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led up to this ipo, this public offering for facebook, many people may step out and say, wait a minute, look where the stock is ending today. the stock ending only up about a fraction of a percent just above that initial ipo offer price of $38. look, many would say it was a messy debut plagued by technical difficulties and not as much demand as everybody thought. we then saw other social media stocks tumble as well in sympathy for facebook. which everybody thought would really pop at t...

the lgbt community has been highly affected by budget cuts in services. new leaf services, which was a 25-year-old organization serving thousands of books dealing with substance abuse issues, closed this year. it closed. we have no place to refer lgbt people that is really, but -- really competent to deal with lgbt issues. david campos was able to -- i do not even know. thank goodness he did what he did. were going to be spending money on tasers? lets put the community as a priority ra...

it always happens that way. we have had many things we could accomplish in san francisco, and we have not. how to do with the mentally ill. 10 to 15 years, there has been training available in northern california, but the police department says we have not got it done yet. how about the backlog of misconduct cases? how about the backlog of misconduct cases the experts -- cases? ill give you a quote. there is a poster on the wall at the hall of justice. it shows a kid hitting somebody, ...

-- get nervous and hold their thumb down. i am a great grandmother with a heart murmur. i want to know if police will be able to recognize that fact when we are protesting the future budget cuts that will be necessary to pay for these tasers. thank you. >> i am from north beach. during the 1990s, i probably attended 150 police commission meetings. i represented people in oakland before the police review board. we had some terminology, some of us who did cases. street justice is when a ...

small size of the study, it did not have that much significance. both cannot be ruled out. the findings are also similar to a 2008 study where the officer sites they did not rule out an increase in death. there is some data in the study, one of which is that the death rate in the intervention department was lower by a factor of four. there was a suggestion that the departments that were there were not matched. in the study, they presented it that it was published and considered the las...

of tasters nationwide. our families were here today. our elderly folks came out today to speak against tasers. instead, do talk to our communities. dont talk to them about what gun you are going to allow a police officer to shoot them with. talk to them about what services are needed, but their experience has been with officers when things have escalated and they have used force on them. you talk to them about that. thank you for holding the public, and finally. also, the research and ...

bill clinton. preeti arla is in washington with much more on this. good morning. >> good morning. if the rumors were true it would be political drama. former president bill clinton said last night meek talked with him about the possibility of dropping out but he told meek to do what he thought was best. meek, on the other hand, is flatly denying those reports. democratic representative kendrick meek isnt walking away from floridas senate race anytime soon. >> any rumor or statement by ...

season. >> a florida u.s. senate candidate is denying that bill clinton tried to pressure him out of the race. hes trailing badly in the polls. >> emily schmidt has more on that story and other news. hi, emily. >> reporter: good morning. yes, big news that one of the biggest twists in this election comes from someone whose name isnt even on the ballot. reports that bill clinton tried to step in to get one candidate a democrat no less out of the running. with tuesdays election just arou...

the consistency that has so far been lacking. ron claiborne, abc news, new york. an arkansas school board member has agreed to resign after suggesting that gay teens should commit suicide. protesters have been denying clint mccance step down ever since the controversial comments were first made. supporters asked people to wear purple to show solidarity to gay and lesbian teens who have killed themselves. mccance responded on facebook, "the only way im wearing it for them is if they a...

out of the race. hes trailing badly in the polls. >> emily schmidt has more on that story and other news. hi, emily. >> reporter: good morning. yes, big news that one of the biggest twists in this election comes from someone whose name isnt even on the ballot. reports that bill clinton tried to step in to get one candidate a democrat no less out of the running. with tuesdays election just around the corner it looked for awhile overnight as if a critical senate campaign was about to tak...