liked winston churchill. >> winston churchill didn't like winston churchill.ound in this book. winston churchill loved winston churchill and i think even more fascinating, he was surrounded by people that loved winston churchill and, as you say, and why not? he was winston churchill. talk about how he held court everywhere he went. >> he told a friend or biographer his idea of a perfect evening was to have wonderful food, wonderful drink, and much of it -- >> lots of it -- >> with wonderful friends, and at the end of the meal conversation which he with would lead and guide and, in fact, monopolize. that was his idea of a perfect evening. >> and we're not saying this even half in jest. he simply wasn't interested in what other people had to say. >> no. sadly, especially with regards to his wife, or what they felt. she was under a lot of stress. she was having nervous break downs. his daughter and his son were descending into alcoholism and another daughter killed herself with barbiturates. he didn't see it at all. he didn't see any of it. >> talking about alcoh

winston says veterans commons will an one-stop shop to veterans. they'll have ak toes to health care and wellness classes like cooking and yoga. >> i didn't expect it to look as nice as it does. living in san francisco, just having a place to live, that's a very important thing. once you have that, the stress level goes way down. >> reporter: winston says this falls in line with the goal of ending veteran homelessness. he believes that the right support, the time line can happen. >> it's a very ambitious goal but we're signed on, you know, we drank the kool-aid, the va is doing a great job and congress and the public has supported the resources necessary. >> reporter: the grand opening is expected later this month or in early december. but veterans will get a chance to move in within the next couple of weeks. . >>> striking workers against raley's and knob hill foods are cautiously optimistic while the contract talks are progressing today. workers say they are hopeful that the two sides can agree on a new contract of. the union pose the company pro

and we want to thank winston parsons for his service to the city and county of san francisco. can you please call item 7. >> item number 7, allocate $3 million in proposition k funds, with conditions, to the peninsula corridor joint powers board for implementation of the communications-based overlay signal system project, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedule; amend the strategic plan; and commit to allocate $6,390,000 in fiscal year 2013/14 and $6,470,000 in fiscal year 2014/15 prop k funds to the cboss project. this is an action item. >> this is again another item that came before the plans and programs committee. turn it over to our executive director. >> yes, mr. chairman, thank you. commissioners, there is another handout that is on your desks which has a title of agenda item 7. that is simply for your information since this item is a very important allocation for the division of caltrain. we had a discussion on conditions and oversight related conditions at the boards and programs committee. and i just wanted to report that as a result of th

my name is winston parsons. i am here today because i would like to be on the geary corridor bus rapid transit citizens advisory committee. i'm a forught generation san franciscan so i lived near the geary corridor my entire life and take transit and bike to get me around the city. i grew up with mom and grandma and i grew up hearing stories how transit worked for them. my grandma took a train across the bridge to the east bay and get off at market street and the fairy building and muni served the citizens more effectively. furthermore my current job is working for the presidio bike wise program. i teach kids to ride safely and responsibly. i work at the a middle school in the area and i see how the street design affects a myriad and variety of users there. furthermore we're involved in safe routes for schools and i think the project has the potential to aid and impact. i also have ancasion and personal passion for transportation and urban planning. i have a minor in urban planning. my major was in communication

group and marjorie pollster, vice president of the winston group and marjorie clifton, national editorote.com. welcome to you both. we thought the interest of impartiality you can find two people who looked almost identical on either side. we are looking like twins. we are not absolutely impartial tonight. let me start with you, kristen. you filing confident? i'm getting a feeling of confidence amongst republicans but i sort of assume everybody on both sides now spends the next 48 hours lying through their back teeth anyway. >> i'm going to be honest with you, piers, i'm gonna hedge a little bit. i think if you're looking at the polls, the polls are consistently showing obama with a very slight lead in a loft these swing states that makes me very nervous. i think within a lot of these polls, you are seeing romney wynn end pep dents by such slow margins, are the polls missing something, i think republicans are looking at these intangibles, huge rallies showing up for mitt romney, this great performance in early voting and saying this isn't 2008. we feel better about it this time and the

well, winston set out on a 5,000-mile journey to help kids with cleft lips get their own smiles by raising funds. >> i started smile trek not just to raise money but ultimately to raise awareness, which is a big part of getting these kids the confidence that they deserve. >> when he was with the marines in senegal he was stunned by the poverty and also kids that needed the surgery. he used his android phone and googled walking directions to walk through southeast asia and visit different communities. through his journeys to help pay for the surgery that say will give these kids with clefts their smile back. and he started this journey in september of 2011. he is about $10,000 short of his goal, so he's still hoping to continue raising funds for this cause. and according to him, each surgery is about $250, so with all the money that he's been able to raise, he's helping a lot of people. >>> not many things make me laugh more than a good fail video. i've got two of them. this guy is stretching out for a high kick. and he seems to be attempting to kick this lamp hanging from the ceiling. no i

he picks up the next one, "winston ntshona." "yes, sir." pay packet over. "thank you, sir." he picks up the next one, "fats bhokolane." [speaking african language] pay packet over. [speaking african language] he picks up the next one, "robert zwelinzima? robert zwelinzima." yes, sir. pay packet over. open it. open it. 5, 10, 11, 12, 99. 12 rand, 99 cents a week. your wife, your children, rent, food, clothes, school fees, school books, school uniform, your tax, your life, your future. saturday morning, man in a blue overall. 12 rand, 99 cents in the back pocket. he walks straight to town into main street, sales house. ah, he walks in, the salesman meets him. "sit down, my boy. sit down. "you've come to buy a suit? "ah, just a deposit, "the rest of the balance in six months installments. "you must pay every month, my boy. "we shall send you statements to remind you of your balance. "let me take your name and address down, "so that we can send you a calendar "during christmas holidays. what is your name, my boy? your name?" robert zwelinzima. where do you stay? 50 mapija. where

and former kerry deputy campaign manager steve elmendorf and former gingrich senior adviser david winston. good to see you both. >> good to be here. >> david, something else speaker boehner said moments ago, as you know, congressman tom cole broke with most of the rest of republicans saying, look, we should just take the tax breaks for people making under $250,000 a year and worry about the upper-income folks later. john boehner just said no, he doesn't agree with that. what do you think's going to happen here? >> well, the next couple weeks as we begin to sort of lay out these sort of contrasting positions that the president and the speaker have, look, what the spoker's focused on here is, yes, we obviously need to raise more revenue. there's a disagreement in terms between the president and the speaker in terms of how you do that. the speaker's looking at doing things that he believes will not negatively impact the business community, and he thinks what the president is offering will. and so how they work through and resolve that is obviously going to be central to a deal. but there's c

to have young folks that live here that are interested in transportation so i am happy to support winston too and i hope when we have another vacancy you can let me know and i can do recruiting in the tenderloin but i don't want to hold up this applicant in the meantime. thank you. >> thank you. we have a motion from commissioner farrell. seconded by commissioner cohen and we can take that without objection so congratulations. next item please. >> number six recommend allocation of 3 million in prop k funds for [inaudible] communications base over lay signal system project and subject to cash flow and implementation of strategic plan and the money in 2013 and 2014 -- [inaudible] in fiscal year 2013, and 2014 to the prop k funds. this is action item. >> good morning commissioners. i am louis and project consultant to the authority. let's begin with this request with a little context. the context begins with the california high speed rail. as you know the california high speed rail authority has the mandate for building and maintaining high speed rail in california and their 2012 business p

if you do not believe that, imagine a world war ii with britain led by a 25-year-old winston churchill. right? you need wisdom. you need wisdom. society's need wisdom and knowledge. they value older people. but operationally, functionally, you know, we slow down. we're less precise. we remember less. we're less effective than we could or should be. we asked the question of how complicated with the training be, and what did these things are reimbursable -- reversible? i will tell you, everything is reversible. everything can be improved. every dimension of the physical, functional brain can be reversed in a positive direction. it is all reversible. we're constructed to be basically reversible. so, first of all, we look at the process of the brain as it relates to the alertness of the brain. look at recovery. we look at the process as it relates to the intentional control of the bravin. we look at the accuracy as to how the brain receives information. is schematically approved by training. we can speed up the brain almost always by two to three-fold in an old animal or human not so far a

from jeweler harry winston to bergdorf goodman's department store, luxury retailers are trying to get shoppers in the mood to spend. but this holiday season could be tricky for high-end stores. sure, luxury shoppers are feeling more confident because stocks are in decent shape, and the housing sector is building a foundation. still, many are more likely to be aware of the potential threat to the u.s. economy of the fiscal cliff. expectations remain mixed for fancier retailers, but some experts predict the debate in washington over taxes will simply delay holiday purchases made by wealthy americans. >> i would expect that holiday spend won't get impacted as much. some of the larger wealth items, tax planning, estate planning, that's where their focus will be. it may defer some of it because they've been preoccupied. >> reporter: tom jacobsen tracks consumer spending behavior and believes the fiscal cliff will impact shopping patterns. he says in an uncertain economy retailers will need to pay close attention to pricing. >> as the confidence erodes, you might need more discounting to se

but keep in mind the winston group is also headed by david winston, who's a gop operative. speaker boehner. so you have to watch these public opinion surveys because obviously sometimes the groups by whom they're done have an interest in what the outcome is. >> we know the president spoke with boehner this weekend, they decided to keep that under wraps. when does the president meet with congressional leaders again? >> reporter: we don't know. they had that one meeting before thanksgiving. they were supposed to do it again sometime this week. hasn't been scheduled yet. >> got to roll up the sleeves, crunch the numbers, get it done. >>> also this morning on capitol hill, u.n. ambassador susan rice is all set to answer pretty tough questions about her comments on those terror attacks in benghazi. rice initially called the attack on the u.s. consulate a spontaneous event over an anti-islam movie. now, recent declassified intelligence reports now calling the attacks an act of terror. four americans died, including bay area native u.s. ambassador chris stevens. rice is considered

get this, a boxer named winston donates his blood every few months to help save the lives of other pets. when his owners first met him he was seriously wounded, starving and infected but he has since been nursed back to health. >> he's doing very, very well. dogs and cats need blood just like we do in emergency situations. >> well, his blood most recently saved a 9-year-old yorkie who had lost blood during an operation. >>> a house explodes after a plane comes crashing through a roof. we'll tell you what witnesses say happened just minutes before this aircraft fell from the sky and let you know that when you see this someone survived. plan w=!nño [ male announcer ] what can you experience in a seat? inspiration. great power. iconic design. exhilarating performance. [ race announcer ] audi once again has created le mans history! [ male announcer ] and once in a great while... all of the above. take your seat in the incomparable audi a8. take advantage of exceptional values on the audi a8 during the season of audi event. ♪ >>> crews are on scene of a baltimore county house fire that sent

have said they do this on a temporary basis ended up lasting a very really long time to mubarak winston's so i think there is that sort of fear among egyptians that what they're getting is a new pharaoh as i said they want they wanted more democracy back in twenty eleven but they also wanted fundamental economic changes which haven't come about because there are widespread concerns of the public about what morsi has done the last few days that's not what the people in the hundreds of thousands took to the streets when twenty eleven was to have a new dictator but the underlying cause i think are economic factors and the fact is people voted for morsi because they thought he'd bring changes it but the economy has got worse one in four young egyptians are out of work poverty is on the rise so i think there is this one issue this constitutional crisis at the moment but beyond that there are deeper issues and you have to be addressed. pro independence parties of won a parliamentary majority in spain to cut the law although the region's president who is pushing for a referendum on breaking away

to my far right is winston lord. winston lord serve as the assistant secretary of state from 1993-1997 for president bill clinton he has bush really served as co-chairman of the overseers of the international rescue committee, the largest non-sectarian organization that helped refugees abroad and resettle some in the united states. he has had a long career of bipartisan service in the u.s. government, a special assistant to the national security advisor he accompanied henry kissinger on his secret visit to china and president nixon on his historic opening in early 1970s, as well as subsequent trips by president ford and dr. kissinger. from 1985-1989, he served as the u.s. ambassador to beijing under presidents reagan and bush. ambassador lord's other key government assignments were as state department took a policy planning, from 1973-77, and in defense state department in the 1960s. in between these posts he has helped him and headed in variety of private organizations related to international affairs. as well as ch

president, winston churchill said, "the truth is in convertible. ignorance may be righted. malice may be sorted, but there it is." the truth is that israel wants peace and the palestinians are avoiding it. this resolution is not advancing peace, but undermining it. the un was created to advance the cause of peace. palestinians are turning their back on peace. today, do not let history record that you helped them do that. thank you, mr. president. [applause] >> that was an esteemed representative of israel. i now give the floor to the minister of foreign affairs of indonesia. [applause] >> mr. president, mr. secretary-general, the time has come for the international community to set rings right. no longer can the world turn a blind eye to the long- suffering's of the palestinian people. the denial of their basic human rights and fundamental freedoms, the obstruction of their rise to self-determination and to independence. no longer can the world deny that despite enormous barriers, palestinians have diligently and with great result doubled capacity to function as a state. th

a boxer named winston donates his blood every few months to help save lives of other animals. when his owners first met him, he was seriously wounded, starving and infected, but he was nursed back to health. and because of this, his owners decided he could save the lives of other animals. >> he's doing very, very well, dogs and cats need blood just like we do in emergency situations. >> now, his blood most recently saved a 9-year-old yorkie who had lost blood during an operation. when you see this story, lynette, it makes complete sense. i mean, we donate blood for times of need, and like we said, a pint of blood can save three lives. an animal doing it just makes sense. >> it does make a lot of sense. you know what else makes a lot of sense? >> that we need a jacket. >> big coat. these temperatures are below average now. so we're dealing with very cold temperatures. we should be for -- for a low temperature we should be right around 38 degrees this time of the year and we're not getting that. so bundle up as you head out the door this morning. we can see what's going on, mary

when winston churchill died in january 1965, the queen gave him the supreme honor of a full state funeral. lyndon johnson wanted to be there, but he was in the hospital with acute bronchitis. for three days, his request for special accommodations, including her in his armchair to the funeral, ranging shelter from the rain, and being allowed to sit while others were standing. the queen granted all of his request, and thoughtfully invited him. unfortunately, lyndon johnson's doctors denied his request to meet the queen. richard nixon had been very eager to please the queen since their first meeting in 1957 when he gave her a book entitled the art of readable writing. in an effort to improve their public speaking. which had been criticized in the british press. nixon also hosted a stand-in or for prince philip in the white house, which prompted barbara walters to scold him for not including any women. nixon had princess anne and two children visit in washington, even trying to fix up his trials with his daughter, patricia, once of the prime minister's residence in the country, but he never m

from new york and i decided to serve basically because growing up i tried to live by the quote from winston churchill. you make a living by what you get and you make a life by what you give. the class of 2014 had to make a commitment to serve after graduation. i thought it would be an easy decision since i already made the decision to attend and i worked hard to become an officer but it was a really difficult decision for me because i couldn't answer the why i wanted to serve but it boils down to the principle of giving. i have been given a lot. i have a phenomenal family. i have been given the opportunity to continue my education and i want to give back to the world that has given me so much and help the nation with all their issues. >> thank you so much and thank you for all that you're doing. >> thank you, sir. >> tell me who you are? >> i'm cadet curtis from california. >> why did you choose westpoint? >> my parents have inspired my brother and i to serve and give back to our country. we found the service academies. when i was an incoming senior in high school i was given the opportunit

when winston churchill died in january of 1965 the queen gave him the supreme honor of a full state funeral. lyndon johnson desperately wanted to be there to represent his country but he was in hospital with acute bronchitis. 4 three days johnson pressed for special accommodations including bringing his own chair to the funeral, arranging shelter from the rain, and being allowed to sit while others were standing. the queen granted all of his requests and thoughtfully invited him to a private audience at buckingham palace after the funeral. unfortunately johnson's doctors forbade him from making the trip, denying him his only chance to meet the queen. richard nixon had been very eager to please the queen since their first meeting in 1957. when he gave her a book titled the art of readable writing, in an effort to improve her public speaking which had been criticized in the british press. nixon also hosted a stag dinner for prince philip in the white house which prompted barbara walters to scold him for not including any women. nixon and retained the queen's two older children, prince charles

. >> we went to winston churchill high school, local, born and raised. >> they quickly became frustrated with the limited transportation available on weekend nights. >> we want to be able to get out in d.c. and experience other areas but it wasn't convenient. we would have to walk to the metro or get out here via cab but we couldn't get back. because when we last -- cabs wouldn't drive us home or the metro would be closed. we wanted a convenient fun way to get around d.c. >> reporter: enter the d.c. hopper. the shuttle runs every half our on fridays and saturdays from 9:30:00 p.m. to 3:15 a.m. each driver is armed with an ipad device that swipes credit cards. >> it brings to you the opinion and it says slide to pay. >> reporter: the hopper isn't a party bus. no alcohol but -- >> we provide water and red bull. >> as far as the specials, about a dozen pars and nightclubs allow riders to skip their lines and cover charges. and the establishments are already noticing extra business. >> hope people get to know the service more so they can use it when they come down to east. -- about a dozen b

. >> we went to winston- churchhill high school, local born and raised. >> reporter: after turning 21, they became frustrated with the limited transportation available on weekend nights. >> we want to go to d.c. and experience other areas. it was not convenient. we would have to walk to the metro or get here via cab and couldn't get back because when we left, you know, cabs wouldn't drive us home or metro would be closed. we wanted a convenient fun way to get out to d.c. >> reporter: enter the d.c. hopper. it costs $16 each way between bethesda and dupont circle or georgetown to travel between the two d.c. locations only, it's $10. and it runs every half hour from 9:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. each is with a device and riders can pay with a popular mobile app square. >> it brings you to our page and said slide to pay. >> reporter: it's not a party bus, no alcohol on board, but -- . >> we provide water and red bull on the bus for free. >> reporter: and fun and convenient. >> reporter: if you're at the bar and wondering where the bus is, grab your phone and go on to twitter and check it out. >