proposals and use this day as an opportunity to give feedback and any additional remaining feedback by next week so we can move this legislation forward. good afternoon, supervisors. very exciting day to be here. this is an ordinance that has been in the making for a better part of the decade and to see it come to a fruition with such a huge amount of support is very encouraging for our city. i think you already addressed this issue. the idea is to be able to keep 58,000 san francisco residents in their home during an earthquake. we believe that every san francisco an has a right to have stable housing. the fact that this is by the mayor s public office and they will know this is about safety and not about politics. i m sure with the support that you have in this room we have over 35 letters in support of this ordinance and in addition to legislation before you as supervisor chu mentioned we ll have additional legislation as part of our menu of financing options to have a p
the white house. we have been sounding off on our talk back question. is hyper partisanship driving good candidates out of the presidential race? carol, you ve got responses. good responses on this. this from douglas, i m sure some of the most qualified people will never have the opportunity to run if they wanted, and would be kept out of the club all together if they did. this from paul. i equate hyper partisanship with closed-minded thinking. when you let that take over, you only see one solution, rule out alternatives arbitrarily. it will severely limit any gop chances in 2012, because their candidate will not have mass appeal. from rob, expecting our politicians to be perfect turns them all into liars. good candidates say out because they don t want the tradeoff. this from phyllis. what good candidates? haven t seen any yet. continue the conversation, facebook.com/carolcnn. and i ll be back in, oh, 15 minutes. although i understand you have something fun coming up next. i alway
would never affect them again. and we are in 11 feet of water in the street in front of hair house. these are homes obviously you can tell from the age have flooded before. never like this. on the phone with me is bet ity paul warner, a realty in vicksburg. this is a community that is virtually a ghost town right now. and thank you for joining us. you ve lived in this community for more than 60 years. you re a member of the army corps of engineers, but you re also a realtor. you know this community like the back of your hand. what is taking place now, how are people coping the fact that they have to leave their homes now? they re devastated. a lot of people have left homes, they re not coming back. they ve moved to vicksburg, they ve moved other places.
reporter: open floodgates, thousands hit by floodwaters so new orleans stays dry. the alternative, city officials say, would have been worse than katrina. water is pouring through 15 of 125 floodgates at morganza, louisiana right now, a quarter of the gates will eventually be opened. downstream, water from the spillway is already overrunning some homes. as many as 25,000 could go under water in the next few weeks. president obama is welcoming jordan king abdallah to the white house. the conversation is expected to center on the arab uprising. so thursday, the president is expected to layout detailed u.s. viewpoints and a vision on events that are reshaping the middle east. lawyers for imf chief dominique strauss-kahn says their client has an alibi. lunch with another person at the same time that police say he was attacking a hotel housekeeper. lawyers say his launch part they are will come forward to vouch for his whereabouts. strauss-kahn is jailed at new york s rike
reporter: open floodgates, thousands hit by floodwaters so new orleans stays dry. the alternative, city officials say, would have been worse than katrina. water is pouring through 15 of 125 floodgates at morganza, louisiana right now, a quarter of the gates will eventually be opened. downstream, water from the spillway is already overrunning some homes. as many as 25,000 could go under water in the next few weeks. president obama is welcoming jordan king abdallah to the white house. the conversation is expected to center on the arab uprising. so thursday, the president is expected to layout detailed u.s. viewpoints and a vision on events that are reshaping the middle east. lawyers for imf chief dominique strauss-kahn says their client has an alibi. lunch with another person at the same time that police say he was attacking a hotel housekeeper. lawyers say his launch part they are will come forward to vouch for his whereabouts. strauss-kahn is jailed at new york s rike