that's what we're very concerned about and that leads us to the levy problem in california. next. the bay delta here. and next one, please. and this was - we always talk about sea level rise and i heard a couple of orders of magnitude of estimates this morning and one of them was more like this where this is the more conservative,ip sfpuc, estimate where the change in sea level you were told sea levels are rising by about half a foot. we can expect that at least probably. but we could see an accelerated rise of maybe three or four times that according to,ip sfpuc. instead of half a foot we could see three feet. you know out here at fort point here in san francisco. first of all we don't know what the climate is doing to do, but secondly, the way ice gets dumped into the ocean from the land based - well sea level rises from one, the water gets warmer and inflates because it's density is less and that's well understood and handled by climate models. what's not well handled is the fact that when ice gets shed from green land and antarctica, there's 70 levels that if it all melted woul

the transportation board approved us to develop and expenditure plan. essentially, the authorization was for staff to study, to analyze the possibility of placing a measure on the november ballot this year that would levyistered with the county of san francisco. sb 83, which allows us to do this, from senator runny hancock, sets a limit of $10. it allows congestion management agencies in the state to choose to place this on the ballot, which is why this item was presented to you as a rather unusual item. the authority board would be you boating to place it on the ballot. the authorization in december essentially gave us courage to develop an expenditure plan, which we did with the help of the advisory committee and stakeholder group and members of that stake holder group are included at the end of the expenditure plan for your information. it also authorized us to develop a benefit analysis, which is required by as the 83, because it is a user fee, and which show the people paying the fee that this is a clear benefit. this analysis was conducted by outside analysts. that was presented to you back in may. the scope of the work our thrust was to conduct two -- to place this on the ballot, to gauge the li

the community benefits district. that essentially helps to improve the overall quality of life in certain communities and targeted commercial districts in mixed-use neighborhood. when voters establish a community benefits district, local property owners are levied a special assessment to fund improvements to their neighborhood. the funds are then administered by a nonprofit organization established by the neighborhood for the purposes of improving their community. it is important to note that while our city departments continue to use -- continue to provide the same level of services within a community benefits district that they provide in other parts of the district, the community benefits district provides other additional services, an additional level of maintenance and improvement. that is why we are asking for renewal of this community benefits district. the mission miracle mile business improvement district, which is located on the boundaries of mission street between 21st and 22nd street is one of these community benefits districts i am talking about. since it began in 2005, the improvement district has been focused on a number of things including beautification, cleaning, maintenance, public safety, and greening projects. this asks the

the past. >> you have to work pretty hard to get it out. >> using only a block hammer, levi plat is a paleontollologist. >> thinks where we found the leaves and the fish >> and this new tunnel dig is turning out to be a gold mine of sorts with all kind of fossils. we found 500 specimen from over 400 different locations. we found fossil fishing, fossil leaves. >> the team also discould have had sea urchins. california law requires that any large construction have paleontologist on site. and cal tran thought they would. >> when they dug the first and second bores, they were not back there, they are finding fossils and turning them into the foreman who would turn them over to the university of california uc berkeley. the museum still houses those fossils from the earlier caldecott excavation. >> you will get a real good hint as to what was like about ten million years ago. >> today, the museum director took us into the back room to show us some of those fossils. >> >> the caldecott collection is small but includes everything from ann shell horse teeth to baby mastondonte tusk, another animal long gone fro

the past. >> you have to work pretty hard to get it out. >> using only a block hammer, levi plat is a paleontollologistnks where we found the leaves and the fish >> and this new tunnel dig is turning out to be a gold mine of sorts with all kind of fossils. we found 500 specimen from over 400 different locations. we found fossil fishing, fossil leaves. >> the team also discould have had sea urchins. california law requires that any large construction have paleontologist on site. and cal tran thought they would. >> when they dug the first and second bores, they were not back there, they are finding fossils and turning them into the foreman who would turn them over to the university of california uc berkeley. the museum still houses those fossils from the earlier caldecott excavation. >> you will get a real good hint as to what was like about ten million years ago. >> today, the museum director took us into the back room to show us some of those fossils. >> >> the caldecott collection is small but includes everything from ann shell horse teeth to baby mastondonte tusk, another animal long gone from the ar

to senator feinstein that some members of the court have used on certain occasions a coercion tes the question as to whether a particular governmental action coerces a person in his or her religious beliefs. and the levy-wise man case is one that does use that coercion test. in a way that provokes strong disagreement, as well. the quell about whether that graduation prayer did coerce students in a constitutionally meaningful manner. senator kennedy, a majority of the court held that it did. as the court's precedent has come down, it seems a highly fact specific inquiry. certainly the coercion test is used most often when it comes to children. and the court, you know, the court's cases essentially see a difference between coercion of adults thinking that adults can kind of stand up for themselves and coercion of children where there's a greater fear of the government's impact and coercive impact. i think that levy weiseman reflects that. but it is a contentious area in the law with some people i think that that case say good example of the way in which people can look a a >> confirmation hearings continue this afternoon. you can find -- follow all the hearings live. you could find out more about elena

the acrimonious split between sarah palin's daughter bristol and levi john on the is over. in fact, they told "us" magazine they're engaged and hope to married within six weeks. they say they reconciled while working out a custody plan for their 18-month-old son tripp. puhh puhh puhh putt and that's it. [ male announcer ] stop losing. start gaining. why do women like you love activia light? sometimes i have no choice but to eat heavy greasy food that's hard on my diet... and my digestive system. so i eat activia light every day. it helps me feel good and look good too! ♪ activia! copd doesn't just make it hard to breathe... it makes it hard to do a lot of things. and i'm a guy who likes to go exploring ... get my hands dirty... and try new things. so i asked my doctor if spiriva could help me breathe better. spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled maintenance treatment for both forms of copd... which includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva keeps my airways open... to help me breathe better for a full 24 hours. and it's not a steroid. spiriva does not replace fast acting inhalers for sudden symptoms. stop taking spiriva and

us to love not for some go to beat them up. one father's crusade for justice is bringing the spotlight on corporal punishment which is a levy but still common in good schools one wonders how many more children will have to suffer before more humane methods of disciplining them are enforced got and seeing r.d. new delhi. still to come here in r.t. this is the beginning of a new space. it's been thirty five years or since the historical apollo so his mission in outer space coming up on our t.v. will show you how they're celebrating that event here on the ground. or before we hear from sean thomas of the news now a russian billionaire is suing christie's auction house legibly sold him a fake work of art viktor paid nearly three million dollars for this painting in two thousand and five it's called order leask and was thought to be by the russian artist borlase custodian but since then several russian are expensive concluded that it's a forgery now wanted money back as well as damages from christie's on the grounds of misrepresentation and negligence that the ports is a senior editor of the moscow news website says this could serio

but only after she broke the news to "us weekly," doing an interview and a photo spread with the magazine. bristol palin and levinston, posing with their son, tripp, telling "us weekly," about their sudden reunion. >> it felt right when we got back together. it's been a fast process. i want to get married soon just so we can live together and be together all the time. >> reporter: but bristol admitted her mother doesn't support her sprint down the aisle. after all, the couple famously called off their previous engagement, just two weeks after become welcoming son, tripp. bristol struggled as a single mom. >> i love my son more than anything in the world. but being a single mom sucks. being a teen mom is not fun at all. >> reporter: after abandoning her daughter, sarah palin says revie abandoned her. levi then posed for "playgirl." after his behavior, levi says, he has apologized. >> i said i was sorry to sarah and todd. and she was really nice to me. i went over and apologized. i thought things went well. it was important for me. and it was important for bristol and for my son. so, i felt that, you know, i wante

levi approached us. they wanted to tell their story in a controlled way. they approached us and asked us if we would break thefor them. >> larry: together they called? >> together they did. we've kind of spent the last year and a half developing a relationship with both of them. and so they wanted to control this. they wanted to tell their love story in their words. and so that's what we did for them. >> larry: what changed his mind from april? >> well, i think he's gone through a process of maturing. he talked a lot about how for the time that he was separated from bristol, how he was depressed and how he wasn't really mature enough to be a father. and i think recently they spent a lot of time together. he's got to know his son, really for the first time, and so he's kind of changed his viewpoints on life and he's ready to be a dad and ready to be a husband. >> larry: because when he was here, he said they were denying him the right to see his son. >> absolutely. and actually, he released a statement last week. he said that he's sorry and that some of the statements that he's made in the past were exaggerati

to protect homes, businesses and infrastructure from the next flood? >> i was out putting sandbags to levy against the cumberland river. i learned that i used muscles that i that i have not used in a long time girded we have incredible -- in a long time. we have incredible leadership. we have to make sure that we do not allow developers to continue to put homes in areas that are flood prone land. they lose everything in that rega. >> i learned what a great state we live in, the great state of tennese. we are called the volunteer state. that goes backo the day that we volunteered for the army, but you did not heaanne in or complaining. -- any wining or complaining. i am proud of what ppened. we need to look about building in flood zones. i learned how talente how resilience, how hard working tennessean are. >> i did not learn that, already knew that. tennessee is an extraordinary group of people. i heard from fema that they had never seen anywhere in this entire nation what they saw in terms of people taking care of people. it is extraordinary what we saw. that is what tennessee is. that is why i cannot wait to serve the state as the 49th go

relations between jews and arabs the nation a sentiment is that this should not happen gideon levy very interesting to hear what you have to say thanks very much indeed for joining us live here on r.t. there in tel aviv thanks. thank you very much. well this is live from the russian capital still to come in the program for you this hour a manhunt in southern russia police sweep the north caucasus searching for the militants who attacked a hydroelectric power station. but first a ruling against an alleged near nazi group has been postponed while four of these suspects go through psychiatric assessment the group is accused of dozens of ethnically motivated killings and terror plots and could spend the rest of their lives in prison if convicted. has more. uh some of the defendants said that they are guilty of some of the charges some of them say that they are innocent so there is a nit picking of who is guilty and who is and at that and we spoke to a defense attorney of one of those people during a break and he really went at the prosecution saying that they had errors in the polyphony investigation and their error is going on right now as that is the reason why this

us for technology update on our g. welcome to business the russian government's plans to raise the mineral tax may not be as punitive some companies first feared the state plans to increase the gas extraction levy by six percent in twenty twelve and five point four percent in twenty thirteen this will help raise an additional one point nine billion dollars during the first year and a further two point two billion the following year the all sector will also face changes to its tax regime resource companies have been objecting to the new plans saying they would lead to reduced investment in the sector the finance ministry says it will offer concessions goals and. a new mechanism should be created to help the worker new fields and provide tax breaks for them the fields of canned will be included on the list of those receiving tax breaks. it will also feel some changes starting from twenty twelve under the plan or extraction tax will be raised to six point five percent to twenty twelve and five point four percent in twenty thirteen . sales of new cars in russia to grow fifteen percent this year according to a cult p w c the company says the cash for clunkers program true of the sectors roys but it'

to a nursing home. >> knee demonstrators argued they should levy a fee against oil companies. a spokesperson told us that voters had rejected thetaxes and the governor would rather have the state, live within its means. >> thisser is a new pole that indicates californians are divided about the new immigration law. 45% said they disapprove, with 34% strongly against it. when asked if they thought undocumented immigrants said they are taking jobs away californias 58% said the group is doing jobs others don't want, while 34% said they are taking away other's jobs. the law is scheduled to take effect july 29th. >> 5:48. sal is looking out for us trying to give us friday light traffic today. hello, sal. >> hello, include done and dave, yeah, it is friday light so far, we are hoping et stays this way, but usually it gets busy before 6, so we have a little bit of time before that happens. as you can see a nice picture of 237 in the southeast bay and 880 in both directions here traffic is moving well on northbound 880 up to the down down area. if you are driving on the bay bridge so far so good at the six dollar toll plaza into san fra

we engage in that protectionism and say we keep the jobs here by maybe levies higher tariffs but we force all of to us pay higher prices for the good we purchase. we hurt ourselves. we end up with less jobs. there is little we can do to keep jobs here when it is cheaper to produce in other countries. but what we can do is keep taxes low. we do not do a good job of that. we have high taxes on businesses that force them to look to other countries. they will always search out the lowest possibly cost because they are driven by profit margin and shareholders to earn the highest possible return they can. so they will severarch out chinr brazil to produce their goods at the lowest possible cost. we can compete better though if we get our taxes low and we will keep the jobs here that we specialize in and we are better at, higher jobs, service industry jobs, higher skilled jobs will stay here if we keep a hospitalable khaoeuplt. host: george a republican from ocala, florida. caller: good morning, gentlemen. i have a nonpartisan idea that may bring trillions back in the united states. i think we should start a

levi... get a reality show? join us for cbs 5 eyewitness >>> on the "cbs morning news," here's a look at today's weather. high heat and humidity are covering the country from coast toderstorms will be crossings the country from the rockies to the east coast offering very little relief from the excessively warm air. >>> here's another look at this morning's top stories. there is a small leak in the containment cap covering the broken bp well in the gulf of mexico, but u.s. officials say the leak is not consequential and the cap can stay as is at least until this afternoon. >>> and today, the senate is expected to vote on and pass an extension of unemployment benefits for some 2.5 million americans whose benefits have run out. >>> the nation's unemployment rate remains at 9.5%. the jobs picture, though, is improving. but reluctant corporations are still taking their time pulling the employment trigger. anthony mason reports. >> reporter: after reporting a spike in profits, ibm now has $12 billion in cash. but the tech giant has cut more than 12,000 jobs in the past year and a half. corporate profits are surging. together the top ten u.s. tech companies are sitting on

to senator feinstein that some members of the court have used on certain occasions a coercion test. the question as to whether a particular governmental action coerces a person in his or her religious beliefs. and the levy-wise man case is one that does use that coercio test. in a way that provokes strong disagreement, as well. the quell about whether that graduation prayer did coerce students in a constitutionally meaningf manner. senator ennedy, a majority of the court held that it did. as the court's precedentas come down, it seems a highly fact specific inquiry. certainly the coercion test is used most often when it comes to children. and the court, you know, the court's cas essentially see a difference between coercion of adults thinking that adults can kind of stand up for themselves ppand coercion of children wher there's a greater fear of the government's impact and coercive impact. i think that levy weiseman reflects that. but it is a contentious area in the law with some people i think that that cas say good example of the way in which people can look a a a a a we have the secure room available at 5:00 to do the closed -- to do the closed session. senator franken? >> thank you, mr. chairman, g

the first to levy a special tax on marijuana. and, of course, there is that ballot measure coming up in november that could tax and regulate marijuana for recreational useis move would certainly put oakland in the running to become a center for making a lot of money off of that trade if that comes to fruition. john? >> what did you call it the silicon valley of pot growing? >> reporter: silicon valley of cannabis. you can throw in any euphemism there. >> thank you, anne makovec in oakland this morning. >>> 5:34. >>> the man suspected in a shootout with california highway patrol officers in oakland is expected to enter a plea this morning. 45-year-old byron williams of tuolumne county was formally charged yesterday. the gunfire began saturday night as officers approached his truck after pulling him over on interstate 580. police now say williams was drunk and was rambling about starting a revolution. >> we learned that he was on his way on saturday night to san francisco to two organizations, one called the tides organization and one the aclu, for the sole purpose to kill people. usually these organizations are closed on sunday, and his plans were to wai

the first to levy a special tax on marijuana. and, of course, there is that ballot measure coming up in november that could tax and regulate marijuana for recreational useis move would certainly put oakland in the running to become a center for making a lot of money off of that trade if that comes to fruition. >> i never thought that until the interview mentioned about the security aspects of all this, if they have all that pot in one area, you know -- >> it contempting for crooks. >> you know people are going to try something. all right. anne, thank you very much. anne makovec in oakland this morning. >>> san francisco just one vote away from having a budget that would close a $483 million deficit. it's a $6.5 billion budget that includes money to restore funding for health and human services that had been in jeopardy. they include services for children and seniors, treatment for substance abuse and mental health, and hiv/aids care. this is for the fiscal year that began july 1. supervisors will have to vote again next week before that budget would be final. and then mayor newsom can either sign it or veto it. >>> for the third day in a row, a.c. trans

to stay on by president obama. i will add a third name -- stuart levy, the undersecretary for terror finance. i do not think it's an accident that the two of us and secretary gates were brought on because frankly, although i think counter-terrorism was given a very political made during the bush administration, i like to say that 95% of what i do on counter-terrorism is utterly apolitical. the problem is the 5% of people talk about takes up 95% of the air time. but the vast majority of what we do in the counter-terrorism community on a daily basis on the intelligence side, it is utterly noncontroversial. i think americans should take some comfort in the fact that even though we had a change of administrations, i the change in many policies, the counterterrorism policies, some of which certainly changed -- president obama made a powerful statement in the early days of closing guantanamo bay and other practices. i hope people are not disappointed. i guess it depends on what part of the political spectrum you are a lot. most of my work has not changed that much. fundamentally, we are still trying to find people who are trying to hurt americans,

levi's sister won't get invited either. tamron? >> norah, thank you. the executive editor of "us weekly" magazine, carolyn, she's a new mom trying to adjust to that is difficultcle. she is so torn. you can read it. >> it is like romeo and juliet. last week she talked about how she was so excited to be engaged and now her tone is changed. she is much more tentative. she realizes her family and friends are not really onboard. >> is she regretting her decision, "a," to come out so publicly? "b," to being secretly engaged to levi? >> i think it is giving her pause. she wants to wait and get marriage counseling, to be sure this is right for her and for her son. >> i know she was asked to give examples how levi was changing and she said, well, he's studying to get his ged. >> absolutely. she said he is starting to study for his ged. hopefully he'll pass. >> she didn't sound confident. then again reading the interview. >> i don't think she has reason to be confident yet. it's been all talk and not necessarily action. she's waiting for him to step up to the plate. >> she revealed her mom did not learn live on tv. she had a conversation with her before the news broke.