who is going to talk hill for us as well either it can just tell us so what is the situation on the ground what have you seen so far there in tokyo. well actually literally just arrived just got out of the taxi there's no physical damage on the ground here in the capsule tokyo got the infrastructure has definitely started as

it is a concern for us as well. asks you to take into account along with any other uphill battles he has faced during the economic crisis. he also told me that specifically, his business went down about 25% during a six-week shutdown in august of 2009, so it is pretty indicative of the strength of the garage, the impact on the neighboring restaurants. for us, we have lost customers who visited our shop, wanted to buy something from us, but did not want to deal with the trouble of parking there again. commissioner olague: thank you. is there any additional comment in support of the dr requesters? seeing none, project sponsor. >> good afternoon. what i seek to do is carefully and thoughtfully convert and actively deteriorated, obsolete, underutilized parking garage into homes for seven families. the building will undergo a complete seismic retrofit, the restored in compliance with secretary of interior standards, and we will generate 30 good- paying construction jobs for a year and generate hundreds of thousands of do

in san jose, they use them as well. around the world, segways are used for various purposes. tours are just a small part of that. supervisor mar: could i just say -- this is in an historic park with many sensitive areas, wildlife, plants, so it might be different from the airport. >> i am quite aware of the value of the park. that is why we put segway tours in the park. we appreciate the chance to be there. golden gate park is entirely too big to be seen by foot. you cannot walk the whole park. you cannot drive the whole park. there are not trams to take you around. the best way to see golden gate park is by segways. i believe you should not only approve the san francisco electric tour company's tours, i believe you should rent them to everyone who wants to go. you selected a vendor to produce this result. i would urge you to leave them alone and let them do their job. thank you. >> good morning. warrick farmer. national sales manager for open top san francisco. i would like to speak to you in regards to two points. one as a tourist and one as an operator. i have lived in man

they look not only at water supply but at water treatment and the energy role that water plays for us as well, both bringing us power and cooling our coastal power plants. i bring you greetings, of course, from the city of los angeles and we are experiencing, as has the entire country, the warmest year recorded. last summer was the warmest summer since records were kept. i know you've all seen al gore's speech so i don't have to recapitulate all that, but i do think it's important to bring it back to the meaning for the city of los angeles and for other cities as well that when we record record high temperature, we also record record high use of our power system, which means we also have record high numbers of outages and we have record high hours of overtime being worked by our employees and we have many other impacts that are felt greatly by the citizens and by the rate payers. our city also receives a very large quantity of water and certainly our best quality of water from pristine area in the eastern sierra known as the owens valley and that's what feeds our aqua duct. we have been seein

school thank you very much for joining us how will surging oil prices impact inflation well inflation was going up in certain countries like in the u.k. in the us as well we've got a big increase in oil prices definitely political instability and uncertainty will push oil prices i mean facial globally to a higher level but what happened to the so-called currency was have pipe oil prices and inflation put an end to them for now i think we have the american fred quantitative easing which which started the currency wars by putting pressure on. even brush and mobile and ought a bit between us and china. value but i don't think. it is one way or the currency wars because the. us was kind of blaming china for manipulating its currency and then the brazilians the bric countries said no it is the quantitative easing in the us. because of manipulation because by reducing interest rates through intervention money supply you can influence the currency rates as wrote so i think that was the sort of debate between the countries and the term currency wars was used but i think we'll have turmoil in currency markets basically we have more instability in sterling

so, and thank you very much, everybody, for joining us, as well.s there anybody else i missed that should be here? anyway. with that, perhaps we should just get -- i'm sorry? for all of you to stand and i'm going to give you the oath. and of course, as you take this after i say aye, then please state your name and then at the end, you can state the position that you're in and as we proceed, maybe we'll begin with aye and we'll go down the row and you can announce your name. o.k.? are you all ready? all right. please raise your right hand. i do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california -- >> the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california. >> -- against all enemies, foreign and domestic. >> -- against all enemies, foreign and domestic. >> -- that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution of the united states. >> -- that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution of the united states. >> and th

a leadership position of trying to advance the twitter deal -- they should have at least notify us as well. all i'm saying is i look forward to this discussion of what is before us. i'm sure it will be a thoughtful debate and exchange, but let's do it on the up and up to make sure there is no tape whatsoever to the process -- no taint whatsoever to the process. supervisor chu: thank you. point well taken. i take responsibility for not communicating every change we have at the committee. i also want you to know that we are going to be making amendments to this legislation, which would require this item has to sit for a week, so we will be having public comment again at the following week, so there is no ambiguity in terms of the public's ability to weigh in on the changes. in addition to today's public, is, there will also be a public comment next week to allow for the full process to begin. in terms of changing the procedure, i do not believe that would be the case. why don't we move forward with those hearings. i know the supervisor chiu has joined us. would you like to say a few words? s

very important to us as well as the panama city beach. >> a successful break would impoos the oil spilltoo. >> a return to the business of sun, sand, and surf. the economic life blood of this economy. panama city beach, florida. >> dog owners say a plan to redes issues is unfair. they have been venting concerns at public meetings on the proposal to limit dogs in the golden gate recreation area. the park service says they are fun by saying off leash dogs are dangerous. dog owners say thosed are exaggerated. >> people who don't own dogs can see that if dogs having their designated area, they can enjoy the over 99% of open space in the san francisco bay area. >> we are in a very important phase where we need to hear from a full spectrum of users. those prefer a dog-free experience, we need to hear from everyone. >> dog owners and advocates are planning a protest for tomorrow. can't end on april 14. tncht is set every dog has its die and the place was waking up. police hope to buy more bullet proof tests for the canine unit and train the dogs. raised more than $3600. the goal is $10,000. th

the years, we have, you know, had a -- we like -- we care for him immensely because he cares for us as well. and everything that goes on. >> [speaking spanish] >> i find unfair that he is not going with us and that we are, you know, on the air without answer for this. >> [speaking spanish] >> so again, that our principal should go with us. it was one of the requests with the superintendent's visit that we all go together as a group. >> [speaking spanish] >> and then well, the last thing is that our emersion program really continues. >> [speaking spanish] >> so it will be a great achievement for the mission for us to get a k.a. that is fully emersion. >> [speaking spanish]

i want to thank the san francisco electric tour company for coming out to educate us, as well on the use of segways in other areas. through chair at avalos, i would like to continue this item to the call of the chair. i will do my best to convene meetings with stakeholders and at rec and parks, to address different concerns. that would be my request. supervisor avalos: we will do just that. thank you, supervisor mar. madam court, if you could please call item three. >> we also have the 11:30 special order. supervisor avalos: but i would like to do is continue item 3 to be heard on the 28th. i spoke with the city services auditor folks and they are ok with that. we will have the hearing on illegal dumping and then go on to our 11:30 special item later. >> item 3. hearing on the controller's december 2010 government barometer issued on february 3, 2011, for an overview of the report and a summary of highlights and recent trends in the city's major service areas. supervisor avalos: colleagues, i would like to continue this item to the 28th, but we would need to have public comment. is th

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as well? >> it is fortunate us as well. >> government forces even hit the local power station to try to cut electricity to the east. this has become a struggle for resources and land and neither side shows signs of relenting or winning. >> we have plenty coming up in about 10 minutes time we will speak to a former u.s. assistant secretary of defense under president reagan. do log on to our website where you will find pages of analysis about what is going on and of course a live page where you can keep right up-to-date and indeed follow me on twitter as well. all of the latest developments, visit that website. the embattled germany president has given his strongest indication yet that he is preparing to step down by the end of the year but warned that yemen was in danger of collapsing into civil war after the defection of several military commanders. tanks have been on the streets. it has been reported that an air base in the west of the country switched their allegiance to the popular up rising. here is david lloyd. >> the turning point after weeks of protest was the slaughter last friday. dozens were

there are right in front of us as well. long, long waiting lists for housing. there are many threats before us. i think the strength of the committee that my office has held to pull together is that the nonprofit senior-based organizations have been at the center of advocacy. the budget analysts office did great work. the driving force that is making sure that we implement those ideas for the long-term coordinating council comes from the act of them of north beach divisions. i wanted to come by their organizations first. calling the names of those that sign up, the first is arthur chang and joanie levie from ssf. after them are a number of people from sf village, the first kind of village model in the city that we have. gail gary, susan poor, claudia luis, and vera hale -- who is a part of the coordinating council, a longtime activist within the organization. also on here is the senior action network that has been centrally involved. we have been the trainer and others from the senior action network. let me just introduce arthur chang. >> two weeks ago everyone

contributed to that dialogue and dii want to thank all of you for coming out today for joining us as well. and with that, let us proceed to the official of that i have not yet memorized. if you would all stand and raise your right hand with me, if he would repeat your name, at the end, we will go through and announced the commissions they will be participating on. i do solemnly a firm that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states in the constitution of the state of california. that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california. that i take this obligation freely and without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. and the duties that i am about to enter, [unintelligible] for the city and county of san francisco. thank you and congratulations. [applause]

the end of the cold war the reification of germany liberalism destroyed the us as well as bust president mikhail gorbachev today celebrates his eightieth birthday and his legacy has and hailed as the fall of russia's democracy the top was born in a small village in the south the country became leader of the u.s.s.r. in nineteen g. filing with his economic and political reforms in the wake of democracy in russia is best known policy is dog that is through which means to revamp the country without destroying the basis is socialism as a nation is in the soup that's the cancellation of state censorship on the creation of free speech in the country goodbye to office in the mobile please prize in one hundred ninety a year later however kuhn stalls a chain of events which led to the collapse of the soviet union got a bunch of plays and stepped down about its yeltsin became. the critics of the last soviet leaders say you can alter the country into a destructive and they also prefer the effects of which are still being felt today however the. still thousands that. would cook all of those with us

as well. she submitted photos and was so excited. she's been doing great work for us as well. i want to thank everyone who participated. we also gave everyone that entered, the s.f. environment gave us great tote bags. everyone got one of those. want to thank everyone for that. chairperson campos: thank you. commissioner pimentel: you can put the winning photo on the website? on the facebook page? >> the winning photo has not been put up on the cleanpowersf website itself. li talk to the p.u.c. about making sure that happens. but it is up on the facebook page, it's been posted there for some time. chairperson campos: i think we should publicize it. it's amazing to see the level of talent at such a young age. you can only imagine what's going to happen just a very short period of time. so congratulations to the winner and to all the participants. and thank you, staff, for the good work on this matter. thank you, mr. freed. colleagues, why don't we open it up to public comment is there any member of the public who would like to speak on this? seeing none, public comment is close

our internet reporter kimberly is here to show us as well.oes this play-by-play of the tornado as it actually touches down. take a look. >> we have a twister, d.c. the twister! this is horrible, oh my gosh it's ripping stuff apart! this is a tornado. if you could see that! oh my god! tornado! tornado! >>kimberlee: deep and it is time either ran to the basement. it did really catches as beer. many people on the web making fun of him calling him a sissy and drum up clean. what you don't see in the video is all the damage. trees toppled, debris across the lawn. dozens of homes in the area were damaged. as you could see the pictures, the national weather service said the tornado hit wind speeds of up to 120 mi. a network, traces 67 mi. path. he didn't see the video, you just heard his fear that homes does were destroyed. his wasn't. >>pam: we want to think about spring melt. >>pam: we want to tell you about kron 4 baseball special. this saturday gary will host baseball by the bay with a preview of the giants and the a's, as well as player intervi

the years, we have, you know, had a -- we like -- we care for him immensely because he cares for us as well. and everything that goes on. >> [speaking spanish] >> i find unfair that he is not going with us and that we are, you know, on the air without answer for this. >> [speaking spanish] >> so again, that our principal should go with us. it was one of the requests with the superintendent's visit that we all go together as a group. >> [speaking spanish] >> and then well, the last thing is that our emersion program really continues. >> [speaking spanish] >> so it will be a great achievement for the mission for us to get a k.a. that is fully emersion. >> [speaking spanish] >> so please keep the emersion program at buena vista. that's what we want. the emersion program at buena vista. >> greetings. superintendent garcia, and president mendoza and all the board members. my name is -- smith, the parent of deangelo who attends and will be graduating from buena vista. my daughter is also a graduate of buena vista. we the parents want to say that it is unfair to say that horace man will be an emer

>> chief still of the probation department has been very active in representing us as well as our lobbyists. we have been working with the probation officers and i believe the share has also been involved in those conversations through the sheriffs association. supervisor mirkarimi: i asked, and i'm not so sure they are, to that degree. in just curious -- do we know specifically, and move from the mayor's office, if anybody from the mayor's office, is involved? >> i have been following this issue, working with our lobbyists. supervisor mirkarimi: but are these meetings happening in sacramento? >> when you say meetings, which meetings? on realignment? so some of them are happening in sacramento. some of them are happening -- so, for example, i believe a week and a half ago or two weeks ago, the governor met with the county -- the association of counties, and talked with them about realignment. that was in sacramento. our lobbyists were there and participated in that conversation. the governor's office staff have been very involved, specifically in working with probation officers for the stat

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us. next to him as ms. woo, who came to us as a clerk and later was hired on as an investigator as well. curiosity and intelligence is what really separates her. she is in charge of handling a lot of our weightless. we currently have 3002 bunch of people on the list, and she is the one who sent it down for us to make a difference for those people. scott leon behind me. while being the best dressed member of our group at all times, is also our senior member who has been with us the longest. he is the guy who is basically the face of our enforcement. he is out there on the streets, in front of the companies, talking to them. my name goes out on the citations, but he is the one hand it to you. he is also the guy who does a lot of our audits, and everyone knows how difficult it is to sit would be comfortable putting him on the stand as an expert because, just by looking in the field, he can tell you what is going on with these bills. lori chang is our new waitperson in terms of how she is going to change the world. she is one of the people who brought this program to our attention. in terms

honor to serve the people of the richmond district and the city, and i love the challenges before us as well, so i appreciate your questions about all the things we are doing. >> it looks like we are out of time, so we have to wrap these things up. we have been talking to a supervisor mar from district 1. thank you for talking with us. what's the next episode when we will return with a number of our 11 city supervisors. there are three things we want you to take away. how to open a air way and when to do it and control bleeding and treat shock and we want to talk about disaster medicine an death by trauma and by that i mean the body is acted upon by outside force and first is instant yainous and occurs in minutes and are we going to do much for this person? not so much. maybe in the predisaster situation and making the place safer but once someone is hit with something heavy and die within minutes you're not going to happen, and the next is occurring within minutes of the injury and bleeding to death or having their air way blocked or some unrecognized medical problem and this is the group w

honor to serve the people of the richmond district and the city, and i love the challenges before us as well, so i appreciate your questions about all the things we are doing. >> it looks like we are out of time, so we have to wrap these things up. we have been talking to a supervisor mar from district 1. thank you for talking with us. what's the next episode when we will return with a number of our 11 city supervisors.

soon all right journalism professor at georgetown university chris chambers thanks for joining us as well as unrest in the middle east continues we turn now to some examples of countries whose undemocratic regimes and close ties to washington that the obama administration in a bind planned day of rage in saudi arabia well it never happened with the protesters hopes were dashed by strict security measures and stern warnings by saudi officials against any protest at all so where does the u.s. fit in much of the government say and that doesn't seem tidy arabia is being treated differently earlier i posed that question for michelle shouted off the director of the center for research on globalization. saudi arabia. by us protectorates or. more likely put we are they are very much dependent on the united states they are oil a call that means they have a very strategic. and a mole working in saudi arabia has been is all to protect the interests of the united states. what happened so they can sell you a rig or was i think more of a media show rather than a real protest. was there were protests in

but if you live in the community, the judges and other cases referred those individuals to us as well. supervisor kim: if it was a person that lives in the area but got arrested outside the area, it could be taken to cjc. >> we have done cases like that. supervisor kim: you serve approximately 500 people a month. over the two years, 42 clients have successfully completed their treatment and legal obligations? >> we do not actually serve 500 clients per month. supervisor kim: thecjc currently serves more than 500 people on a monthly basis -- that is what the grant says. >> that a static population of 500 and given time. rather than by hundred brand new and duplicated clients coming to the program in any given month, it is 500 in terms of the static capacity. supervisor kim: that probably needs to be written more clearly than. how many people get served at the cjc? >> apartment? -- per month? we are currently serving 490 clients per day either being monitored by probation or receiving services through thedph providers. if is a bit more of a static number. those folks, the cases have a t

the board endorsed the term sheet in 2006 as well as a land use plan. the term sheet with our development partners. they are all treasure island -- they're called treasure island community development. the plan has had a lot of scrutiny. we have had over 250 community meetings. many residents meetings. many meetings with stakeholders on the mainland of san francisco. we have had a lot of scrutiny over the last 15 years. supervisor wiener: i'm sorry. our screens are going berserk here. it is really distracting. i have the hard copy, but it is just, like, flashing everywhere. >> did you want us to pause? supervisor wiener: no. [inaudible] >> tida, which is basically a single purpose rebel the agency, was created in 1997. basically, since then, we have been working to bring a developer on board and develop the plans before you. as i said, these plants have gone through many changes over the 10 years. we will highlight some of the changes that have happened over the last year, but i think the project has vastly improved from what it originally was. the tran