we're going to jump ahead and take case 2001.21c for 1765 waller street. >> good afternoon, president olague and members of the planning commission. sharon young, department staff. the item before you is request for authorization under section 121.2 and 303 of planning code to allow a use that exceeds 399 square feet on the floor area of two floors at 1755 waller street within the haight street u.s.d. and haight street district. this will also involve residential off-street parking space, converted to retail space used in conjunction with authorized space at the rear of the ground floor. the expanded commercial space contains 2,800 feet of commercial floor area. currently the space is utilized by silkscreen store, the printing production doing business as free go washington t will -- wash. the property owner anticipates converting the retail commercial space back into residential offchute parking space some time in the future. the original proposal had included a request for initial use authorization from the planning commission under section 161-j to legalize elimination of the resid

my eastern border is goss street, my northern border is california street, our southern border is waller and as you mentioned earlier, all of the neighbors in between. from our inner sunset, the challenges there have been very, very different than say on the other side of the district in the western addition. one of the most pronounced and high-profile challenges that had vexed my predecessors in the city is i think the completion resignation that the western addition had to be engulfed in crime in public safety. borrowing from my past and working in the criminal justice industry and my determination to no capitulate the fact that people in public housing deserve the same public safety i think advocacy and people in the most aflupet parts of san francisco. chronically before i came into office, the western addition for 20 years previously ranked either second or third highest in the homicide rate. i made sure when a homicide, murder had happened, the police department would dispatch me any time of the day. i had attended over 50 murders and i wanted to make it clear to the community i wa

current numbers also a lot rm waller, toenev a few a0s. we'll have details on some warming changes in just a few minutes. >>> a more fallout and more details surrounding former governor arnold schwarzenegger and his affair with his former maid. tonight, the woman and the child that schwarzenegger fathered are in an uncomfortable spotlight. we bring in stephanie stanton who joins us from los angeles again with the latest. stephanie, this is such a difficult situation that affects so much people. what do you have tonight? >> reporter: it does, raj. well, good evening to you. nbc news has confirmed the name of the woman. she goes by the name of patty. we understand that she lives in bakersfield with her son who is now a teenager. >> i wanted to take a moment -- >> reporter: it was a shocking public confession by the former governor of california. arnold schwarzenegger admitted he fathered a child with a long-time household staffer. nbc news reports that two sources close to the couple have identified the staff person as 50-year-old mildred ba

. >> plus we caught up with the coach of the sju waller polo -- water polo team. >> first seniors on campus give their advice about how to survive college. it's this entire experience is an important for ones to figure out who they are first and foremost. >> my advice in coming freshman is be yourself. don't try to please other people that's going to go away in the first week or so. you're going to be like oh, i need to do my hair. you're going to realize people are coming to class in their pjs. make sure they have your plan, your 4-year plan laid out for you and you follow it. go to class, do your homework. don't sleep in, wake up to your alarm clock, get good exercise and sleep and eat right. >> take advantage of all the opportunities here as far as getting involved and volunteer work or internships because it's really rarely available for anyone that goes there. >> live in the dorms. live in joe west or the brick because there's like -- they're traditional dorm styles, so everyone can leave their door open and socialize. living in dorms is like the best experience i've had on camp

i am the home owner of 1718 or waller's street. it is frequently tagged. this is probably the 2430 as time my building has been tagged by graffiti since i bought the building in 2005. we have toucans of blue paint to paint over the graffiti we keep in the -- we have to cancel of of blue paint to paint over the graffiti. once we received the notice that the building needed to be cleaned up, it is cleaned up in a matter of days. however, it has been tagged again three times since then. i'm not certain whether or not this is revolving around an additional incident of graffiti, but i want to put my objection on the record. this is something we deal with seriously on a monthly basis. we take care of it as it comes to and i personally find the assessment to our building to be unconscionable. thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> my name is kevin gilbert, 21 paterson street. the letter we received, we took care of it a media elite and painted are building a few months prior to receiving the letter. we rode back to dpw with a certified letter and never got a

i am the home owner of 1718 or waller's street. it is frequently tagged. this is probably the 2430 as time my building has been tagged by graffiti since i bought the building in 2005. we have toucans of blue paint to paint over the graffiti we keep in the -- we have to cancel of of blue paint to paint over the graffiti. once we received the notice that the building needed to be cleaned up, it is cleaned up in a matter of days. a matter of days. however, it has been tagged

melissa waller from seattle, like jennifer crew from iowa, struck up a phone and e-mail relationshipan in the fall of 2009. >> how often did you guys talk? >> a few times a week, sometimes more, sometimes less. it was on a frequent basis. we talked about sarah a lot. he was having a really, really hard time accepting everything. >> she flew to ohio to visit a friend and to go with another supporter to a bowling fund-raiser organized for widmer's defense. she even made this video tribute to ryan and sarah that she posted on youtube. ♪ what i'd do with one more day with you ♪ melissa's husband supported her friendship with ryan. >> was it a little out there? yeah, but i'm so comfortable with her and our relationship that without a shadow of a doubt i was 100% behind her. >> i did feel strongly about supporting him. there's just no chance he had anything to do with it. >> but the importance of the seattle woman's story for the defense was that she, too, had a lengthy phone call with ryan that finished just six minutes before he called jennifer crew in iowa. the call, in which he alleged

douglas waller, former correspondent for "time" and "newsesweek" magazine recounts the life of wild bill and his leadership at the office of strategic services during the second world war and his thoughts on the use of counterintelligence. this lasts about an hour. >> i'm glad they have the photo of donovan up here. this is an iconic shot of him. you'll see that at the oss society meetings, and this is the one folks identify him with. you notice his hair is cut short here. he has a crew cut. he was out in the field most of the time while running the oss and liked to go in on allied landings, and very often he had the ship's barber or the military barber give him a crew cut. of course, back at headquarters he got teased by the headquarters staff, and in fact, wallace duel, on his personal staff said, hey, that's some haircut you got there, mister. he loved it. he got the haircuts because he was in the field a lot making a lot of military landings. the book wild bill donovan is three stories. it's a biography of a truly heroic figure who suffered a lot of personal tragedy in his life. it's

immigration attorney martin waller predicts this year a record 35,000 people will receive conditionaleen cards through this program. >> wonderful for the u.s. economy. each investor, first thing they do when they immigrate is buy a car or buy a house. >> reporter: yung runs the regional center in san francisco, he's talking to chinese investors about financing a boutique hotel and restaurant to be built here in the south of market. funding from traditional is sources such as banks is harder to come by. >> it's a difficult situation that's how this whole thing gets started. >> reporter: but critics say the eb5 program allows rich people to buy their way to the u.s. ansari came to san francisco from france on a business visa that expires this month. he wants to stay here but says he doesn't have enough money to attain an eb5 green card. >> that doesn't work out for 99% of the people. >> reporter: others say the whole immigration system is broken. >> we can take, 10, 20, 30, 40 years for someone to immigrate, that's insane. >> reporter: but eb5 supporters say that foreign investors risk

immigration attorney martin waller predicts this year a record 35,000 people will receive conditionalh this program. >> wonderful for the u.s. economy. each investor, first thing they do when they immigrate is buy a car or buy a house. >> reporter: yung runs the regional center in san francisco, he's talking to chinese investors about financing a boutique hotel and restaurant to be built here in the south of market. funding from traditional is sources such as banks is harder to come by. >> it's a difficult situation that's how this whole thing gets started. >> reporter: but critics say the eb5 program allows rich people to buy their way to the u.s. ansari came to san francisco from france on a business visa that expires this month. he wants to stay here but says he doesn't have enough money to attain an eb5 green card. >> that doesn't work out for 99% of the people. >> reporter: others say the whole immigration system is broken. >> we can take, 10, 20, 30, 40 years for someone to immigrate, that's insane. >> reporter: but eb5 supporters say that foreign investors risk losing their mon

the limitations, rules that limit the discretion of wallers to do as they want. where do you get this system? in my view historically it has always come out of religion. if you think of that religion is the only source of rules that is outside of politics where it was are limited by rules that they themselves don't make. this was true in many civilizations. it is true in christian and muslim civilization and india. you have a religious law made by religious authority and interpreted by hierarchy's of religious judges, the brahmans in the case of india and in all of these cases the ruler has to go to the religious authority to get sanctions so india to become a raja you have to be sanctified by a braman. there's a clear status distinction. the priest on top of the warrior in that society. that is rule of law and that is what we mean by rule of law. the only world civilization that did not have rule of law in this sense was china. the reason i believe the chinese never had this rule of law is they never had a transcendental religion. they had ancestor worship. it i

. >> douglas waller, thank you for a terrific presentation and quite clearly a terrific book. [applause] .. sheila bair comments on the debt ceiling. at kennecott a senate pro forma session of c-span2. fdic chairman sheila bair said if congress does not raise the debt ceiling it would be, quote, calamitous. the u.s. government reached the $14 trillion debt limit two weeks ago. she testified at a house financial services hearing on the financial crisis in 2008. this hearing is two hours. >> thank you, madam chair and chairman sheila bair, i want to welcome you. thank you for your years of service. i have enjoyed our conversations. as you know i am still concerned that dodd-frank hasn't ended too big to fail but left us with a number of massive institutions with lower-cost of capital that are during to continue to expand because their borrowing costs are lower. it is a 76 point advantage according to studies. at the end of the day it is a system that enables the use of government funds in resolving an institution and relies on the prudence of regulators during a crisis to avoid

. >> douglas waller former correspondent for time and "newsweek" magazine recounts the life of william "wild bill" donovan, often thought of as the father of the cia. he examines william donovan's leadership of the office of strategic services during the second world war and his thoughts on the use of counterintelligence. this lasts about an hour. >> i'm glad they have the photo of donovan of your. this is kind of an iconic portrait shot of donovan. you will see that when you go to the oss society meetings. and the one commonly folks identify him with. there's a funny story behind it. you will notice he has -- his hair is cut real short here. he was out in the field most of the time when he was running the oss and he liked to go in on allied landings. very often he would have the ships barber or military barbara give him a crewcut before he went out. when he got back to headquarters he would get teased by the headquarters staff. wallace who is on his personal staff would say that some haircut you've got there, mr.. and donovan laughed. he got a lot of his haircuts because he was out in

waller three families travel different paths, they came to the same united city for a simple reason, because this is the city where dreams are made. over the next four years, we have schools to fix. over the next four years, we have streets to make safe. we have a government to transform and businesses and jobs to attract. above all, let's never forget the dream, the dream that has made generation after generation come to chicago and stay here. i am confident in chicago's bitter because i have seen it in the eyes of our school children and i heard it in their voices. i have seen it in the eyes of the high school students from ken would academy who won the eighth millennium scholarship, the highest number for any public school in chicago. in the simeon high school basketball team who showed us what they are made up throughout the season. in the graduates from the urban prep academy, a high school for african-american males which is sending 100% of its students to a four-year college for the second year in a row. and the sophomores from inglewood high school reached the semifinals in t