is smaller, but their spirits are just as strong. ♪ >> reporter: this was rena's first "messiah." >> you just feel joy use and overwhelming. >> reporter: josh has been coming for decades as a cure for the wintertime blues. >> i think deep down in our animal spirit we're not sure the light's going to come back and what can bring back life better than music? >> a message of hope, absolutely. amen. >> reporter: amen. [ cheer

assemblyman is door hall's hybrid cost $2,500 to fix, and former assemblyman tony mendoza hadill on a $2,300 bill on his . messages to all of them were not returned and doesn't appear anything illegal happened. but dutton used his campaign funds for the purchase sparked an investigation. >> definitely take a look at it like we do all allegations and make sure the ethics rules were complied with. >> a senate source says the analysis is up fair because all lawmakers who had state vehicles were responsible for making sure the cars are safe and maintained, and the few who did buy back their cars paidom the . sill it fruftz average californians. >> the voters take a look at the way legislature is speeppedzing money and wand to see improvement. >> san francisco's cable cars are running again after a series of problems forced closures yesterday and this morning. service was shut down friday, and after repairs were made to the table, service resumed this morning. then around 8:30 the power lines ben don't temp the mta blames equipment issues for both disruptions. >> still to come, fighting fo