allesandro gonzalez. su familia. i also see our fire chief, who is here, and chief, if you could come up as well, before i turn it over to allesandro, i want to give the chief an opportunity to say a few words as well. we have heard a lot about the fire at 22nd and mission and i have spoken about this earlier in the meeting. we are here today to honor the heroism of a very special young man, allesandro gonzalez, who lives in district 9, and he displayed exceptional bravery and good judgment during the tragic fire. allesandro, who is 13 years old is in the 7th grade at edison charter academy. that day, when the fire took place and i remember -- as you may remember, i noted that the fire alarms were not working and a lot of people did not know there was actually a fire. so allesandro was home alone that day with his dog, buddy. when the fire began, he heard loud voices outside, didn't really know what was going on and he had the good judgment of calling 911 immediately. when he called 911, he was told by the 911 operat

his parents are here, and i have a certificate to give allesandro in the hope for allesandro and his family is that very soon we will be able to find a home where they can actually permanently display this certificate. before i turn it over to allesandro, i do want to give our fire chief, who is here an opportunity to say a few words and chief, i want to once again reiterate that i think that, but for the tremendous work of your firefighters, that i think that we would be talking about more than one fatality. so chief, i will turn it over to you. i know you wanted to be here to honor allesandro. >> thank you. good afternoon, president breed, members of the board of supervisors, thank you in particular supervisor campos for acknowledging allesandro. i look forward to working with you and your colleague, supervisor kim, related to what you might be able to do legislatively related to making sure that we have the most safe buildings particularly residential structures in the united states and i know we're meeting tomorrow on that very subject. related to allesandro, it's a pleasure to b

it is my honor and privilege to call upon a very special young man, allesandro gonzalez, i believe is here with his mom and his dad, his grandmother and i think the rest of his family.

allesandro al jazeera, columbia. >> robin adams is here with the sport.will read the first story through gritted teeth. no partisanship on show here. >> we get a start. at the ticket booth. champ pages india have won the battle of the big guns. they made it two wins from two with a victory over the india won it. down to 308 for 7 with a century. they move on to notch up 157. india's bowlers never allowed south africa to settle. the captain breivik combined a 68 partnership just before he was run out. eventually all out for 177 runs. india winning by 130. >> having back to back wins an especially the kind we have had in the last two games, it's tough to get so both of the games were important for us and the way we played in this game also, the last game i said it was a complete back-end performance but i felt we did well with the batting. >> i felt we had a chance through the game but form two run-outs absolutely unacceptable in the top six, and those kind of things. other than that just. >> sri lanka narrowly escaped an upset. 252 in the i hopings for, fi