e-verify would work a lot better if the obama administration would actually apprehend illegal aliensnd on worksites, and they're not doing that. >> ifill: but national immigration forum's grisella martinez, who opposes the arizona law, believes e-verify will not fix immigration issues. >> when it comes to e-verify, you know, no technology on its own is going to solve the problems of illegal immigration, and e-verify is always put out there as the magic bullet that's going to do that for us. but no technology erases the laws of supply and demand. >> ifill: a survey by the associated press of county prosecutor's offices in arizona found that the law has had limited effect. of 101 employer sanctions complaints, only three civil cases have been filed. but dozens of business raids have led to the arrests of 131 illegal immigrant workers on criminal charges, like using forged documents or stolen identities to get work. today's case is just a fraction of the heated debate over immigration policy taking place in arizona. outspoken supporters and opponents of another controversial and even mo

the "legal arizona workers act" requires employersrs to us federal database to verify the eligibilitynew workers. violators can have their business licenses suspended or revoked. supporters of the law say the federal government hasn't done enough to prevent the hiring of illegal immigrants. arizona governor jan brewer: >> well, the bottom line is that we believe that if the government isn't going to do the job, that arizona is going to do the job. we are faced with a crisis, and in regards to today's hearing, certainly we do issue licenses. we do, do that. and if we giveth, we can taketh away. >> ifill: backed by the obama administration, businesses and civil rights groups have insisted that t only teral government, not states, can enforce immigration laws. >> let the federal government do its thing, make a final determination. and if, at the end of that, in ordinary course, if you'd add a sanction to it, then arizona is free to do that. but what it's not free to do is create an entirely parallel mechanism for that, that purports to be state law in the guise of enforcing federal law.

we have to verify this. there is the old russian saying, trust, but verify. you have to trust that you have to verify. in the american relations, you have to verify from time to time. we believe and we trust that they have interest in changing. i trust that modernization, this will happen only when -- this also has a civil, democratic the mansion. this is to create mechanisms that will guarantee that this modernization, this is not only about being about better technological solutions, but that this would also provide safer systems solutions. the democratic mechanisms of the free market. this is modernization. and this is why we are investing a lot of effort to get to this. we do not want to be received as people, or as a nation that is afraid of russia. we have not been scared so easily. this is a nation that is not against making populations between the western world and russia. nobody, more than poland -- are interested in this. to our surprise, we are near the west for russia. 15 years ago, we were not close to the road for russia. in the russian traditio

now, when i say that, we were talking about the fact that the elimination, we're trying to verify the, those things that are in existence today but also those that have been eliminated. in the first start i treaty, we were able to actually witness the destruction of these various warheads and of the systems that are under the consideration of this treaty. as it is now, under the new treaty, we cannot witness it. all we can do is look at the debris that remains after something is destroyed. my concern is this, that if you keep the debris around from something you destroyed, you could use the same debris as evidence under the new start treaty to show that you have destroyed something that was destroyed in the past and not addressing those that are still there today. so in that area, i think it's very difficult. finally, under the new start treaty, 24 hours of advanced notice is required before an inspection. a dramatic increase from the nine hours advance notice required under old start. why is this important? it's important because as we get down to fewer and fewer inspections that wou

trust but verify. trust but verify. we know those words well. they have been spoken on this floor many times by many of our republican colleagues, some who are now willing to turn their backs on the truth of those words. the truth is at the heart of this treaty. the ability for this nation to verify rush this's nuclear arsenal remains paramount to our security. it remains paramount to continued bilateral cooperation between the united states and russia. so for these reasons, start has broad bipartisan support, including support from the secretaries of defense and state and national security advisors or a whole host of presidents, presidents nixon, presidents ford, presidents reagan, george h.w. bush, presidents clinton and george w. bush. they all believe, all of those people have come together, regardless of their partisan labels or views, they all believe this is in our national security interests and necessary if we are to show the world that we demand as much of ourselves as we ask of others. so as we press the iranian and north korean gover

ok dan i'd like to go back to you in phoenix and we're talking about verifiable facts let me kind of. expand upon what i was trying to get out here is that we have special interest groups you know in the financial sector we have medical companies insurance companies i mean they can come out with these really mega reports are they looked really authoritative and they've got these great doctors from all the great institutions and all across america in the world and you know and it's very difficult at times for people to be challenging these because you have a congressman a little people in legislature that just want to embrace them their special interest i mean we know how it all works here that's what i'm kind of getting at here i mean. it's just not like someone writing a fifteen hundred word article on a foreign policy issue that you can say all that's a mistake that's a mistake that's a mistake but i'm talking when it gets into policy here we saw how some of the cable networks really embrace some of the critical reports on obama's medical care and other reforms that he is pushing be

. -- verify when we are dealing with russia. at a time when much of america is fed up with this body's inability to work in a bipartisan fashion, i hope that we can still work across the aisle to strengthen america's national security and deal with threat that's posed by nuclear weapons. and i certainly applaud the leadership of senator kerry and senator lugar and the work that they've done on this issue heading to the senate -- heading the senate foreign relations committee. much like previous arm control treaties, including the old start treaty signed by george h.w. bush and the sort treaty signed by george w. bush -- the new start treaty will reduce the limit of strategic nuclear arms aimed at the united states. the united states and russia will be bound to a lower number of nuclear weapons which will be 30% fewer than the current numbers under the sort treaty. the treaty's new rules allow us to count russia's nuclear weapons more accurately. i think that is a critical piece about whether we can really verify what's going on.

new start is much less verifiable than the original start.now, i only say this because my friend from massachusetts talked about the military, the state department, the intelligence community. one thing that's engained in our system is we have -- ingrained in our system, if we have a president who is commander in chief, he has a lot of influence over the state department and the military. so i think we've heard from some very well-respected people along those lines. then one of the arguments -- or rebuttals that the senator from massachusetts had against my opening statement yesterday was that be -- we have fewer sites now than we had during the development of the start i treaty. well, this is true, we do have fewer sites. but i think an argument can be made to be very persuasive because most people agree with the fact, if you have fewer sites, you need more inspections. former undersecretary of state for arms control and international security john bolton stated on may 3 of this year that while verification is important in any arms control t

inspectors returning to russia to verify nuclear weapons. so if this amendment were to pass, we not only make no progress -- no progress on tactical nuclear arms -- but efforts to decrease the weapons actually pointed at the american peernlg the russian icbms, would grind to an immediate halt. this is not acceptable, mr. president, to the american people, i would argue, but certainly not to many of us supporting the ratification of the treaty. and, as a result, i'll be voting "no" on the risch amendment. i'd also like to reiterate the resolution of ratification that came out of the foreign relations committee. it covers this issue by calling on the president to -- and i quote -- "pursue, following consultation with allies, an agreement with the russian federation that would address the disparity between the tactical weapons stockpiles of the russian federation and of the united states and would secure and reduce tactical nuclear weapons in a verifiable manner." unquote. so says the resolution of ratification. this bipartisan resolution passe

and what was verifiably wrong to me was that he did not get a fair trial. and it raised the issue of how minorities are treated by our system of justice. so i thought, "what can i do about that?" well, i was going to make a film about it. then i decided that probably a better way to go about it would be to make a documentary, 'cause you could have more factual, that a film always could be a little bit too much fiction and that the public or people needed to know-- 'cause the man clearly was not going to get a fair trial. the decision had been made; it was an eye for an eye because of the fbi, and he was gonna rot there or die there. and i thought, "until that man gets a fair trial, "there will be an injustice in place, and one man--" i mean, what does he feel? he has no voice. and so it was made for that reason: to hope that it could draw attention, not to his guilt or innocence, but as to whether or not this man had a fair trial, and how would we feel, any one of us, if we went into a situation and we felt impotent because we had no voice and we had no cha

. >> reporter: assembly bill 45 would require party bus operators to verify each passengers age. drivers would face fines of $2000 or more, habit license revoked or face misdemeanor charges. >> before they take the trip, they find out who was on board and if they are minors they have to sign an agreement. >> reporter: many companies say their contracts already forbid underage drinking. they say the responsibility should rest with the adult. >> instead of focusing on the drivers, they're looking over their shoulder to make sure nobody under 21 that he might have checked is drinking. that is a safety concern. >> reporter: we went to the address of the party bus and found no office. they say that the family is suing the company for wrongful death but he would not comment on the lawsuit. jana katsuyama, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> three beaches are closed tonight because of overflowing sewer pipes. initially for beaches were closed -- four beaches were closed. one reopened this morning. thousands of gallons of sewage flowed over into streets and beaches. there was unsafe levels of e col

only 14 verified since 1990. six of those deadly. experts warn people not to hike alone. >> i hike alone every day. >> reporter: does it concern you. >> it actually doesn't but i carry a knife sometimes and i should get some of that pepper spray stuff. >> reporter: an alert has gone out to student, parents and neighbors in this area. again the principal in the last half hour says she's concerned because fish and game says that mountain lions are opportunistic. reporting live in belmont, maureen naylor. >> we have tips for you on what to do if you encounter a mountain lion on ktvu.com. when you are there, just click on web links. >>> the department of public works was in the mission district to pinpoint what needs to be done to spruce up the area. they pointed out graffiti, basins. public works says the next step is helping business and residents properly maintain their property. >>> on to the weather, bill you said it was going to clear up, so are we done with the rain for now. >> a few sprinkles this morning, i have a little somethi

for some reason, the inspector did not verify those repairs until october. commissioner lee: i think you just made your case that the board of abatement went to the wrong party. commissioner murphy: yes, so i see the present owner -- commissioner walker: and that is what we are looking at. i feel the same way. i feel the order of abatement went to the wrong person, and we did not know. it is not because we made an error. we relied on information in our system, but another entity in our system had not updated it to give us proper, immediate ownership. so the issue for me is a fair notice opportunity. that is what we're looking at, not the facts of anything else. that is for another day commissioner murph. commissioner murphy: if we want to point the finger at anybody, it would be the assessor's office. commissioner lee: why don't we take public comment now. any public comment? >> i can weigh in on some of this, as an agent in san francisco. whatever has become a liability of the acquiring party is what ever is recorded at the time of the sale, so if a materia

there is no doubt in my mind, he says, that the united states cannot reliably verify the treaty's 1,550 limit on deployed warheads. to conclude, would require the president to certify that he has reached an agreement with russia on the nonuse of covers that interfere with type one inspections and tal number f warheads, but it would reduce a method of deception that russia has used in the past. on telemetry, it would require the president to certify he has reached a binding agreement with russia t end unimpstic missile systems deployed by the russians. as i said, they are now free to encrypt those missile tests. that makes it much harder for them to get information tha and then finally with regard to material breach, it contains an understanding that the united states would consider violation of the deployed warhead limits to be a material breach of the treaty, and that would include a type one inspection that revealed that they had deployed a number of warheads on any one missile in eof t number that they declared or that they continue to use covers that deny us the ability to see exact

the company calls to verify charges. that is what happened, i should say it's what happened after that call that almost cost a san francisco woman $6,000. laila was all set for a trip of her life. she booked a flight for two for a vacation in london, then a connecting flight on to spain. charging to it her american express card and the company called to verify the charges. >> so i said yes. it's mean. one of them is virgin atlantic to london. another with iberia. >> she was set, until... she showed up a day after the flight. >> virgin atlantic says i don't have a ticket. and i was surprised. >> she called american express and the rep told her nothing could be gun out a manager who wasn't there. >> at this point i had to make a decision. if i didn't go i would have lost the rest of the itinerary. the everything paid for loor tickets she bought for $1600 now costing $7,000. >> i charged it. i didn't have the money. i was so sure american express would know i had called and this was their mistake. >> she called american exp

item number 7 was verified to be completed on the 17th of june. but not item #2, dealing with the gate on the rear stairways. the case was again referred to directors and was held on the first of july. at that point the representative director issued a 28th day of advisement and abatement. at the end of 28 days, it had not been cleared in a notice was issued. i would like to point that the picture if i can. -- point that the picture, if i can. -- . point hat the picture, if i can. you will see that the violation notice was 1005, which states that has to be a landing on both sides of the metal gate. at this time i would like to request that the hearing officer's in the affirmed comply with the notice of proper permits and either remove the metal gate or provide proper lending support. at this time, the property owners' stated that it was a temporary fix only and intends to remove the gate, but we have no idea what that means at this point. >> could you let us know the number of the unit on the top floor? >> that would be 129. >> all right. >> any o

inspectors can verify using short notice on-site inspections. this treaty is critical in safe tkpwaurgt nuclear -- safeguarding nuclear material and critical for our relationship with russia and our authority on nuclear issues. let me quote one expert. "the principal result of nonratification would be to throw the whole nuclear negotiation into a state of chaos." that quote comes from general brent scowcroft. it was first president bush's national security advisor. or let's listen to this expert, "a rejection would indicate that a new period of american policy had started that might rely largely on unilateral reliance on nuclear weapons, therefore create an element of uncertainty in the calculations of adversaries and a hraoeufplts it would have -- allies. it would have an unsettling impact on the environment." that's dr. henry kissinger. today we have an article in "the washington post" "why new start deserves g.o.p. support." this is written by dr. kissinger, george shultz, james baker iii, laurence eagleburger and colin powell. these are secr

we have to verify. and that's what the verification regime is for. let me also be clear what secretary gates said here. senator inhofe quoted the secretary saying that the russians would not be able to achieve any militarily significant cheating under this verification regime. that's the judgment of our intelligence community, but it doesn't mean that they think or that we think that they might not try to cheat. it means that if they do, that it's going to be -- if it's militarily significant, we will see it, we will know it, we will understand exactly what they're doing. and so we can respond, as secretary gates has, by increasing the size of our force, by increasing the alert level of ssbn's, on bombers. there are all kind of things that we can do to respond the minute we notice that kind of militarily significant event. you have so it is my judgment that this amendment does not give us anything in the way of additional confidence, but it certainly will gives months of unnecessary and even counterproductive renegotiation of the treaty. and that mea

to trust and verify, i have problems with a modern station. i have problems with the lack of testing, site agreements. all of these things have not been answered to my satisfaction that i hope we can reach accord. i would hope it would be next year. at a time and atmosphere that we could get to a proper conclusion on s.t.a.r.t. treaty. i don't know how many of you have seen former president putin singing blueberry hill on the news, and i don't know if you've looked in his eyes and found trust and confidence or not. but i'm not ready to go there. as a matter of fact, i think i would probably sing back a country western song sang, the bridge of trust and verification is washed out. i can't swim, and the treaty is on the other side. and so consequently i hope we can take more time and do it right, and all these numbers i don't support the s.t.a.r.t. treaty. and again, i would urge you to read the 14 concerns that we have, and these need to be addressed in the proper fashion. thank you. >> this schedule is very disappointing. this is a last minute

this allows inspections on both sides and that's really what counts as reagan always said trust but verify and this treaty gives a very strong verification apparatus it was an amazing development that the president would get seventy one votes when only sixty seven were required for the supermajority and the reason for that is finally the republicans have decided all but only after the election that it's time to govern not to play partisan politics the fact that we're willing to cut is a moral statement that the world will pay attention to and it gives credence to the dream from reagan to obama and all the secretaries of state in between from both parties that perhaps someday we can have a nuclear free world that really is the objective that we all want and everybody makes fun of the dream but i think we none of us wants to die. the signing of the start treaty has been labeled by president obama as being the most significant document in decades on friday the russian president dmitri medvedev will give his thoughts on this and the year's other key moments that will be at the annual meeting b

there is no doubt in my mind that the united states cannot reliably verify the treaty's 1,550 limit on deployed warheads." and in very simple terse, the reason he is saying that is that there is no overall verification of those warheads. you can look at an individual missile and see how many warheads are on the top of it but that doesn't tell you whether they're in compliance with 1,550. and so it's just one of the fundamental flaws. the amount of telemetry -- unencrypted telemetry, useful in fact from russian missile tests is reduced essentially to zero unless the russians decide to give us more than zero. there's no longer on-site monitoring of the mobile missile final assembly facility at votinsk. we didn't even fight for that. it is a critical in fact issue with respect to potentially a railcar or other mobile missiles that the russians will be developing. i won't quote him here, but secretary gates spoke to that eloquently with respect to the verification provision in start i. there are fewer on-site inspections and, you know, if you declare a facility -- i can't imagine the russi

i'd better verify because of undiscriming, and it is not that hard. i just look at the driver's license and the social security card, and if i hire an illegal immigrant, the same thing. same both ways. employer, look at that driver's license and social security -- you are not home free. if it turns out that you have been hiring this illegal immigrant, and he is not an american, your business is finished. but what happens if i discriminate? under our law, nothing. that was the original point they made. that is why i brought up this question of difference in standards, and i want to be absolutely clear what your answer to that is. >> and i'm hoping i am being clear. we have the same standards as federal law. we have the same defense -- >> where is it in the statute? what i worked -- what i read were the words rebuttable presumption, and i might be reading the wrong words. >> let me explain while i find the specific statutory site. 178a is the provision, establishes an affirmative defense, said that is the provision that provides the i-9 defense. the reb

president ronald reagan regularly repeated the phrase "trust but verify." he did it repeatedly regarding nuclear weapons. the verification measures play an important role in analyzing the new start. the new start has a weak verification regime. former secretary of state james baker made the exact point by indicating that the new start verification provisions, he said, were weaker than the original start. under new start, the united states would be limited to 18 inspections per year as opposed to at least 28 in the past. under the original start treaty, the united states conducted approximately 600 inspections. under new start, the united states is limited to a maximum of 180 inspections. this further plays into russia's favor due to there being 35 russian facilities compared to only 17 u.s. facilities to inspect. the administration also dropped two key provisions from new start. the united states will no longer have continuous monitoring at the russian nuclear missile assembly plant. we had it in start 1. why are we giving thup important verification compon

we believe the trust but verify was wise advice by president reagan. in order to have the second half of that wise advice and play, in effect, we must ratify this treaty. so it is a treaty which is clearly in the national interest of our country. previous secretaries of defense of both parties, previous secretaries of state of both parties, previous presidents of both parties have together urged the senate to ratify and we cannot allow the -- obstructionists who have obstructed so many things in this congress to stop this national security interests from being taken care of. >> thank you very much. senator kerry and senator levin. you know we often come to these press conferences and our colleagues speak and we agree with some things and perhaps not all things. in this case i want to categorically say i very much agree with the statements made both by senator kerry and senator levin. i think from the perspective of foreign relations and the respective of armed services, this treaty must be ratified. i want to add to that the intelligence committee has

i have reviewed the materials and we had to verify them with the records that we have at our disposal. we get our information from the -- office and those records are not necessarily the most accurate and up-to-date regarding the size of the buildings. what i found is that the numbers in our database are consistent with those that were submitted by the appellant. i don't believe that they include the habitable space. they might not include the storage spaces and grosz spaces which the calculations would include. it might be a bit of comparing apples to oranges. i don't have a thorough analysis. >> thank you. >> what '04 is is 132 and 134? >> correct. is that what they are going to seek? is that something may have gotten in the past? >> they are in violation of section 188 in the planning code. what they're doing is they are rebuilding something and getting a variance from their rear yard requirement which is the appropriate process to follow. >> the only time that we usually reference 188 when doing this is if there is an enlargement of the existing structure. once you are demolishing

i think all of us agree it's time to verify as well. the u.s. and russia maintain over 90% of the world's nuclear weapons. therefore, it's vital that we take the lead in securing these weapons to create a world with less risk of nuclear devastation not to -- not to -- of course, not to mention reducing the nefarious threat of nuclear terrorism. this new treaty improves upon and enhances the original start treaty signed in 1991 by president george h.w. bush and ratified in 1994. and i remind my colleagues again, president bush supports this agreement. the author -- at least one of the authors of the start treaty signed in 1991 urges us, senators, democrats, republicans, independents, to support this effort. the new start treaty establishes lower limits, and i know you have heard a lot of this, the united states and russian nuclear forces. 1,550 deployed strategic warheads, 700 deployed intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine launched ballistic missiles and heavy bombers equipped for nuclear armaments. would also limit to 800 the total numb

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a notary is there to verify the count and it will be submitted to the guiness book of world records. >>> tucan sam and tony the tiger might have a problem with the health alert. more kids are choosing healthier cereals than the ones packed with sugar. >>> anthony antonio martinez is not going anywhere. the fbi says he had plans to blow up a recruiting military center. what makes this news today is we kind of saw the cards that the lawyers put out there on the tables. rosy. >> reporter: know about what

this committee actually watches them make the work in front of them so that we can verify that it is all their own work. >> what happened during the holiday to make this an exciting location? >> this would be a magic time of year. you would probably see this place is jammed with street artists. as the no, there is a lottery held at 6 in the morning. that is how sought after the spaces are. you might get as many as 150 street artists to show up for 50 spaces. >> what other areas can a licensed street artist go to? >> they can go to the fisherman's wharf area. they can go in and around union square. we have space is now up in the castro, in fact. >> how many are there? >> we have about 420. >> are they here all year round? >> out of the 420, i know 150 to sell all year round. i mean like five-seven days a week. >> are they making their living of of this? >> this is their sole source of income for many. >> how long have you been with this program. how much has it changed? >> i have been with the program since it began 37 and a half years ago but i have seen changes in the trend. fashion

and this treaty will actually make sure that we can verify. and so whether it's defense secretary robert gates or, again, lieutenant general patrick o'reilly, head of u.s. missile defense, or the director of national intelligence, you have former secretary of defense james schlesinger saying he does not believe this i object hibts missile defense -- inhibits missile defense. you have former secretary of defense under clinton, william perry, being very strong on th this. secretary of state henry kissinger, and so on and so on. we have in "the washington post" this comment as signed by henry kissinger, george schultz, james baker, lawrence eager berger, e, they say the leaders made clear that the treaty does not limit u.s. missile defense plans. i think the biggest danger to our country is not acting on this, mr. president. if we don't act, that's a danger to the national security of this nation. and i am very pleased to see the incredible bipartisan support outside this chamber, and i hope inside this chamber. i'm hopeful, i'm very hopeful. but