. >> isabelle wagner is one of those patients. stanford saved her life and today celebrating her seventh birthday. >> wagner is a bright first grader. >> she love to climb tree running around. >> she's really creative and active and social and friendly. >> a remarkable turn around from five years ago when diagnosed with brain cancer. her patients knew something was wrong. >> she stopped saying dada. she started losing the couple of words she had. >> dr. paul fisher chief of neurology recommended a new approach for her. >> the thing that was different. she received a novel treatment protocol less radiation and only the bad park of the brain was radiate asked not the brain and spine and chemo therapy was swapped n >> it was a less toxic target therapy that minimized the long-term affects that come with treating children with cancer. >> there is not a lot of company that is develop drugs for cancer for children. it may not be the best thing for that child. >> dr. fisher points out it is not a big enough market for the drug companies

denise wagner, what do you tell your students -- i think you oversee 600? 523 journalism students at san francisco state. so how do you talk these days about the quality of the news? >> overall, the quality is quite spotty. there has been some stellar news stories coming from traditional, legacy media organizations, but you are also getting some really interesting coverage from some start-ups. talking points memo, a blog that does a lot of journalism. propublica doesn't allow as well. there is not any one place you can go to get stellar reporting. it comes from a lot of different places. the ecosystem itself has changed. we have citizen journalists, private-public partnerships, legacy media, start-ups. it is an uneven thing right now. >> how do you define who the journalists are in your class? >> that is an interesting question. many of my students think "the daily show" is news. while "the daily show" provides interesting insight, provide satire and parody of news, it is clear there is some element of news there. what is tricky is how you help students def

wagner? >> thank you. i am the budget director, and my role with the city is try to -- trying to work with the mayor to make decisions about how we are going to balance the budget. i will be brief but i want to take you through a couple pieces of information about what we are facing over the next couple of months as we try to balance the budget, and we touched on a number of the big themes. but a couple of numbers behind us, as you know, for the last several years, we have had budget deficits in the city government. the reason for this is very clear. when the economy is in trouble, and this has been in trouble for the last few years, this affects the city budget. the tax revenue that we depend on to pay for city services are tied to how well the economy is moving along. when the economy is slow and the businesses are not doing well, they're not paying taxes and make them into the city, they do not use what we used to pay for the services. this has been the case over the last few years. we have a requiremen

greg wagner, mayor's budget director. i will be quick, but i want to update what this news in the joint report means for our balancing status and our outlook for the next couple months. i think the way i would characterize it is that it is good news and welcome news, but it was largely anticipated and it is not enough to fundamentally change the issues we need to deal with to get this budget balanced. the slide that i have up on the screen is a comparison of what i have shown in the past, to where we are now. as you recall, i have walk you through that a couple of these committee hearings, just the big pieces of what are balancing plan might look like. in the left column, we start at $380 million deficit. that is the deficit when we issue our budget instructions in december, and the right column starts with $306 million which is the current deficit. what we talked about in the past is we have about $71 million of city wide solutions, which includes reductions to capital budget, as the controller discussed, pulling the pro

as well as greg wagner, the mayor's budget director, to talk about the mayor's budget to talk about the budget situation. you will hear briefly from a number of department heads, and after that, we will have questions from members of the audience and whoever is the appropriate person to answer the question. that said, why don't we grabbed the microphone here. turn it over to mayor lee. mayor lee: thank you. good evening, everybody. i am not too prone to give long speeches, so that is probably good for you and me. anyway, i want to thank supervisor wiener for hosting this tonight. and for all the department heads that are here. i know there is probably commissioners here as well and other friends. by the way, i am a resident of district 8. supervisor wiener is my supervisor, and i always look up to him. anyway, you know, this city has had a few years of pretty hard economic times. you know that. i have known it. there is no magic in the way we balance our budget. we have to do it with both a combination of efficiencies and cuts, and we are trying to identify as much rational revenues as

. >> i am greg wagner, the budget director. i agree with the comment. a i think we all understand the importance of the services. over the last several budgets despite proposals for reductions in domestic violence programs, we have been able to protect those programs and have not made reductions to those programs. we're trying to work with the department on the status of women to see if there are other options that we can look at. there may be revenues we can bring in through fees or other sources we can use to create savings without having to make reductions. we are very concerned about this issue. we are working closely with the department and the mayor's office. we very much understand the comment and concerned about the importance of those services in the community and city. supervisor campos: thank you, greg. let's hear from our next questioner. sfgov.o[inaudible] >> [speaking spanish] [applause] >> get negative evening. i am translating for her. -- good evening. she came here to testify. she wants to thank carlos, the senior law coordinator. she h

wagner is brought in. the aggies now up 4-0. the spartans finally got into the swing of things in the bottom of the fifth. as caylee cuts the deficit to one. the plate is crossed, making it 4-3 davis. the spartan momentum comes in to tie up off mercer's back. the s js u baseball team came up just short to the silicone valley stanford rivals by a score of 5-2. the team returns home later today at 1:00 p.m. plus the part polo team had a hard fought battle against the bruins of ucla last saturday afternoon. they will now get ready to do battle in santa clara this weekend. finally the last gymnastic championship was last month. one lone spartan continues to compete at the national level. after a standout performance in regionals, junior kati may life ties on the floor. she is just the fourth spartan in history to compete with the national collegiate championship. good job. >>> thanks so much for your report. >>> and actually, that does it for this week's edition of update nose. be sure to check us out, as always, on facebook. >> get

. >> reporter: the hole opened right over cindy wagner's head and had her wondering. >> is this what it's like to die. so many thoughts were going through your head. it's hard to focus on any one, just wondering when it was going to be over or if they were all going to come on and say it was all a mistake. >> reporter: 79 other grounded 737s looking for the same type of aircraft skin fatigue. >> while cruising at 36,000 feet the aircraft suffered structural failure. the last major maintenance was march of 2010. >> the problem apparently did not scare many away from flying southwest today. margie arrived on time. >> it didn't stop us from getting on our flight. because i don't think the steward he ises or the pilots want to die any more than we do. >> reporter: there are indications that southwest will not have its airplanes inspected and back in the air tomorrow. >>> thank you, don. >>> more than a third of southwest's fleet of planes are boeing 737 300s. about 170 of those planes are 737 300s. it is the oldest model. the company has replaced the aluminum skin on some of them. >>> an

joining me now, huffington post reporter and msnbc analyst alex wagner. thanks for joining us tonight, alex. >> thanks for having me, lawrence. >> when was your birth announcement published? in what newspapers? >> it was actually announced with a flock of doves and a fleet of hot air balloons. my parents don't know anything about this newspaper thing. >> yeah. let's listen to what karl rove had to say about trump's use of the birther movement. >> this is a mistake. it will marginalize him. and he's fallen for barack obama's trap. barack obama wants republicans to fall into this trap because he knows it discredits us with the vast majority of the american people when we do. >> now, karl rove knows a little something about campaigning for republican presidential nominations. so if he's using his analysis based on the notion that trump is campaigning for the republican presidential nomination, he may be right that it's a bad trump is campaigning for higher for president. so this is the way to go, isn't it? >> for trump it is. but i think karl rove spaekds to

wagner discussed, the mayor's office is likely to propose a budget that reduces the amount of money for capital compared with this expectation. the report assumes, as we do for our own employees, cpi or cost of doing business increase for city nonprofits and contractors and just general inflation on the non salary part of our budget, $17 million in the coming fiscal year. several lines down from there, the city's subsidy to our convention facility, projected to increase by almost $80 million the coming fiscal year. -- buy $18 million in the coming fiscal year. that is because the city took a onetime payment to balance our current year budget. there is a significant change here, year over year. that will expire. we have more elections schedule and the coming fiscal year, 2012, costing an incremental $12 million. it further down the page, there are inflationary and other increases. general inflation. changes to the delivery system, including a drawdown of federal revenue on the revenue side. and other costs associated with electronic record implementation and all the things. those are dis

wagner, do you expect various i.t. departments to be coming back with significant cost savings proposals for 2012? i am wondering if that could be the metric by which we decide to release half of the reserves? >> just so that i understand, are you referring to the consolidation proposals? or are you asking whether they are making additional i.t. cutts as part of their budgets? supervisor chiu: i am asking about both. in the next few weeks, has it been made clear to the heads of each department that they need to continue to look for savings. if they had come from consolidation, that would be great. we want to make sure that there is that because progress for the next fiscal year. >> supervisor, you have a lot of major departments in the room. from my perspective, we have not issued them instructions to simply cut their i.t. budgets. we have given them reduction targets. as we always do, we have worked with them to understand whether i.t. savings can be a part of that goal. in terms of citywide direction, guidance and po

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wagner. >> thanks. i will touch on the revenue issue and turn it over to the mayor. there are a lot of initiatives that we are pursuing aggressively on the revenue side. some of them are traditional revenues. some of them are revenues you would not necessarily think of when you think of pursuing revenues. as greg from the health department said, we have been very aggressive in pursuing new ways to drawdown state and federal money. over the past two years, this year included, we will be able to say that we generated an additional almost $200 million in federal money, part of that from the stimulus, part of that through programs in the city, to help prevent cuts to our local services. so, we're being very aggressive on revenues. rec and park has a strategy of pursuing revenue options. some of them are difficult decisions. they prioritize revenue over reductions. we have been working with the supervisors, working with the city family, to look at what options are available. the mayor is working on a general-obligation bond. hopefully for the november ballot, it will save

next up, we have greg wagner, who is going to be via a little bit on the budget. you can use that microphone right there. >> thank you very much, supervisor cohen. i wanted to set the stage by walking briefly through an overview of what our budget problem is, to set the stage for the conversation we are going to have and give a little bit of background on why we are all here tonight and what the challenges are that are facing us collectively over the next three months as we need to balance our budget. so as you know, the city charter requires us to have a balanced budget every year. unlike the federal government, we cannot borrow money and operate at a deficit. this is an ironclad requirement. it requires us to ensure that our sources and the money coming into the city are equal to our users, and that is the expenditures we make. when we look ahead at next year, we do a projection of what our revenues look like and what our expenditures look like, and what we're seeing for next year is that we are going to have a little bit of good news on revenues -- about $37.7

exchanging proposals, trying to reach agreement, in good years, within the small amounts that the great wagners allow us to spend when we have money and in the bad years, we've gotten millions and millions of dollars back from labor. in the 2009, labor gave back 2% in wages and in the last year, they agreed to a nearly 5% give back each year for two years. that contract was a give-back of $230 million to the city. we've worked in large part very well with labor as we've gone through these crises. they also gave back in the 2003 era for about 7.5% for two years. so we're proud of our work in that. but we've got a long way to go. in addition to the reforms that we're working on under the auspices of mayor lee, we have contracts, we have 27 contracts open next year and as we keep looking for efficiencies, we're going to be looking at every single premium in those contracts and see are we getting value or are we not getting value? do other jurisdictions pay this? do we need to reward the driver of a particular vehicle? in some cases the answer is yes. we have premiums that do make sense. we have a

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