the nice thing about the unb ordinance it was pretty easy to identify if you were a unb.e nonductile buildings, i'm not sure what holds them up. the corner soft story buildings, i've got my 14-year-old son now, he can now identify them because we drive around town and he goes, dads that one? yeah, do you see this and this? a 14-year-old can be trained to identify them. they're straight forward. >> do you think it's another four or six-year program to come up with legislation? >> to be honest, you have to get the board of supervisors on board on this and they need to realize that it's not just a landlord issue. it's a tenant issue, a people on the street, the neighborhood serving facilities. they are the book ends of the block. you might -- >> i haven't -- there's no opposition, except people that own some of the build. >> you also haven't gone through the unb process at the state and local level. you have a group of people familiar with earthquakes and the, you know, sort of growing risks around them in this area. so i don't see that it would take that long. i think we ha

we were able to negotiate but we weren't able to work with the developer at all he was pretty much unbe available. you know, a lot of times we get bilaterals who hate developed but we have it constantly going on we're only against people trying to get as much as they can and not consider what's going on in the neighborhood. in this case, the developer is putting a lot of square footage in heel sell it and leave and we're stuck with this big building. and then the next lot and others around. we're jus

we were able to negotiate but we weren't able to work with the developer at all he was pretty much unbe available. you know, a lot of times we get bilaterals who hate developed but we have it constantly going on we're only against people trying to get as much as they can and not consider what's going on in the neighborhood. in this case, the developer is putting a lot of square footage in heel sell it and leave and we're stuck with this big building. and then the next lot and others around. we're just trying to contain in this case a 5 story building is so outrageous and to start with a 6 story and come down to 5 we're not dealing with someone 0 who is wanting to have this building fit in. we looked at the plans with bruce but the whole neighborhood has been in support because those things are going to work w in the neighborhood. we don't want a fifth story to set precedence in the neighborhood. this doesn't set back and this is on a steep hillside but we want no fifth floor and the third and fourth floors to set back and step up the hill. we wish the planning department had done that a

buildings on the corners that are rent controlled with grocery stores below in richmond and sunset a lot of unbetrofitted buildings in the tenderloin are retrofitted to a standard if you walk out the door and tear them down. and the housing demands that are going to be placed on the city post earthquake, eight weeks to ten years out are going to be interesting to address. >> right. everybody says housing seems to be one of the biggest issues that we're going to be having to deal with. >> it was. that's how it's like in katrina. the people -- the low-income communities weren't able to anticipate and, you know, sort of anticipate how to survive or, you know, kind of go through a crisis like that. and also weren't accommodated in any kind of recovery or rebuilding and i think that here we have had, i know that maybe you can talk a little bit more, lawrence about the caps program, the community action for seismic activity, the building department is undergoing where the city identified the unreinforced masonry buildings and an effort to seismically upgrade those and the caps program is identifying

and high school students at kol unbe in, and elementary school students in new -- and kids on streeton too frequent a basis to tolerate. and all the families who never imagined that they would lose ape loved one a loved one to a bullet. those right are at stake. we are responsible. >> our weak gun laws allow these mass killings to be carried out again and again and again in our country. >> no one can know for certain if this senseless act could have been prevented. but we all know we have a moral obligation, a moral obligation to everything in our power to diminish the prospect that this could happen again. >> the status quo is not acceptable to the mounting legions of families who have lost loved ones due to gun >> i said that eight were wounded yesterday in washington. i wrote the number 3, the number 3 was on the prompter. i said the number eight. that happens from time to time. but to carolyn mccarthy's question -- how many? we're not there yet. my asthma's under control. i get out a lot... except when it's too cold. like the last three weekends. asthma doesn't affect my job... y

not having agreed hon on a budt resolution, we've been unbe able to pass appropriations bills -- though they're ready in the united states senate. i know a little bit about the this because my new responsibility in the appropriations committee is the largest single bill. the bill that i worked on with senator cochran, republican of mississippi, is a bill that covers all of the defense department and all of the intelligence agencies. and i will tell you, it is the largest and a huge portion of our national discretionary budget, almost 60%. we're ready. we prepared the bill. we're going to bring this bill before the committee and the floor and have the debate it deserves so that our men and women in uniform are well served and we acquire the protections that are necessary for america. unfortunately the same group opposed to sitting down with the house republicans and finding a compromise have objected to