product of the pwa and has wonderful art work all over it by the art in action project at the treasure island fair. and then there's these special schools for crippled children. this is in the mission district and it's a beautiful school with all the features we take for granted because of the americans with disabilities act. it has wonderful tiles. 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 theme

we will go to the treasure island job fair next week to do out reach, as well us tpja will follow-up with north bay and south bay association for future meetings. finally, just a few comments on specific measures being taken by some of the locals. the carpenters' local 22 has been doing work with the conservation corps and workforce development programs. they have nine apprentices currently working on the project. oe3, operating engineers, one of the union's we want to focus on, because this is an area where they have not been currently meeting compliance goals, so we want to find more opportunities to bring in operating engineers, but they have been working with city build, young community developers, and mission hiring home. then the local 261 of the worla have a significant number working on the project as well. that concludes my report. any questions? >>> thank you for a group report. books by a lot of progress. is the issue there is not enough supply in the pipeline or is it the contractors in subs are not reaching to the halls and cbo's to get them? >> on the -- they are perfor

fairs. we have a camera on treasure island, that should give you a nice vantage point of the berkeley fire worksf course, the big show in san francisco. we will have several live cameras at pier 39 with a cruise will be said in a mall. that is where we can find reggie kumar live. we are now less than 3 1/2 hours away from blastoff. >> that is right. the big show is what everyone is waiting on. take a look at the thousands of people better showing up. this is a different vantage point. this is from above the crowd. you can see how many people have gathered here. he can see all of them in here all the screaming behind thick. i did talk to several residents who are excited about the fireworks show, but one man does not care about the fireworks serious >> i am not here to see the fireworks. i just want to be in san francisco and see the boats into the people and is joined the date. flickr, " >> there will be bands performing throughout the night, and abc and is about ready to take the stage right now at pier 39. the fireworks show starts at 9:03 p.m.. fireworks will be set off from a barge in the ba

fair" piece. he also wrote "treasure island, off shore banking and tax havens." you say mitt romney pushes into what you call some fuzzy gray zones. what do you mean by that? >> well, at the end of the day, it has been repeated by the romney campaign many times that mitt romney, he may have been something of a financial gymnast doing all sorts of back flips to avoid taxes but he's never actually broken the law. i kind of question that. is that actually true? and the answer to that question is not completely straight forward. i don't find, you know, examples of outright tax evasion which is by definition illegal. but at the end of the day, between the illegal tax evasion and tax avoidance, there is a gray area, and especially when you start dealing with off shore tax havens. quite a large gray area. financial players and various other players go into this gray area. it's an often an area where you can make a lot of money. >> told fox news sunday romney, quote, he hasn't paid a penny less in taxes by virtue of where these funds are domiciled. his liability is exact

treasure island." a book about tax havens and an in-depth article on mitt romney's finances for the august edition of "vanity fairelcome. >> thanks. >> so is there any there there? >> well, what there are is an awful lot of questions when you look into his finances, you come up against an awful lot of brick walls when i researched this, there are lots of things you can speculate about. a few things you can say for sure but this is -- his finances are still very mysterious, a lot of things we don't know about. >> well, let's talk about this. it is based in bermuda. what is that exactly? >> well, it is an entity, an offshore company that contains -- we don't know exactly the value of that company. it contains -- it could be, it's possible, that it's just an old entity that has no real significance, something that is left over from earlier deals, but he has treat it had it very carefully inged, transferring it into his wife's trust before he was inaugurated as governor of massachusetts, having his lawyer as the director of that company. so this is a very carefully treated company and we found 0 out about it on his 2

vanity fair magazine is what began this latest round of questions about romney's taxes and offshore accounts. it is called, "where the money lives." nick shaxson is also author of, "treasure islands: uncovering the damage of offshore banking and tax havens." he is joining us via videostream. welcome to "democracy now!" tell us, where does the money live? >> good morning. really, my article explored a series of questions. there is a lot of information available, but his ninth -- he released a tax return, so there is a certain information out there, but it is generated a lot questions. there are investments all over the place in the u.s. and overseas. there are a number of investments routed through tax havens. you have to do a bit of digging to find out where a lot of the investments are. there was the swiss bank account that came up that did not have any particular tax residents, because it was disclosed. it made a big splash. my article found a corporation based in bermuda that had not been disclosed before, that suddenly popped up in the tax return for 2010, which he released under pressure to meet republican primaries. this bermuda corporation rated -- raise a lot of questions

fair" article explores mitt romney's buried treasure in bermuda. millions of dollars. so how much of his wealth is tucked away on an island?r who broke this story. wow, boom. thunder and lightning. the rangers' manager saying he thought he was dead. and next time you drive past your corner gas station, check out how much the price has shot up.