the city owns the land, and the building, you have jurisdiction over the tract. if rec park financed improvements there, then the way that we conduct business within the city. we respect each other's improvements. but it is your right to make improvements to that building as well. it's on your property. it's owned by the city. with the respect of the gun club, it's different, they have a private lease and they made improvements and they can take that back but unaware of those constructed by the city and county of san francisco. that's kind of how it works. >> so it seems like the mou, which hopefully we receive a draft of that in the not too distance future. should answer the preamble so we have a sense of what we hold and what our parameters are. and i think that it needs this clarification in there, to proceed with the mou. when could we have a draft? >> so the first question, if you want a workshop and everyone with interest in there to give us feedback. so it would help us iron out the mou. but i hear from some of the people out there their concern about diff

and i was tracted to the song in glad rag doll which i found t is little painted lady, it isn't 5 foot 2 eyes of blue. it's little painted lady, and-- . >> stephen: about prostitutes. >> basically. >> stephen: we're all adults here. >> but if you listen to the lyrics you can find those same glad rag dolls today as you did at that time. i found it still-- . >> stephen: i wouldn't know, i'm married. >> it was still contemporary kind of tragic song. i'm drawn to kind of tragi tragic-- drawn to tragic lyrics, yes. >> stephen: when we come back will you show us what it is all about. >> i will have the great mark rib ot to help me do that to sing a song. >> we'll be right back with a performance by diana krall, ,xbwn3pú&8,új ,xo<ájájá@dp:f,5 >> stephen: here to perform the title track off other album glad rag doll with mark ribot, ladies and gentlemen, diana krall. ♪ all dolled up ♪ ♪ in glad rags ♪ tomorrow ♪ may turn to sad rags ♪ they call you glad rag doll ♪ ♪ snoed snoed admired ♪ desired ♪ by lovers who ♪ glad rag doll ♪ you're just ♪ a pretty toy ♪ they like to play with ♪ you're no

certain tracts were preserved, so there was a more orderly, even though it took decades, transfer of ownership of those lands, but there were also what were called pueblo lands, which were sort of a poem by the town, and then, there was a whole lot of discussion about what should happen to those -- which were sort of zero and -- sort of owned by the town. >> so was san francisco's bordered upon at the time, or did that happen later? >> san mateo county did not exist when they originally chartered it. i think there were 16 counties, and a few years later, they said they were too large, so they doubled back and created san mateo county. >> this is an early map of an area that might have been known as san francisco, but it did not have a defined southern boundary yet. >> the city i believe was up larkin street, and everything west was counties. i think larkin was here. that is the original charter. then in 1850, van ness, who was the supervisor, did the addition. it was called the western addition, even though it was in the middle of the city, because it was west of larkin. >> i did not

they're tracting people who walk work in social welfare.hese people may have noticed the increasing media report of how a robot can help elderly sufferers and nursing home staff. about 20 people with senile dementia. this baby seal is fitted with sensors. when stroked or talked, to it responds by blinking. 93-year-old woman came to the home about a year ago. she has dementia and was already very forgetful. she kept to herself. at night she couldn't sleep. she sometimes took out her anger on the staff. >> translator: she became obsessed with going back home. she'd get argumentive saying i have to go and cook the dinner. but the curious thing happened. after caregivers brought in the robots, she began to change. she used to look after her grandchild while the parents, her daughter and her husband, went to work. the robot reawakened such feelings in her. she began treating the seal like her grandchild. little by little, her emotional ups and downs have eased. she gets angry much less often. her night time wanderings all but ceased after she be

vast tracts of land waiting to be restored.ing the challenges of the past 2011 disaster won't be easy. but step by step, people are moving forward. find out how on "the road ahead" every wednesday at 1:00 p.m. japan time, right here on "newsline." >>> u.s. sailors are suing the operator of the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant. they claim tokyo electric power company issued misleading information after the disaster there last year and they claim they were exposed to radiation. the nine plaintiffs include eight members of the "uss ronald reagan," and they were deployed just off the plant shortly after the disaster. the plaintiffs filed their suit last week at the u.s. federal court in san diego. they argue that tepco officials misrepresented the dangers and gave them a false sense of security. the suit says that increased their risk of developing cancer. but it does not specify levels of radiation exposure. they're demanding the utility pay $10 million in damages to each of them and $220 million to set up a fund for future medical

people took tract homes and tried to individualize them in various ways throughout the cities. here is an example of how they might have done that. >> they had a lot of medallions and reliefs. >> the working class would go out to go swimming in the ocean. the wealthy would stay downtown like in the marines memorial or the elk and they would have heated saltwater. people wanted to swim in salt water. >> how did the water get there? >> there was a pipe that allowed it to flow all the way down. that pipe rusted out. people went swimming in the saltwater pools and they had different temperatures. >> you could have a cold swim or a warm swim. >> how did they heat this? >> he had a huge boiler. they're still trying to figure out exactly how he sucked in the sea water. he had a pumping system. >> didn't sutro make his initial fortune by being the engineer who figured out how to ventilate the mines at virginia city? >> that is the way he would phrase it. >> he drained them for water, not for air. >> he got backers for the tunnel. he said, we need this tunnel for safety, for air, for ve

vast tracts of land waiting to be restored.g the challenges of japan's 2011 disaster won't be easy, but step by step, people are moving forward. find out how on "the road ahead" every wednesday at 1:00 p.m. japan time, right here on "newsline." >>> millions of people across japan are feeling extra cold today. mai shoji from our weather desk tells us why. >> we have lots of below-freezing temperatures across much of northern japan. here in tokyo we're going to be experiencing the coldest day so far this season, and also toward the northwest heavy snow and blizzard conditions are going to be continuing due to the very tinsified winter pressure pattern. sakayu has been seeing two meters 50 centimeters already of white stuff piling up, and it looks like it's going to be continuing into the next 24 hours. the sea effect snow will bring about 340 centimeters to the already very tall snow amounts and also 50 centimeters here in niigata prefecture. and also gusts are very strong. 126 kilometers per hour. and that's going to be picking

prices are marked down and around-the-clock sales are a tracting the christmas procrastinators. people are picking up the last- minute gifts for friends, family and themselves. shoppers tell us some deals are too good to pass up. >> it was like i was not going to buy for people and then i came out and there were sales and i thought why not. >> they t looks like they hired more people just to make sure -- >> retailers are adding more employees and hours to meet the needs of shoppers. some stores have been open around the clock to accommodate the shoppers. >>> meanwhile, san bruno, shoppers enjoyed complementary gift shopping thanks to middle school. parents and students played santa's elves hoping to raise donations for the band program. >>> now, san francisco police are marking a sad anniversary. six years ago this weekend officer brian tavera was shot and killed trying to arrest a prison escapeee. through the years the department has -- escapee. throughout the years they marked the year with candlelight vigil. but this year they were invited to go in a room that bears his name.

there will be challenges in tracting more companies to the industrial zone as vast areas are lacking power and water supply systems. >>> vietnam, another key partner for japan. in hanoi, general director level talks held between industrial ministries of the two countries. the meeting focused on how japanese companies could work in the distribution and logistical fields. the vietnamese government regulates activities of foreign companies in order to protect small domestic businesses, however, japanese businesses including convenience stores and distribution companies are lining up to enter the vietnamese market. the country is home to 90 million consumers and the vietnamese government says they cannot lift regulations as japan wants, but it will cooperate to make relates procedures simpler and continue discussions on the matter. >>> wrestling fans turned out for events in pakistan earlier this month that pitted some of japan's strongest men against each other. professional wrestling used to be popular in pakistan and thousands showed up for the exhibition matches. behind the scenes is

fast tracts of land waiting to be restored. overcoming the challenges of japan's 2011 disaster won't be easy. but step by step, people are moving forward. find out how on "the road ahead" every wednesday at 1:00 p.m. japan time right here on "newsline." >>> people in many areas of the philippines are dealing with floods after a typhoon hit the country. that typhoon has moved on. but it's lingering in waters nearby, making it difficult for residents in affected regions to clean up. meteorologist sayaka mori tells us why. >> typhoon bopha is now situated over the south china sea, still bringing rain to the north of the philippines. right now, sustained winds are about 120 kilometers per hour with gusts of 180. it's going to stay over the south china sea. that means picking up a lot of moisture so it could intensify even more and it's going to stay here once again. so rough sea conditions will prolong across the coastal areas of the philippines and also strong northeasterly winds will continue to form in the center of the storm. r

tract. it's a normal inhabitant, and you need it to break down certain foodstuffs to be able to absorb them, and this was not an e. coli that was recognized to be one of the bad ones. we further tested it, and we discovered that it had some unusual features that hadn't been seen before. with many of the emerging infectious diseases that we've seen, we can tell retrospectively that they're not really new. they're just newly recognized. the cdc and its counterparts in canada and great britain describe themselves as pack rats when it comes to specimens. we save everything, and if you go around our laboratories and you look in the freezers, you'll find all kinds of stuff that we've collected over the last 50 years. and we went back into our inventories, looking to see if we had old ones of this e. coli 157 in our collections. the canadians did the same things, the british did the same things in their inventories. in the case of this e. coli, it genuinely appears to us to be a new one. it looks l

where is the contingency for the overall project contingency tract and where would we be able to seehat? >> we could start bringing you a report that shows the overall project budget. this is just the fiscal year budget. so it's just a slice of our best estimate of the overall capital budget that we anticipated to spend in this fiscal year. we don't budget for contingency. there is contingency built into each line item, so we have looked at our cash flow, what we plan to spend on engineering and design, for instance and built in a contingency amount to come up with the budget amount we brought to you for approval. but we don't have contingency as a separate line item in the fiscal budget. >> there is a small reserve item, but what i didn't see and i didn't see it, i don't think, in the project report that we're going to see later either. where that contingency is and relative to how it's been drawn-down. >> we can definitely bring a report that shows that, but again, that is overall project budget. so this inception to-date is showing expenditures and revenues and if we're using cont

vast tracts of land waiting to be restored. overcoming the challenges of japan's 2011 disaster won't be easy. but step by step people are moving forward. find out how on "the road ahead" every wednesday at 1:00 p.m. japan time right here on "newsline." >>> scientists at the u.s. space agency nasa say a probe orbiting mercury has found evidence of water ice on the planet. the observations support the hypothesis that ice has existed at mercury's poles for millions of years. the new information comes from the "messenger" probe. it's been orbiting the planets closest to the sun since 2011. nasa scientists say the spacecraft observed excess hydrogen and permanently shadowed craters at mercury's north pole. they say the concentration of hydrogen is consistent with that found in water. the total amount of ice on mercury is estimated at 100 billion tons. scientists say it may have been brought by comets or asteroids that crashed on the planet. the existence of life, however, is considered unlikely because of the planet's thin atmospher

we know it's transitory, it's hard to say exactly how much numerically it will sub tract.if the number comes in lower than that i think a lot of people will say oh, it was probably the effect of the hurricane and they'll wait until the following month to see what kind of a rebound we get. >> let's talk a little bit about what we can expect from the job market going forward. i don't know if you saw alan blinder's op ed piece in "the wall street journal." the former fed governor saying if we go over the fiscal cliff the unemployment rate will jump recession and customarily when are you in a recession the unemployment rate goes up 3 percentage points. does that sound right to you. and if that is the case what does this mean for consumers and for businesses? >> well, the seriously bad news. but i think what is important is not just whether we go over the cliff but how long we stay over there. i mean if it turns out that they need a couple more days to hammer out an accord i don't think that will have a big lasting effect. but if we go over the cliff and all those spending cuts

transparency if you don't mind the omission of details beyond programs code names names like chalk eagle or tract maple link plumeria elegant lady or tractor rose you know what i have to give credit to the d o d at least they gave us something to look at you can forget about getting this type of information from the national intelligence program we don't forsee spy agencies like the cia there's a black budget is in the tens of billions of dollars a year with no disclosure whatsoever all right fine i get it certain things are top secret for national security purposes but we're potentially talking about hundreds of billions of dollars being spent here spent under cloak of utter secrecy all but a handful of congressmen actually see these budgets in action and were expected to front the bill without asking any questions polices specially when you know about things like the national reconnaissance office who was caught hoarding funds under their black budget and they were caught having secretly spent three hundred million dollars building a new office complex in virginia this year the military is blac

demanding iraq such see where bond blames for weapons going so fine as to continent to ground parsing tracts but to washington's dismay baghdad hasn't been all that and he asked him what his marina partner was. as the syrian government struggles to stay in power fighting against rebels backed by the west america is also attempting to suffocate the alleged weapons flying into damascus washington accuses iran of being the key arms supplier to assad forces and to stop the transfer the us is now reportedly demanding that baghdad inspect planes flying from iran over its airspace into syria and their american government unfortunately. very strong rule in many other countries this is just one more amazing thing is that american government is saying that they can control flights over countries and force. force and. by doing so the u.s. has created something of a paradox forcing iraq to prevent iran from dealing with syria by bringing up this issue of so-called weapons applied to just another way to pressure the baghdad regime united states feels that since it invested blood and treasure in terms of