i'm dee dee workingman pr the board of directors voted for having this ordinance we're the only chamber of commerce that has taken this position we want to thank supervisor cowen for helping us with this and help draft the ordinance. we were able to get input both on larger companies. we're comfortable with the language and the intent of the ordinance. our interests primary were were to get qualified applicants into the jobs and enable the position to be filled. we didn't want this to be cumbersome that you set people up to fail all along the process to be hired and there is something that makes them unsuitable weighing we've advocated this early so it will happen after the first interview and we're graltd about that. everybody we worked with all the companies and biz businesses were clear they were comfortable. many don't have this provision on their applicaion but this was a given the box would come off. we didn't want o l s c to be second guessing the decisions that the employers make whether or not the civil action was an issue. it was the timing that the employer can you couldn't a

i'm dee dee workingman with the chamber of commerce. first of all, he want to thank you the commission and the mraptd and the planning department staff for undertaking this study we think it's critically important because of the legislation that is coming before you and the board of supervisors that will impact the definition and policies regarding all kinds of retail within the last year or so we think the policy is important we have the correct and up to date data to come up with a new set of policies. i was appreciative to be part of the first stakeholder meeting last year. that was very productive and useful. our interest to the chamber it that policies will create balance we think the most successful corridors are those that have healthy mixed of all retailers like local or large retailers and you know that you have this healthy mix and we hope this study will help us. one of the things at the stakeholder meeting and i see as part of the presentation was that the some of the data was analyzed and discussed in terms of supervisorial

. >> he's a hard-workingman. and he's a, you know, really responsible father. and now he's in the hospital. >> reporter: she's heartsick at what her father's had to endure, the 82 year old has been in critical condition since christmas eve when he was brutally beaten just two blocks from his oakland home. >> we know that he was walking in his neighborhood, around 11:00, 11:30 at night when he was assaulted. he has multiple facial fractures and broken ribs. >> reporter: he is a father of seven and grandfather of 13, can't eat or talk. tonight his family is pleading with the public to help them identify who's done this to the head of their family. >> it's important to let us know and why an 82 year old man. >> we want to find out who's responsible for this, and we want to remove them from our veets. >> reporter: police say whoever's responsible for this is clearly dangerous, preying on someone as frail as this man. >> our senior citizens are an integral part of our community. they're the woven background of our fabric. and wee-weee want to protect them. >> report

jim's was a workingman's dive right below the rooming house.then i had known him 20 years. >> on the evening of the assassination, pepper says an employee went looking for jowers. >> and she hears this shot, boom. and she stops. and then she continues and she goes to the open door, all of a sudden she sees lloyd running toward her carrying this rifle, still smoking. >> pepper says lloyd jowers didn't actually shoot dr. king, he helped get rid of the gun as a favor to a mafia connection who came to see him. >> and gave him $100,000 and said, "your place is going to be needed for the killing of that nigger, king." >> pepper believes the mafia was in cahoots with the federal government and local police who wanted king dead. jowers told him as much. >> it was planned in his place, there were logistical meetings there with police officers, and he was given a role to do in terms of the gun being out there, taking the gun, eventually turning it over. to raoul. >> again, the mysterious raoul. james earl ray had always insisted a man named raoul, or som