early they are fall, volunteers from the on-line social game maker, zinga, a partner to our district,ht in 20 staff volunteers to work with our balboa high school technology students, who are learning to gain or to do game programming with the tech employees from zinga and >> this is the way that we do business in san francisco, public schools. and so this golden bell will be displayed for all to see, but kerri, congratulations kevin, thank you so much, but when you see claudia, we give her a shout out as well and so congratulations. and so finally, a little over 19 years ago, a man stood at his inauguration ceremony to begin leading the country as the newly elected president of that country. he was there, standing on the stage, with his former prison guards. the guards that had abused him while he had been locked away for over 20 years. that man is a man that we all know as nelson mandela, the president of south africa. p and today, in that very same nation, that nation came together to memorialize him and he will be buried this sunday. but i wanted to take a moment this evening for

tech companies, apparently the founder of zinga, asked the president to pardon edward snowden, who's the consultant who leaked a lot of the documents and who's the reason why we're all here talking about it. but they really asked for reforms. and they have five things they want. including they want to be able to be a check on the system. they want to be able to say when they get asked by the government. so this is an important meeting where some tough things were said to the president about kind of the economic impact of the story. >> and what is been the economic impacts? >> we actually don't know. that's been a great question. what the companies have said is the trust. people's trust in us has gone down. they measure trust. and so trust with american consumers, but particularly international consumers. people don't believe that their messages and their information is safe. they might not have always believed it and that's one thing i want to ask cindy. do the tech companies have an interesting dilemma here, they're out there telling the president, you're jeopardizing our business.

this year they are joining with toy company zinga for the event. it's in the tenderloin district. donations will be accepted at 9:00 this morning in saint anthony's which is located golden gate avenue in curb street. saint anthony with be collecting items and food for those in need. it continues through tuesday. on this morning, oakland will hold a ceremony of appreciation for the eucalyptus tree that fell during high winds last month. the nearly 150-year-old tree located on lakeside drive measures 125 feet tall. 55 miles an hour winds brought the tree down on november 21st due to fire safety hazard, crews will begin trimming the branches this week. here's a look at the forecast. >> good morning. we are looking at sunny conditions and about an hour or so from winter. we are in the upper 40s in san francisco. 41 in oakland with 50 at the coast. a little more wind out there, allowing for the temperatures to city up this morning. not as cold as we could be. napa just getting beyond freezing at 35 and 38 in concord. so we are looking at a sunny and dry day across the state with number

this year they are partnering with a social gaming company zinga for the toy event. it's in the tenderloin district. saint anthony's foundation in san francisco will hold their annual curbside donations. saint anthonys is located at golden gate avenue and jones street in san francisco. they will be collecting foods, socks and shoes, hygiene items and clothing for those in need. saint anthony's drive continues through tuesday. >> this morning more parents will go shopping for christmas toys without having to open their wallets or purse. yesterday the salvation army in san francisco held the first day of the two-day event allowing the families to go on a shopping spree. they browse the aisles with a personal shopper and hand pick at least three toys for each kid >> they can browse and pick the toy that they feel their kid would really love to have on christmas day. >> parents know what their kids are like and what they like so it's good they get to pick them out. >> the salvation army is one of the few charities providing gifts for teens, who are often forgotten by don

at one point, one of the executives who was there, mark pincus, the founder of zinga, they do the games for the iphone, he suggested president obama go so far as to pardon edward snowden, the nsa leaker, the person that some people call a traitor, others call a whistleblower. president obama said he could not do that. some of the other things we heard from participants in the meeting include that the president told the executives that nsa reforms will be announced in january. the executives got the impression from president obama that have bulk collection is not likely going to stop anytime soon, but that there will be an attempt at more transparency. the executives, as i said, pushed really hard on the impact for their companies. these are very successful corporations, facebook, apple is, microsoft, et cetera. and they don't want the government and the government surveillance hurting their companies' ability to grow in 2014. >> all right. jake, thanks. appreciate it as always. >> thank you. >> the federal reserve wrapping up its final policy meeting of the year. and everybody's watchi

s marissa mire with the president there and the head of zinga or the founder, mark pimkus, behind here warned of the internet, countries and organizations creating their own private internet in order to keep their data safe from american spying. we do know brazil and iceland talked about plans to do that as well. as we see some of the ceos leaving the meeting. the idea of separate internets throughout the world would hurt silicon valley companies like ebay or google who want to work inside the country. san jose's experiment with online loss through u dasty. it would seem as a way of solving one of the state's biggest problems. san jose state has more students than it had reimmediamedial cla. evidence that the classes failed to educate and the kids failed to learn was enough to squash the idea. one of the key reasons behind the whole idea is rather disturbing. they found many california high schoolers came to college so unprepared for college, they had to take remedial high school levels. there were so many of the unprepared students, the classes filled up quickly. so they tried teachi

square space as zinga, all of those type of players. >> i've been asking this question all morning.s that because of the quality of the staff and the benefits of being here in ireland or is it down to your low tax rate? >> so i think when you're looking at this investment decision, if you can't get the talent, think about the tax rate. go to singapore, switzerland, other european countries. it's the combination of the tax and the talent and the track record that scores well for ireland. >> so we know ireland has a strong relationship with the u.s. you are there several times a year. but what a asia? what about china? what's the progress of ireland there? >> so we get 73% of all foreign direct investments from the united states. 20% from europe. we have a lot of infrastructure now from china, india, singapore, etcetera, but it's a slow burner in the sense that the ireland brand is well recognized in the u.s., very well recognized in europe. but, of course, if you're in china or india, it's for a lot more work. if you ask somebody in ireland what they know about ireland, they know abo

dickerson from etsy, pink is from zinga.re you going to play word with friends. >> you went through your little -- >> he didn't realize it and it was my daughter playing him and she just crushed him! this is an important meeting. these people, every one of them wanted to help and i think they felt shut out when it came to the web site. >> it makes for a nice picture but is it nothing more than that? do you really think all these guys -- if they really wanted help, wouldn't they do it quietly rather than publicly and have all of these people show up. >> yeah, drew hallston, they got a young guy. yes, i think you're absolutely right. tim cook. if they had done this six months ago and said, guys, let's all split it up, you do this, you do that, we would be thinking holy cow, we have got the most sophisticated health care system in the world. this is a little bit barn door. you're saying this is a facebook facebook. >> they've atended these meetings in the past. they won't tell you but it's optics and they come in, everybody gla

pertains to the 2009 british hacker, ashley mitchell, when he was posing as an administration for zingaames. with that i yield back. >> thank you. now recognize for five minutes, the gentleman from vermont. >> thank you very much. folks are going to gamble. they like to do it. in any way they can they will. and obviously there are legitimate reasons and there are folks that get overwhelmed with it just like any kind of activity. so anything we do has to include some protections. you've been trying to do that in las vegas, as i understand it. but i want to direct these questions to professor volberg and professor eggert. how do we ensure that minimizing the harm is baked in as a priority from the start and not simply laid on afterwards after the fact and the harm is done? i mean, if we get at it in the beginning with some sensible plan that has in my view more prospect for being successful and helping more people? >> i think the way you do that is you plan it before you legalize the internet gambling. it should be something that should be written into the regulations from day one. i thin