this story about immigrants throughout san francisco's history, and i will forever, no matter what undoing, whether in the city administrator for mayor -- i will understand that our and the rights commission is there to make sure we understand that history, that everybody in this city, whether a company or corporation or police and firemen or fire department understands that the diversity in the city is to be something that is celebrated. you are part of the fabric, so with that, please, welcome yourselves here. this is as much your house as it is ours. have a wonderful nowruz celebration. and we will continue to have open dialogue welcoming all of the families here today. thank you very much today, and have the persian new year -- half the persian new year -- kathy -- happy persian new year. [applause] that my great words of wisdom. we appreciate. now, i would like to introduce the coast of this event. a man who in our community does not need any introduction. he has been loved and supported by our community. he is of a ready and heritage, and he has been an ardent supporter of the irania

. -- this board or another board would undo it. i would not overturn that, and if they did come in for an application, we would deny it, and they would have to come appeal to you why the condition would have to be removed. >> we would not be sitting on the board. greg >> may be pure give some people are here for a long time. -- maybe. some people would be her for a long time. >> i would like to ask the appellants if that is something they would be willing to a except -- to accept. >> i would accept that condition. >> i am just clarifying your motion. you would be adopting findings, and those findings would include a determination of the error at the discretion. >> we will call the motion again. >> on the motion from the vice- president to grant this appeal, overrule, the conditions to be adopted at a later time, but there would be a notice of special restrictions to limit both properties to single family dwelling and no further envelope expansion without a bearing. on that motion? >> no further envelope expansion, period. iraq's ag

just as pollen fly and the modified plants drift unwelcome fields fish that escape will undo the predictions made by industry and the longer be subject to control. a man is the only one link in the food chain the entire ecosystem is affected. thomas burden's is a member of syria traffics team and sees the matter from an ecological viewpoint. i have been to cuba and we have some cooperation with a group. of scientists from cuba and i think very interesting example of transgenic fish it has some of the traits that it was not expected when they modified the genes of the fish they have found that the fish is growing about twice as fast as the normal. but that's a side effect of a totally different effect it also tolerate salt water and that may be very important in for example the further spread of that species. so it also shows that the. transgenic or organism may suddenly have some other traits that was not expected and maybe not wanted and just come with a side effect of the case the difference is that. we don't put that first generation of crops or animals out onto the market we observe them

wo seal up the windows and all the building we did made it rot and it needed ventilation and had to undo the work that was done and back to the original design and expensive project and $20 million plus but it's a gorgeous building. woody can tell us about carville. >> this is the last in fact carville house. it was a community of discarded streetcars, horse pulled cars, various modes of transportation that were made obsolete by electric streetcars so cars were dumped out in the beach and sunset side and people made residences and the one is there and two cable cars and that is the upper and lower level and from the back it doesn't look like anything and they had club houses and bo hemian musicians would go out and take a dip in the obligatio ocean and romance. >> what a wonderful time. >> people didn't like it and came up with a slogan "burn the car out of carville" and they wanted traditional housing. >> wind mills. okay two in the park and one that is now restored and functioning which was the dutch wind mill and the other, the murphy wind mill which is being restored. the dutch wind

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why make that suspicion so public only to have to undo it 24 hours later? there is a sense in germany actually that this thing is being handled poorly. if you look at the main mass market this morning, chaos up there on the left of your screen, i think. chaos about killer germs. so there is a perception now in germany itself that things are going badly wrong. that this thing has not been handled properly. >> very briefly. is that rebounding on the chancellor merkel? >> it is not at the moment. chancellor merkel is in washington in discussions with president obama. she seems well above this kind of thing but there is a general sense of the authorities getting it wrong. of the authorities so in confusion, if you like. whether that sort of feeds through and ends up being a government not in control is another matter. at the moment, it is too vague for that. just a sense of that, chaos. >> thanks very much. matthew price in brussels. thanks. japan's official nuclear safety agency has more than doubled its estimate of how much radiation escaped from the nuclear

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but certainly, we should absolutely not allow that to be a backdoor way of undoing what the citizens of this city overwhelmingly supported in the shipyards and the board of supervisors support it, also. someone has said, let the chips fall where they may. the chips have fallen. this project was overwhelmingly support it. it needs to go forward. the thing that disturbs me the most, on this issue and a lot of other things, i have -- i am representing the san francisco naacp and our church -- the thing that kind of really gets me is that we love to talk about the environment, but somehow, those who seem so concerned by the environment never allow children who are hurting and living in poverty, people who are unemployed, somehow, those people never disturb their environmental landscape. that messes with my environment. having clean air does not do me any good if it is being preached by unemployed, hurting, and hungry people. we need this economic revitalization and we need to move this forward. thank you so much. supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker? next speaker. i would ask that

this was conceived and organized in 1960, known as the national organization to undo the house un-american activities committee. i am here as a concerned citizen surprised by the steps san francisco has taken. there's a long diversity of opinions of dissent. this seems to a blended with the signing of the jttf agreement. your local tourist action is being served by organizations. as a result, your police department is more accountable to the federal government than to the community it is supposed to serve. the agreement also has an oversight body for the preservation of community policing. it makes any human rights complaints almost useless. they would have to go to the fbi. over the past 10 years, many arab-americans have been subject to intense and unwarranted scrutiny -- scrutiny by such organizations, like the fbi and others. it has not only been the fbi. people have been alienated from civic participation. [tone] sfpd should recall what john crew mentioned, the expos pay. >> your time is up. sorry. >> yesterday we shredded the bill of rights. today by being part of the jttf, is treadi

the white house thinks it's the right mix as to not undo the fragile gains of this long war. hundreds of troops returned home to ft. carson, colorado, on wednesday greeted by loved ones they haven't seen in over a year. >> i'm happy. i got the things i treasure the most with me right now so i'm good. >> reporter: by next summer, 33,000 other troops in afghanistan will be reunited with their families. >> good evening. >> reporter: president obama said major strides made against al qaeda including the killing of osama bin laden is allowing the u.s. to draw down its military force. the remaining 70,000 troops will be brought home at a steady pace and the president plans to hand over security to the afghan people in 2014. >> over the last decade we have spent $1 trillion on war. now we must invest in america's greatest resource, our people. >> military leaders are supporting the president's decision but lawmakers on capitol hill are split over the pace of the drawdown. after the president's speech, republican senator lindsey graham posted a tweet saying "we've undercut a strategy

says she's handled dozens of dogs whose breeds are known to bite and believes it is up to humans to undo the stereotypes of dangerous breeds. >> they were bred for fighting, bred for baiting. we did that. we created this dog for a purpose, and maybe it was in the 16th century, or, you know, the 20th. whatever we created, we've got to uncreate. >>> when we come back, we'll sit down with a panel of experts in search of solutions. stay with us. , % >>> welcome back to equal time on the campus of san jose state university. today, our focus, dangerous dogs. we have some very interesting guests today, including-- >> telly lehman with the insurance network of california. >> i'm natalie keen of canine concepts professional dog grooming in morgan hill. >> i'm ryan sill tan, student at san jose state university and i'm a victim of a dog attack. >> i'm a retired software engineer and i and my dog are avictim of a very vicious pitbull attack. >>> we thank our guests for being here. there are no dog haters here, but this is a serious concern in our society. ryan, what happened to you

congressman's campaign to fix his image says that has to happen immediately but it will take time to undodone to the congressman's career and most importantly, derek, the peoples trust. >> lots of work to be done. we thank you for that. >>> now to another political mess. this one at d.c. city hall. today former mayoral candidate brown appeared before a d.c. council committee to testify about his accusations of pay- offs about mayor vincent gray and his campaign. he says he was paid to verbally attack the then mayor during last years primaries. brown brought along receipts and copies of money orders he says he was given by gray's top campaign aid. >> right here, if you like to see them, and these were given to us for our campaign by the gray campaign. now, when they purchased them, i don't know, don't even care. i just know when i received them. >> brown had testy exchanges with just about every member of the committee. as for mayor gray, today his office would only say it's awaiting the results of three different investigations into brown's allegations. >>> d.c. councilman harry thomas jr

i came here to try to undo your reagan trade during the russian league try to mean everything. and i have opportunity to cheer to play. one of the leading roles in this team and that's one thing i was missing in and be well kristie just likely to be a starter and serious crimes go to man me i will probably have to be content with playing time on the court however the american scene is his versatility could prove to be a major plus point for the army even at the end of the i just want to try to do things to help the team win whether it's rebounding scoring the ball or passing the wall or playing defense and you know i feel like on this team i can really help you know in a lot of different ways because it is not so much pressure on one individual guy each game but as a collective group we can find ways to do a lot of little things to help this team the way they are serious come our club in transition but many of the old guard stepping down however the army men have been quick to replace them with some of the best talent from around europe as baylor to regain their place going to

. >> reporter: but the generals say they are finally making progress, and a rapid pullout could undo those gains. diane sawyer was in afghanistan with the defense secretary recently. >> reporter: you said, mr. secretary, modest drawdown. the president said substantial drawdown. modest, significant? >> well, the question depends on what time frame you're using. and july is going to seem like a modest number. >> reporter: modest in the military's mind would be a few thousand troops, no more than 5,000. but with americans souring on the war, and bin laden now dead, some are calling for a much larger number. there are suggestions the president could settle on something as high as 15,000 troops. >> if we accelerate withdraw right now because we're war weary, we're going to lose this war. >> reporter: the administration admitted today it has been talking to the taliban for the past couple of weeks. secretary gates says he's concerned that the taliban won't get serious about peace talks until the winter, which is why he wants to keep the pressure on and the troop levels high. david? >> all

the big issue, they didn't want to sort of undo all that jerrymandering and those weird squiggly lines of all the districts that politicians so beautifully set up up ten years ago. they wanted a fair process that didn't have the politics yet kept intact ethnic communities so they wouldn't be disenfranchised, voter rights act. that was important. so what happened today? well, we saw some changes in san francisco where san francisco was melded into one senate district instead of two, setting up a potential battle ahead between mark leno and leland yee. that's an interesting one. but the other -- >> belva: the big news, i believe, what happened down in fremont? in the south? >> in fremont, it's a good example of ethnic communities that really participated in this process. the indian american community, the south asian community, pakistanis, afghans, indians, vietnamese, really participated in this process. and yet their community, one of the fastest-growing indian communities in the country, is not the largest, was split in half down in the south. they're very upset about that. this is ju

half of the mother of twins and the facebook settlement ruled that they could not undo the agreement8. they wanted to reverse the ruling but now they say they would drop the lawsuit. >> kimberlee: j k rowling will post notes and other items and download the ebook on potterville.com >>pam: suicide negotiations to talk to a man who is trying to end his life on the golden gate bridge. a story it will only see on kron 4 news ♪ [ woman ] sam begged and pleaded... so i sent him to camp. we'd earned lots of points with our new citi thankyou card... and i put them to good use. he told me about his bunkmates, and how he signs up for every activity. ♪ he even hangs out with the camp director. just like that. [ male announcer ] the new citi thankyou premier card gives you more ways to earn points. what's your story? citi can help you write it. >>pam: today's big story. boulgers, the mafia guy from massachusetts was taken into custody in the southern california after a 1.5 >>catherine: some people movie. >> when you are facing a he became fbi informant. the>> he is a the violent 19 murders. pets

they dropped the lawsuit trying to undo a $65 million settlement they agreed to. the case inspired the movie "social network". the twins claim they were deceived. but the court in san francisco ruled against them, now it's over. >> speaking of fighting over money, state lawmakers say it's not fair their pay is being docked, passing a budget, they say but the governor vetoed it saying that the numbers just didn't add up. and there is a law hitting them in the wallet no. budget, no pay. >> lawmakers continue to work without pay, there are questions swirling whether the loss is legal. critics say one branch should not be able to hold power over another. >> i believe there are significant constitutional issues about the balance of powers and separation of the legislative and executive branch. >> some are saying a lawsuit should be filed challenging the decision for withholding pay for not passing a balanced budget but leadership is mum about whether they'll do so. >> the question is getting a budget done so is what we're focused on now. >> democrats rushed through a b

bancroft davis but with the stroke of his quill undo the intentions of our founders and sucked the nation down the road to corporatocracy please help us spread the truth about what really happened in a painful court case in one thousand nine hundred six and to put an end to corporate personhood and bus stop this ruthless takeover of our democracy. are all coming out of the case against the one n.s.a. whistleblower crumbles the obama administration steps up its probe of the wiki leaks more details after the break. twenty four seven live streaming news towns like to tell you about the ongoing financial hurricane unlimited three high quality videos for download. and stories you may never find on mainstream news. from the. political. person more on our team doctor just. for. fun. well forty years ago this week the new york times began publishing the pentagon papers leaks by a courageous whistleblower who wants to expose the mishandling of a war for the greater good of this country and today daniel ellsberg is revered by many as a hero but those who follow in his footsteps the modern whistlebl

reform wall street of its bad behavior and what little has been done republicans are now trying to undo at the end of last week the republican controlled house appropriations committee passed legislation that cuts funding for the critical government watchdogs in charge of making sure the financial crisis of two thousand and eight doesn't happen again that includes cutting the consumer financial protection bureau the republicans are doing a lot in trying to do this and pledging to block anyone who president obama nominates to run that agency the republican bill also includes holding flat the funding for the securities and exchange commission even though that agency has a lot more responsibility under the wall street reform act. so it's back to business as usual on wall street meanwhile canadian and european financial regulators are going gangbusters with new financial regulations cracking down on their banks to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past so why is it that we're not doing the same thing here in the united states when it comes to regulating banks toure's like the rest of the

. >> we have to try to repopulate the historic stream autos they have to undo what years of logging andining on this property left behind. years ago loggers left chunks of redwood all over the property. now it's become the basis for the new habitat. you can see one has been bolted to the tree next to it. giant logs create good hiding places for young salmon to feed and keep gravel adault adaults -- adults need to spawn from getting washed away. >> it's working well and they shot this video of a wild cho salmon that swam up from the ocean to spawn that. means they're surviving. >> it's very gratifying. >> there is more left to do. there is only 4% of the salmon that will see the ocean f one out of 100 makes it back to spawn, biologists will call this a success. >> coming up a different sort of survival story. >>> join me tonight at 9:00, coming up, this space is reserved. preferred parking for green car autos then keeping it local. the bay area community creating the first neighborhood debit card. >> and now, good news for cal baseball. >> larry beil is here now. >> and facing an elimina

that was him in a flamboyant response to this parliamentary gambit by which reed was able to undo his libertarian opposition. when he affected this reform, he can run through legislation in the name of progress. he was setting the united states on the road to a much bigger government. holden saw this coming. >> what was the disappearing quorum? >> that was when someone calls roll-call. the minority party simply does that open its mouth -- does not open its mouth. there in the chamber but they are vocally absence. -- they are in the chamber but they are vocally absent. by saying nothing, and they bring it to a halt. you can see how frustrating it would be to anyone who as elected to do business in congress. they come all this way to sit there and read the newspaper. >> how did he stop the disappearing quorum? >> one day in early 1890, congress is in session. reed is in the speaker's chair. there is a contested election. congress itself is the judge in the suitability of members. it decides the outcome. one of these was brought before the house. the republican had the majority if not en

that was him in a flamboyant response to this parliamentary gambit by which reed was able to undo his libertarian opposition. when he affected this reform, he can run through legislation in the name of progress. he was setting the united states on the road to a much bigger government. holden saw this coming. >> what was the disappearing quorum? you can see a go wing. x e can see this. they've built parks. they built an empire. the people who do not trust the government has office structure. they would protect themselves. this was coleman and a flamboyant response to this parliamentary gambit. he was able to on tuesday the libertarian opposition. when he could do this, he could run through legislation. he did not see your this would wind up. >> what was the disappearing corm. >> that was when someone calls roll-call. the minority party simply does not open its mouth. they are in the chamber but they are vocally absent. by saying nothing, they bring it to a halt. you can see how frustrating it would be to anyone who as elected to do business in congress. they come all this way to sit th

any evidence of replace if you know and they're not interested again their corporate masters want to undo the health care plan it's not a matter of what the american people want. and you know that the other thing is they really don't have a positive legislative program they never have they're very good in opposition they're very good at soundbites they're very disciplined and messes. but what they're not good at is governing because they don't care what the facts are and if you don't know or care what the facts are you can't run anything it's this is these are not ordinary conservatives that you know i respect conservatives i don't agree with them all the time these are idiot logs their ideology is what matters to them they're the true believers and the facts don't get in the way of their true beliefs the state of vermont your state rival for a decade when you were the governor yes it's because it was it was great having you as my governor. has passed you know here's someone who ran on a campaign of single payer health care the legislation was passed and he signed it . there and now it ne

it just prints its way out of its problems but eventually that's going to that's going to be its undoing and many people have commented that and on the united states i don't think i even need to get into that here but is there a threat to the financial system absolutely based on greece's fault it's the fault of an over leveraged system that has no capital there's no capital the system it's just it's about the credit and there's a legitimate concern because everything is. there's a huge counter party risk in the system that you still have all these credit default swaps out there on greek debt on irish tax on portuguese debt on spanish that you would have credit default swaps. on u.s. debt so there's a lot of counterparty risk there's a lot of risk in the system and it's not even a matter of specifically how much can the system absorb specifically of greek losses but there's also the the concern that what we saw during the financial crisis in the u.s. in two thousand and eight it wasn't just you know what effect that lehman's actual bounce you have but what effect did people's banks fear a

the taliban whatever you want to call them have switched their tactics because it's very hard for to undo against a nato force yourself over the last year particularly if they are yours so there was already two suicide attacks which get a lot of attention to the other is that the insurgency if you will where people are not happy with the government. related go away everybody so they are able to use these people who theoretically have been cleared or war supposedly. good people to go we to. secure facilities and this is happening all over the country do you think of this is trying to send more of a message specifically to foreign troops especially if they go to the intercontinental maybe foreign troops but foreign diplomats anyone who was there well i think when you go. the hotels like it's called got a little serener which are heavily guarded and basically are the places where visitors. were users not common ordinary people are trying to send a signal because most of those people have troops in afghanistan to pay for security is not getting any better because this gets more more attention

to undo the gains that the nato forces have made over the last year particularly the southern areas so they're resorting to the suicide attacks which get a lot of attention to the other is the insurgency if you will where people not how with the government. but when they did go away everybody so they were able to use these people who theoretically have been cleared or war supposedly. good people to go we through. secure facilities and this is how people over the country how do you think of this is trying to send more of a message specifically to foreign troops especially if they go to the intercontinental maybe the foreign troops but foreign diplomats anyone who was there well i think when you go to hotels like you to carve out a little surreal or which are heavily guarded. and basically all the places where visitors think these are is not common ordinary people are trying to send a signal because most of those people have troops in afghanistan that they had to security is not getting any better because this gets more more attention than say a taliban attack if you know one of the sout

to undo the gains that the nato forces have made over the last year particularly. those so they're resorting. these suicide attacks which get a lot of attention and the other is that the insurgency if you will of people not happy with the government on have not been eliminated will ever be so they are able to use these people who theoretically have been cleared or war supposedly good people to go in to. secure facilities and this is happening all over the country do you think of this is trying to send more of a message specifically to foreign troops especially if they go into intercontinental name and foreign troops but foreign diplomats anyone who is there well i think when you go to hotels like into combat a little serener which are heavily guarded and basically are the places where visitors distinguish visitors not common ordinary people they're trying to send a signal because most of those people have troops in afghanistan that has security is not getting any better because this gets more and more attention than say a taliban attack in you know one of the solvi

and a rapid pullout could undo those gains. diane sawyer was in afghanistan, with the defense secretary recently. >> you said, mr. secretary, modest drawdowns. the president has said substantial drawdowns. modest? significant? >> the question depends on what time frame you're using. in july, it will seem like a modest number. >> reporter: modest in the military's mind would be a few thousands troops, no more than 5,000. with americans souring on the war and bin laden now dead, some are calling for a larger number. there are suggests the president could settle on something as high as 15,000 troops. >> if we accelerate withdrawal right now because we're war-weary, we're going to lose this war. >> reporter: the u.s. admitted it is in talks with the taliban but secretary gates says he doesn't believe the enemy will get serious about talks until the winter, which is why he wants to keep the pressure on and troop levels high. david kerley, abc news, the white house. >>> and the troops themselves, which side do they favor in the decis

it's going to be interesting to see if it's his undoing now. allison, thank you very much. >>> is innovation the seed that can get the economy moving? fareed zakaria thinks so. he'll host a show tomorrow night focusing on innovation. he'll look at the defense advanced research projects agency, and here is sapreview. >> the high stakes of providing sound technology for soldiers in combat motivates the team to create the best technology in the world. >> they simply must work in all numbers of austere situations. life and death, and that kind of urgen urgency, it focuses the mind and inspires greater genius. >> reporter: most famously, they funlded the first version of the internet. in 1969, computer hubs called nodes were able to send messages to oech other over a phone line. >> that original investment was about $150 million. and that gave birth to the internet now, about $300 billion later. >> reporter: these days, he's working on a slew of exciting innovations including big dog. a groundbreaking project in robotics. the idea is to create a rob

washington in a way appropriate to the president, so we brought in a ground station so they could not undo it. at any rate, we would have been amazed at the rapid progress that has taken place and which really couldn't take place until the reforming group came in. >> host: he was succeeded by who in the late 1970s revolutionizeed the chinese economy through agriculture reforms that laid the framework for what we see today; right? >> guest: right. he, for him, everything was ideology. i don't know whether a cow is black or gray as long as it catches mice. anything that worked was acceptable, and he liberated the energy to the chinese people. one has to remember that over the last 2,000 years, in 1800 of the last 2,000 years, china had the largest growth, domestic product in the world. it was just in the 19th century that they fell apart because of the impact of colonialism, but chinese economic growth didn't really take place until just about 30 years ago. >> host: how would you describe chinese capitalism? would you describe it as managed capitalism? >> guest: i would describe it -- they c

we have to understand how the technology is going to be a great undoing, particularly people our age who don't think through what can happen. let's stop being shocked. >> we are a puritan call country. so we are a little bit sexually repressed. on one hand we like stories about sex, but we want things from our leaders that maybe isn't realistic. >> do you think he can survive this politically? whether or not what happens with his relationship, his marriage. >> do you know what's interesting? in the minute, it's over. >> spitzer had to resign. >> spitzer has a big television show on cnn. who would have thought that? talking about office again. >> a comeback in a way. >> i think the thing that will hurt him in the long run is his name. it just -- going forward it puts a smile on your face, it re mmis you of the story. and we have the sleaez factor. take the schwarzeneggers of the world. we start to go along a bell curve and you say, this is wrong but compared toome of the other stuff we have seen. >> i have to say i was thinking about this. you're right. why are we shocked when we hear

today the two dropped the lawsuit that sought to undo the $65 million settlement they originally agreedo in 2008. they claimd that they were deceived and should have received much more facebook stock but the appellate court in san francisco recently ruled against them so now it is over. there was a movie made about that entire affair as you recall. >>> santa cruz county officials say a decision not to provide assistance for storm cleanup is going to devastate their budget. the federal emergency management agency fee may has denied a request to pay for the damage caused by the march weather. fema concluded it was caused by three separate storms that didn't rise to the level of a federal disaster. cities were counting on federal money to pay 75% of the recovery costs. the governor could now appeal fema's ruling. we shall see. >>> from storm damage to messy roads. they are a mess in the bay area. potholes that we see every day when we hit them. the roads are in bad shape and getting worse, too, according to the annual bay area pothole report that came out just today. it shows that the wors