i am the executive director of a youth program called united players. personally, i don't know what happened. but don't nobody know what happened except him and his wife and god. i do not that we should put judgment on anybody. it's as in the bible that if i tell you about the splintered in your eye, what about the log in your eye? i'm not here to speak about the issues. i'm here to tell you what i know about him personally. i have been here 17 years now and for me to come out and speak for somebody, to support him, it is serious for me. i truly believe the actions that i have seen ross do in the city of san francisco have saved lives. the streets speak about ross. they are out there, the families, the kids, the mothers, they see what impact he made on the people out there when he was district supervisor. he always came out and demonstrated through his actions that he cared for other people. i see how much it affects somebody when you take their kids away from somebody, because it almost happened to me. i commend our brother. there is a lot of violence

so, we decided to collaborate with our fellow organizers at ymac united players, boys and girls club as well as the officers and captain at ingleside police station to encourage dialogue between all parties. also, members of the board of supervisors, david campos and avalos have participated. this has allowed us to hash out issues and develop solutions and build relationships we would not otherwise be able to do without the [speaker not understood]. our last summit was called justice because we are all in agreement the issues are coming from us. i want to introduce two of my organizers that helped in putting these sum its together and what kind of work they've done. * summits. >>> hello. my name is violet vazquez. i am from the bernal heights neighborhood center movement program and also a representative for united players at balboa high school. firstful allied like to begin with thank you for going to the process of creating the m-o-u. myself and my piers at the movement program have gone and educated -- been educated on the m-o-u. . i feel there are a few missing details such as th

i work with united players. i do reentry and the youth involved in juvenile delinquency. the majority of the kids i work with our gang members. i was formally -- formerly a gang member who grew up in san francisco. we all have stories of guys involved with the gang. everyone has a different story of why they joined. my thing is, i believe it works for me to be involved with kids who were in gangs -- i worked with all of the shot colors and i had a goal while i was there. it took me 10 years before i started to transform my life. in the meantime i have the goal that i wanted to be out here. i wanted the opportunity. i was given a life sentence in 1979. i was involved in gang and i caught a murder case. 15 years to life -- and i came here in 1979 and i got out -- and i have been out for almost five years. in my heart, i knew i found a solution when i was incarcerated. and there are different stories. some of the kids joined the gangs because they want to fit into something. some of them don't have a family, and the father and mother are working. for a lot of kids, there is

i work with united players. i do reentry and the youth involved in juvenile delinquency. the majority of the kids i work with our gang members. i was formally -- formerly a gang member who grew up in san francisco. we all have stories of guys involved with the gang. everyone has a different story of why they joined. my thing is, i believe it works for me to be involved with kids who were

way to build trust and confidence, and to do a deal on his own terms and not have the united states and other players essentially dictating terms for him. >> is a coherent enough group that you can actually say that you will negotiate with senior talent and leadership in order to have some transition? >> there are factions that karzai thinks he can work with. there is no grand deal to be had. it is debatable whether senior taliban leaders really want to do a deal right now or whether they think they can just hold on for a few more years until the americans and their nato allies are largely out of afghanistan. in which case, they can continue their campaign to take over the country. >> do you have a reading on whether there is a political transition to be had? >> the odds are very slim that we will see any kind of meaningful peace deal in the next few years. it will happen after 2014, after conventional nato forces are out of the country. >> thank you for coming in. as u.s. forces continue to hold terrorist suspects, there are reports from american officials that an all qaeda leader once detained has

just about the economy and finances but also about about politics and of course the united states and russia are key players at the time that it's well and the u.s. delegation is headed by secretary of state hillary clinton who is standing in for president obama who couldn't attend this summit who sent his apologies but he had to participate in the democratic convention which is taking place in the u.s. at the moment now of course russia and the u.s. have a lot of issues to discuss with the upcoming elections of course bush leaving nobody an interested it with it's arguable to say we're doing know that for example mitt romney has voiced his concern with russia calling at the united states number one geopolitical enemy and now his point of view is not shared by president obama who doesn't says that russia is a key partner for the united states and a similar peaceful view off their relations between the two countries is also shared by russian president my feeling is that he is a sincere man and that he sincerely wants to implement positive change but can he do it will they let him do it. i mean there is also

my point is that to extend the irrational players involved -- and i consider the united states to be irrational player -- still, i think we ought to exercise maximum caution and try to dampen the emotions, provide security to those who are worried about their security, but not engage in actions that are like putting a match to a canister full of gasoline. >> do you think it would be wise to in some way condition egyptian aid on the president being willing to take harder line on the extremists within his country? >> i think it's purposeful to condition our aid to anyone in the middle east on them being receptive, also to our interest and views in the region. thank i think that is the only way to conduct foreign policy. so i approve the message the president has just sent to egypt. >> do these recent protests make you reconsider the arab spring and make you wonder whether the rain spring has gone bad? >> well, fareed, when the arab spring was being hailed by everyone here as democracy, i was, i think, one of the very few people, maybe you were one of them, too, who publicly warned that

crackdown and so now there's more of a need than ever some experts say that the united kingdom and in fact all the players involved in this circumstance surrounding julian assange have managed to dig themselves into a hole on this issue diplomatically speaking what would you consider to be the smartest way out for all of them well i think. i think that i personally hope that cooler heads will prevail i think that that. it's rather absurd that sweden did not did not. question join us in the ecuadorian embassy to begin with and i think a lot of this crisis could have been avoided if sweden had just gone there and just proceeded with the questioning but now that it's escalated beyond that point i think i hope that cooler heads can prevail and that britain doesn't go invading the territorial sovereignty of another of another country. thank you very much for your time all right thank you. wealthy british style sun it's time to. look at the. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports on . their conduced childhood was a rich shadowed by this tragedy. these t

player. executive director of green peace united kingdom called shell one of the dirtyest, most regressive corporations in the world. i urge you to reject the cca. thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is barbara raymond. i'm happy to be here. i'm sorry everybody left before i had a chance to talk to everybody. i'm a resident of san francisco. i live in the mission district. i purchased a house there in 1978 so i have been here a long time. i went out for the sierra club about five years ago. the petition talked about hetch hetchy, how san francisco owned hetch hetchy, what a wonderful program it s. everybody signed my petition. whether in the park in the heights, dolores or farmer's market, everybody loved this idea. then disappeared. i don't know who was against it. i never heard anything more about this. this is five years later. i still have my tee-shirt i wore when i came here five years ago. it says clean energy. well, i was really looking forward to saying great, we are going to have clean energy. i'm sorry, i came to this wonderful presentation. it was excellently researched, beautifully presen

. >>> well, a tulane university football player is in stable condition in an intensive care unit after fractured spine. number 18, devon walker was injured saturday. it's fracture was stabled in a three-hour surgery on sunday. our thoughts and prayers go out to him. >>> as for the pros, one in the nfl is nearly in the books and highlights from espn. >> good morning, i'm doug kezirian from your "sportscenter" update. nfl, capped off with peyton manning's return to football. remember, he missed all of last season. of course, manning debuting with the broncos, denver hosted pittsburgh. thomas who does the rest. 71 yards for the tour. manning's 400th career td pass. joining brett favre and dan marino in that elite company. late in the fourth, ben roethlisberger trying to lead the field for the game-winning score. picked off by tracy and that seals it. >>> how about the saints and the redskins, robert griffin iii, one of five rookie quarterbacks making the debut yesterday. drew brees hitting jimmy graham. new orleans won every single home game last season. looked like he was picking up righ

this morsi government, in mohammed morsi wants to be considered a serious player, if he wants the united states to reduce egypt's debt by a billion dollars which we promised them we would do, i think we have to be very clear --. lou: which looks like utter -- >> that will not be tolerated. lou: that looks like utter madness right now. >> that is very foolish. remember the muslim brotherhood's official position 9/11 was an effort by the american government to help stimulate the economy back in 2001. i think mohammed morsi should be called upon to repudiate that position. the coincidence, if that is what it is of coming across our walls on 9/11 is just unbelievable. >> as upsetting is all of this is, more upsetting to many americans the fact that the obama administration, its state department, actually apologized to the very radical islamists who were demonstrating on behalf of the makers of a film questioning mohammed. and setting aside the, our constitutional rights, and, culture and heritage of free speech to say that they had abused our freedom in hurting the feelings of muslims. judy,

the united states team, tiger woods, the best players the u.s. had to offer, they squandered it.ned? >> they choked. this is one of the biggest chokes in the history of sports. sports fans probably remember the '69 cubs, the cubs choked that year. they had it right here. they're playing at home. they have the crowd going crazy, a huge lead. then today jim furyk disappears, steve stricter disappears late. god knows what he was doing here. this was not good. >> it was fascinating because we were talking about it in the newsroom earlier. people sort of kind of clenched up when they said it's going to come down to tooger, can he do it? that never would have been the case. >> tiger was hitting well today. if it would have come down to tiger, i have a feeling he would have done okay. to be fair, ian poulter played out of his mind birdiesing the last five holes. that set up for the miracle from their standpoint, the choke from our standpoint. >> what we're showing is the winning putt. it started yet. you can see it. the front page of every single paper because they were so excited. he k

in many ways, the number one player, the united states is still the biggest country. if you take the market together, smart people in more product. that is a very important part of the world economy, as important as the united states. it is also the place in the world that has had more violent warfare amongst its members over the last century anybody else. two world wars a stupefying destructiveness. it's therefore a continent that is devoted to trying to do something about the severe anxiety they have, just to raise an issue that you might want to debate at some point here at city life bookstore, whether there might be an unfortunate connection string capitalism, the dominant system and a scale of warfare is mine pending at the same time. the europeans are terrified. they are tried to build a unity, a unified united states of europe in some ways modeling themselves in the united states. having had common currency for large parts of it, the year of an european commission and european parliaments and moving in that direction. they are now facing an extremely dangerous

louis chapter made history when 428 soccer players came together. but the unitedsince defeated that record with more than 2000 dribblers in the gaza strip. the gates at the stick open at 1:00. >>> the petaluma little league team will enjoy a whole new adventure this afternoon. since advancing to the little league world series the players took part in a town parade and were honored by both the giants and a's. now the team will get the chance to swim with dolphins at six flags discovery kingdom in vallejo. there will also be a ceremony honoring the team. >>> you don't have to go to germany to celebrate oktoberfest. this weekend is oktoberfest by the bay, and it's happening over on pier 48 in san francisco. the event features live music, german style food, and of course beer. admission is $25. a number of other oktoberfest events are planned throughout the bay area this month. oakland and clayton will have theirs next weekend. >> a lot of beer out there >> be careful. it's go toke hot. >> be careful. >>> still foggy, rosemary in parts of san francisco right now and o

players. and even briefly united president obama and republican vp candidate paul ryan. >> give me a break. >>ars to be what finally brought the powerful nfl owners and referees' union to this deal arrived at after a marathon negotiating session. refs have been locked out since june in a dispute over both compensation and the power to bench bad referees. but the replacement refs brought in by the league, including one guy who had previously been fired by the women only lingerie football league, proved off to be infinitely worse. >> these replacement officials are not up to the speed of the game. they're not calling the thing that the regular officials would see. >> reporter: the blown calls led to coaches throwing temper tantrums, players arguing their safety was being put at risk, and fans desperately missing the regular refs who are usually taken for granted. >> but the last three weeks we have been focussed in on the officials. the wrong thing to look at. it's kind of obvious. people watch football games now, they're saying, how many bad calls are the officials going to make? that's the pro