karen kid wel, who is right there, generously loan -- donated as part of being a diamond jubilee committee member. i'd like now to introduce mr. nick rause, san francisco native, saxophonist, who's requesting to perform "i left my heart in san francisco." ♪ ♪ [applause] >> i am not a big speech-maker, but i relish the idea of coming here today to share with you a very special graduation. i want to begin by saying it has been a wonderful, exciting time being the mayor of san francisco for these first seven months. i have had the privilege of working with the chief and his wonderful staff and the fire commissioners. i know they're here to celebrate this unique opportunity. we're joined by supervisor carmen chiu. the last time there was a firefighters graduation class was 2005. it has been a long time. i understand that over 5000 people applied for these positions. those 5000 people along with you know that these jobs are precious, meaningful to our city, and hard-bofought jobs. i am here to congratulate those of you who have been part of this class. i want to recognize and thank the trainers

karen kid wel, who is right there, generously loan -- donated as part of being a diamond jubilee committee member. i'd like now to introduce mr. nick rause, san francisco native, saxophonist, who's requesting to perform "i left my heart in san francisco." ♪ ♪ [applause]

>> wel, i think i think we-- i think the problem here is you have toave a long-term view. so the oma smulation money though very welcome was for a two year period. and it's not like building roads and keeping people in the employment. science is actually best seens a long-term invement. and rlly. >> but the key is investment rather than expenditure. >> correct. >> it is an investment in innovation n growth, it's an investment in the future. >> it's not simple but it's like this. you have basic science and discovery science i prefer to call it actually. discovery science that gives you the understanding of the world and ourselves. we then have translation of that knowledge into the potential for application. and then we have the application, i mean in medicine it would be clinical trial. and what you need to do is invest across the whole spectrum. sometimes people say oh we know enough we should just invest in translation or some say we should just invest in direct application but then you run out of ideas very, very quickly. you have to invest across the whole spectrum. th

so things will be cool for the next couple days wel -- well below average. 57 and cloudy and wet in dalyity. 80 antioch today, 75 danville, 65 degrees in richmond. along the coast to the north, not much in the way of clearing. so we'll stay in the 50s and low 60s. we are planning on some sunshine into the napa valley today. 76 degrees there and 75 in sonoma. so looking out over the next couple days, gloomy as it looks like temperatures going to stay well below average tomorrow and probably into the first part of the weekend but then we'll start to warm things up. watch out for that drizzle at the coast over the next couple days. it will be very damp but looks like normal temperatures and better weather on sunday. that's a look at weather. back to you. >> if you head inland, it looks good. >> not bad. you have some sunshine there. >> head east, everybody, head east. >> somewhere. >>> you may soon be able to buy lipitor without a prescription. pfizer hasn't confirmed it but the "wall street journal" says the company hopes to offer an over-the-counter version of lipitor when more than 100 p

vice president yee: what i'm hearing from some of my colleagues is that, wel

wel >> well n.ny way, we touched on this earlier, even though crazy heart was taylor made, the director, scott cooper was -- he wrote it with me in mind. all of these things. >> it's not about being able to fulfill your own expectations? >> yeah. that's the big thing. >> because as a musician yourself, you don't want to be scene as a poor performer? >> yeah. yeah. >> this is what i care about. and, yeah. >> we're going to go to break and come back and talk to you about music and about your crazy music heart. a lot of times, things are right underneath our feet, and all we need to do is change the way we're thinking about them. a couple decades ago, we didn't even realize just how much natural gas was trapped in rocks thousands of feet below us. technology has made it possible to safely unlock this cleanly burning natural gas. this deposits can provide us with fuel for a hundred years, providing energy security and economic growth all across this country. it just takes somebody having the idea, and t

he's certainly not wel in trying to dismantle mexico's huge monopoly, public or private. sort of, sort of. >> rose: okay.but there is a len against carl -- >> it was just a fine. about a billion dollars. but he can appeal this until he's blue in thes face. he will probably end up paying a very mal small part of this fin, because he has great lawyers, very intelligent, and skillful politician, not just a businessman. >> rose: who does he supportpol? >> everybody. he has a finger in every pie. he does thatvery well. you know, there hasn't a real frontal attack, for example, forcing him to divest himself, either of the cellphone company or of the landline company. one of the two. he's got both monopolies. 80% of both markets. get rid of one of the two. there's been nothing done on the television front to open up a third national private nona pay network. hasn't happened. >> rose: is that because thegov? >> doesn't allow it, and it's scared of the television networks, the existing networks. so it doesn't allow it. general electric and nbc universal went to mexico, talked with

wel joined by daniel houy. thanks for coming in. there are questions already on just how effective this can be in the long term. japan steps in unilaterally on its own to try to take the strength out of the yen. how successful do you think it will be over the weeks and months ahead? >> as this happened, that's one the big questions the market had, whether it would be unilateral like it was last september or whether it would be part of a coordinated activity by global center banks to try to weaken the yen. if you do it unilaterally, there's a muchesser chance of it being successful because the markets are so deep. it needs to expend quite a bit of energy buying up dollars and printing a lot of yen if one bank does it alone. >> if a concerted action you have more chance of success. but even then, over the longer term, we haven't seen that success. >> you do need to expend a lot of resources to try to move the price considerably. it's because of the deep liquidity in the japanese yen market which is why investors and risk managers have

. >> wel, goldy taylor has a different opinion.r for thegrio.com, and she has a different frustration towards the president, but listen to what she had to say when i asked her if african-americans should publicly be criticizing the president? >> well, your grandmother and mine did not putting dirty laundry out in the public to let other communities to see. and that is at play here. and i have to tell you that some of the black officials are losing frankly access to the white house because they are publicly critical. if you have someone like maxine waters and there are 12 african-american women serving in the senate and the house of representatives and if out of 12 of 535 and she is the most senior ranking african-american woman serving, and if she does not have a direct line to the president, we are in trouble. >> wow. you just said a lot there. i want to tell you that i got a tweet from spike lee, and he was having a social event with the president at professor ogletree's house, and he said, in a conversation with president obama

aubrey off ken fat gettingaubre >> the 11th in wel i getting ready to moral fan and it will take over 10 different city blocks in downtown oakland. and art-fare in with live music, food, and family events. organizers are expecting thousands of people with street closures began today with festivities and preparations began. live performances, 54 fighting545 tea5 for fighting ae garden, booths, arts, crafts and of your best bet is to take part. they will have the public garage opener. to date-bart. also, public dirt-garage will also be opened. the our console, ron, the public the heart and soul art and soul. >> they are expecting thousands. the 11th year, and usually, it continues to grow in attendance. usually, to one rickety thousand in attendance. >> that is great news, up to one-third the thousand. " one-quarter of 1 million people expected--in attendance. >> 14th street is going to be closed between broadway and martin luther king jr. whey. also 12th street closed between broadway and jefferson but that is not all! clay street is also closed between 11th-16th and jefferson closed b

and wel be watching the storm and tracking it as it heads further north and now toll are bay area. >> i'll look outside from our roof cam raw and we have the fog. as we head into the afternoon is going to be another warm day we will have another cool down as we head into the work week. this is a look of current temperatures around the bay area mostly fifties and sixties and the warm temperatures for later on this afternoon 80 degrees for mountain view 89 in antioch and 95 in morgan hill. 72 degrees for downtown san francisco this is a look of your seven day forecast we will see a slightly different in temperatures and then that temperatures will warm up once again by next weekend >> i live look as a fee in the press conference let listen >> power outages remain an issue all up and down the coast we're working with our private sector to make sure they're getting the power up and running as soon as they possibly can the matter where you are this morning from north carolina to maine we encourage you to stay off the rose as much as possible so we can keep them clear selfish responders and

. >> yeah, wel, i think obviously this speech he's going to give after his shortened vacation by a dayis that he's going to come out strong, and i think that the white house, of course, is regrouping now to articulate a plan that is clear, that is concise, that isegible to the masses of the american people. but to go back to the republican, if you would, debacle, i think that what's happening here is that mitt romney starts off like, you know, hurricane irene. he's promising to have a profound effect, he's downgraded to a tropical storm, and here comes the hurricane perry. but i think mitt romney would be well advised to do what obama did in regards to libya. it's not leading from behind, it's laying back in the cut, allowing the forces to fight themselves out and then you intervene strategically. so, i think at this point, the republicans have to figure out if huntsman has the east coast, not the acela crowd, but the east coast, this vanishing reality of a moderate republican. if they exist, then huntsman has a chance and romney has a chance. otherwise, the right wing has captivated t

there's a lot of other activities taking place in different department mas as wel. >> you are listeningjersey essentially saying things will be shutting down and closing in his state, including casinos and hotels, and railways, and traffic will be rerouted out of the area. >>> and a ceremony to dedicate the king memorial event has been canceled. the king memorial opened to the public on monday and that includes a 30-foot granite sculpture of the civil rights leader. the organizers have not annou e announced a new date of the dedication. >>> and then further north, towns in maryland are preparing for the storm. athena jones is joining us from annapolis. good to see you. how are folks reacting? business and homeowners, are they ready for what they will be hit with? >> reporter: they are trying to get ready. this morning we spoke with the mayor of annapolis, and they are saying the officials are protecting a two to three foot storm surge. let me tell you, this is a flood-prone area a. low-lying area. and even when the high tied comes in, which is about a foot in annapolis, you can see some

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the operate orors responded wel. two reactors as we said remain shut down at least through the end of today. while the power was restored to the -- from the main grid here to the areas that cool the spent fuel pools and the nuclear reactor so positive news but they are monitoring the safety systems around here because there could be more aftershocks. we are told four initial aftershocks after the initial earthquake. >> i think we care more about them making sure it's entirely safe than we do about the rapid restoration from the power jin radiation from there and i guess a lesson we all learned after japan. >> we had to ask the question. where you when the earthquake struck? this is from scott. i was putting a stethoscope on a patient's heart when i felt my feet moving out from under me. i'm a cardiologist in sea girt on the jersey shore. at first i thought it was me p.m. within minutes the entire office was evacuated. the scene was somewhat humus. everyone was on their cell phone calling a loved one! i from sharon, i

public confidence having -- you see a connection between public confidence and districts that are doing wel you see in education that the only opportunity in a capitalist democracy that is provided to own kids, in different states, but to all kids -- you see a service that is really about hope, not fear. there is a cognitive dissonance between those of us that are in education and those people around that our reporting about it, or thinking about it in this negative way. what collective bargaining does is it is the vehicle by which to create not just economic dignity for people, but to actually create a voice to enable the tools and contions people need. that is what collective bargaining has done in districts that have worked effectively, both here and abroad. that gets missed in this entire debate. for example, in new haven, they really -- one of the most innovative, interesting contract in a long time. they actually used collective bargaining to problem solve. in toledo in the last few months, with the cuts they have, they used collective bargaining to problem solve. in baltimore, the pr