captioning by vitac, underwritten by fireman's fund >>> good evening. i'm joshua johnson of kqed news. welcome to "this week in northern california." governor brown is continuing the trade mission in china this weekend. he signed agreements between trade between china than california and help one of the polluting nations to improve air quality. he signed for a major development near jack london square. he promoted high speed rail. today, the governor presided over the reopening of california's trade and investment office in shanghai after ten years of it being closed. i spoke with john myers, political editor for kxtv news 10. john myers, welcome. >> good to be with you, joshua. >> how is governor brown doing so far? is he accomplishing the goals he set out to accomplish? >> i think so. jerry brown really had two goals, i would say, on this trade mission here to china. we're in shanghai. we're in the second of the city he is visiting. long term. he wants a long-term relationship with china. more economic trade. more investment. more partnerships. he sig

captioning by vitac, underwritten by fireman's fund >>> good evening. i'm joshua johnson of kqed news. welcome to "this week in northern california." governor brown is continuing the trade mission in china this weekend. he signed agreements between trade between china than california and help one of the polluting nations to improve air quality. he signed for a major development near jack london square. he promoted high speed rail. today, the governor presided over the reopening of california's trade and investment office in shanghai after ten years of it being closed. i spoke with john myers, political editor for kxtv news 10. john myers, welcome. >> good to be with you, joshua. >> how is governor brown doing so far? is he accomplishing the goals he set out to accomplish? >> i think so. jerry brown really had two goals, i would say, on this trade mission here to china. we're in shanghai.

captioning by vitac, underwritten by fireman's fund >>> good evening. i'm joshua johnson. welcome to "this week in northern california." the manhunt is over for a suspect accused of the attack on the boston marathon. police have arrested dzhokhar tsarnaev in a boston suburb. meanwhile, a boy from contra costa county is recovering from the bombing. a family of aaron hearn said he could be released from the hospital soon. >>> there is plenty to discuss. joining us are paul rogers, environmental writer for the san jose news. jaxon van derbeken, reporter for the san francisco chronicle. and emil guillermo, a blogger for the asian-american legal defense. welcome. immigration in congress is getting attention these days on the farms and the sill valley. both rely on immigrant work forces. the tech sectors biggest names launched a campaign called forward u.s. the ceos of facebook and zinga and others. emil, let's start with the key compromise of the bill. >> before we get to that, you mentioned agriculture workers, 400,000 in california that could benefit from this and the high te

captioning by vitac, underwritten by fireman's fund >>> good evening. i'm susan schaefer i'm scott shafer. joining me now is david baker, energy reporter. chuck nevius and jill tucker. >> the governor threw down the gauntlet this week and calling it a civil rights issue. >> the state is turning into a . those at middle and bottom are doing worse. >> jill, boil it down for us. what are the main points the governor is proposing in the plan? >> what the governor wants to do is make a complicated funding system simpler. instead of giving money to schools on old formulas and not teaching and what they need, he is saying let's give everybody a base amount from $6,300 to $7,200 depending on the grade level. you will get more if you have students that are more difficult to teach and they have more issues and they need more time and attention. it is a fairly simple system on the face of it that says if you have these kids, this is how much money you will get. >> the thinking is the extra money will be used for what? more teachers or tutors? what? >> you know wha

captioning by vitac, underwritten by fireman's fund >>> good evening. welcome to "this week in northern california." one year ago this week, the shootings in oakland took seven lives. today, the national debate of how to stem gun violence continues. california already has some of the toughest gun laws in the country. berkeley assembly member's bill to regulate purchases cleared a committee this week, but requires full approval by the assembly. >>> on the news panel is david bak baker, tom vacar, ktvu news editor and then carla marinucci. president obama's first visit to the bay area since re-election wasn't without controversy. republicans accused him of coming to billionaire row and protesters accused him of coming to the aid of keystone xl pipeline. carla marinucci, i know you were at some of the events. what was the purpose of the president's trip in. >> the purpose was money. this was the president's first trip since re-election. the san francisco bay area and atm. he was doing a favor to nancy pelosi to come into san francisco to pick up $3.25 mill

captioning by vitac, underwritten by fireman's fund >>> good evening. welcome to "this week in northern california." one year ago this week, the shootings in oakland took seven lives. today, the national debate of how to stem gun violence continues. california already has some of the toughest gun laws in the country. berkeley assembly member's bill to regulate purchases cleared a committee this week, but requires full approval by the assembly. >>> on the news panel is david bak baker, tom vacar, ktvu news editor and then carla marinucci. president obama's first visit to the bay area since re-election wasn't without controversy. republicans accused him of coming to billionaire row and protesters accused him of coming to the aid of keystone xl pipeline.

captioning by vitac, underwritten by fireman's fund >>> good evening. welcome to "this week in northern california." one year ago this week, the shootings in oakland took seven lives. today, the national debate of how to stem gun violence continues. california already has some of the toughest gun laws in the country. berkeley assembly member's bill to regulate purchases cleared a committee this week, but requires full approval by the assembly. >>> on the news panel is david bak baker, tom vacar, ktvu news editor and then carla marinucci. president obama's first visit to the bay area since re-election wasn't without controversy. republicans accused him of coming to billionaire row and protesters accused him of coming to the aid of keystone

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captioning by vitac, underwritten by fireman's fund >>> good evening. i'm joshua johnson of kqed news. welcome to "this week in northern california." governor brown is continuing the trade mission in china this weekend. he signed agreements between trade between china than california and help one of the polluting nations to improve air quality. he signed for a major development near jack london square. he promoted high speed rail. today, the governor presided over the reopening of california's trade and investment office in shanghai after ten years of it being closed. i spoke with john myers, political editor for kxtv news 10. john myers, welcome. >> good to be with you, joshua. >> how is governor brown doing so far? is he accomplishing the goals he set out to accomplish? >> i think so. jerry brown really had two goals, i would say, on this trade mission here to china. we're in shanghai. we're in the

housing here to buy those flats with borrowed money from the bank at reasonable rates that was being underwritten by all that money coming in from the oil industry and now because the oil has run out and because credit is scarce and no matter what the bank of england does we've hit peak credit now you've got also the problem of having hundreds of thousands of units where people who do honest work people to do actual stuff that people need to do they can't afford to live anymore so they're out of the picture so the services are crashing basic services and one of the left so what are they going to do with the n.h.s. which is the public health care system in the u.k. we're going to privatized that are going to sold off the private developers will destroy it like the glazer brothers who destroyed manchester united they take money out they load up with a billion pounds of debt you know the glazers run national health how the glazers run the transportation system american strip mining you know it is going to come in here and just destroy the country more take all the money out thanks to deregulation of

at 20% margin, that's a $1 billion cash benefit to the soda industry underwritten by people making $50,000 a year. that's just not in an age of austerity, that cannot go on. >> the answer is go to the usda and say we would like you to expand the size and scope of your bureaucracy -- >> no, not at all. >> that's what the usda says they you're going to start picking and choosing, based on -- i don't know how you define nutritional foods. there are 15,000, for instance, 15,000 savory snacks with bar codes. you're going to sort through 15,000 -- >> no. but karen, the bottom line is this is not a lifestyle program. this is a nutrition assistance program. there are all kinds of limitations -- >> how should the federal government go about determining if your private company is on the good list or the bad list? -- >> right now in the state of new york, there is a debate going on because it was found out welfare money has been used at strip clubs to buy cigarettes, all sorts of things. >> that's waste, fraud and abuse. >> no, it's not, 'cause it's legal. what's happening is the same argument -- >>

these are not underwritten which is a big difference . host: here's larry from indiana.epublican line. caller: recently i went through divorce and i went back to school later in life and got a degree in h.r. i got the degree. shortly after got the degree the economy went to crap and lost my job. so they sent me deferments. but i had never handled that aspect of the loan. my ex wife always did that. so i failed to get it in on time even though i failed to get it deferred several times. now the situation is this. i'm back to work now and my loan since it went into default was sold to a company and they took the loan and they're charging me 25% interest. so i said i contacted an attorney i'm going to try to get some kind of relief. the attorney says you can't because it's still a student loan. since it's still a student loan and i can't get relief how is it that they can charge me 25% interest on a loan that i had originally for less than 4? that's my question. i mean, i'm not above paying the loan back but i'm in a situation now where they're garnishing my wages 75 a week

this overly broad blank check has underwritten the past decade of perpetual war. i have a resolution, h.r. 198, it's the repeal of the authorization for the use of military force. this will remove one of the underlying legal justifications for targeted drone killings that has been invoked over and over again -- this time targeted killings -- to justify a wide range of activities, including warrantless surveillance and wiretapping activities and, yes, a blank check for war anywhere anytime for any length of time. i hope those who are listening and who care about this go back and read that resolution of 9/14. what it said is the president -- i'm paraphrasing -- the president is authorized to use force against any nation, organization, individual deemed connected to terrorism and the 9/11 attacks. now, this was in 2001. 2001. no end game, no timetable, a blank check, perpetual war until this is repeated -- repealed -- excuse me. so congress really needs to reassert its constitutional authority in the matters of war. our founding fathers were very deliberate in placin