tonya? >> okay. the following services are free. on sat september 21st, there is a free community health fair. located between stockton and powell street. there are many health organizations there. vision care service foundation and nems with doctors providing free acuity vision test. hospital northeast medical services and others providing glucose checks and dental screening and information on signs about alzheimer's or dementia. 11-3 p.m..:00 p.m.. >> thank you. very much. tonya. scene seeing seeing that we have no more public comment. we are moving down to line 13, information correspondence. is there any? >> there are some correspondence that i will pass on to councilmembers. the first is a letter from ihs public authority and the second piece is from connor house regarding a vacancy position on their board. i will also pass that around for the councilmembers to take a look at. thank you. >> next is line 14. a discussion team. councilmember comments and announcements. do we have any. seeing that we have no councilmember do we ha

tonya, i approve. tonya. denise? chip? >> i don't approve it. >> harriet? >> yet, let's go forward. >> we have three that say yes and two no. we will move forward. >> line 3, public comment, please. public comment nod on today's agenda but with the jurisdiction. each speaker is limited to three minutes.3 minutes. m dc >> howard chapman? >> good afternoon, councilmembers. i can't see the timer. can someone move this so i can see the timer. good afternoon. i want to talk very briefly about a few items related to the city 's cars and pedestrian safety over bicycles. i sent several things about the masonic which will remove a lot of parking and reduce the number of traffic lanes during rush hour and will create congestion and hardship for many people in the neighborhood. particularly, seniors, disabled people, people with small businesses, and people with children and so forth. i'm involved in the campaign against this project and we have a welcome back sight save masonic.com. i invite everyone to go to the website and find out more information and we have an o

thanks, tonya. >>> we go to cairo. the a rab league is meeting there -- >> >> it supported nato's military action in libya in 2011, but egypt's interim government says it's against military action. jordan is a neighbor of syria, but its king says dialogue is the only way to end the conflict. lebanon is officially neutral. the foreign minister has spoken out against military strikes. iraq is also officially neutral but has warned that a rebel victory could unleash sectarian conflict. sue joins me now live from cairo for more on this. a statement from the local coordination committee in syria say the syrian people have never welcomed intervention from abroad. how has the snc reacted to this delay of a military strike? >> reporter: i'm sorry. can you repeat the question? i didn't quite catch it. >> yes. can you hear me now? >> reporter: yes. i'm sorry. we're struggling. could you repeat the question? >> yes, of course. how has the snc reacted to the no-strike call by obama? >> reporter: i think you're saying how is the sn

now do we have a vote to send it, tonya? >> i vote that we. >> i vote that we send it. >> i vote that we send it. >> chip? >> i vote for the motion. >> harriet? >> i approve. >> so an approved. we'll take it back to the next meeting. thank you very much, council. let's move to line six. information team: as assess built at the san francisco public library system by marty goddard. if you can inform everybody i would appreciate it. thank you so much marty. i use the library. i'm there on a daily basis. >> where is it and how do i get to it and control it? i see it on the floor here. thank you very much. okay. so my last name is goddard. i'm marty goddard and the access service manager and ada coordinator for the program and services at the public library. i want to invite -- thank you for inviting me here today. thank you control room for doing that without me asking. i thank you for inviting me here today. i want to give special thanks to adele wilson because she suggested this a couple months ago. i'm going to talk about the

tonya? >> i'm just concerned again since i last came to around 26th avenue and from there down to the next place is on the sunset. i think it's about 18 or 19 blocks. it's not like 4 our 5 blocks in between. >> it's five stops. >> but, like where that place is, i think a platform would be great. it's not blocking. it's right in the middle of the street. >> as we spoke recently, i definitely want to work with you. i think that's going to be the first location that we are going to be able to build. we are starting on public outreach. we'll be in touch with you very soon on that. anyone else. that's another thing i failed to mention. a big part of our job is education too. it's educating the community about the needs for these platforms. often people are not that well versed. that's a really important part of the public outreach in the communities is these are members of your communities that need access to your businesses and to the residents in your area. sometimes that takes time for people

tonya? >> thank you. i wanted to inquire, your presentation was wonderful. do you ever have community meetings for the public to tell them what you are doing? i think that would be very informative and that you are showing them and bringing the new age facility to our city >> about once a year i go to the physical access committee and give a more detailed update on what we are doing, where and provide a list of curb ramps throughout the city that we've constructed recently. i go into more detail on the projects. we don't have kind of general community meetings, but we meet with supervisors on occasion if need be. i think often, the mayor's, the mayor's office on disability has more contact with the community. it's more on a case by case basis. i work closely with the mta on many of their projects. i know that they go out and they have community meetings. sometimes i participate in those. >> how about schools? >> we don't have anything that -- again, our outreach program involves attending community meetings as needed. i will be going to a community meeting o

tonya page reports from outside the mandela residence in johannesburg. >> reporter: nelson mandela hased to the comfort of his own home after nearly three months in hospital, but he's still in a critical condition and at times his health is unstable. so an ambulance is on standby just in case he deteriorates and has to be rushed back to hospital. he's receiving the best care possible. part of his johannesburg home has been converted into an intensive care unit. the medical team treating him in hospital have also relocated. >> a handful of doctors review his case every 12 hours. those are medical decisions they make, and we do not interfere with those decisions at all. they have decided that they have reconfigured the house so that he can receive proper intensive care just as he would receive in hospital. >> reporter: the news has been welcomed by many people here. >> i think it's not as worrying as him being at hospital because you know when you're around people that really love you, people that really care you can kind of feel the attachment and the positive image is just flowing. >>

gatston is being sued by her former friend who claims tonya spent the past seven months setting him every dime that she owes you on august 19th. >> okay. in september, your honor, she sent me a text saying that she was -- "i'll call you when i get paid." and because i sent her a demand letter. this was september 14th. a month later. >> she told you she'd call you when she got paid? >> yes. then on 9 /25, september 25th, i had an offer. and my response, and i think you have this, a copy of this, she wanted to borrow some more money. a and, the bank told me i can't. she wanted to cash a check. she said, that's not true, i need money to the account to cover it. then also she said, on the 12th, i told you on the 12th, i told you when i wrote you, i miss you all weekend. as soon as i can pick up the money, i'll get it to you. circled that. >> you're confused or something. i know this woman who sat here and told me how good you were to her and her family. she cried about how much she- = loves you. i'm sure that she wouldn't get in here and lie about $3,700 that you loaned her. and she sai

it's so wonderful to have anika noni rose, tonya lewis lee and nikki silver, as well.a while. >> nine years. >> i know. now, it is happening. anika, you are the mother. and explain why your family's in flint, michigan, and you decide to go to birmingham, alabama, to be with your family, in the summer of 1963. >> well, my oldest son is having trouble making decisions that are helpful to his life. i've gotten to the point where i don't know what to do. it's simply time to go home and let my mother put her hand on the situation. i think the amazing thing is, this woman, wilona, has so much love for her children, she has decided to go out on love and faith, and bring them home, even though home is not a good place right now. it's sort of turbulent. but home is also the place where the roots are and the place where we can fertilize this young man. >> and, yes. he needed a grandma's loving. >> he needed grandma. >> tonya, we've seen films before, depicting this time in our country's history. you decided to go with a different angle here. explain that. >> we adapted the young

wgn's tonya franciso is live a rush hospital in oak park with the latest on their conditions. >> eight of the victims came to this hospital. four of them by ambulance, four of them walked in on their own. we had a chance to talk to two sisters. they describe what happened. >> i was saying goodbye and the doors closed. out of nowhere i heard a loud noise. everybody flu. i felt to the ground. by her my leg and arm. i heard the conductor who said stop stop. he jumped off and the whole thing hit. >> the whole ground was shaking. >> she was most seriously injured. injured to the right side of her body. jayla not as seriously injured. they activated the emergency plan. bringing in three physicians, a full complement of nurses and to physician assistants. telling the patients that they treated mostly had cuts and bruises. ranging in age from 20-70 years old. of thcongress has until midnight tonight to approve a plan to keep the government funded or many federal programs and agencies will have to start closing their doors. the senate reconvenes this afternoon. senate democrats will try to stri

tonya moseley, takes us to seattle where volunteers are hitting the streets hoping to sign up more than8,000 people who are currently uninsured. >> reporter: these young women are part of a 100-person volunteer team. their mission? >> we're informing people about health insurance. okay, so you are not currently covered? >> reporter: the volunteers quickly stumble on a man with lots of questions. he is out of work with no health insurance. >> threw the new act you might be eligible to receive coverage. >> the number one concern or question i get is how can i access benefits? i now can say now you can access benefits to many, many people. >> reporter: penny believes this one-on-one contact with give people a clearer understanding. >> i feel that we are ahead of the curb. >> those making less than $15,856 a year, or 32,000 for a family of four will qualify for extended medicaid coverage, and they are promised preventative care. >> we have to take into account that if somebody is literally living on the street under a bridge with serious mental illness, welling them about an website or an e

today's question which i don'tii have a copy of comes from tonya staten.s i was watching the t weather channel and they were talking about mamathsi clouds in the sectio texas and they look e balloons in the sky, has maryland ever gotten those types of clouds. we hear of cirrus,. cirr >>> let's us show you a picture of what she is talking about. >> these are amazing clouds, and real simple answer, yes, we do occasionally get these, i knowth in maryland and virginia, and washington. on one or twoo occasions in the past summer. >> did you.st >> you got to be looking>> for them. >> isn't that remarkable. >> i haven't seen that in in person. not that i recall, no, actually, i did. >> ilet's mention that these tye of clouds are extremely rare. you got to be keene to the sky,k what happens is it's a fascinating process.proce most often, most frequently seey in severe weather, and in big b thunderstorms that we get in the summertime. fall,n't see these in the and you won't the see these in the winter. during the summertime is when you will see these kind of cloud

. >> tonya smith says she saw a woman get out of the vehicle moments after the collision.ice say it was her suv that rear ended a minivan and left both vengs in piece autos and it got stopped like that. i watched it like that. >> the sfir department says it happened just before 7:00 a.m. saying an older woman was driving recklessly on pine street rub running red lights at 80 miles per hour before rear ending a minivan. she was not seriously hurt but the crash critically injured the woman driving as well as her daughter. her 16-year-old son, killed. kevin's son was a student in san francisco sunset district. >> i feel awful for the family. >> alicia is the general manager at james stan catering. three of the employees were involved in the crash, getting clipped in the collision. they're going to be okay. >> 30 seconds earlier, and they won't have been a part of this. we won't be here now z 30 seconds later, could have been behind them and its just devastating. >> investigators say they don't know why she was driving so recklessly. >> the high rate of spreed that vehicle was

tonya's trip illed. pam, -- tonya's tripled. pam, my husband's benefits have changed including higher deductibles, co-pays and loss of prescription drugs, all done in anticipation of this new law. please help. i ask for one more minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman's time has expired. mrs. bachmann: i thank the gentleman from texas, mr. ted poe, judge ted poe. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. mrs. bachmann: i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: members are reminded to address remarks to the chair and to refrain from engaging in personalities with regard to the president. under the speaker's announced the of january 3, 2013, gentlewoman from florida, ms. wilson, is recognized for 60 minutes as designee of the minority leader. mr. garamendi: mr. speaker, we are making a modest little change. i relinquish that one hour to ms. wilson. reclaim it -- the speaker pro tempore: the entleman will suspend. under the speaker's announced policy of january 3, 2013, the gentleman from

here to help them out is madelyn fernstrom and nbc vun ver sal chief medical officer tonya bettison.t's go. >> adorable lady from florida. in "sex and the city 2," which i'm sure you saw a couple of times, what vegetable did samantha overeat in an attempt to stave off menopause? sweet potatoes, yams, eggplant or carrots? >> carrots. [ buzzer ] >> nope, nope, nope. 14 original songs. it's fantastic. >> all right. the correct answer is yams. i remember that from the movie. what do they do? >> yams are actually an old wife's sale. there is an ingredient that can serve as weak estrogen except it doesn't get converted in our bodies. it's not harmful to have a yam but it's not going to help. >> can you stave off menopause with foods or anything like that? is there anything you can do? >> you can help the symptoms with some stuff, with food, but -- >> okay. all right. let's go back across the street with kath. >> this lady is from mississippi via new orleans, she wants me to say. one of these foods may help reduce hot flashes. which one? not that you would know. spicy chicken wings, iced co

. >> i can't do is carry my wife somewhere and introducing her as tonya and fellas is calling her bubbaliciousof her work. >> we have to go but wish you great luck. >> he doesn't deserve it. >> steve harvey's show premieres a week from today. don't forget check your local listings. >> thank you. if you're someone who has trouble taking care of a house plant but want a pet. >> we have low maintenance pets. >>> somewhere between a puppy and a pet rock, you can find a great low-maintenance pet for you. >> "real simple" polled vets and pet store owners to discover the least demanding creatures from feathered to furry to others. >> and the list is featured in "real simple" magazine's special family issue. here with the list is magazine's executive director sarah humphreys. >> hello. >> and mr. bojangles. >> the thing about birds they can live for a long time. parrots can live between 35 and 80 years. >> you better be committed. >> this is not a parrot. this is a budgie, kind of a parakeet, mr. bojangles and only lives between 5 and 15 years. they're great. love to hang out with you. one, they'll be

tonya mosley, al jazeera, washington. >> mexico gets hit hard. two hurricanes in just one week. the latest ahead on al jazeera. >> welcome back to al jazeera, i'm tony harris in new york. here some of our top stories. pope francis said the catholic church has the potential to quality like a house of cards. he said this is over the long-term stances on topics on abortion, gays marriage and contraceptive. >>> some residents in detroit are trying to stop the city's bankruptcy claim. they say the city's constitution does not allow the choice to change pensions. also residents are against the city being run by emergency managers since voters had no say in it. >>> and the white house promises to veto any republican plan that will repeal president obama's healthcare law. >>> mexico is struggle after being hit by back-to-back hurricanes. the second hurricane manuel is a moving inward over central mexico. we have more from mexico city where evacuees have been arriving. >> reporter: the mexican airports have been airlifting hundreds of people out of acapulco and bringing them here. we exp

tonya mosley has the story now from seattle. >> reporter: eric thinks highly of his children's elementary school teachers. when the father heard they were opting out from the yearly academic progress test, he was relieved. >> it struck me that there was huge variance in the scores. if you take the temperature with a thermometer three different types and you get three different answers. >> reporter: refusing to give the tests to they are students. the test is given three times a year and has no bearing on district finances or students' ability to graduate. it's just a way to track progress. >> the emphasis and the overuse of testing is exhausting, and a terrible use of resources. >> reporter: the teachers staged the first standardize test boycott in the nation. in may the school district yielded to pressure and made this test optional at all seattle schools. >> when we stood up to the map test here at our school, we didn't plan it, but we had amazing report from our parents and students. >> reporter: it's a nationwide fight. the highest opt out rate is on new york's long island where 50% o

see the girl over there at the vending machine-- tonya.junk bond status. hey, barney. becky, elliptical machine's really working for you. nice stuff.

. >> tonya tool and staff from holding out help, a nonprofit that aids people who have left polygamy, making a covert food delivery to a brother and sister in colorado city. >> their family has been split up due to some of the members being deemed worthy, and the other members of the family have been deemed unworthy. and so once you are deemed unworthy, you are basically cut off from the food rations that the community gives you. >> tools clients have taken shelter in an unused trailer, after being told by church elders to leave their parents home. >> i am a small town girl from nebraska and had no idea this was happening in the wrights of america. and let me tell you, it is complete injustice. i think both the attorney generals from utah and arizona are doing the very best that they can with the information that they have been given. but you cannot find a lot of people even when they leave that will speak up on behalf of everybody else. they want to leave quietly, they don't want to cause problems for the people that they love that are still in there. and so they don't -- they choose

tonya page, al jazeera, johannesburg. >>> suspected boko haram members ambushed and killed 24 vigilant takes that tried to detain them in northeastern nigeria. >>> conservationists are fighting a losing battle to try and protect the african elephant. they say attempts to stem the flood of illegal ivory to asia are failing and the answer is to tackle demand. we have the report from kenya. >> reporter: each pair of these tusks represents a single elephants. some were old mate i can't recollects whose family depended on them. others from old bulls and the smaller ones from juveniles too small to breed. they found more than 3 tons of ivory hidden in a single container bound for asia. it was worth millions of dollars. >> this is a crime. this is not something being done by small guys. whoever is doing it is well-connected, has enough resources. >> reporter: this is what's driving the trade, the growing demand for fine ivory mostly in asia. conservationists argue there's far too much emphasis on stopping the supply and not nuch on reducing demand for what is, after all, a purely decorative i

how do you feel, tonya french that you'll be in there and able to be a part of this moment of silenceit's great to be a part of the moment of silence. i mean, we're so close walking up here. you're staring at all the areas that the news cameras were at yesterday. it's surreal. i'm glad to know that's something we'll do being so close. >> thank you so much. wolf, you mentioned it at the top. we now know the flames of the victims and we're starting to learn a little bit more about them. like for example, 62-year-old kathy gaarde pictured here with her 94-year-old grandmother who she cared for before she passed away just last year. she was a mother, she was a wife, she loved animals, hockey. as the day goes on, of course, we'll learn a lot about those victims and they'll be remembered here right at nationals stadium when things kick off about a half hour from now. >> thanks very much, renee. our heart goes out to that family, all the families of the victims. we have much more on the navy yard shootings coming up. there have been at least 19 mass shootings in the united states since 2009.

tonya fields is our foot soldier of the week.experience to do this. tell me that a little bit. >> i came to the south bronx, 22 years old with a 3-month-old baby still putting myself through school. i came to this community with a lot of the same predispositions and biases that a lot of other folks did. i didn't know much about the bronx except yankees, prostitution and the botanical gardens. there was so much that validated the bias i had and i found a community that brought itself back from the brink of death. i saw a community that be was resilient. you hat the hot boys on one corner and the others in the middle of the block with the drums and dancing and that's what really tapped into me. as i had my second child at 23 still working my way through school not really have a ton of support, i started to gain a lot of weight. i had a chain who became a chronic asthmatic because she was subjected to the 16,000 diesel truck trips we get every day in my community, much of it from the transportation of food. she developed food allerg

tonya moseley tells us more. >> reporter: behind me is the new bridge on interstate i-5, replacing a temporary bridge put there after the accident. it took crews more than 17 hours to put it into place. now opening it up to 71,000 drivers that pass through each day. it was captured on time lapse video. a 900,000 pound bridge was hoisted with a quarter of an inch leeway on either side. >> this isn't the average carjack to jack the bridges up. it takes big equipment and big tools and big mechanisms to do it. >> last may an oversized truck hit the bridges steel beams in the wrong spot causing it to collapse. several cars flew into the water. amazingly no one was seriously hurt. a temporary bridge was put into place while this new one was built alongside it. the accident highlights how one bad move can cause so much damage, and this bridge is hardly unique. the department of transportation says there are more than 20,000 older bridges in the united states like this one labeled fracture critical. if a key structural component is hit, it is at risk of collapse. washington state senator mar

tonya lewis lee, it's so good to see you. >> great to see you too. >> you're a hard working woman, soelf. this one, nine years? >> nine years to get it made, yeah. >> why did it take so long? >> for a while people were feeling like a period piece about a black family with civil rights movement, they were afraid audiences wouldn't show up. i think right now we're in a great time. >> you didn't actually time it to be released in the 50th anniversary. >> certificaten dipty, the universe conspired for it to happen, yeah. >> as a mother when you're behind a project like this which is centered around a family. how is that for you? you're a mom and i'm sure you teach your children all kinds of things. when you see them this way, the black family presented this way? >> it's beautiful. the book written by christopher paul curtis is a beautiful ode to a black family in 1963. they are fun, quirky and it's a funny book. i read the book out loud with my children and we laughed and had a real serious conversation about civil rights in this country and our difficult past. it was a really wonderful o

. >> body language expert tonya reiman did that for us. can you dismiss it out of hand. many would.ended but the handshake, i'll take any insight into the situation i can get because this relationship is fundamental and this situation ain't going forward. >> what tonya is saying and what we're seeing their body language is matching what we're hearing publicly is that they're clearly frustrated. we know that the relationship is frozen. we know those two men have said things in public and probably in private that makes the relationship not any better. >> very often it's not what you say it's how you ago, right? and i think it's pretty fascinating >> that's where the line comes acti actions louder then words. >> yours stiff and short. i'm leaning in. >>> coming up next on "new day," listen to that video. you hear that. a florida man shooting and killing two of his neighbors if you can believe it. police say it was an ambush but his lawyer is standing your ground law to try to defend him. we'll talk about this with headline cnn's newest legal analyst mark o'mara who knows that well. >>>

the only reason prices are going up is exactly what tonya said, supply and demand. you have people lenders are making it more difficult as well they should to get financing for these young people and people who want to buy. even though fha change the guidelines in august saying they are going to insure loans after one year of an economic event if you fit within the grid. no matter what we are not in the recovery we deserve to be in. on to the lenders start releasing the inventory and really lending on the market, we will never know what the true situation with the real estate market in america. stuart: i know there is a lot of pressure to relax lending standards all over again. i think there's a lot of pressure to do a whole lot more on the bottom, do you see it happening? that is political pressure to get the housing market going and keep it going. >> fha could change anything they want. we know the lenders have the overlay, they have a final message. certain lenders i talked to after these guidelines said they will probably fold because they want to lend money aga

madeline fehrnstrom and tonya donaldson. are you ready? all right. songs. it's fantastic. the correct answer is yams. i remember that have the movie. what do they do? >> yams is an old wives tale. an ingredient that doesn't get converted in our body. it's not harmful, but it's not going to help you. >> can you stave off menopause with foods or anything like that? >> not really. you can help symptoms with some stuff. >> okay. back across the street. >> this lady is from mississippi. one of these foods may help reduce hot flashes. spicy chicken swings, iced coffee, champagne, or soy nuts. >> it has to be champagne. >> you're wrong, but i agree with you. >> it's not champagne. it is not. >> have fun with my cd. do you have a grandchild? yes, perfect. >> the correct answer here, soy nuts. the soy, i guess is the thing that does it. >> it helps with the weak estrogen. but you need to have three or four servings a day. you have to do this over time. and the other three, caffeine, alcohol, and spicy foods can trigger a hot flash. >> they do? okay. all right

. >> i can't do is carry my wife somewhere and introducing her as tonya and fellas is calling her bubbalicious pet for you. >> real simple, polled vets and pet store owners to the least demanding creatures from feathers to furry to others. >> featured in the family magazine special issue. here is sarah humphreys. >> hello. >> and mr. bow yankles. >> the thing about birds they can live for a long time. parrots can live between 35 and 80 years. >> you better be committed. >> this is not a parrot. this is a budgie, kind of a pair row keyes, mr. bo yankles and only lives between 5 and 15 years. they're great. love to hang out with you. one, they'll be your flock. spend time with them every day in or out of the cage. >> will he fly around? >> you need to clip his wings, like trimming his hair. they can -- >> doesn't hurt him? >> they'll mimic words. they're a great bird but a little more low maintenance. they like to look in the mirror. >> the guinea pig. >> so cute. >> professor pickles owned by our photo editor brian from and he is super cute. national television debut. >> hello. >> guinea pigs a