Good morning im laurence cornfield chief building inspector and like to welcome you to our Brown Bag Lunch we do the third thursday of every month at the department of building inspection. We invite you to participate so call for information and join us. Our next talk is on decks and balcones. Today we will talk about commercial restaurants in San Francisco. We have a lot of people in the audience who are restaurant exe experts and architects and industry people. I should talk about commercial restaurants and how to get permit issues resolved and problems resolved during lunchtime. Is probably not a thing thats going to attract a lot of people in the commercial Restaurant Business because they work at lunch and they are not here. Hopefully we can broadcast this and may be if there is an interest we will do it at a future date. Another thing, perhaps we should do this at a restaurant because we want to support restaurant necessary San Francisco. We did last year have lunch at town hall
Host commissioner rosenworcel, welcome to the communicators. If you would, start by talking about some of the issues that you fore be see the fcc dealing with this coming fall. Guest okay. Well, first of all, thank you for having me here on this show, and thank you also to cspan for the great Public Service work that you do and have done for decades. Issues before the fcc, we have a lot of them. Issues are diverse because in many ways the fcc oversees the digital economy, the information economy which by some measures accounts for as much as onesixth of the economy itself. I think there are a few things we have going on of particular interest though. One of those is wireless communications. And you can look around at the proliferation of phones, and thats probably no surprise be that its an area of real interest. But with you also have to consider some of the numbers. We now have more Wireless Phones in this country than we have people. One in three American Adults now has a tablet com
Choice to do more ourselves. If we take the ee rate program and revamp it, rebooted, refocus it, we can do a lot to bring broadband to schools across the country. You have put a lot on the table. Joining our conversation is Communications Daily executive Senior Editor howard buskirk. Issuesmentioned to big that there is a lot of fcc watchers believing will dominate the commission. The first is the incentive option. How far along do you think planning is, what other pressure points, one of the concerns about the option Going Forward . In 2014 was to do one but it looks like it could be difficult. I will say for starters that i am confident that i can be ready to do these auctions in 2014. I have confidence in the agencys ability to do so too. When you look at the record that we have when it comes to incentive auctions and auction policy generally, it is tremendous. About two decades, the fcc has had a story to hold spectrum auctions. We have helped 80 auctions. We have issued more than
Thousands of acres in Washington State, dozens of homes already have been destroyed. Can crews get the upper hand before entire communities are wiped out . Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. Were following the breaking news growing concern of a terrorist attack inside the United States in the coming days. Sources are telling cnn the apprehension is greater than in recent years, in part because of the growing number of isis sympathizers inside the United States. That has local and federal Law Enforcement dramatically increasing security as july 4th approaches. Recovering all items of the breaking news this hour with our correspondents and guests including the former pentagon intelligence chief Michael Vickers. Lets begin with our justice reporter. What are your sources telling you . Wolf were hearing from u. S. Law enforcement officials that theyre boosting security measures ahead of the fourth of july holiday, more police are being deployed to prominent locations. Because th
Glad you could join us on this edition of newsline. Its thursday, february 14th. Im Catherine Kobayashi in tokyo. Japans Gross Domestic Product for the final quarter of 2012 shrank slightly in the october to december period. This is the Third Straight quarter of contraction. Gdp fell 1. 4 . The pace of decline was more moderate than the previous period when it was minus 3. 8 . Global demand was dragging down the economy. Capital spending went down Housing Investment showed growth of 3. 5 . Consumer spending was up due to strong sales of winter clother. Overall gdp rose 1. 9 for the previous year. Thats the first growth in two years. Investors have been tracking the data. Who has the upper hand . I would have said the buyers but its a mixed picture here in japan. The nikkei is trading slightly higher. 11,255. Up 0. 03 from wednesday ease close. Exports related stocks are getting a lift. Some expect the yen will stay on a declining trend for the time being. Others are selling recent gain