on waller street, the biggest issue was homeless teenagers sleeping and leaving garbage. the complaint came to us to do something about it. we went out there and had two notices of violation that we had written over the last couple of years and we followed up on that. that will be scheduled for a director's hearing. like john said, there are a lot of addresses. a lot of the addresses on their have come off. to be honest with you, these are all buildings that are in some state of distress. we are dealing with owners that do not have the financial resources or expertise to deal with them. we do our best with them. we give them time and work with them. when there are a lot of complaints from neighbors, they seem to get more of the attention. commissioner murphy: i think you may have covered it, but i did not understand. what is the policy for buildings with a lot of graffiti? >> that is under the blight ordinance. dpw, that is their purview. there was an ordinance six months p t

been working quite a bit on developing this -- with supervisor mirkarimi for a shakeboard park at waller. one of those positions will be for that. the position we are still negotiating with is strictly a volunteer -- strictly a volunteer position. a volunteer coordinator position. last year we consolidated some positions to make certain that we had enough parks -- and of gardner's and we had a small consolidation in the volunteer units that we

been working quite a bit on developing this -- with supervisor mirkarimi for a shakeboard park at waller. one of those positions will be for that. the position we are still negotiating with is strictly a volunteer -- strictly a volunteer position. a volunteer coordinator position. last year we consolidated some positions to make certain that we had enough parks -- and of gardner's and we had a small consolidation in the volunteer units that we are trying to fix this year. we had three volunteer coordinator generating 100,000 hours and all of these need to be coordinated. both by the staff and the coordinator. the national recreation and parks association converts that amount of volunteer time into a dollar value based on the region and where the urban parks area will be. this 129,000 hours has translated into $3 billion. we believe one extra volunteer coordinator, there could be volunteered time. we want the community more involved in the stewardship of the parks, which is why we

. >> we send people to the dry waller the carpenters and the plummers. >> we are conscious who we give a job referral to. >> we look at the skills part as far as hayou do with a hammer and nail there are other components to be able to be a team player. be able to take directs and be precise and punctual things like this you need to help you keep your jobs. >> we will looking at the interviews today and doing the critiquing from the papers. >> i was thinking last week we were talking ask that was so much thinking going on about the interview and how i was going to do it. >> i feel like, me, as an african-american woman and older woman with children i feel i have to set an example. a lot of people don't know how to deal with anger and conflicts. the kids here look up to me. if i do something and don't set an example then they are going to follow. since i've been a positive roll model, coming to school everyday. some of those kids pick up on that and i see the improvement in them. >> one thing that i knew but the class helped reinstate is that you have to check yourself. we are all grown

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 publi supervisor mirkarimi: i think that the deliberations that came out of the last few months on the question of tax breaks and tax reform have helped us arrive at a particular place that gives us this entree to determining, maybe with our toe in the water, of what it might look like to actually recall tax structure. for most of my adult life, i have spent completely here in san francisco. now about 27 years. i was born in chicago. my father had emigrated from iran to go to school in chicago where he met my mother when he was attending university of chicago. that is where i was born. my moth

my eastern border is goss street, my northern border is california street, our southern border is wallernd 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 wasn

senator pamela waller. now a conservative senator here in the senate.his is the first majority throne speech. what do think that means to conservatives listening? >> i think it is a great moment in time and history for us. the thing i find fascinating and this speaks to the fact i have been around parliament hill way too long as you have a lot of members of parliament of all parties and all sides and members of the press gallery who have never covered a majority government. >> i am one of them. >> exactly. in the old days, this was the way things happen. every once in awhile, you had a minority and that was a fluke. it will take a change of this strain for everybody to understand how a majority government functions. there is a different kind of relationship. i think overall what you will feel if anything is that sense of, i'll call it confidence which we can now move forward. these are the things that we have been telling you about in budgets and on the campaign trail. now we will see it in a coherent form. >> the majority government, there is a focus o

rrt but as the wind keeping whipping up the flames, there's not much the service can do to keep the waller from spreading. energying the towns along the arizona/new mexico border. and as you can see, the high winds are continuing tonight. the forecast calls for more of the same tomorrow and the next day. the folks in the fire camp aren't going to get much rest tonight. brian. >> george lewis near the fire lines in eager, arizona. thanks. >>> in the upper plain states tonight, the opposite problem. water and way too much of it. six reservoirs among the mississippi river are full, and there's more to come from record levels of the snowpack that is now melting. now they're releasing some of the water, and seven different states are on a flood watch as a result. miguel almaguer is at a crucial dam in minnesota. that's an incredible sight behind you, miguel. >> reporter: brian, it certainly it. the flow behind me is why so much of the missouri could flood. some 700,000 gallons are pouring out per second. although the rainbow behind me is beautiful, tonight, there is dangerous downriver. surging

. >> reagan won by 18 points over waller mondale. he hit unemployment at 7.2%. it might be 8.2. reagan had slack. if you look at fdr, unemployment was 16 or 17% coming down from 21%. it's a different story. can you demonstrate progress and can obama escape blame by saying it's bush's recession? they are planning and having a plan b for 2012. >> as we go forward, 18 months. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> the mormon faith made headlines throughout the first half of 2010 on a number of platforms. they have two mormon men, mitt romney is taking on president obama in 2012. a creative take on the creators of south park. they shot in the spotlight on a major religion that has problems garnering national acceptance. one of the contributors of this article. he enjoys being on set and talks about this. it's an interesting mix as we talk about this with the national political figures we have. they are garnering all of our attention the book of mormon has the most tony nominations going into the awards season. let's run through this. harry reid, twilight author. ryan gosling katie heigl. t

joining me is the book's author douglas waller, he's a defense analyst from bloomberg government.nd he began his ceer working for donovan during his ambassadorship to thailand. i'm pleased to have both of them at this table. welcome. good to have you back. so where did the idea to write this come from? >> >> i've always been interested in historical figures and glossed over by other historians who are very controversial in what they did. in the case of wild bill donovan, people either loved him or hated him. very f people -- he as you say headed up the strategic office. he was franklin roosevelt top spy master and he was introducing the united states into a form of warfare, covert warfare, espionage, propaganda, psychological operations. things that conventional admirals and generals found deeply disturbing and found his id is deeply disturbing and he was a, he had a personnity that didn't take no for an advance and look at a convention admiral who would say you can't do that and runs around to gets it done which doesn't eastern you any friends. >> charlie: at the end he has a rel

amanda waller.is role, angela? >> comic book, tempo movies coming out. they're so great, getting better and better, just be a part of that. >> did your 5-year-old twins have anything to do with that, think momma could take them to something wonderrul? >> this has a few images. >> there are other "green lanterns" and they're not ass cute as rhine reynolds, they're a little scary. they point out every poster, every billboard. >> how are the kids? >> they're great, just greated from preschool, just graduated, they're adorable. >> have your lives completely changed since those beautiful kids. >> it's all about them, but we try to tell them it's not. this is our house, whose house is this. don't draw on my walls. >> exactly. now were you familiar with the comic book, green lantern? >> no, i was more toward the archie and richie rich and veronica. and that sort of thing. but i've familiar since then. >> we don't see you that much, and i know it's because you make those choices at home. now your husband al