the number of people who have used them are people who were terminal within six months and who numbered in the hundreds. many who went through the process of applying for this didn't do it. most people are not going to commit suicide under any circumstances. but i believe that for people who are in the unbearable pain, it is a rational choice, and i don't agree at all that everybody who wants to commit suicide is irrational or depressed, and i think this is -- this is your patronizing. i don't deny for a minute that there are some people who are depressed, and rick symbol, i will give you an example of people who were depressed. there were people who, people in their 60's and 70's or even when they receive a diagnosis of something like same multiple sclerosis or parkinson's, which you are eventually going to die of, but unlike say alzheimer's or some variant forms of cancer, they are manageable and treatable and you can have a meaningful life for a long time, they are not a death sentence, but there are people who will treat that kind of diagnosis as if it were an immediate death senten

read such narratives to discover who's who and who did what to whom. are any of these names reflective of the people that you knew? >> the names, no. their lives, yes. the names, i friday -- some of the names rhyme. some of the names rhyme, and you know what happened with the seven girls, what happened is that i consulted with one of my girls,. i said what name would you want? and then she gave me the name that she wanted and her husband, and then we played with the names and we tried to find names that would sort of resonate with their personality and with their character. some of the names are true. my student who was killed in chapter 3, i had no reason not to use her name anymore. >> how was she killed, by the way? >> she was -- of course i didn't know about that. i found out later. she belonged to a radical muslim organization, the mujahedin, actually, at the beginning. a lot of young people at the beginning just were affiliated with this organization without much knowing what they were. and she was arrested in early 1980's, and later on executed.

who lives far. my lover who lives far away opens the door to my room and offers supper. in a bowl made of his breath. the stew has boiled and i wonder at the cat born from it's steam. the cat is in the bedroom now. muling. the cat is indecent and i whom trying to be tidy, i whom trying to do things the purpose way, i who am sick from the shedding. i, am undone. my lover who lives far away opens the door to my room and offers pastry in a basket spun from his vision. it is closely woven. the kind of container some women collect. i have seen these in many colors but the basket he brings is simple. only black. only nude. the basket he brings is full of sweet burdens and i eat even the crumbs. as am i have not dined for days. my lover who lives far away opens the door to my room and offers tea made from the liquid he's crying. i do not want my lover crying and i am sorry i ever asked for tea. my lover, who lives far away opens the door to my room pretending he never cried. he offers tea and cold cakes. the tea is delicious. spiced like the start of our courtship. honeyed and

we had a lady who came in who was acting out, hitting the cops, messed up. she had a condominium in the pacific heights and was a graphic designer. she had several accounts in the south bay. she was an independent contractor and she owned the condominium. she was making over a quarter million dollars a year. she had gotten so many counts on not taking her psychiatric me ds. her mother contacted the authorities and said they needed to check on her because she was not taking care of herself. we ended up restraining her, medicating her. she left four days later. you would not be able to recognize her. it is funny how people can lead normal lives. regarding condition red, when ps goes on condition red, it does not take more psyched patients [tone] supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. perhaps a collie can pick up on that. >> when it is on condition red, we cannot take other patients in. they cannot take anybody else in because they do not have beds. when they get full, that is what happens. they go on condition red. on friday, i was walking by the emergency room and

[applause] and a man who went to bed on saturday night, a cop with a badge and who woke up on sunday morning a new d.a., george gason. [applause] city attorney twice elected in san francisco, and usually without opposition, dennis herrera. [applause] a member of the board of education and from your administration, mr. newsom, hydra mendoza. [applause] the assessor for the city and county of san francisco, phil teng. the treasurer of the city and county of san francisco, jose cisneros. [applause] the public defender and the man that first whispered to george, you should be the d.a., jeff hadachi. one of the judges with whom we have worked for years, lilian singh. [applause] and of course the woman who was your lifeline from here to hong kong when you were trying to escape this awesome responsibility, rose pack. [applause] fire chief of the city and county of san francisco, joanne hayes white. and a man whose work as an architect in three or four administrations, a man that i got from the board of supervisors years ago, he became deputy chief of staff and then chief of staff under mayo

who does that unless it's here? and people who voted for ronald reagan felt that a man was speaking from here, and that's what we need to get back to, people who speak from here, not through the latest polling but from here. >> host: thank you for a wonderful new book on the 100th anniversary of your father's birth, the new reagan resolution. thank you. >> guest: thank you very much. ..

who is going to take salinger's place? who is writing the great american novel now? there will be a list of several young male writers, middle-aged writers and baby elderly writers and a woman stuck on the end. it is very fresh rating because the assumption is somehow that the female experience is not the american experience and a dessert and not the great american experience that is going to be reflected in the novel. it is really harder thing for women writers to contest without. there was a tremendous lack recently about jonathan franzen whose novel was picked up by a number of critics, mostly male critics but not entirely, and just hyped. this was another gan, never great american novel but it is about a lot of the things that women write about. is about families. is about messick life. some women writers said you know women just don't get this kind of attention. it hasn't really happened yet and it is usually that exclusion issues we attributed to the subject matter. it clearly is an. is really about gender. whether it is a man writing about the family it is con

and who are young adults who care about their planet and their community. i've cried with family and friends as they experience the trials, tribulations, joy, and happiness that life brings, and i continue to happily share my life with my partner of 12-plus years. none of this would have been possible without long-term recovery. the recovery month theme, "together we learn, together we heal," is very appropriate. it is this coming together, the coalition building that makes us a strong field and we have all been touched by addiction in one way or another and we have all seen the great triumphs of people in recovery. twentieth anniversary of recovery month. this year's theme, "together we learn, together we heal," reminds us of the many people, resources, and materials that contribute to the recovery process. it reminds us that substance abuse affects more than the person who is addicted. as i've mentioned this morning, it affects family, friends, co-workers, everyone who depends on, who cares about that person. we need to use all available resources in our

i also get people who are very angry who i think are may be very hostile or fearful of china rising. i get strange e-mails like, "go back to china if you think you are so great." that is not what i am saying. i also get e-mails from people who perhaps are parents themselves. i am not trying to tell other people how to parent. i believe there are many ways of being a great parent. show me a kid that is happy, self-reliant, and strong, and i say you have good parenting. i do not care about good grades. you do not have to be supervising are playing the violin. but people still are judging me very harshly. they are projecting all these things like, "i feel so sorry for your children. that is a little hard for me to take. my kids are thriving. they are huge personalities. tavis: let me ask you questions that are connected. how are your children handling all this controversy? you are not parenting alone. you are not a single parent. you are married to a person who is not chinese. you are married to a jewish white males. what has he said about all of this? >> you mentioned single parents. s

she is someone who will tell you that she is a person who loves and loves big and is someone who always speaks remind and always tells you the truth. not only did she work at the san francisco unified school district, she was supposed to go into retirement but could not do it. she is working with an organization that really helps all of our youth. i have the privilege of saying thank you to -- for all of your work. we look forward to what you will be doing even in your retirement. we don't want you to ever stop. thank you for everything you have done. >> thank you. >> well, supervisors. thank you. i know that the afternoon is getting longer. if this is my 15 minutes i would like to take just a few for myself. i grew up in a family of six kids. mom and dad refuse to to let us work. they required us to do community service starting in the ninth grade and finishing when we graduated from high school. my father said that there is no greater honor than to do service, to be in service to a dream that advances humanity. so, i grew up in a time of the dreamers and big dreams. the kennedy presid

so she goes up against the alderman, who is one of the people who put her in the position. >> that is not very nice. you don't bite the hand that feeds you. >> very, very foolish of him. i love working with him. >> he is a great actor. >> we used to laugh on set, and i would see how he was doing things, maneuvering props and things to gain ground, and we would love. >> to your point, after all the years of doing this, do you still find yourself watching and learning, checking out other actors? >> oh, my goodness, dell roy schooled me every day. i learned so much from him. he is a very powerful man, incredibly kind, incredibly generous to other people, and very dedicated to his work. really like our last day of shooting at the end of the series i cried because i knew that i would miss going to work with him the next day. and hopefully next season. we will see what happens. >> for those who watched the super bowl, meaning most all of us, fox was promoting the heck out of this series. they obviously expect a lot out of you and the cast in terms of delivering. no pressure. >> not me perso

who for perfectly innocent reasons may come into contact with someone who the administration could potentially be interested in and every time they travel they're subject to these kinds of searches but do we know do we have you know proof that this is coming directly from the obama administration. you know we do the obama administration issued a policy in august of two thousand and nine authorizing to purely suspicion the searches and even the copying of people's laptops at the international border that was a pretty disappointing development from our perspective we had hoped that when the obama administration took office it would replace this bush policy george bush and issued to same policy and we hope that the obama administration would bring change but unfortunately that hasn't been the case but i don't understand i mean how is that legal you know it's one thing i guess you're used to these days when you're traveling that you might be you might have your belongings searched in terms of you know your clothing and your luggage and you might be questioned but to copy people's personal private

who are more invested in change. it is a way of connecting with people and getting stories out. >> i am not sure the most effective way to communicate the message, but part of the message that jonathan is talking about, most of the victims and people accused of crime coming from the same place -- part of the message that needs to get up there, talking about justice and all that, it is meaningful to folks like us, but it does not play all that well with people who are afraid of crime, people who are out of work. part of the message has to become it seems to me, going back to the sources of crime, not from an economic point of view, if you want to save money, you should do things that effectively will fight crime, as opposed to making you feel tougher and stronger. also, if you can get part of the message out that it is a tragedy when anyone is wrongfully convicted, for that person, for their family and friends, but the other part is, if there are wrongfully convicted, there is somebody out there who is actually the cr

it is a low percentage of people who are catered -- tasered who have serious injury and die. but we are talking about russian roulette. in the next per group on the next page, it says exposure is safe in the vast majority of cases. let us hope that the victim who is getting tasered is not in that small minority of cases that involves injury or death. i would like to talk about one of these small minority of cases. this man -- he is a boy. he is 17 years old. he lived in charlotte, north carolina. we have heard about the charlotte department. this is a charlotte-mecklenburg incident that was caught on tape. there'll worked in the local supermarket as a backer. he graduated from high school. he was caught by his employer eating some snack food and not paying for it. there were hot dogs. he was upset. he felt he was being singled out and treated unfairly. he had his polo shirt that belonged to the store. he took it off and was confronting the manager. this is what the -- this is what the store video captured. there he is. he is not on drugs. the structurally normal heart. health

those who are... you've written admiring about that are in tahrir square. >> well, that is absolutely the number one... i think if he left, you know, they would go home. they might not all go home immediately, but they would start going home. that would be the victory that the people in the square are looking for. beyond that, the release, the immediate release, of all political prisoners, some of whom have disappeared, as you know, in the last couple of weeks. one thankfully prominent one, the google executive wael ghonin was released today. there's also the disillusion of the parliament that was chosen in a completely farcical election last november that even by mubarak standards was regarded as a complete joke. but there's no joke that the obsession of mohammed elbaradei is seeing his back. i saw a prominent industrialist who's among the so-called group of wise men who did meet with mubarak. his feeling was that those in tahrir square should declare victory. he said, look, we've already got a promi

personals. >> woodruff: people who are respected in egyptian society. >> people who write, people who are respected, yes. but i agree with michele, i'm not sure whether this will be acceptable to the demonstrators in the streets. many of them are still insisting on mubarak leaving. i mean there is a huge symbolism in seeing the far owe as they-- pharoah as they refer to him getting outing of the stage and reluctantly, with suliman who is a part of the same regime, a man who is not necessarily, the nicest history. so it is going to involve a great deal of debate, a great deal of involvement. as long as we don't have violence, i think there is some wriggle room. i don't think it's goinging to last for weeks. we are look for days before you see really the evolution of the shape of that kind of transition we're talking about. >> woodruff: marc lynch s it your sense that the power center is already shifted. you heard the president all but same the words lame duck today that mubarak, president mubarak has said i'm leaving. and he should be worrying about his legacy. so has the power shifted

are interested in history, who are interested in government, people who like to feel that they were there in the room when decisions were made, and get a sense of the people and what the differences were or what the agreements were, how it worked. but the website that we created with these hundreds and hundreds of documents, and thousands of pages, would give a reader a chance to read the book, look at an end to note, and then go and see the entire memo. if i quoted a paragraph, they can go and read the entire memorandum. i guess partly i wanted to do it because i am able to do it. i have the time and i have the archives and the interest, and i had never done it before. many people have written books. i have never written a book. >> who paid for all this? >> i did. >> out of your own pocket? >> yes. >> has it ever been done before, that you know of? >> not that i know of. i am sure there is someone who must have done it. what we have done is, we have taken all of these primary source documents, in large measure i have written, for whatever reason over so many decades, and digitized

everyone who comes to it -- this is the the room people see first. everyone who comes to it. it should be a pretty room. this is wallpaper printed in france in 1834. it is old scenes of america. mrs. roosevelt was the first lady to hold -- first first lady to hold press conferences. she walked into the red room with a box of candy which was passed around and booklets. she was the first first lady to hold a press conference. there were no male reporters allowed. >> had to he their first female reporter. they say a generation of female journalists got their job because of eleanor. she would do radio shows and she was riding her columns. >> the question to have sent me is on the various stages of life in the white house. >> with world war ii comes the need for secrecy and the transformation of another room in the home. in part due to one of the most famous visit ever to the white house. >> this is an inspiring secret. winston churchill's is here. after a bearing 10 day trip, he began conversations with the the president roosevelt. >> he worked setting up temporary headquarters i

and i -- you know, i was someone who grew up in a small-town in south dakota and had parents who my father and mother had both come through the great depression so they were very similar in terms ofer remembrances of that period and could identify with some of the thanks president reagan talked about. but he was a person of strong convictions. he had a strength of conviction i think that was really appealing to a l of americans. he was someone who believed in american exceptionalism. he understood that the greatness of this count wasn't in its government institutions but in its people and its ideals. he was someoneho was willing to confront the threats that we faced around the world and the way that he took on the threat of communism and promoted freedom and democracy around the globe is something for which he will always be rerdz, not only here at home but by other countries around the world. i think that he possessed in many respects a lot of the qualities that we value in the midwest. he was a very humble person. i think his humility is something that really stood out. he was always ref

who says that? everyone. announcer: imagine if who you are were used as an insult. >> i have been a cable car grip for 21 years. i am a third generation. my grand farther and my dad worked over in green division for 27. i guess you could say it's blood. >> come on in. have a seat. hold on. i like it because i am standing up. i am outside without a roof over my head and i see all kinds of people. >> you catch up to people you know from the past. you know. went to school with. people that you work with at other jobs. military or something. kind of weird. it's a small word, you be. like i said, what do people do when they come to san francisco? they ride a cable car. >> california line starts in the financial district. people are coming down knobbhill. the cable car picks people up. takes them to work. >> there still is no other device to conquer these hills better than a cable car. nobody wanted to live up here because you had to climb up here. with the invention of the cable car, these hills became accessible.

some of our friends who are coming over to us over the bridge have been faced by thugs who are opening cars, stopping any people giving medical supplies, food, water, from entering into the square or leaving the square. it is not just about the square, it is also an attempt at providing support and solidarity to the people there. >> just a sense of the determination of the protesters, part of our extended coverage on bbc news. >> to stay with us on "bbc world news." queensland survives one of the most powerful storms ever to hit australia. no deaths, but cyclonic yes he has this look -- has destroyed hundreds of homes. >>> egyptian authorities have partially reopened access to the internet. it had been closed five days because of demonstrators had been using it to court in a protests. now the battles on the streets are making their way onto the internet. >> supporters of hosni mubarak have started to use the internet to send their own videos. shops on mobile phones of demonstrations in support of the embattled president. and they are hitting back at pro-reform demonstrators, who domina

even the judges in santa clara county who were giving the colloquies, and the judges who would turn to defendants and say, i would like to get this resolved today, which basically means to plead guilty or no contest, they talked grudgingly. >> watch out if you ask someone out for a drink. i know in your study one of the things you found was there was a tremendous amount of pressure that came from the judges. can you talk briefly about that? >> sure. does this still work? >> one of the things we found that was very disturbing in our study was that nearly three out of four offices reported they had been pressured by county commissioners to cut costs. a good example of fat was recently reported -- good example of that is that it was recently appreported sacramento was planning to cut a third of their budget, yet their caseloads are already at twice the number of the national standards permit, so you have got that kind of economic pressure. there is also another type of pressure that comes from the lack of professional independence, the way we structure our public defense, especially our c

who don't have access computers, who don't have access to the internet. that's what we are seeing today to a large extent. >> suarez: mohammed el-nawawy, david keyes, thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> warner: next, the future of the electric car and a crucial question: if you build a better battery, will drivers follow? the newshour's economics correspondent, paul solman, examines that question in the second of two stories about the future of the automotive industry. it's all part of his continuing reporting on making sense of financial news. >> so i'm going to bring this on over here. >> reporter: g.m. engineer nina. do you do any magic shows in here? at long last perhaps an illusion becomes reality. after more than a century of false starts, the electric car may finally be here to stay. this chefy volt, whose battery lasts 35 miles after which a gasoline engine kicks in. it's been racking up car of the year awards in the united states. the all electric nissan leaf just named car of the year in europe is about to hit the show rooms. toyota a

. >> what are some of the other groups who are looking forward to? >> trombone shorty is that in the deal of publicity lately. he is off the charts. we have a band coming up from new york. margo is phenomenal. the chocolate drops did a special on public broadcasting. they are fantastic. the anderson family band, i live in sheer terror of us having to follow a family band. they're performing saturday morning at 11:00 for 40 minutes. we have enough stuff to play the whole time. we are ready. >> it has been a delight to have you on "culture wire." i want to thank you personally for this great musical festival you have given us. >> is a lot of fun. >> remembered the hardly strictly bluegrass festival will be in san francisco. visit the website to get information on all of the performances. ♪ [appla [applause] [applause] >> thank you, everyone for joining us. good evening and welcome to mayor edwin lee and san francisco city hall possible lunar new year celebration. i am lisa ahng, the liaison of mayor li's to the asian-american community. i want to pre

know, who they are? >> i think that because putin had some interview in 1999 and he was quite honest, i think he anticipate something different. because he wanted to create real new lead for russia. kind of junta united by common perspectives on russian present and future. people love the kremlin -- [inaudible] kind of vanguard in the russian state. but, in fact, you know, in 2007 it became even public the big struggle between people inside the secret service against -- [inaudible] and there is an open letter written by, excuse me, by victor, former kgb officer responsible for police -- [inaudible] and then -- [inaudible] close friend of putin. now has become traitors. so i think now fsb -- or, now, putin quite disappointed by this internal crisis because he, as far as we know, he's fully aware of it because he task the agency of victor to go investigate activity of the fsb and -- [inaudible] and some general, and the general responsible for these investigations was sent to jail. so i think he is not qui

if you look at the anti vaccine in the mid-1800s, it was among people who were not as well educated who fear vaccines. tended to have a responsible position and control him make that choice. in philadelphia the hispanic population which generally is a lesser population and to some extent and less educated population, they actually get vaccines. they believe in the expertise of the doctors that serve them and think that they know more about vaccines and get vaccines. it is ironic. >> vaccines are unpopular causing us to miss opportunities. maybe opportunities. new vaccines could really have a powerful weapon. i mean, investing because of it. >> i don't think so. certainly there is a tremendous push and pull to make a malaria vaccine. as a company to my think companies are indexing and have made significant limits. the hiv vaccine, they spend a million dollars. the program which failed, but that was -- this certainly were willing to spend the money. i don't think money is the problem. the good news is that is not true. fortunately not that many companies that do it. i think some level of

year who rhymed relish with fetish. [laughter] it was really a high for me as a broadcaster. but there's a far higher burden on it now given -- i'm glad you think newspapers are healthy. my new york times looks anorexic because it's not getting the advertising it needs. >> it looks about the way it looks when bernstein and woodward were at "the washington post" doing what they did, and "the new york times" was doing amazing work on the pentagon papers. >> you mean, the advertisers fled? >> no, i'm talking about the news hole. it's always a trick to look at the graphs, right? everybody goes, oh, you know, there were 1400 people at the l.a. times x number of years ago, but i'm not just saying, oh, we don't need to worry that now there are only 550, but i am saying that there is plenty of good work left at these newspapers, and we shouldn't just judge by whether it's -- >> oh, no. oh, no, absolutely. the reporting and the depth of it is superb, but my point was geffen the fact that -- given the fact that our responsibility

there is a woman who has five kids. she is a nurse. one beautiful spring day she is sitting on the stoop, and she is reading of friends hair, and the police say, do believe -- she is braiding of friends hair, and the police say, and you realize there is a no loitering sign, and she offered to get off, and they arrest her. they bring her before the judge, and they give her a $25,000 bail. she is never given an attorney, and she sits in jail for eight days. she has a relative take care of her five kids. eventually, she comes before the judge. the judge says, we will give you a couple hundred dollars as a fine, if you plead guilty, and we will call it a day. she says ok. she pleads guilty, and she thinks to herself, i will never pay the fine, and she gets the guy who also pleaded guilty, and they have a big party. they thing, this is all over with, and a couple minutes -- a couple years later she applies for public housing, and she is rejected because she has a criminal record. she had been loitering that day, and she is not eligible for

who is in control of the power in the city? it may be marginally better for black votes in some other places, but there are still fundamental issues with the school system. look at the endowment of emory compared to some of the black universities and colleges in atlanta. entrepreneurship is a big part of it. i did not understand and nobody told me what is involved with buying your own home until i was in my second law school, where is the my counterparts, the white students i was in class with, they had had that information coming up. it was just second nature. i asked the guy across the hall from me what his folks did. but told him my mom was a nurse and my dad was a teacher, a soldier before. he said his father was the deputy prime minister of jordan. i was like, "ok." minute court partner -- my moot court partner, he said his father owned three swiss banks. i think even before entrepreneurship, it is financial literacy. we need to educate ourselves about what these resources are. it is financial literacy and really wealth li

i know a lot of folks who are federally registered lobbyists who are my friends. but this is a natural extension of the dnc standing pledge to not accept these contributions. we do that because there is a belief and the fear among so many americans that all the seats at the table are bought up and that regular folks cannot be the ones financing conventions and campaigns, achieving the victories. when the president ran the campaign, he said this will be tough to try to win an election doing this, but i want to make sure everyone knows that if you are an individual, you are welcome. we are not letting the institutional players buy up all the seats at the table. the bar is one that says this will be the most diverse convention have ever held. it will set the standard for later conventions. what the set the standard for diversity and it is going to be very exciting to work on. it is a time of transition. there have been some announcements already about some staff changes in the white house and in the forthcoming re- election. not that kind of transition. [applause] th

who would ask? you know? and she found that the children of working parents didn't want more time with their mother, if they wanted more time with anybody, it was more time with their father and they wanted their mother to stop feeling so guilty and stressed about their work. so we really do have to rephrase this as a female-male issue and an issue that challenges this whole definition of work that was formlated when "the feminine mystique" did make women stay home and weren't allowed to think about anything else. yes? >> it's nancy mcderrmott. i helped run an infamous parenting group of affluent parents. i wanted to ask about middle class parents and mothers. you know, i see a lot of hostility to helicopter parents now, or the amy chas of the world. i have to say it kind of drives me crazy, i can also see this sort of scapegoating of parents has it's counterpart in parents who are not working class. so there's seems to be a movement to kind of redefine poverty as a deficit of parenting. so there's a counterp

this is up to egyptians to decide who should end the political game and who should not enter those who don't want to speak to the muslim brotherhood then they should speak to their natural allies if they are let's say a liberal and they don't want to speak to the muslim brotherhood they can speak to egyptian liberals but egyptian liberals have to find a compromise with the islamists all political forces also there is. a consensus in egypt that post mubarak egypt will not have a president with as many power. or. or all egyptian presidents decrees of the power of the president so i think the new system that will emerge will have more power sharing among the political forces a stronger parliament a stronger government and with a head of state that's more neutral and with less power so that's why i don't have a lot of fears of one group or hijacking egyptian society we have all colors in the political spectrum the muslim brotherhood yes it's the best organized the position but it's not the majority the majority are really on this i really believe very. go ahead it's not the most organized

who called for a return to manliness and people like anand who celebrate -- an rand who celebrated ayn rand. they all blamed the very different problems they saw in modern society on exactly the same source, women. there was a 1956 book, the crack in the picture window, that just eviscerated modern spur ya. but what was the main problem? it was a matriarchal society with the typical husband woman-bossed, inadequate, money-terrified neuter and the typical wife a nagging slop. this was the anti-woman rhetoric that was around, and you know, it was so pervasive that friedan even incorporated some of it in her writing including the totally repellant and now discredited notion that overly devoted moms turn their sons into homosexuals and, of course, she used it to turn the kiss -- discourse on its head and say we should actually let women have some interests of their own. but this lack of respect for moms was what permeated the culture. and the lack of rights for homemakers, i think, would stun most modern women. in 1963 only eight states gave a wife any legal claim to her husband's earnings

remember, the new board of supervisors who convenes tomorrow will make the actual decision on who the next mayor will be. >> everybody came down to ed lee with the expectation that it will be done in the most intellectually honest way and in a way that role and order is respected. i think we discussed a few nominations and came down to this one by a common denominator. >> i had a sense of urgency because i did not want to see anyone being acting mayor in the presence of the board of supervisors. that is not the kind of transition i talked about. we need to have a transition -- legislative branch separate from the executive branch of san francisco. that is the best way to do our work. people would not like the situation of having an acting mayor and president of the board of supervisors. >> now the dominoes in this chain of political events were falling day-by-day. the next day, january 8, new board members were sworn in. >> congratulations. [applause] >> and on monday, gavin newsom was finally sworn in as lieutenant governor of california. >> the duties upon which i am about to enter.

when you add to that the number of people who come here in the evening, who come here on the weekend for entertainment or to shop, eat is even bigger. transit funding should be allocated based on the number of trips into a city, not just on who is sleeping there at night. san francisco has about 800,000 people, but our daytime population is much larger, placing significant stresses and strains on our already limited transportation system. the structure of the mtc which makes these funding decisions should take that into account, that we are asking the state legislature through this resolution to reject the proposal and that we are going to make changes to make sure that those changes reflect san francisco's daytime population. my final -- yes, my final introduction for today is a resolution being co-sponsored by president chiu and supervisor kim to support the janitors of local 87, 1, south, van ness, which was a local 87 property and is owned by the city and county of sanford says, had a contract that was recently awarded to a non-union shop, which will result in job loss for the lo

who knows? i mean, i did the show in baltimore at a wonderful little place, the baltimore theater project, and after the reviews had come out, there were walk-outs, and people said, you know, "we want our money back." and the box office manager was like, "you're the one who came to preaching to the perverted." that's right. "what did you think?" they thought it was a musical? i can't imagine. are you ever tempted, from the stage, to say, "hold on. where are you going?" no, and i know certain artists, like karen finley, does often confront people who walk out and has some sort of discussion with them. i feel like it's people's right to leave. yeah, it's their right to leave. i'm more upset about the narcoleptics that sit in the front row, the people who seem to-- sometimes i suspect that it's a condition of their parole. it was, like, either 90 days in jail or performance art. [laughs] and it's got to undermine your confidence, as somebody who intends to provoke, to have somebody actually pass ou

who are these people? let me see if we can get it here, this shot. who are those people? whoops. guest: that's eugene vidal and amelia earhart. c-span: and who is gene vidal? guest: eugene vidal is the father of gore vidal. he was the great love of amelia's life. he was also the head of the bureau of air commerce, so he was the highest civilian -- that's the highest civilian post in aviation then. c-span: in your book, you quote gore vidal. did you talk to him about this--for this book? guest: i interviewed him, yes, and that--he gave me this sensational quote. c-span: what was it about? guest: well, it was about my book. he says that he liked the book. c-span: but he also gave you some information that she used to wear men's underwear. guest: yes. she used to wear men's underwear and she didn't -- she was too embarrassed to buy it herself, so his father used to buy it. c-span: why? why did she wear men's underwear? guest: well, it was more comfortable. women's underwear at that point -- women didn't wear slacks, they didn't wear pants, and so they wore kind of silk things that d

most of us who are not immigrants, and particularly those of us who have recent purchased a house or have a mortgage, we can't move around as easily. it turns out that immigrants are able and willing to move to places with high demand for jobs and leave places with low demand for jobs. this is extremely important because as an economy tries to pick itself up off the ground, we know one of the catch 22's is that in certain areas, a business can get started if it can get at certain types of labor. it has to wait for that labor to show up. then it can't employ, say, for example, the architect to redesign the new restaurant that's going to open if it can't get the right people into the restaurant to hire and work there. this mobility of labor has been radically changes in the united states because the housing collapse. people can't leave their homes. immigrants right now are more mobile than any other segment of society. they will probably in a technical sense be the lubrication, kind of great w.d.-40 that gets the gears of the economy again because they're able to move and to the third

is there anyone who wants to speak? i will close public comment after this. >> mining is alex strauss. i am a west side resident. i am familiar with parkmerced. my issues are, first of all, affordable housing. secondly, i have an issue with basically mumming down all of the -- mowing down all of the two-story buildings. we are not a suburb. we are a city. i thought a city was a polyglot, a mixture. leaver house in new york is now smaller than the other buildings in the area, but they kept it there because it is more interesting. it leads to the quality of life. i am also very concerned. i live on taraval street. i know what is is like to have a street car on steroids move to my street. you are going to have poles and wires. you are going to try to dodge the streetcar. it changes the nature of driving and walking. you are going to be dead ending that streetcar. that has an impact that needs to be considered. thank you. president olague: before staff addresses the commission, is there any additional public comment? seeing

who would he be? >> we needed to protect -- perfect the process so that once the board asked us for that process, we could actually have something in place that was well tested that we could provide to them. >> mayor newsom would be sworn in as lieutenant governor in early january. so the board of supervisors had barely two months after the november election to select an interim mayor to complete gavin newsom's term. but how would the board do this? san francisco's charter guided -- offered little guidance. >> although it was obvious we would appoint an interim mayor, there was no time line for the two to occur. we looked to outside counsel for answers. they researched those questions. while they researched the legal angle, we began the research on the parliamentary level. at the beginning of the calendar year 2010, we started to craft a generic process for a successor for mayor. being a parliamentarian of the board, i have been working on the process itself. i have been working with two one and parli

praoeup who yields time? -- the presiding officer: who yields time? is. mr. rockefeller: i think the senator from iowa would wish to speak. mr. harkin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. harkin: i assume the chairman of the committee has yielded me whatever time i want to consume, i assume. and i'm reserving some time also for the chairman. mr. harkin: mr. president, here we go again. it's not the first time we've had an attack on davis-bacon, and i'm sure it won't be the last. again, we have to get the facts out and not be led astray by misconceptions and by lack of really good data. the fact is davis-bacon doesn't just create good jobs, it saves government money in federal construction costs. again, my friend from kentucky has said this is going to cost more money. well, i'd like to see the studies, because we've had a lot of studies on davis-bacon over the years and studies have shown that prevailing wage laws have led to the reduction in injuries by 10% to 20%. this is because responsible contractors that pay their workers at

is of self-sacrifice and heroism with those who understand it fully but you have to live a. real life stories from world war two this is. the truth nineteen forty five dot dot com. top stories this hour on r.t. frustration with governments reaches boiling point across the middle east and north africa as protesters push for change at the same time egyptians are starting to question the outcome of their own rest. us military is fighting tooth and nail to hold on to its multi-billion dollar budget claiming lives but some say americans are already in the deep end with many on the edge of poverty. economic woes and political turmoil battles a tarnished image on its third anniversary since declaring independence from serbia meanwhile there are fears radical islam is gaining ground in the republic. temperance up to date for the moment more news from me in fifteen minutes from now the meantime unit is next with a major sports action. hello and welcome you with sports today i'm you know these are stories and very. topical conquests rubin kazan suffered defeat to f.c. twenty in the fi

who brought the change in. russia. again repeated the question of who is really years. but definitely agree that you sort of need to remain in russian history as one of the most prominent figures. his early success with people why do you think his popularity eventually dwindled. this is very sensitive and i remember the last days of president. as a person swallowing words with six percent of the people literature that was a far cry from. greeted him on the terrace in one thousand nine hundred to one. and only so let me remind you that you're in the first presidential elections . nearly forty percent. so the reason is that some past. torture is painful transition period. painful or reforms which actually affected the life of millions of russians and some may draw a conclusion that it was yes i'm to blame but there was no way we had reforms ok well yeltsin did carry russia through a very turbulent transformation you mentioned yourself it was a very tough period but he managed to do so with far less bloodshed than many had feared now how do you think he managed to do that.