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.

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

for the nets and we wanted to tell them that they had to face up to their responsibility as it of us but i did it don't as long as this conflict continues in the east and you can't be quite sure that you're not funding into account because of what all you have to face up to your responsibilities and suspend your activities all of us feel that it is just fun was activity to fit and in fact two days later said dana and then said it was suspending the transport of minerals from airports in the great lakes region i think on. now he's targeting the mobile phone manufacturers facing public criticism the telephone companies have boosted their public relations output on its website motorola claims it doesn't use coal to hand sourced from illegal mines in the democratic republic of the congo. look here has requested its suppliers not to buy call time in the congo. and both companies have factories in china. should we believe them. motorola refused to see us. the head of nokia front's did agree to speak to us but apparently he isn't aware of the code of good conduct published on his company's

we try to hold those funds back and tell if we get to use all of them, we will not get to use some of the other aspects which includes improvements. what we want to do is hold those funds back as much as possible to make it possible to do the whole project including restoration. >> thank you. >> any other questions? is to any public comment? is there a motion to approve item number 14? >> second. >> thank you very much and good luck with your project. >> madame president, the next item is a closed session item. if we can entertain a motion and see if there is any public comment and tell you need to entertain a motion to invoke the attorney-client privilege. >> so moved. >> all those in favor. >> we have no public speaker cards. if you will hochtief meet a moment to read the various items. threat to public services or facilities, number 17. number 18, conference with legal counsel. number 19, conference with legal counsel, pending litigation, jane martin first is the city and county of san francisco. item 20, a conference with the co-counsel, jane martin, versus a city in council -- co

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

them in greater quantity. but we want to make sure that a coffee vendor, somebody who sold patrice -- pastries, could also be there. we decided to let them tell us what's they thought they could pay based on what they anticipated their business would make, basically allow the market to set those fees. if it is the direction of the board, we are happy to consider a flat rate. i would suggest that we may want to consider different tiers for different types of offenders, as i suggested. -- vendors, as i suggested. we have had a few vendors decide they cannot do business there and they left. we do not necessarily think that is a bad thing. we still have a robust offering their. --- there. we did not move to replace those who left because we still felt like we had a robust offering. we did not feel like we needed to rush out and get more people there. i have one more point. that is with respect to the use of the stalls in the winter months. please correct me if i am wrong, but i believe one of the things we have been told from an enforcement perspective, that we have to separate the non- certified farmers selling their products from the certified far

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 us about 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 smart meter. william devereaux joined a group last week using the name ralph telling them he wanted to learn moreut smart meter and try to help. a woman noticed his in-mail account actually belonged to devereaux, a pg&e executive who she had previously met. he said recently i attempted to join a discussion group without revealing my role with the smart meter program as i should have and i apologize for that. devereaux said his only intent was to improve community outreach for the smart meter program. no word if pg&e plans to take any disciplinary action. >> local transportation officials say it's time to consider whether the bay area needs another bridge. the toll authority will consider spending $400,000 to study the possibility of connecting the east bay to the peninsula. the idea of a mid-bay crossing between san bruno and the peninsula was dismissed back in 2002 after a two-year study. that found a new bridge or second trans bay tube would be too expensive. they say things have changed enough to consider another option. >> a new government report says job openings dropped for a second straigh

to smart meter. william devereaux joined a group last week using the name ralph telling them he wanted to learn moreut smart meter and try to help. a woman noticed his in-mail account actually belonged to devereaux, a pg&e executive who she had previousl met. he said recently i attempt to join a discussion group without revealing my role wi the smart meter program as i should have and i apologize for that. devereaux said his only intent was to improve communi outreach for the smart meter program. no word pg&e plans to take any disciplinary action. >> local transportation officials say it's time to consider whether the bay area needs another bridge. the toll authority wilconsider spending $400,000 to study the possibily of connecting the east b to the peninsula. the idea of a mid-bayrossing between san brun and the peninsula was dismissed back in 2002 after a two-year study. that found a new bridge or second trans bay tube would be too expensive. they say things have changed enough to consider another option. >> a new government report says job openings dropped for a second saight month. hiring is li

to give out the name. >> prepare them give them a call and say i would like to use you as a reference. >> and tell them this is the kind of job i am interviewing for and this is the questions they might ask and skills i want you to promote about me. especially if you think the employer has some concerns, you might say, i know they are concerned i am young. it would be helpful if you speak to that because you know i am mature in spite of my age. >> and stay in touch. >> yeah. once you asked someone to be a reference keep in touch with them. if you are going to use their name a quick e-mail saying i gave your name and they might be contacting you. i wanted to give you a heads up. every six months or year. you don't want to use people that you haven't talk to in years or you know it's not fair. >> you say choose, trustworthy references. >> yes. make sure you use people who you can trust what they are going to say when you are not around. you don't want to give out a reference and they say oh, jamie costello, he is good but you know i am pretty good too and we should talk about that job. or you don't want to sa

us so now we're back to a field s.t.r. something that's i think this is something we need to be very vigilant on and not allow them to to tell us what money is we can we can decide for ourselves what money is now let me let me change gears here for a second or actually stay on the same topic my favorite topic gold. over there does your edge dot com and the gang tyler durden and the singer and those and those folks they seem to have some real good information about what's happening in the banking sector and of course their site as a wild success but let me ask you something here you've got recently the c.m.e. who's raising margin requirements for silver position holders and it looks like a direct in no attempt to swartz this rising tide of silver ownership by what i call the gold and silver vigilantes guys like john embry up in canada and sprint asset management who have made it their mission to take physical delivering to bust the c.m.a. and to the comebacks are those are who's going to win in this epic battle or is it going to be the vigilantes or are this the c.m.e. and the comb action the same corrupt regulatory thought g

that was what they used to justify going around congress telling them they couldn't have it. $25 million gao did a report that said there's no evidence that these machines would have caught that christmas bomber. so now $173 million worth of these things coming down, and people don't want to use them. it's punitive. these gropes are being done only on people who refuse to go through this. >> they do it on the people who won't go through the scanners. that won't go through the body scanners. now the tsa says they will not do the patdowns on kids younger than 13 years of age. but you have some who say, listen, flying is not a right. it's a luxury, really, quite honestly when you look at the price of the tickets when you go into this area, you agree to some security measures that need to be taken. what about that side of the argument? that this is not a the right to fly. >> well, there areç places you can only get be flying. and you're talking levels of radiation that are dangerous for women who are at risk for breast cancer, old people, children. the levels of radiation, dr. david brenner

to charge them. oakland police tell us they will review video and photographs and report back to the da. >> ranked choice voting and a flood of last minute provisional ballots has the race on hold. the registrar of voters put off announcing a winner because it is taking more time than expected to count the ballots. on the night of the election, don perotta was ahead of jooun quan, but perotta didn't have the majority needed to win so second and third choice were counted that put quan in the lead. there still more ballots to be counted. a strategy of anybody but perotta came into play. >> they voted for anybody and we have never seen that before. >> we may not know who will be oakland's mayor until the end of the week. it may not be the person that most people voted for. >> 4:39, folks. we will take a look at a couple of construction spots. point out the vicinity in eastbound 580. the off-ramp is closed until 6:00 as well as a couple of lanes approaching the airway. we have seen that for a month and a half over that area. 580 westbound is the commute direction. operating at the limit. out of the pass, i'm

would like to get inspiration from the russian stories and make movies based on the russian heritage and culture but use some of the heritage that we have in the world to the company and tell them some how we tell stories how the characters develop and we always have the happy ending you know the distilleries that's really interesting to us actually to snowfalls. a stable hollywood tradition here in russia or just a russian audience needs to be felt like a very specific content that it's used to strongly believe that russian audience has a very distant taste definitely a lot of our big blockbusters work in russia and russian ordinance a lot higher than a lot of alice in wonderland but at the same time there are a lot of stories that can be told specifically for the russian audience and we believe with our fairytales that we started with masters and we tapped into something that was not done in russia for a long time. it's the quality family entertainment and family stories which we see can travel around the world because with nine prizes in various field festivals around the world what we see i mean traditional russian stories can also travel just beyond the russian audience ev

to be use the by all the employees there. >> reporter: multiple employees say that is news to them, telling fox 5 greer made it clear they wered to use their own personal vehicles on the job and should not expect to be reimbursed. greer, adams and their attorney came here to fox 5 to see what we uncovered and told us off camera they work more than the expected eight hours a day, often late at night. both say they were given permission to take the vehicles home. a policy greer says was in place under his old boss, peggy mcgee. but mcgee told fox 5, that is not the case at all. she says, when she was in charge, she did not give him the authority to take a county vehicle home, let alone use it to sell as for selling that house? greer says, he was on his lunch break. county disagreed and reacted quickly to what we found. just three days after we started questions, we caught greer and a friend packing up his stuff. >> mr. greer is on paid administrative leave and ms. adams is no longer with the county. >> that was tisha thompson reporting. jamilla adams ways political appointee and is out of a job. greer is a merit employee and ha

to go through their doors today. reporting live jade hernandez. >>> hundreds of bargain hungry shoppers got a start at toys r us at 2:00 a.m.. police tell us the store called them to help monitor the situation. no reports of any incidents. shoppers say they are glad more stores opened their doors earlier this year. >> it's one of the first places to open and do this. we are pretty excited about it. are you excited aleja? yeah. >> do you know what you want to buy? there? >> a lot of stuff. >> the old navy is back open this morning after a short turn around. the store reopened at midnight. >>> bart will be running longer trains on this black friday to help shuttle thousands of shoppers around the bay area. and bart police officers will be at several station this morning for a safety message for riders. you should be aware of your surroundings. they say don't buy more than you can safety carry. and be cautious of strangers that approach. >>> time now is 5:05. police in san francisco are look for the gunman responsible for a deadly shooting. it happened in the japantown neighborhood just before 9:00 last night. a gunman shot and killed a young woman in 20s. >>> thr

>> i would probably tell them to use all available resources that you have.don't be afraid to speak out. >> i would like to see it become a process of giving back. so as you reach the female veterans, give them that hand up and you put them in a position to where they can turn around and do the same. not only female veterans but all veterans. that would be my passion, to see us all as a community of veterans helping veterans. ♪ ♪ >> belva: well, that's all for tonight. go to kqed.org/thisweek to watch episodes and segments of our program, and you can share your thoughts about the show. there as well. thank you for watching. i'm belva davis. good night.