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it's being underwritten by city foundation and we're doing it in the mission district, at mission language and vocational school, who provide a number of programming for the community, and then it's something that we'll have continuing on on -- an ongoing basis. we're taking the same pool, after we've introduced them to sfmta, and we're going to represent them to san francisco h.r.c. and see if he can -- we can get them into thety's pipeline. if there are any companies that you guys think might be a good fit -- we've looked at the various type of construction firms. you can see it's everything from general engineering to electrical concrete, even as far as doors, cabinetry, there are a number of opportunities. what's unique about this program is i reached out to sfmta and found out that the marketing department could use some assistance. this is a sweet spot for some of our san francisco businesses. we're looking for people that can do copyrighting, graphic design, web design, printing. so a number of things that we typically haven't seen people try to get into the pipeline with is somethi

president to captioning by vitac, underwritten by fireman's fund >>> governor brown's massive $14 billion plan to build a pair of tunnels to transport water from north to the south and restore delta wetlands is already making waves with opposition by some environmental groups and democratic lawmakers. >> we will take into account the opposition, but we will not twiddle our thumbs. we will make decisions and get it done. >>> the revolution of hidden funds in the state parks department questions the oversight of the state agency. >>> and how does california score on the overall health

captioning by vitac, underwritten by fireman's fund >>> every single bite, need it to be -- >> twinkies in there. >> it's like a great big hug. >> about as spicy as i can handle it. my parents put chili powder in my baby food. >> just a lot of chillin

captioning by vitac, underwritten by fireman's fund >>> too big to fail? city college of san francisco, the largest community college is facing closure. the california high speed rail project gets funding approval. legal roadblocks remain. >>> federal agents step up and force doctors to overpre-criber painkillers. >>> i'm scott shaffer. coming up, we'll see the significant role that bay area artists have played and giving voice to the 99%. >>> coming up next. >>> good evening. i'm sitting in for belva davis. welcome to "this week in northern california." on our panel tonight is david lazarus for the "los angeles times." and in our studio, christina jewett with california watch. and nanette asimov. the san francisco cronicle education reporter. thank you for being here. nanette, let's start with you and the city college of san francisco. it is being threatened with losing accreditation. this is huge. this is a campus with 90,000 students. how did this happen and how are school officials responding? >> you know, this is really a story of good intentions goin

captioning by vitac, underwritten by fireman's fund >>> the u.s. supreme court ruling on the afford able care act means california's reform on the way is on the right track. >> the era of late budgets is over and i believe that if we continue on this path, this era of unending deficits will be over. >> california has an on time budget, but it is not without some pain, including furloughs for thousands of state workers and the elimination of the healthy families program. education funding remains intact if the voters approve the governor's tax plan in november. state funding to keep all state parks open past the original july 1st deadline. the need for a long-term funding solution remains. coming up next. >>> good evening. i'm belva davis. welcome to "this week in northern california." joining me tonight on the panel are, paul rogers, san jose news environment writer, and josh richm richman. we start with a look at thursday's highly anticipated ruling by the u.s. supreme court upholding key provisions of the affordable care act. how does the decisio

sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org captioning by vitac, underwritten by fireman's fund >> the drug truvada just approved by the fda for hiv prevention raises hope and concern on the eve of next week's international aids conference. >>> will google's loss put yahoo back on the map? we talk about marissa mayer and how she is generating a lot of buzz. >>> san francisco mayor ed lee gets push back from the stop-and-frisk policy as the issue of perjury charges are

captioning by vitac, underwritten by fireman's fund >>> too big to fail? city college of san francisco, the largest community college is facing closure. the california high speed rail project gets funding approval. legal roadblocks remain. >>> federal agents step up and force doctors to overpre-criber

well, they won't use the word well, they won't use the word captioning by vitac, underwritten by fireman's fund >>> too big to fail? city college of san francisco, the largest community college is facing closure. the california high speed rail project gets funding approval. legal roadblocks remain. >>> federal agents step up and force doctors to overpre-criber

captioning by vitac, underwritten by fireman's fund >>> governor brown's massive $14 billion plan to build a pair of tunnels to transport water from north to the south and restore delta wetlands is already making waves with opposition by some environmental groups and democratic lawmakers. >> we will take into account the opposition, but we will not twiddle our thumbs. we will make decisions and get it done. >>> the revolution of hidden funds in the state parks department questions the oversight of the state agency. >>> and how does california score

episode 9 of the charlie rose brain series 2, underwritten by the siemens foundation. >> multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease. so the immune system developed in order to protect us against foreign invaders like viruses and bacteria. and on occasion it errs and recognizes a protein in the body and becomes the target of an i pun attack. it's been obvious to pain people all along that the variety of organs in the body that are susceptible to this kind of attack. for example we have known that type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that hits cells in the pancreas that release insulin or crohn's disease is an autoimmune disease that affects the bowel testimony has been less obvious although it is perfectly clear that autoimmune diseases also affect the brain even though the brain has this protective barrier called the blood brain barrier, auto immune disease can penetrate that and attack it. and this is where we see multiple sclerosis. >> rose: the charlie rose brain series is about the most exciting scientific experience of our time. >> understanding the brain. this series is paid poss

. >> rose: episode 10 of the charlie rose brain series 2 underwritten by the siemens foundation, coming up. >> the charlryios brain series is about the most exciting scientific journally of our time. understanding the brain. the series is made possible by a grant from the siemens foundation. their mission is to advance the fron tears of research in the basic sciences and mathematics. funding for charlie rose was provided by the following: . >> from our captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: tonight we continue our exploration of the magnificent brain with a look at amyotrophic lateral sclerosis more commonly known as als and spinal muscular atrophy or sma. both of these are defined by the loss of spinal motor neurons. sma generally strikes at birth or very early in life whereas als usually occurs at middle age or later. sma is an inherited disease and results in mutations in a beginning el single gene. currently there is no cure for either als or sma. lou gehrig the great baseball player who died from als once said,

we have done that comes with a mountain of debt underline and you, the states, have underwritten a lot of that debt. so hospital bonds and guarantee of those bonds. so one approach would be to sell, it is to sell short hospital bonds because if you look at the costs of what's in this, half of the cost our hospitals and doctors. the bulk of the federal debt going forward is health care. health care will be larger than the entire rest of the spending in government. the only way to mend the federal debt will be drawing a lot of money out of medicare and cutting payments and rearranging payments to doctors and hospitals. and hospitals being the biggest chunk of that, so, you know, we're looking at really a cataclysmic change in an industry that's just like other industries, like read too much capacity, with the underpinnings of what was going on in the economic system changed rapidly. the other analogy is psychiatric hospitals. one year we were a third of your states budgets. we deinstitutionalized psychiatric care and hope about to do is to institutionalize medical care. will move at in t

so we have a mountain of debt underlying, and you the states have underwritten a lot of that debt.hose hospital bonds and guaranteed those bonds. so one approach would be to sell -- the big short is to sell short hospital bonds, because if you look at the cost of all what's in this, half of the costs are hospitals and doctors. the bulk of the federal debt going forward is health care. health care will be larger than the entire rest of spend in government. the only way to bend the federal debt is going to be drawing a lot of money out of medicare and cutting payments and rearranging payments to doctors and hospitals. and hospitals being the biggest chunk of that. so you know, we're looking at really a cataclasmic change in an industry that's just like other industries, like the steel industry, where we had too much capacity, where the underpinnings of what was going on in that economic system changed rapidly. the other analogy is psychiatric hospitals. at one point, where one third of your state -- it was one third of your state budgets and in the '70s they closed and we de institut