welcome, mr. beck. >> thank you, chairman, supervisors. as a director mentioned, the st. vacations are to facilitate the construction of the new transit center, and we have here a section of the building -- can we come out a little bit? there we go. thank you. this is a section through the center of the building, but it illustrates several components of the transit center design, most notably the rail levels of the transit center. the new transit center, as with the original terminal, will span over first and fremont streets. these rail levels will also extend beneath beale street. extending into the right of way on the south and the industry's trade on the north. that is kind of the physical parameters of the construction. i have other images i could show you of other elements of the encroachments or the bus route if you are interested. supervisor mar: no, i do not think that is necessary. >> ok. thank you. supervisor mar: thank you. if there are no other questions, let's open this up for public comment. is there anyone from the public who would like to speak? seeing non

this -- mr. decker -- mr. beck bought the house next door to me. i immediately went and met with him in person. i -- i showed him my plan aths -- i showed him my plans and took him to my house. i told him the plans. he said at that time, i won't oppose you. i proceeded. essentially, mr. becker is going to lose his view. the building is directly across the street in front of him. my place is right over from the building. it cuts out his light. i agree. when i told him the man, he said that's the case, that is what you're going to do, then i'm going to do the same thing. he didn't want to go through the process i been through. i've been working on this since 2007 and they fought me at every turn. i think we have a brilliant design. i think it works well with the neighborhood. in fact, i think it would be a big a asset. i -- i -- i told you, he said he didn't want me to look into this bedroom. i offered to build a wall. that would prevent that from happening because this -- his -- his room is right across -- the alley. as far as the -- the air conditi

mr beck thank you very much for joining us ok well it does not a major oil producing country each day almost two million barrels of oil pass through the suez canal but is the egypt unrest the only cause for the rise in oil prices. no but at the moment it's a very important one because this signifies a time of change in the middle east on the possibility that we have what formerly used to be known as the effect we had the changes in tunisia some ongoing changes in egypt the possibility of changes in yemen and who knows what lies beyond that so the possibility that you could have disturbance in the short term we are of course all agreed that the mock received very good an excellent thing but the market of course war so the prices have gone up and the possibility of potential disruptions while minimal still worries traders on the market that is a very important element in why we have crossed that one hundred dollar mark but in my opinion even without those issues demand remains very strong in asia the man is coming back in america the man is very strong latin america the middle east and

the statements from glenn beck in fact. it's important to realize that this rhetoric has absolutely nothing to do with religion and everything to do with israel they want somebody to maintain the status quo that mr hosni mubarak has has kept for thirty years since that they want that status quo to remain now with the what follows of the words is a religious government or not is also absolutely none of britain or the united states business it's up to the egyptian people and only the egyptian people but if you really zero in just on israel can you say that it also relates to a general fear of general islamophobia that we're seeing spread and something that i think also helps the u.s. perpetuate its wars being a war in afghanistan ten years on because now we're fighting you know muslim terrorists. of course precisely exactly these imperialist wars have been based upon the complete dehumanization and demonization of muslim people so of course this now is a convenient angle for them to play most definitely now ok we're going to

maybe we can get to mr. hisham melhem because he is in the news business. i of wondering if global news corp. is broadcast in egypt and if they have an egyptian counterpart to glenn beck. cause it kind of like seems like a tea party all over again. and i agree with the guy from michigan. host: i did not know how you want to take the direction of that call, asking whether or not if their on-camera people who are commentator's rather than those reporters who are starting things up? guest: there are programs on television in the egypt and other places where you have religious figures broadcasting in a style similar to some of the religious broadcasters in this country. but you did not have phenomenon like glenn beck. maybe thank god, i should say. but if i could say is about america's role in the least. throughout history, great powers and empires, including this country, assume the burden of leadership, whether you like it or not. the united states cannot be neutral. the united states is involved in -- and affairs. there is an extensive relationship. economic