they need us to tell them. that is why we are here today. that has got to be a part of the mission. so i support everything johnson said, but there is another the to keep in mind. this is the jury pool. the jury pool is constantly affected and infected by nancy grace, law-and-order. it is constantly being polluted -- i truly believe this -- by the media. it sounds silly but it is not. i really believe in the power of media to influence people. that is why i got in it. so we have to use it to our advantage. you have got to be in it to win it. if we are not controlling our image, someone else is. so you have got to start thinking about the way that the image of the public defender is going to be portrayed, either in dramatic television -- over which you will have a lot less control. or certainly, in news media. years ago, i got a phone call from a public defender in san francisco. he had a case receiving a lot of media attention, and he wanted me to come to cover the case for 20/20. some of his colleagues thought he was not to. what are you bringing a barbara walters in to cover a cas

tell us to be quiet. actually we don't mind but someone next door complained. someone complained? about us? tell them to come here and complain to our faces. no. no. wait! i understand. they're just jealous. we're here having a good time and they're all alone, right? that's it. they're just jealous. maybe so but actually it's not just an ordinary person that complains. what do you mean not an ordinary person? someone with three heads, six legs? a ghost? very funny, sir, but actually it's a samurai. samurai? next door? why didn't you tell us. we don't like samurais? sometimes they just kill people by mistakes. sorry about that. samurai? okay. okay. we understand and we'll be quiet. okay. ladies sorry. parties over. see you next time. sorry. we will go to bed now. shall i bring out the futons. yes but don't put them in a row. put the heads together so we can talk in bed. is it okay for us to talk in bed. that's no problem talk as much as you like. okay. thank you. samurai next door told us to shut up. that's okay. i don't mind. these things happen when you travel. any way it's a good story to tell our

. >> they weren't looking for us to tell them what to eat.formation to help them make their decisions. and that's what we felt our role was here. >> reporter: this price chopper store, in warwick, new york, puts nutrition scores right on its shelf tags. the scores range from 1 to 100. and higher is better. >> this one is a 27. and i assume that means it's much better. it makes it so much easier than having to read through the ingredients labels and the nutritional information. that's great. >> reporter: they're called nuval scores. a for-profit business. yale university researchers and other top experts developed a secret math formula that gives points for good nutrients, like protein and calcium, and takes points away, for bad ones like transfat and cholesterol. >> what nuval has intended to do, is empower people. knowledge is power. now, you know. some people will certainly use that to trade up to better nutrition. some people would say, i'd rather not know. i'm going to choose what i like. i don't care whether or not it's good for me. >> r

the voters now as november beckons here and say, "folks, i've got to tell you, i'm going to go back to washington and tell them to send us less federal money." is that your campaign promise? >> what we're telling washington, d.c., is that we're in transition. what that means is as we continue to tighten our belts, because fiscally that's critical for the economic solvency of this nation, we also transfer to the states more power. that means more ownership of lands. it's not a situation where you just yank the financial plug, but at the same time, you're transferring over discretion over the use of the resource base. in this state, two thirds of it is owned by the federal government. there's not a good constitutional basis for that. it's our position that as the money is restricted, the lands are transferred. so that's the plan that we want to implement. >> schieffer: you said no to stimulus money. that alaska should create its own jobs. how would you go about doing that? >> the resource base is extraordinary in this state. we have a hydrocarbon resource base, a mineral base which is extraordinary, beyond that of any othe

every supervisor has their own proposal to nickel and dime us to death, and you have to tell them knowit is time to stop it. -- you have to tellx the city has not charged anybody that is parking on seventh street that should have been paying rent for 10 years. the city has not collected those fees. this is another example that they are not doing their job. yes, they are paying boat, 10,000 more employees than they had years ago on the city payroll -- they are paying more. there is one person or the title is the assistant director of capital planning programming of the city administrator. in the southern neighborhoods, there is an additional tax and fees in the district for them to take care of their own additional cost for rail and regular services that the city should be paying. until the city can fix their own problems with their bloated payroll and collection, -- corruption, we have to tell them to stop. that is all i have to say. commissioner: i want to ask about a soft cap. does that not help to equalize things? 250 thousands? >> commissioner, i guess the short answer is yes. the

to be a fifth grader. and rinaldo gill providing important equipment to them. welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> vanessa, you have children going to the school. >> that's correct. >> tell usbout why this was the wisest decision you ever made. >> sure. i have a fourth grader and second grader, both boys. and i decided to send them. we started our education in another dual immersion program in mount pleasant school district. it's been discontinued. they took in many faels, so they have been able to continue their education there. it's a great environment. aside from having the opportunity to become proficient in english and spanish very in an ges, there's environment where they have learned to become socially sensitive. at any given time there's going to be a student there that is the second language learner. when they first start they are primarily taught in spanish. as they increase in grade level, their english increases. >> they say my child is going to school in the u.s. they should learn english and perfect that. this is a unique concept to perfect both languages. >> exactly. they can learn to become very socially sensitive to people that are from other cultures and t

talk with writers at the writers guild of america, west, they tell us that their agenda is to tell compelling stories. so we need to inspire them with real stories of real people, positive stories. for example, last year our sentinel for health award winner was private practice, the abby's alcoholism story. i don't know if you saw that one. but it was a wonderful portrayal of a professional woman. you know, she's an m.d.; she's very well respected in her field. she's an alcoholic and having a problem. and she actually goes into treatment, comes out, goes back to work, and eventually has a relapse. so this episode was about relapse. one thing we know about portrayals of alcoholism and drug addiction in television comes from our tv monitoring project. we did an analysis of shows...800 shows from...no, it's almost 1,000 shows from 2004 to 2006 and what we found was that 29 percent of these episodes portrayed drug use and 33 percent of them portrayed alcoholism. only 6 percent of those alcoholism storylines actually talked about alcohol abuse or alcohol as a problem. so one thing we know is that people are actually seeing people dr

caller: saw radical christians took down a building and ten years later, be it to us to tell them fot to build it. no christian would do it. where is the uproar from the muslim community telling them not to do it. assume an iity is taken out of this. host: from the financial times, about alabama charging bp i'd like to remind the folks calling in and wrapping themselves in the cloak of religion. the religion of islam and this secretary has something called sheria law. iran is under this law. it is really a political as well as religious cult that forces people to do certain things in a country. women are subjected to ridicule and stoned to death. it is not just a religion. it's a political philosophy. i just want to remind everybody, it's not just a religious cause we are talking about here. host: what do you think of the comments the president made? caller: i think he was being politically correct. you had thousands cheering. to say that this is a small group of people and not about islam. it is a white wash. marvin on the democrat line. go ahead. caller: if we were to do the same th

to have them on a panel. people from the school board, those who have been painting for years, some conservative errors from the getty. to have them tell usabout the works of their school was important. it represents african-american artists to during the 20's and 30's used an incredible body of work. it is one of the most incredible works of art in the city, bar none. it is a huge mural of incredible works. >> the san francisco civic arts collection has been in existence since the turn of the century. it consists of everything from monument to golden gate park to market street, other works in the collection, from the wpa era, the quite tower, the works from the george washington high school. we have the contemporary education, where they depict some of the vocational arts that were taught at george washington high school. what is interesting is the artist's and corp. of some of the -- incorporation of some of the architectural elements. they used the speaker from the p a system as part of the design. on the opposite side of the library, we have a large fresco which depicts the academic subjects that were taught at the time. it serves as

to the tribe in the san francisco bay area. we pay respect to them. >> that's awesome. give us specifics on the festivities this year. tell us what other things are happening. >> big time is a california style dance and celebration that will happen for four hours. we will have aztec dancing as well and trying to get road runner singer, bird singing. an interesting type of celebration. hopefully they can come. we will have the pow-wow from 6:00 to 10:00. >> amazing and it's happening at the evergreen valley college on september 18th and goes until 10:00 p.m. give us your final thoughts as we roll the credits. >> it will be a great time and free parking and everybody is welcome to come out. it just going to be a great time. family fun. >> come and salute the first americans at the american indian heritage celebration at the evergreen valley college. thank you for what you are doing to the community. next up, big brothers, big sisters and the latino community. stay with us. # >>> with me is thelatinos committee of the big brothers and big sisters of the san francisco bay area. with me is the president of the organization. al

to understand their issues as they saw them day in and day out. we wanted to step further with our residents and have them tell us exactly where you go for a typical day. how you use transit, how you use your car. we got an over 10% response rate to that. it really informed a lot of decisions that are here today. we're excited to continue working with them. with that, i will pass the microphone. >> this is one of the most significant urban design opportunities in this country today. i want to very quickly and briefly walk you through the summary of park merced as it exists. i will use this power point. i hope you can see it. to begin, park merced starts with the idea to build a number of residential neighborhoods across the united states in the 20th century. park merced was built in the 1940's as a racially segregated housing development especially for dislocated servicemen. the plan was based entirely on the automobile. as we know, at that time the auto was considered to be the future of american culture. you should be careful what you wish for, i suppose. a total of 384 dwelling units were built at that time. half are apartments, half are mid-ri

the devil is in the details, but there is no way to find out the details before it is approved. we want them to tell us in advance what pruning will be done and give us a chance to comment on it. there's never any feedback to neighborhood groups about what they are doing or not doing in response to our concerns. we want them to open a dialogue with us and other neighborhood groups throughout the process, include neighborhood groups while trying to figure out what to do, not just stakeholders who do not even live in the neighborhood. after plans are finalized, they should do another round. thank you very much, and i will send this letter. >> thank you very much. >> my name is jake, and i have lived in this neighborhood since 1967. i have a lot of equity in the place. every wednesday they worked alongside the program, and we'll log well over 1000 hours every year. we set a record last year. we are ahead of that this year. it is windblown sand that covers a big rock outcrop, and the entire sunset rage, -- ridge. because of past trails, it is very steep. they have come up with the huge truck and hauled it