why is the fbi undertaking this now? >> i can't answer that. guess as all of us sitting across this great country, we can be thankful the bureau will move in that direction. it will sound cold, but i haven't met a person in jail that will tell you they didn't deserve to be. the problem you have is that there some that did not belong there. i was either lucky or unlucky, however you want to say it and convinced to look at two cases and work those. both of these men had been in jail a long time and it's rewarding, but it's unbelievable. >> you left the fbi about 20 years ago, but in april they reported that justice officials had known for years about questionable forensic evidence or testimony in some trials and they didn't take a new look at the cases and notify the defendants or their attorneys of possible problems in the evidence. i wonder your reaction to that, did anything occur while you were working for the fbi? >> i did and i would venture to say most would not know. if that happened, that sounds bad on the surface. we need to get that co

. >> the undertaker. >> yes. >> steven wahl's mother's undertaker testifies, and tellingly, it's a white undertaker, and the one thing that he says is oh, i definitely thought that steven wahl's mother was black was because her corpse smelled black. just completely absurd. >> we say that -- we sigh to that, and we should. understand that this mentality, this jim crow mentality, it invaded our very senses. people believed at that time that you could touch -- you can discern black skin by touching it. that blacks had sort of a different aura and odor. a completely different temperament, and this was enshrined actually in the cannon of law. so you sit there reading this and the watch the judge just say these things over and over. so you see steven would -- the other thing i want to say, is i can identify with steven wahl. my family's not that grand. my great-grandfather missed being born a slave by 90 days. he was conceived in a relationship between a slavemaster and his mother, who was an enslaved woman. just barely born free. and he was a -- he was a pistol of a guy. the one thing about h

give me a sense of how big an undertaking, how massive an undertaking something like this is?n't even begin to imagine what it might take. i know in the particular cases i worked in, it was unbelievable the amount of time and the effort and the obstacles that you run into it. if you think about that the fbi were to do this, they would do this in their field offices, i suspect they would create a task force which would mean an fbi agent and then some officers from local law enforcement. that's about the only way it can be done and quite frankly, maybe you can only do one or two cases a year. >> do you have any insight as to why this is happening now? i mean we know the innocence project for example has worked on this for years, this is their life blood, this is what they do. but why is the fbi undertaking this now? >> you know, i can't answer that. i guess, though, as all of us sitting across this great country, we can be thankful that the bureau is going to move in that direction. you know, it will sound cold, poppy, but i haven't been a person that was in jail that will never

but, listen, it was a very traumatic undertaking. you're not going to get unanimous opinion on this. >> do you think the process worked? >> i think the process worked brilliantly. >> you leave government. you go into the movie business. you had something to do with phillip lee? >> yes, i produced it. i want to leave -- it doesn't matter what i did. i had a lot of wonderful mentors, peter rodino. another wonderful mentor, john gardner. when this process ended i said, what am i going to do with my life? he said, well, go reinvent yourself. constantly reinvent yourself. he was just this wonderful man. i decided i wanted to do something that was completely not -- this was it. i said i love -- great respect for government. i just don't want to do it again. it was such a traumatic undertaking. i said, so i spent a year -- john gardner was very wise. he guided me through this year, all kinds of people. ibm in new york where they all wore black. i'd fit in today actually. you'd interview with people and they would say, well, what have you do

to repaid the existing debt on those properties and also undertake limited improvement at each of those properties. as the existing lease requires 90 days are after the bonds are repaid, the lease would automatically terminate. we are moving an amendment that extended that to allow uptown to continue to operate after the bonds are repaid each month. they are working to renegotiate an amendment that would allow them to stay until the end of their term and still perform a valuable services they do for us. refinancing on union square alone would save us $50,000 a year on interest payments, which is a tremendous help to the department. are there any questions you might have? i've slept see if there is a public comment. >> is there any public -- >> see if there is a public comment. >> is there any public comment? >> page 3, park maintenance expenses. >> this is of the existing? >> this is the lease. >> i am assuming it is current. >> this is the current draft of the proposed new long-term lease, so page 3. >> it is the definition of maintenance expenses. >> which refers to an exhibit curator

to repaid the existing debt on those properties and also undertake limited improvement at each of those properties. as the existing lease requires 90 days are after the bonds are repaid, the lease would automatically terminate. we are

fielding's office and chuck coleson's undertaking. he used hunt for some of them. that is the challenge for the white house. that is why as we lay out through here, that is why the white house undertakes an extensive coverup. we quote from president nixon's memoirs where he writes if the cia could deflect from hunt they would protect us from the vulnerability from watergate. not the break-in but the political activities. this timeline lays out for you what the president met and the vulnerability that existed for him as a result of the failed second break in at the watergate facility. you can follow the evolution of the coverup on the wall where the white house attempted to limit what they would say limit the damage so that the fbi only stopped their investigation with the five burglars. as it became clear that the fbi was discovering other links, the white house then had to say that maybe we can just make g. gordon liddy and hunt responsible. when it was clear you had to involve the committee to re-elect the president. there was a hope you could stop the investigat

this is an incredible undertaking, and why would you ever pick a republican to do this? and i think there was that. there was a lot of criticism. everybody had an opinion. because this was such -- so, again, my amazement is, how the congressman dealt with that. he just sort of, you know, he was always in his three-piece suit, also very calm and he just -- he just absorbed and just moved on. >> francis, was there pushback from more partisan republicans because you selected somebody who was associated with the kennedys? >> yes. well, that was the argument you could see right away. on the one side you had -- here's some big, liberal left wing person and then democrats saying, here's some republican. in the congressman's mind -- this is all said many years later, he's thinking, this is about right. in other words, because he knew in his mind that the pathway would not be either one of those. it would not be -- if the conclusion was to be made that president nixon would be found guilty or not guilty of charges of impeachment, that it's not going to be made by that partisan el

but i think we have to undertake this as parents, as leaders in society, as teachers of those who are coming after us. and we owe it to our citizens to do that on a sustained basis. >> adam, i know you wanted to jump in, too. >> right. well, i do come from the energy information administration. and i just had to say that eia has been trying very hard to help in this area, john. if you do an internet search, you know, and use a search engine and type in "energy information," we come up first. there's -- interestingly to me, because i did this the other day -- the third hit that you get in google or bing if you type in "energy information" is the eia kid's page. very, very popular. it's got a lot of really good, basic information on where energy comes from, how it's transformed, how it's used. and it's, i think, extremely popular and i hope that that kind of thing filters down. the eia website has been redesigned. it gets hundreds of thousands of hits daily. and it's -- it's a very, very, i think, useful tool not just for kids but for everybody in the analytical community and in the pol

that the problem of dealing with the other party is something that smith had to battle with and undertake, that is something that the current president has a problem with as well. the other thing that he has is, it's remarkable the sense of humaner, president obama has a good sense of humor, and al smith is the same way, he knew he could be funny on occasions but not all the time because then people would not take you seriously. he could play a good statesman with a good sense of humor, which is a good parallel. >> i would add that i'm not sure that barack obama has learned how al smith could make it all happen. i am not sure that he learned how to deal with a hostile legislature. >> that is true. >> joe, good evening to you, go ahead. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. my first question, i know smith lost new york in 1928 to hoover. how well did he do in the 5 burrows. and i want to know, was the anti-catholic feeling more prevalent in the southern states as compared to the midwest, say kansas, nebraska, etcetera, and i want to know, he had a fallout with fdr, surprised they even w

for this kind of undertaking, does u.k. intelligence michael work with the u.s.om other countries to try to gather information and intelligence and from what you know if that's true, have there been specific types of threats to these games? >> the british and u.s. intelligence organizationses always work closely together along with some other allies like the canadians and australians. for these olympics that relationship gets that much tighter. going up into the games there was lots of nervousness, obviously s u.k. has seen one serious terrorist attack every year since 9/11. in the months leading up to the event there hasn't been a specific threat that has concerned u.k. or u.s. officials. that's good news. >> we cannot forget what happened the day after the announcement came that london was awarded the olympics this year, when they had that transportation underground and buses all of that attacked by home grown terrorists. do you see that, michael, as being the greatest concern there? >> that certainly is for the british officials. as you noted, that killed 52 p

the project that we are undertaking certainly first and foremost is the seismic earthquake and seismic damage repair. we will also be materials mitigation, accessibility of grades, code- mandated upgrades, and replacement of water, piping, and drinking water systems. the war memorial will be making upgrades to all of the veteran'' offices and the meeting room. we will be expanding the backstage area and making improvements to the stage rigging and also updating kitchen facilities for the green room. we do have a private partner in this project, the san francisco opera, which would be making an investment. they will be constructing two new facilities on the fourth floor of the veterans building that will be used by the opera and which will be available to other parts organizations six months of the year and they will be managed by the war memorial. we have a partner with the arts commission his plan is to move their offices tuesday veterans building, expand the gallery, and provide new storage for the art collection. >> thank you, sorry to interrupt. it just a question about the opera.

this is a massive undertaking and they do not even have it penciled out about the cost? >> no, and that's part of the problem. if everyone agreed on this today would take them two or three years to get going and seven years to build it so the best case scenario is 10 years away and in the meantime still love not solved any of the problems in the delta. there's finally a coalition of water users that depend on the delta working together to try to get levee protection going, projects that will help the delta today because even if this were to solve all the problems, it is 10 years away and we don't have 10 years to wait >> coupes for this? >> water users are saying they will pay for it although if you read their reactions to the governor's announcement, they say this is great that the governor did this but we want to see what we will get out of it before we sign-on so if they're going to pay they want to know what they will get. >> this is a topic we'll come back to because this is probably the biggest public works project in the state has ever seen. thanks for coming in.

it appears from the appellants brief that the restaurant group is undertaking a collective effort to stop mobile food permits at spear street, and on the basis of the previous stated argument and on the dpw approval of the mobile food facility permit, we request that the board of appeals denied the appeal and uphold the permit in its entirety. thank you very much. president hwang: in terms of deer permits, it is for your food cart to be in front of 60 spear street, right? >> it is the federal reserve parking lot gate, it is the back entrance to the federal reserve. president hwang:

that has been quite an undertaking. we affectional richer -- referred to the monday meetings with hall of justice to be able to do that. the added value of this database we are putting together, which is a little different from what public safety departments are doing a visually, i think i said this already, but we are trying to measure apples to apples across the system. the information, in my opinion, is going to be more meaningful, just in terms of looking at proportions and how folks are moving around. the other exciting thing about this is we have been communicating with other jurisdictions about what they are doing in order to track this population. it has been an arduous process to get this data together. it is hard to it -- are coming to know that others are having challenges, too. i do not know if we are completely ahead, as the chief said. she brought us in pretty early. other jurisdictions have been reaching out to us to figure out what we're doing and we are sharing information across counties. we are trying

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long tunnels, these are bigger than the caldecott tunnel, this is a massive undertaking and they don'tven have it penciled out completely with the cost >> that is part of the problem, if everybody agreed on this today it would take them two or three years to get going and then seven years to build it so the best case scenario is 10 years away. in the meantime we have not solved any of the problems in the delta. there is finally a coalition of water users that depend on the delta working together to try to get levee protection going, projects that will help the delta today because even if this were to solve all the problems, it is 10 years away and we don't have to in years. >> who pays for this? >> the water users to get the water say they will pay for it although if you read carefully, their reactions to the governor's announcement, they are backing off a little bit saying it is great that the governor did this but we want to see what we will get before we sign on. if they're going to pay, they want to know what they will get. >> and we want to know what we will lose. >> coming up, mo

. >> do you think he has really taken a higher position on the stage simply by undertaking the mental rigger, the danger, if you will, of the trip? >> the risk. >> not the physical danger. >> no, the political risk, frankly, should have been zero in england and zero in poland. the risk is really in the middle east. look, syria is exploding. there's talk of going in and attacking their chemical weapons. you've got iran at what point when the negotiations fail does israel attack will america back them up? i think the idea of him going in there and saying nothing and listening and waiting till he gets home, but he's going to be pushed to say something. >> i want to ask you a question. >> sure. >> since you are a world traveler. why poland? >> poland. i love poland. >> thanks for that. >> i will tell you why i love poland. [ laughter ] >> we can build around that. >> i think it resonatesp. >> does poland love you? [ laughter ] >> poland was one of the great stallworths in the cold war in fighting off the soviet union, so sort of the cold war aspect of remnants of american conservatism. >>

it is currently the site of a major renovation undertaking at lafayette park.y understanding is this was founded after the 2007 initiative and the following bonds and over $10 million has been allocated for this project. good questions have come in terms of see " proprietary -- in terms of ceqa, a certain things for renovation as well as violation of the charter and violation of the current road as well as the draft road. at this time the plan is for an 11-acre park to be closed for 10 months. two small areas have been cordoned off for dog walkers to use. during this time there seems to be no plan whatsoever for watering the young trees that were planted over the last decade. they do require special protection, and a sensitive habitat will be lost. it has been noted by the city that is likely does qualify as a national historic treasure property, that is certainly qualifies under state guidelines for historic places, and right death of pinnacle -- right at the pinnacle where he fought for 70 years about whether he could keep his mansion with a million-dollar vi

the human rights commission plans to undertake education as a human rights as a topic and to follow up on that a little more in depth, so just to clarify and distinguish what the topic of tonight's agenda was

health care law a green light, officials are turning to implementing the law - a llngthy and massive undertakingll in its early stages but already spending money: rehberg says: "they implementation money. that moneyyis goneealready n additional bureaucrats and it programs, compuuerizztion ffr the impleeentation."dorn says, "oh boy.. hhs haasa huge amount to work to do and the states do too ttere will be places in every state in the country. places you can go online, compare health plans." the i-r-s and h-h-s, he health and human services department, ann many, many othee agencies wwll noo write thousands of pages of regulationn - an ffort well pnderwwy: ehberg sayy: "there's already 13 thousand pages of regulations. and they're not even done yet." spalling says: "a delegation of extensive authority from congress to the department of health and human serrices and a lot of boards and commissions and bureaus throughout the buueaacrrcy. we counted about 180 or so, the rest is unknowable." all the focus on the individual mannate makes it sound like the entiie law revolves around it... but analysts say

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and we will submit the effort by july 1st the effort the city is an undertaking to repair replace its fleet. -- to replace its fleet. and finally, the contract my touring unit. the mayor's office is proposing to transfer the local business compliance unit and the domestic unit from the city administrator's office, hopefully with an effective date of july 1st, 2012. the goal for the function is to begin the process of creating the one-stop shop. as has been discussed over the past decade, there has been report after report over the past 10 to 12 years, whether the blue-ribbon report, georgia report, the reportrural report -- rural report or the federal grand jury, there has been a process of competing stakeholder interests inconsistent with stakeholder ownership. the city-wide outcome would be optimal. this is the extent of consolidating, starting the process of moving these positions into a centralized unit within the city administrator's office. in the future, may be moving the office of economic workforce development, moving local contractors into the same development. >> i want to

i hope our governor and general assembly will not undertake the medicaid expansion. that's my policy position. legally that option is now ours because of the supreme court's decision. >> for the first numbers of years, wouldn't it be federal money coming into the state with a very small participation by the state. >> if they're telling the truth, yes. there's a long habit of that being broken and remember, the people promising to put that money in, the federal government, they're broke. they've never been broker. so -- and we in virginia, like every other state, once we decide to get in, we're stuck in there. there's nothing the supreme court did to say that we could get out. we need federal permission to get out once that happens. starting in about three or four years, the state amount goes up literally into the hundreds of millions of dollars for virginia and with our retirement system, we're better than a lot of states but we're still behind in catching it up, we're strained to the breaking point in the budget in terms of our operation year to year. looking ahead,

and i have enormous respect for you for the -- what shall i say, the risk that you undertake to do your work. rebecca, were you here in '99 right here right when you first launched this? and this is rebecca joshua okwaci. she is now the deputy minister for education in what she will remind you several times is the newest country on earth, right? from south sudan. and, boy, has she seen it all. has she seen it all. a freedom fighter, in the bush off and on for ten years, and the stories that she can tell. well, i don't want to take any more time. i feel like people are here to hear from you. if i could -- if i can simply put questions out and these really are for conversation and discussion, and then we will then open this time for q&a as we always do. so i have a first question that is always on my mind, but it's always on the minds of people with whom we speak, and that is when you think about -- when you think about the context in which you all are working, it seems to me that the laws, the traditions, the cultures that you are -- that you are living with are really -- i want to say a

it appears from the appellants brief that the restaurant group is undertaking a collective effort to stop mobile food permits at spear street, and on the basis of the previous stated argument and on the dpw approval of the mobile food facility permit, we request that the board of appeals denied the appeal and uphold the permit in its entirety. thank you very much. president hwang: in terms of deer permits, it is for your food cart to be in front of 60 spear street, right? >> it is the federal reserve parking lot gate, it is the back entrance to the federal reserve. president hwang: you would be located between the walgreen's and the federal reserve? >> yes. president hwang: i think i know what you mean, thank you. >> d.o. currently operate at other locations? -- do you currently operates at other locations? you mentioned the howard street location, do you operate there now? >> yes. 400 howard. i believe it is 2.5 blocks away. >> how often? >> thursdays and fridays. my proposal was to operate at 60 spear on tuesdays and wednesdays. vice president fung: how do you handle mta's regulati

the size of the hospital, its clients and staff parking, the operations that will undertake bailey, thosend of factors -- it will create even more chaos on this already-busy road. instead of me being able to get somewhere in 10yq#ñ minutes, iy take me three times as long. this also applies to cathedral hill hospital, if it was to be built. why would i want to go to a hospital that is 45 minutes away, when i have st. luke's 10 minutes away from me? i hope cpmc sticks with its promise to keep st. luke's open. knowing the cathedral hill hospital will be a longer commute for me, i would much rather rely on the hospital i have now. chairpersonfni mar: i am going o call a few more names. emily 0 rourke, dorothy behr, david dupree, david madsen, lois scott. >> i am with the bernal heights neighborhood center. i live in excelsior and attend the ball high school. ÷iñnr-- balboa high school. i am concerned about the proposal for cathedral hill hospital. traffic affect public transit as much as regular drivers. van ness and geary will become verye. we are trying to avoid traffic by writing muni, ba

to undertake this new structure, the marine unit was an essential piece of this. through a homeland security grant of approximately $1.8 million, we were able to secure the construction, which the port approved here approximately one year ago for the joint operation security building, the jos building. this was an essential piece to getting this building constructed. the building is located there. this is an example of what is contained in the marine unit. they will occupy roughly half of the facility. the project was started nearly a year ago and we are happy to report that a project was not only completed on time, but within budget. a very nice job to those two. the grant was secured and and now we have completed the building and we are here to have the mou for approval for the police department to occupy approximately half of the building. here is the new structure. and here is the floor plan on the last page. by approval of this mou, we feel there are significant public benefits to the board as well as to the community. this would enable the completion of the

the department is open to undertake this, especially looking at other new buildings that are happening. i would suggest that this building would be considered, based on those new emerging principles. commissioner antonini: i think, as staff has pointed out, any of the changes that would be made in any of the design would be coming back to us for approval before -- this is only an extension today. but i do agree that we have to look at the context of buildings from the entire area, rather than individually, although i think it architect, in my opinion, does a good job of picking up the context of market and hayes, with the areas done in that vernacular, and the flatiron portion being glass. i think it is an interesting combination. i am certainly always interested in seeing any changes that might occur as the project moves forward. vice president wu: as commissioner moore mentioned, i was in the meeting. it is important to look at buildings are a neighborhood. when we have individual projects in front of us, do you refer to other projects that have been entitled? we had some of that con

be an entire city block that will sit still came intel another developer decides it is worth to undertake what they have done. the hotel will be a visible reminder to everyone of the failure of the city to negotiate with a company who is bringing resources to this city. i am a public-school teacher. there is a lot of talk about affordable housing. how much will the city get if the project fails? nothing. there is talk about traffic concerns. cpmc has done a tremendous job making intersection's a safe place for everyone. we will get they can sidewalks, of violence, and vandalism. what about st. luke's? it could shut down altogether. zero residents have to travel outside the city to get access to a hospital? overconfidence will cost all of us in the end and it may cost us this hospital. i urge you to approve. >> thank you for your service to the city. my name is doctor jeff gardner. i am also a pastor in san francisco. i have enjoyed listening to the voice of the people. the people, as shakespeare would say, are the city. i have the utmost respect for them as fellow citizens. i hear their c

. >> over 10,000 athletes from more than 200 nations will be undertaking their final preparations following years of dedication, hard work, and personal sacrifice. we send our warm wishes to them all for a rewarding and enjoyable games. >> the queen says preparations for the games have led to the regeneration of east london and the creation of world class sporting facilities at the olympic park. she expressed hope that the 17 day event will leave a strong legacy in london throughout britain. queen elizabeth will open the game fries day at pis friday at. groups of sports fans around japan are embarking on the long trip to the uk to cheer on their favorite athletes. japan's national soccer team have qualifying games to win ahead of the olympic gala they will be cheering for the male samuri, and the female squad. tours to cheer on the female squad are sold out. their first ever victory at last year's world cup create aid sensation all across japan. >>> it's cloudy and hot here in tokyo on tuesday. but over in southern china, people are dealing with heavy rain. let's turn now to sayaka mori at