if i did think that this was a year in which we were going to have to undertake military action from iran-- if i were israel and thinking that-- i wouldn't just be worried about drawing a red line. i would be interested in drawing a green line, too, and that is a green line between israel and west bank. the idea that israel would go on with mad settlement policy in the west bank and at the same time expect the united states and the world to undertake a military strike against iran, what we saw in the middle east last week in terms of the burning down of american embassies, that would be a garden party, if you ask me, compared to what you would see on the street in the arab world if israel attacked iran with the support of the united states in the complete absence of any kind of negotiation with the palestinians i'm not saying even negotiations with the palestinians would insulate us from that reaction, but the fact that there's absolutely nothing, okay, i can't imagine what-- you can say all these arab regimes, they'll love it. quarterback the leaders quietly, they'll wisp tore us, "

. >> i hope the congress and president together will undertake immigration reform. the states cannot have their own immigration policies. >> coming up next. >> belva: good evening. i'm belva davis. welcome to this special edition of "this week in northern california." it's been an exciting week here in tampa reporting from the republican national convention. i spent most of my time hearing from the california delegates about their hopes for a romney/ryan administration. >> i accept your nomination for president of the united states. >> belva: mitt romney's acceptance speech on thursday reinforced his campaign goal. keeping the issue of jobs and economy front and center in the political debate. >> i have a plan to create 12 million new jobs. >> belva: it's a message that appeals to the largest delegation at the convention. >> california, the state that gave america and the world, the inspirational relationship of ronald reagan and proudly cast all of our 172 votes. governor mitt romney. >> belva: we asked former governor pete wilson what romney would do if elected. >

same yes we are undertaking steps to achieve that so if you're on an active participation in. our efforts to set up it's a significant alliance or with other latin american countries unilateral u.s. citizens who are as well as off a future membership in the transpacific partnership demonstrate our desire to diversify only because of course we realize that the us will remain a key partner africa futilely geographic location for me to want to expand our trade. is new mexico in the world. in mexico other words i would very much like mexican goods to go on sale in russia and russia. to come to mexico but we want more tourists to visit us this strategy of diversification that we have in force recently would make our economy less dependent on the u.s. we are working on it but it's not easy because our economies are obviously heavily intertwined. due to the very obvious reasons. why not. another drug trafficking what's your assessment of the progress in the war on drugs what do you make of the popular statement that the drug trafficking would shrink if there was a decline in demand i

if you can make this even stronger and undertake to do this more than once a year i think that would be terrific. this is good and i appreciate you doing this letter. speaker: is there a motion to approve the letter as amended. all in favor? the motion passes. we'll take a short break. we'll take five minutes. speaker: we're back in session. the next item on the agenda is consideration of ethics complain

narrator: the workers whose hands would convert the design in the final undertaking they had raised many buildingin their time, but this was a different challenge. cotruction manager: we're all out there trying to help everybody remember that we gotta do it just right. and if you hit a place three times with a vibrator, that won't hurt it. if you miss it one time, that's gonna hurt, that's right. you're not just out there pourin' concrete; you're carefully placing architectural concrete that peoe are going to see forever. and you don't get a seco shot at it. what you do is there, man. there's no way to hide it. u're either gonna brag about it or you're gonna be awful ashamed, one of the o, so you gotta do it right. you'll just never do anything like this again in your life, and so you'd better live it up this time. just once around is the way i look at it. ( laughter ) narrator: on every detail, there was to be no compromise in precision, no margin for error. working with concrete, iron, and steel, wood and plaster, they were working in tonnage and crafting in inches. the sharp corners a

unhcr are distributing food and undertaking efforts to prevention diseases at camps. they estimated that 185,000 people would flee syria by the end of the year. the new projection is almost four times higher tn the one made in june. >>> south sudan is expected to resume all exports within a few months. south sudan won independence from sudan in july of 2011 after two decades of civil war. the agreement was reached between sudanese president and south sudan president on wednesday after weeks of negotiations. the latest agreement failed to resolve a dispute over an oil rich border area. south sudan had been exporting oil through a pipeline and port but suspended oil production in january. expectations are growing that the latest agreement will help normalize relations despite the fact the source of the conflict remains unresolved. >>> japanese electronic makers are facie ining slumping sales. they are turned their focus to india. japanese company ies have to compete with their south korean rivals. >> reporter: a panasonic researcher walks through the area. >> translator

i have never had to go to a cemetery and see undertakers putting more than one person in al hole. i have never seen a situation where you tell the person to stay there and make sure everything is ok, and they shoot a person in the middle of the earthquake, and he dies and ends up in that hole. there was a time in my life when i came back to america of. one of the things i should have done was sick with the psychiatrist, because a lot of times we feel we do not have to do that, but you could see my face, when i go back there, i do not understand how you can describe, but the strength of these people, amputations with no drugs, people getting their legs cut off and all kinds of things. i will never see something like that. it was important to see firsthand, to give the viewer what that was like for me on the ground. >> for you to start your memoir like that means it was a similar moment in your life that changed you in some way, so how has that changed you? how fundamentally did it change in who you are to be important enough to lead your memoir with it? >> i understood the importan

the latest news report explains the expansion a is a national undertaking promeote b supreme leader kim jung-il. after discovering sub par maintenance he become angry and ordered repairs on the spot. ? july kim and his wife attended the opening ceremony of the amusement park and sampled the rides. >>> japan's bullet trains are famous for being fast and punctual. the average delay was 36 seconds. that kind of time keeping requires more than just the latest technology. here is a look at what's going on in the drivers cabin. for some people punctuality is a virtual. for usui, it's a driving passion. >> translator: my goal is to be one second within the stations and five seconds for station stops. >> reporter: he's been driving bullet trains for ten years. his destination is tokyo. a journey of 2:36. the automatic control system sets a maximum speed. depending on the spacing between trains. the computer can't determine the optimum speed to stay an schedule. it's still in the hands of the driver. >> translator: 54 minute, 15 seconds, on time. in order to be on schedule i calculate the speed

we have been undertaking department wide training in that general order. and that general order, for everybody's information, gives juvenile detainees even more rights in san francisco than they're guaranteed by the penal code. it was an exhaustive negotiation to develop that order. we developed it with the asian law caucus and the office of citizens complaints. it is a comprehensive order and all of our officers are being trained in that. with respect to the s-r-os, we do try and get s-r-os into the schools who are -- who have an interest in working with the police are like everyone else in every vocation. there are good ones and there are some that don't measure up. [speaker not understood] the s-r-o work with the students at the school, we can address that issue if it becomes a problem. but we are trying and we are listening. we've been here all day. >> thank you very much. if you can identify yourself for the folks who are watching. >> i am commander john loft us. i am in charge of the investigations. >> thank you, commander. i appreciate that. my apol

development entity to repair and tenant the bulkhead first and then demonstrate their qualification to undertake the long term development of pier 38 if deemed feasible. under this amoefp, the respondent will have to influence the repair of the bulkhead building first and then demonstrate their qualifications to develop all of pier 38. if deemed feasible. the commission would consider long term pier redevelopment proposal at a later time and these are typically 50 years in duration. and then with regards to the physical appearance of the pier shed. the master tenant would have to be responsible to make improvements to the bulkhead and depending on the amount of pier shed proposed. under the master developer approach they would be responsible for making improvements for the entire pier 38 pier shed. once staff has issued and received these responses, we will evaluate them, and we will try to evaluate them and we would hope for issue... well, we will try, the... let me go back a moment. >> we have would evaluate them, the submitle deadline is expected to be in february. we would try to evaluate, t

if you can make this even stronger and undertake to do this more than once a year i think that would be terrific. this is good and i appreciate you doing this letter. speaker: is there a motion to approve the letter as amended. all in favor? the motion passes. we'll take a short break. we'll spea back in session. the next item on the agenda is consideration of ethics complaint numbers eight one one zero eight one six and zero 911 zero eight one six. we have recommendations. speaker: before we proceed with items five, i would ask the commissions permission to be excused from any of the proceedings actually with item five, six and seven as has been pointed out correctly my wife both as city attorney and in her private capacity has been closely associated with lieu gun awe hospital and is also chair of the lagoon awe /hopbd awe foundation. i for the record will tell you i have no idea what any of those complaints are about , i have not spoken with any of the staff and have not looked at any of the papers associated with items five and six but i would think it more appropriate receipt if

we're undertaking a study of our inclusion rehousing program, we do that every five years so we're slightly behind for the 2006 study and we're looking at four prototypes and looking at the finances, given recent conditions. it is not just a snapshot in time. this is a dynamic point in the development community. the inclusion trade task that we are coordinating -- the inclusion married task -- inclusionary task we are coordinating, we are looking at a product type that is smaller at 20 units. there are a couple of things that work. one is the difficult economy across the board for buildings but given the economies of scale at the low end, it is acute for this. >> i would cautious on -- caution on that type of analysis. he will have massive changes in what is feasible and what is not feasible. looking back and seeing what has been built is a good barometer. the fact that one or nine we have heard have been built, granted the economy has been bad. is that related to the economy or this inclusion increase? it is tough to isolate. but i agree with many of the comments, these housing development

japanese fleet carries her son, pilots and air crew and the those losses plus the ability really to undertake new offensive operations into expanded massive civic perimeter. when it did go for ice, for america isn't open the way the first time to go on the offensive. now the joint chiefs that, in fact the combined chiefs of data from the british and american high command face a number of options of where to take the offensive against the action. all through 1942 is much talk of the strategy, the world by strategy of europe first. president roosevelt commended himself to it, to strengthen the alliance and maintain the confidence of pressure and continue its fight sure many people what is going on a back channel from the combined chiefs of staff in this meaning, especially on the american side is general marshall and matt king of american leadership. but there is a consensus we've got to do something somewhere. there's also a driving force in these discussions done is to the will to the in mind of one admiral ernest jay king at the commander-in-chief of the u.s. fleet, chief of naval operations

taken towards the very end of the session narrowed down the scope that the inspector general can undertake in terms of looking at local agency programs. several self-help counties are still resisting and are seeking a veto of the measure. two bills that i also want to just finally highlight relate to infrastructure financing districts. now we have talked about these for several years. there have been a number of attempts to try to develop the legislation that is acceptable to the governor in the world of infrastructure districts which is in a form of tax increment financing, in the wake of redevelopment agencies, more focus came to this tool, this year and two major bills are on the governor's desk at this point. ab2144 which is the speakers bill, generally provides a broader use of infrastructure financing districts. one thing the two bills and i will discuss the second bill in a second, have in common, and this was a fatal flaw i think in earlier versions of infrastructure financing district bills. it would have allowed entities to scoop up tax increments out of school districts share of

those countries are trying to undertake in order to get enough funding from the european union in order to pay their debt. all of that once again, it's the debt crisis that's causing all of this. causing the dow to fall 100 points to 13475. the s&p had its worst day in three months. the nasdaq also a rough day there. off 43 points to 3117. watching those pictures coming out of greece and we're expecting to see even more protests tomorrow because spain unveils its budget and it's not likely to get much applause in madrid. here at home, we're going to get a new reading on housing with the latest new home sales data coming off of a pretty good case yesterday. we're going to hear from heavy construction materials manufacture texas industries. facebook, well, it just seems the stock cannot get a break. the fallout continues. about 50 lawsuits now filed against them. and nasdaq where face book listed its ipo. security lawyers representing face book investors say they expect hundreds of arbitration claims to be filed that pitched that company's shares. face book shares, they've actually done p

the latest news report explained the expansion and operation of amusement parks is a national undertaking promoted by supreme leader kim jong-un. in may, a story was run showing kim inspecting an amusement park. after discovering its subpar maintenance he became angry and ordered repairs on the spot. state media also reported that in july, kim and his wife attended the opening ceremony of an amusement park in pyongyang and sampled the rides. >>> the regime tightly controls its people and the flow of information. once in a while, outsiders get a snapshot of life in this reclusive nation. an nhk crew returned from there. for the first time since kim jong-un took charge we were able to head into the countryside. our coverage started in the capital, pyongyang. bright lights illuminate streets. it runs counter to the belief that they suffer from energy shortages. crews are working to construct more buildings. despite all new, people enjoy the old. many visit the city's, most famous cold noodle restaurant. >> translator: i have not eaten every type of food around the world, but i believe nothin

. >> a teenager living on long island to start aqua culture, that's a big undertaking. >> yeah. i was a bit naive and had no idea what i was getting myself into at the time. but i had crazy parents that supported whatever i did and i started really small. started out with a few tanks, eventually trying to spawn snapper in the basement. >> what was the biggest tank you had in your home? >> the largest tank i had was about a 3,000 gallon tank which -- >> how big stla? >> it was a pool maybe 12 feet wide and it was about maybe three to four feet deep. >> you say your family was pretty understanding and supportive. sounds like they would have to have been considering some things that happened. >> yeah. there was a series of mishaps over the years, starting with tanks bursting, flooding the basement, followed by in the later years fires which burned half the house down. >> so you had a fire as a result -- what happened? >> we had a ventilation fan, because it was warm water, so humid in the basement, it was buckling wooden floors above so we had to put heavy ventilation fans in the b

struggling nations will need to boost their economic growth while undertaking austerity measures. >>> now the decision appears to have calmed down the bond market for now. spanish and italian government bonds were bought back. the yield on the spanish benchmark ten-year bonds declined from the mid6% range to just over 6%. the yield on the italian benchymark ten-year bonds fell from the mid-5% range to the 5.2% level. in late july, the spanish government bonds were trading well over the 7% threshold, a level at which a country is set to become financially unsustainable. >>> it's time to check on the markets. u.s. markets rallied on thursday marking strong gains on on the dow and nasdaq following the ecb policy meeting. the dow surged 1.9% at 13,292 points. this is a fresh closing high since the failure of lehman brothers in 2008. now to see how stocks are trading this friday here in tokyo, we go to ramin mellegard standing by at the tokyo stock exchange. good morning. investors were waiting for some kind of signal. it seems like they got it. >> yeah, they did get it, yonggi. positive s

>> it is against this background that the governing council today decided on the modalities for undertaking out right transactions. in secondary markets for a sovereign bonds. >> draghi said governments wanting the ecb to buy their bonds will have to adhere to strict conditions. the program is aimed at lowering borrowing costs pushed up by market uncertainty. >> we will have a fully effective backstop to avoid destructive scenarios with potentially severe challenges for price stability in the euro area. >> draghi added that there was one dissenting vote on the ecb board. it is widely believed to have been from germany, which has been opposed to ecb intervention. >> more analysis now from the german institute of economic research. you have seen the press conference. what do you make of the developments? >> i think we have seen a decisive break in european monetary policy. >> a good or bad thing? >> in general, i think it is a bad thing because the ecb should decide in terms of price stability based on the data for the whole euro area. now, what we have this redistribution among countries, an

but congress is not going to undertake any more stimulus. it is now in the hands of the fed and i commend mr. bernancke for shouldering the burden that is now his. >> this is six months before president obama is going to ask the american people to give him a second term. >> six months? >> it is eight weeks, john. i don't know the timing is influenced. i don't believe it is. i think bernancke is a good man. the timing is influenced by the fact he really is alarmed. but politically, this will help obama. you already saw the stock market, seeing all this new money. >> right. >> come pouring in. >> right. >> and where does the money go? it starts chasing commodities and things like that. it could drive the market up, it is going up hundreds of points and that is clearly going to help barack obama with a huge part of that 1% and 10% that he is not so well off with. >> employment is the real issue. will this help employment? >> we know that already. in the short-term no. >> i think that is politically much more significant. this will help the op t

we will undertake that process as quickly as possible and i will come back with a recommendation to theboard. >> on behalf of the board, we all take this issue very seriously. i believe we received over 4000 e-mail's on this. it was huge. >> not 4000, but there were above 500. maybe 700. there were a significant number. >> ok. >> maybe this should have been under new business or whatever, but the speed of the light rail vehicles on the eureka corp., -- the eureka curve -- >> we cannot hear you. >> is that better? thank you. on the lrv vehicle speed issue on the eureka curve, the last time we had a report on this it was minor standing that the worker be done may be early or mid summer. and it would be best to have a report back by deborah johnson when she was in your role. when the track work was done, i believe the speed and the curve would increase. my understanding that -- was that would happen over the summer. it seems from my personal daily commute we are still going at the reduced speed. i do not want to demand an answer today, but if we could get a report back on the year recurve

it's a very major undertaking. >> need something quantifiable. >> quantitative feedback at a individual level, i could not have got this promotion because of this class, or even better, this class changed my life. >> ming, we have a minute left and i want to get to something here. that is this tradition to google, you're famous, you show up at google, you have to go see ming. we have photos of some people that are recognizable. we have barack obama here, jimmy carter -- not jimmy carter, the bill clinton. you've met the dalai lama, of course. there's muhammad ali. and the queen of jordan. all right. everyone stops by your office and makes sure this is done. >> yes. >> why? just because everyone else before did? >> besides my good looks, you mien? >> other than that, obviously. >> it's a tradition. when al gore visited google, that was in 2001, i asked for a picture to impress my mom. then after al gore, jimmy carter came to visit and because he was a former president, it was kept a secret. however, i noticed that we have police cars hiding under the trees around the google parking lot.

so, it's a very serious undertaking, you have to build the house from the inside out, at last we see, and you can see the street gates are two low, usually they were over a basement many of which have been converted to garage spacing, here we are, this is again hill street, change. >> i'm trying. >> okay, sorry, and again on hill street, you can see the very small scale. it's important to bear that in mind. it's fully in tact street, these are -- my house on st. carlos was 1876, these tend to be about that age or later on in the 1880s. again, hill street, and yes, we're still going. god, there's so much. it's very important, it's a matter of compatibility and the compatibility really hasn't been respected in this case, and i would contest the staff comment that this block of valencia is not eligible because when we made liberty hill, we deliberately chopped off most of this block to expedite the formation of the historic district. there were absentee landlords who didn't respond and they cut off big districts in buena vista in the western addition. >> time's up, thank you. >> good eve

. >> with the undertaking this size, it is significant amount of coordination, is required when we are like i said, we have hundreds and hundreds of projects throughout staoet, for the next three years and beyond, they are working closely with partners and other cities to closely coordinate all of the work and also find efficiencies to save the city money and time. >> when we go out there and we do all of these projects it is important for the city and the department of public works to reach out to the businesses and the residents that may be affected by this construction. we send out all advanced noticing an example of a notice that someone might get in the mail 30 days in advance or ten days in advance of a construction project coming in their neighborhood. >> we work with construction management and public out reach staff to communication construction plans and announcements and updates about construction. and all of the contact information with questions on work that might be done in someone's neighborhood could be found on our website. >> so, just to wrap it up, there is the websi

it is a big undertaking, something we are very supportive of. but one of the messages to the voters was we want to deliver the projects. if they are ready to go, they are funded first. there are strict projects on the line. if like in prop k if we have programs in the fifth year and the sponsor doesn't come in the board can say you have a good story, we will let your funds rollover or could program them to other eligibility projects ready to go. the timing is also very good. we are about to embark this year on an update of the five-year priorityization programs, covering fiscal year 14-15, the next five. that is picking up the tail of prop a. we will be able to complement in two categories, the biggest opportunity are the rt, tps category and prop k where we can have the ability to advance a lot of funds if there are projects ready to go. same thing on street repair. may be able to advance funds to backfill the projects. >> thank you. >> colleagues, any other comments or questions? commissioner kim? >> i apologize for being away from the meeting