i want to give my humble gratitude to sandra and gladys for their leadership. there's many organizations here that help us with the funding of such an endeavor. so we as a city are proud to be part of working together to make sure this facility and others are successful. i want to say congratulations, it's a big victory for all of us here and i hope we can take a few moments in the early parts of 2018 to recognize this and celebrate. congratulations everyone. (applause) >> thank you supervisor cohen. madam mayor breed. i'm looking over to gladys, i believe we have some special guests, i see some amazing little ones over there, a special treat for the mayor here. but first, i think i'm to bring up miss ariana smith, miss smith is a parent of a child enrolled at frandelja. welcome. >> good morning. >> come on mama smith. don't be nervous. >> i'm not really a speaker but i want to say thank you to frandelja for being accessible to me as a single working parent and you guys have been so helpful making my child feel she's at home. it's been very helpful to me. i tha

gladys can't walk.m high blood pressure, arthritis, a respiratory disease, and on top of all that, she smokes. aspirin can help to prevent blood clots. [ speaking spanish ] as you guys see someone like gladys, that could be our grandmother, our mother, our neighbor, like it was hard for me to be there. yeah. honestly, how do you do it? breathe, in, suck it up, and do the work. for me, it's more personal, because it's my island, that these people need me more. lemonis: the scope of the disaster is hard to grasp. with no power, hospitals struggle to treat patients after the storm. the official death toll stands at 64. but the actual number is in dispute, and may be far higher. almost half the people here have limited access to medical care, and there's a critical shortage of doctors. add a lack of clean water, rampant mosquitoes, and raw sewage in the rivers, you have all the makings of a health crisis. and how many families need help, all of them? all of them. lemonis: back on the street, we hear shoutin

by, discrimination comes from all soledad: congressman, nice to >> next on "matter of fact," meet gladysennedy. she's the oldest person in kansas, 101 next month, and she voted for more find out what she thinks of prt trump's first year. still ahead -- soledad: before we leave miami, >> soledad: thank you for joining us for" coming to you from miami. you might remembert last january just as the president office, we sent a crew to center of the lower 48 with a population of just over 200 people. they told us h schools e years, and how farming jobs the town is historically the majority of its citizens we went back this week to see if things get better or worse after year ones term >it is 10:30 on a wednesday in le kansas, and the lunch rush is inside this grocery store. the busy, and one look at the menu tells you the food is priced to sellunches wiw books, coffee at $.50, something the oldes appreciate. >> we don't have something to across the street, i have owned betty's beauty soledad: the town has been even a brief thaw has customers comingac>> thank you very much. soledad: we came to

center and my program director tracy and i was walking through and i was telling the story, she said gladysnter. and i was very moved but it couldn't be done without all of you helping and supporting us. i'm not going to be up here long but i really want to quote a saying by myriam wright elder man. children must have at least one person who believes in them, it could be a counsellor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend, it could be you. you never know when a little love, a little support will plant a special seed of hope. one of the things that we work very, very hard to do at frandelja that has now been open 17 years, is plant the succeed of success to ensure that all children have an opportunity to succeed in life, as well as their parents. again, i thank mayor london breed and supervisor malia cohen for being here this morning. thank you so very much. (applause) we will now hear from our mayor. >> thank you everyone and good morning. it's so excited to be here today. i grew up in the western edition community in public housing there and we were fortunate, the childcare facility i went to as

our parents, walter and lettuce are both professors labor arbitrators and your mom gladys is one of theirst female arbitrators in the business. a lot of my work early on was more adjudicating labor-management disputes as an arbitrator of facilitating labor of the 2006 uaw national negotiations over a 30 year period helped uaw to develop and implement their safety and quality systems and ultimately at the enterprise level and getting ready before what became the 2,062,007 recession to fundamentally reinvent collective bargaining for a collaborative process and that is part of what i help them to do when i lived in our world. in the late 1990s i joined the faculty of this is his group at m.i.t. and then the head of aero astro, later engineering was approached by congress to say can you do something about aircraft noise emissions? 17 studies over a couple decades. what we found instead of two stakeholders there were 37, both essentially associated summits in which collective bargaining took place among stakeholders and reached a consensus report which went to congress which is what you see

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spencer monson and gladys monson. growing up during the great depression young tom was influenced by his parents who taught him the importance of taking care of others. from an early age, tom displayed a remarkable concern for the most vulnerable among us. and throughout his life he showed that concern and worked on solving problems for them. when thaopl was -- tom was a boy he had two beloved pet rabbits to which he tended every day. but when he heard of a destitute family in his neighborhood, so down on their luck they had nothing to eat for christmas dinner, tom did what few little boys would ever do. he gave his two pet rabbits to his neighbors so they could have a nice christmas meal. when little tommy returned home to see his empty rabbit hutch, tears filled his eyes but these were tears of gratitude for the joy he had felt in helping others. selflessness, service, and sacrifice, those would soon become the virtues by which thomas monson lived his life. and everybody who knew him knows that. following graduation