what has occurred to me, though, is we have been woefully understaffed. before we started making progress recently, i do not think we had in place benchmarks to make sure we had performance goals. being a prosecutor, not too long ago, they would tell us what they would do. i want to apply to everyone. tonight is a terrific innovation. the department has also moved to outsourcing some of this stuff. we have identified a backlog, and the department is now working. i want to focus on this. for me, stranger sexual assaults are a party coming in and of itself -- it is hard to say that one case is more important than another. in my experience, i think you will agree, stranger rapists tend to be the highest recidivists. especially with a database, if we do our work quickly, the chance of getting them off the street is great. i will focus my questions on that never area. -- narrowed area. i think we can still make more progress and institutionalized, as a commission, make policies around so we make sure the commission has the resources necessary. >> i like what y

that means when you are under one staff -- understaffed and overworked, the judge says, you have enough time. we need to move things along. this train that has to be speeding -- i think that is a real problem. judges are implicit when public defender offices are not given the resources to do an adequate investigation, so i think those are big problems we see. >> you raise an interesting point about whether a public defender should be elected or appointed. let me ask you this. you are appointed common and and i saw when you made your case -- you are appointed, and i saw when you made your case, they basically accuse you of mismanagement common and and they pointed the finger at year- end said, you have a $300,000 deficit. -- at you and said, you have a $300,000 deficit. i am curious to know, because you are appointed, what pressures did you feel to stand up for your office? the consequences to your career? >> you have to have the mindset that your ethical obligations to your clients come first. if that means your neck is on the line, so be it. if you have not got the guts for that, you s

the napa county sheriff's department told the iteam they were understaffed. >> it could be that san jose's unprecedented layoff of firefighters is over almost as quickly as it again. the firefighters union said it will make a major announcement tomorrow. the union will detail a new proposal for cuts in wages and benefits, in an effort to get 49 laid-off firefighters reinstatessed. the historic layoffs been yesterday as part of a citywide cut back to close a record $118 million budget shortfall. city leaders said they want concessions that amount to 10% savings from all of the unions. so far the firefighters union has not been able to strike a deal to avoid layoffs. >>> a smoky grass fire burned seven acres and threatened a herd of cattle in contra costa county. it took hold near willow avenue and highway 4 just before 6:15. firefighters were concerned that the fire would jump some railroad tracks and burn homes on the other side. that fortunately didn't happen. it took cal fire and contra costa firefighters more than an hour to contain the blaze. there was no property damage, and no report

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four months after an e-mail, chief gascon learned about understaffing problems at the lab. former lab technician admitted to police she took drugs from the lab which led to hundreds of cases being dismissed. >> if you have business at the dmv or another state office tomorrow, make other plans. the california supreme court has stayed an appeals court ruling that stopped governor schwarzenegger's furlough fry program. as a result, 144,000 state workers will be forced to take three unpaid days off a month starting tomorrow until there's a state budget. some say they're being punished for the state lawmakers to do their job. >> certainly for those who have families and children and mortgages, not even for any of them. so we'll do what we can. but we still go out and do our job. >> we thought it's gonna be over, but i guess there's another one. so i don't know what to say. >> the governor's office blames the situation on the legislature which is two months late passing a budget. the furloughs will save the state about $150 million per month. california's facing a $19 billion bud

at the time, napa county sheriff's department say they were understaffed and didn't think a jury on wouldockfighter. >> firefighters expect full containment on a major wildfire that broke out. the fire is near palmdale. right now 14,000 acre wildfire is more than 80% contain. all evacuation orders have been lifted. the fire destroyed one house and three mobile homes and charred brush over a 22 square mile area >>> we may find out san jose's unprecedented layoff of firefighters is over almost as quickly as it began. a major announcement is expected today details cuts in wages and benefits. historic layoffs begin last week as part of city cutbacks to cover a $118 million budget shortfall. they say they want sxeangsz and today we'll here the firefighters union new offer. >> a nonprofit group is hoping to do what the city of vallejo cannot do, save three of the city's four police dogs. they are holding a fund-raiser using bay area pet food express stores to make it easy to donate to the cause. >> we have pet washes in just about every one of our stores but for the purchase of a token for a do

four months after that e-mail, chief gascon learned about understaffing problems at the lab. the lab technician admitted to police she took drugs from the lab which led to hundreds of cases being dismissed. >> business at the dmv or other state offices, make other plans. the california supreme court has stayed a supreme court ruling that stopped judge schwarzenegger's furlough friday program. as a result 144,000 state workers will be forced to take three unpaid days off a month starting tomorrow until there's a state budget. workers say they're being punished for the failure of state lawmakers to do their job. the state governor blames the situation on the legislature. it will save the state $150 million a month. >> here we are in the last stretch of august here. the last compare -- some people compare it to the last month of summer. haven't had that hot streak. we have nice weather today if you want to go looking for it. >> where are the best places to go looking? >> depends what you want. if you want the sunshine and warmer weather, the east bay valleys. clouds and cooler w

, the receiving agent, the escorts, all these people are so adaptable, that it's very hard for understaffed, underresourced labor bureaucracies to keep up. it's hard for prosecutors to keep up, even the most nimble prosecutors. that's why we, in our work in the world, focus on strengthening labor institutions on the ground, as well as assisting on rigorous prosecution of these crimes. now, the senator pointed to the progress in chinese law, and he pointed also to a gap. china, again, in december 2009, i believe, ratified the the positive lerm owe protocol on trafficking. but the chinese law remains for chinese and only talk about women and children and has a particular emphasis on sex trafficking. the i.l.o. estimates that for every one victim of sex trafficking, there are nine victims of labor trafficking. now, we do not view sex trafficking and labor trafficking as competing. or complicating. and it's a remarkably rich bipartisan interfaith cross ideological consensus on all trafficking. and they're not competing. nask, they're mutually reinforcing illegality, because people are trafficed

many life guard stands are understaffed because students are heading back to school. >> just the two-man have the lieutenants helps us out. >> reporter: the u.s. life saving association says rip currents kill 100 people off our shores each other. i tested it. in less than five minutes, the rip current pushed me hundreds of feet offshore even though i was swimming towards the beach. swimming against the rip current can be exhausting and a deadly mistake. it's easy to get not only tired but a little bit panicked. ocean county rescue team jeff -- i know you're swimming out of the current, when you're panic-stricken, what's your best advice, you feel like you're being pulled out? >> biggest thing is break the drift of the rip. meaning the rip current. parallel to the shore, be calm. >> you want to keep the beach right in front of you and swim that way because normally, rip currents are fairly narrow. >> yes, sir, yes, sir, it is. the biggest thing is to say connell in the event of being stuck in a rip current. and just slowly and calmly take yourself out of it. >> reporter: the one bit of ad

. >> how did you come up with the idea of a map and what affect it at in the coverage and understaffed >>-- what affect did it have on your coverage and on your staff? >> if you look, you see the entirety of our coast was swept away. so, there was a real understanding of where the most deadly part of the storm surge was as you placed -- you could find a great relationship between elevation and death in the coast. one of the things folks in south mississippi, as you indicated, we have endured a lot of storms over the years. camille was always thought to be the worst. the mayor of biloxi's said camille killed more people today than it did in 1969 becaus every believe if you survived camille that where your home was, you would be safe from anything that would come in the future. and many died thinking that. but the map gave us an understanding. there was a real correlation between where you live and who died. you will see the clusters of those who died and i appreciate the respect thomas tt was given their when she understood that those were people that we lost that day. >> newseum has tr

. >> how did you come up with the idea of a map and what affect it at in the coverage and understaffed? >> -- what affect did it have on your coverage and on your staff? >> if you look, you see the entirety of our coast was swept away. so, there was a real understanding of where the most deadly part of the storm surge was as you placed -- you could find a great relationship between elevation and death in the coast. one of the things folks in south mississippi, as you indicated, we have endured a lot of storms over the years. camille was always thought to be the worst. the mayor of biloxi's said camille killed more people today than it did in 1969 because every believe if you survived camille that where your home was, you would be safe from anything that would come in the future. and many died thinking that. but the map gave us an understanding. there was a real correlation between where you live and who died. you will see the clusters of those who died and i appreciate the respect thomas that was given their when she understood that those were people that we lost that day. >> newseum h

agents, the banks, the escorts -- all these people are so adaptable that it is very hard for staid, understaffed, under-resourced labor bureaucracies to keep up. it is hard for even the most nimble prosecutor to keep up. that is why we, in our work around the world, focus on strengthening labor institutions on the ground, as well as insisting on rigorous prosecution of these crimes. the senator pointed to the progress in chinese law nt also pointed to the gap. -- and he also pointed to the gap. china ratified and exceeded to the palermo protocol on trafficking -- acceded to the palermo protocol on trafficking. that is a massive step forward. but there law only talks about women and children and has a particular emphasis on sex trafficking. for every one victim of sex trafficking, there are nine victims of labor trafficking. we do not view such trafficking -- sex trafficking and labor trafficking as competing or conflicting. there is a remarkably rich bipartisan interface, cross- ideological consensus on all trafficking. the are not competing. they are mutually-reinforcing illegalities. people wh

placed on environmental assessment is not difficult to conclude that the mms was underfunded and understaffed in carrying out their responsibilities to up this, you can see it often allowed industry to draft regulations. then moved to performance based regulation and transferred more responsibilities to operators for safety or at least tried to. and a wide use of categorical exclusion is to environmental assessments. we all share in some of the failures the cost this disaster. we all consume the energy produced in the gulf, but we have not all been mindful of the costs and risks borne by that region in securing with domestic oil and what we're able to produce. we accepted the plan to explore first and ask questions later, and then we stopped asking. many of us are hopeful, however, that the work of this commission will it is just the right questions going forward. i think the commission again for inviting me to present my views. if you have questions, i will attempt to respond today or later in writing. >> thank you. >> 34 years ago, almost to the day, an event occurred on the floor of the ho

. >> how did you come up with the idea of a map and what affect it at in the coverage and understaffed have on your coverage and on your staff? >> if you look, you see the entirety of our coast was swept away. so, there was a real understanding of where the most deadly part of the storm surge was as you placed -- you could find a great relationship between elevation and death in the coast. one of the things folks in south mississippi, as you indicated, we have endured a lot of storms over the years. camille was always thought to be the worst. the mayor of biloxi's said camille killed more people today than it did in 1969 because every believe if you survived camille that where your home was, you would be safe from anything that would come in the future. and many died thinking that. but the map gave us an understanding. there was a real correlation between where you live and who died. you will see the clusters of those who died and i appreciate the respect thomas that was given their when she understood that those were people that we lost that day. >> newseum has tried to tell the story