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When we even had a department in the city administration devoted to the climate and energy and we engage the public in discussions on these issues issues such as wind turbines we have our own combined cycle power plant and funding programs for solar energy so it is a central focus. is considered a green city how much is that the result of citizen involvement. we're very interested in discussing and even deciding fundamental questions with our citizens that's also because we have a very young city with many university students but also a very committed city which weighs in on many social issues...

A green city how much is that the result of citizen involvement. we're very interested in discussing and even deciding fundamental questions with our citizens that's also because we have a very young city with many university students but also a very committed city which weighs in on many social issues and we're quite proud of that. are you always bike or do you have a car if you have a car very rarely i drive less than five thousand kilometers a year thanks for your time. and off we go. well and now we have to go to the wild major of canada from ottawa was traveling with some friends to newfo...

>> his election represented a vitality of a new generation coming into power. it was not the soaring rhetoric of inauguration that promised new direction. it was the idea that the yu youngest president was coming into president after the oldest president was leaving office. so there was a sense of activism, a sense of citizen involvement, and a sense that there would be a change from the silence generation of the 50s. >> good evening, my fellow citizens. >> and at his first success in space where the russians pushed a man across the threshold. >> kennedy had campaigned and n 1960 against what ...

Because a decision has not been made to publicize a criminal event. i like grand juries for the most part because when we don't have grand juries we simply have prosecutors making the decision without citizen involvement. i think grand juries are generally doing a very good job, should be kept and should be respects tv timothy mcginty, the prosecutor in all of this, was previously a judge. yesterday when he said when he took office it was paramount to make for of an investigation into excessive force cases. they all go to grand juries. >> thank you so much, jean casarez reporting for us, also ...

Citizen involvement is crazy. >> the prospect of shell's massive drilling rigs ships and equipmenting coming to the waterfront galvanized the council. environmental groups have also filed a lawsuit to block the deal. for its part shell says it's committed to drilling for oil in the argumentics, and supporters say it means jobs for seattle. opponent say any deal with exacerbate climate change and that's very, very bad for seattle in the long run. joining mess now, michael bryan, a member of the city council. how did this job get struck without apparently nobody knows about it? >> well as best i...