. >> item number 3, ordinance -- one, establishing the name of the waller street stairway at waller and broderick streets and connecting to buena vista park as "adah's stairway," in recognition of adah bakalinsky, author of the book stairway walks in san francisco. supervisor mar: supervisor wiener? supervisor wiener: thank you. i think there will be less public comment on this one. this is legislation that will name an existing city outdoor stairway at waller street as adah's stairway in recognition of adah bakalinsky, the author of a famous book. this would commemorate the stairway and the commemoratives street plant ordinance. and the city would accept the plaque as a gift. this is an iconic book that has been enjoyed by visitors and residents alike for almost three decades, allowing people to explore our amazing urban environment and to discover staircase is that people who lived here for decades never knew even existed. this would be a fitting tribute to ms. bakalinsky, who believe is about to turn 89. and so this is a stairway that has never really been named. it will still techni

. >> naming the waller street stairway as adah's stairway. >> this would be renaming the waller street stairway. it makes a lot of sense to do this. i request your support. supervisor chiu: can we do this same house, same call? without objection this ordinances passed on the first raid. item 25. >> amending the building code to reduce the square footage requirement for efficiency dwelling units. supervisor wiener: this legislation would conform our definition of efficiency unit to the state definition and allow efficiency units of varying sizes similar to what san jose has done as well as seattle and new york. this is a great example of affordability by design. it would help with the creation of student housing and senior housing, other housing as well. it provides flexibility. it is a building code amendment that does not in any way change density controls or planning controls, hyde, bove, etc. -- height and bulk, etc. i have indicated my intent to amend this to limit it to new construction because there has been some concern raised about conversion of existing apartment units and tha

the smaller waller wild fire broke out in colorado springs. if forced people to evacuate. and bands of rain and tornado keeps hitting the sunshine state. a tornado killed a woman in tampa. an oil and gas in the area is cut. time now is 436, let's get a check with weather. >>> with ups model temperatures around the bay area. the couple clouds in our forecast and that's just about it. you could see this system off to the coast, not much energy and it but it will keep the schools throughout the bay. dimeters if you're headed up the door right now, members in the '40's and '50's. still some 70 showing up in the valley. but five to 10 degrees below the average around this year. now lives check with traffic. >>> we will take you will further north, on northbound 101 there is an accident. a car ran off the roadway and into some bushes. softbound one-on-one looks ok. it little farther north on 880 has the coliseum looks good. we're checking with mass- transit mass-transit and it looks good. >>> a major deadline coming up for made millions of students, the fate of college loans. an

i have pier waller and -- our three architects. steve is available as well. >> can we get the screen up? >> this is coming right now. >> i would like to thank kenner yand warren and we will give you a brief walk through this project. this has been a collaborative process. a lot of thanks to the community and staff for their efforts. i will try to manage my left hand in sequencing these slides. those familiar with this parcel, on the side of the formal freeway ramp, this is that the frontage octavia boulevard. with these residential buildings that step down the slope with larger elements, and these wonderful al -- at least. it is very characteristic of this part of the city. this occupies half of the former freeway area, relatively shallow at 120 feet deep. this drops about 30 feet from laguna, down to octavia. bordered on the north by hickory street, which will be restored as part of the project. the base allow the ball high as 50 feet. we have a little bit extra octavia, stepping down to 40 feet on history. -- hickory. the massing

. >> reporter: there's allen waller, a minister from philadelphia. >> i don't believe in violence, but i do believe in defense. i appreciate knowing how to handle myself. >> reporter: and then there are young guys like jeff, who's actually on his way to b.u.d.s. >> i've wanted to be a s.e.a.l. since fifth grade. i didn't just want to be in the military. i wanted to be top of the food chain. >> reporter: he's the kind of quiet guy you'd dismiss until he holds his breath for 3 1/2 minutes. >> the difference between s.e.a.l. team and all the other courses is that big black scary ocean out there and the lack of guys who are comfortable in it. that's why it's such a small fraternity. >> reporter: and on hell night, these desk jockeys, high school students and suburban dads are forged into warrior teams. on the anvils, pain and humiliation. ♪ turn yourself around >> humor me. >> just get you guys out here and do this stuff for no good reason. there's a point to it. to show you guys, reach deep. focus, get the team thing going. >> reporter: for one of the men, it's too much. chest pains and l

on the republican side, chaffee, danforth and waller. the formal meetings of the finance committee come later and most of them secretly at night but we were doing all this work in the morning and by saturday night, we had reached, seven of us, a conclusion. it was the outlines of the bill. and the only thing i had to change is at the last moment, the oilees came and wanted an exception on passive losses we had taken away from everybody else. i could have beaten them about 13-7 in committee but i thought i'm going to need them on the floor on i.r.a.s because i could see that problem coming, we d dramatically cut the i.r.a.s so i gave them what they wanted. literally ten days after the committee even first heard anything about it, it was passed. but it was done in secret and done quickly and it was done at least with the intellectual leadership of both the republican and democratic members of the committee. >> let's talk about the lame duck session. is there any benefit to attempting to do tax reform in lame duck or do we need to do, as ki

waller back to conversations in the great minds of timothy noah timothy is an american journalist and senior editor of the new republic where he writes the t.r.p. column as well as a political blog he's also the author of multiple books including his latest great divergence america's growing inequality crisis and what we can do about it let's go back to what we were we were talking just a did. actually the author of only one book this is my first book i've read a couple of other books over the first one i've written well congratulations and so that's. it's an achievement of this book in particular we talked about college and then we started on unions here and how trying to hold together the pieces of what is causing this great divergence and how we might put it back together and you noted that the level of unionization right now is where it was before the wagner act the national labor relations act was passed in thirty five and a great deal you know had commenced basically how did that happen well the the new deal really caused the labor movement in the united states to blossom becaus

welcome back to our special wednesday edition of conversations in the great minds with lamar waller mars an author and historian has extensive a groundbreaking research has been featured in hundreds of newspapers and was the subject of the discovery channel special conspiracy files j.f.k. assassination he's the author of several books including his newest full of bombshells watergate the hidden history nixon the mafia and the cia let's let's get back to this lamar. you said first of all just to just to recap the the the watergate burglary was nixon was looking for this ninety page what you published in the book this this dossier that was compiled of his collaboration. with the cia and the mafia to kill castro that would have shown his affiliation with the mafia and the fact that they had been bribing him ever since we could have shown that and by the way the dossier didn't just cover nixon it started when nixon was vice president ended with that attempt to kill fidel castro in chile in december seventy one while he was president it tempted to include all of the cia so so they didn't put

that is a photograph of a beautiful paintinwhich hangs at the university of virginia in the clifton waller rrcotiwhis heanllon t alderman library. it is a photograph of an oil painting done by stephen crane's artist friend, corwin knapp linson when stephen crane had written "the red badge of courage." and it's--it's absolutely aul if u , d'tch lors at all. c-span: you said a lot earlier that you grew to like him... >> guest: mm-hmm. c-span: ... love stephen crane. >> guest: mm-hmm. c-span: what is it that you liked about him? >> guest: wehe was very young and very full of the devil and a lot of fun. he ade s o r. because he was always very young. we both share a fondness for dogs and horses and horseback riding. and a preference for the color red. he ade, minyf s lk a lot of writers can't talk. they--even if they can write beautifully, they can't talk. crane uld talk beautifully. i think he was extremely well-intentioned and kind-hearted. oto t ro, he wmeg. asooie and he had that indefinable something we call charisma. he was the sort of person who walked into a room and created a ki of ma

that was the case of army sergeant first class waller taylor.ry in the los angeles times that got our attention. his squad was hit by a roadside bomb, then a firefight with insurgents add in a mysterious black car drive into the middle of it all. when a figure steps out dressed all in black. what would you do? sergeant taylor fired, and hit his target, killing that mysterious figure. it wasn't an insurgent, but a prominent female doctor. what followed for sergeant taylor may surprise you. ten days after the incident he was badly injured in another roadside bombing. after he received his purple heart. he also learned he's facing charges for the killing. joining me now criminal defense attorney and former j.a.g. officer randy kravis. good morning. >> good morning. >> what do you think of these charges? this is such an interesting case. >> it is an interesting case. the charges are negligent homicide and dereliction of duty. he's not charges with murder. no one's accusing him of intentionally killing anybody, anything like that. so the issue with t