and i ran and i won. and i ran twice. yeah, twice. but louise and i had one or two votes but i think i ran before that, and i know i ran twice because i was four years. but i loved that. i loved that. so, i like leadership. you know? >> we're going to pick back up with some leadership-related questions. we want to come back to vice chair of the caucus, but we wanted to ask you before that, you also served on the democratic steering and policy committee. >> from very early on. >> yeah. we'd like to know how that happened. >> well, since tip appoints the people on the steering and policy committee, that's how that happened. and i served for years. >> did you have to make a special pitch to him? how did that come about? >> no. just was notified that i was going to be on the steering and policy committee. i must have had a good meeting. >> it sounds like it. how would you describe the experience of working on the steering and policy committee? i don't think a lot of people maybe off of capitol hill know what

amazon and google and facebook. they used to be one of the most cyclical businesses and they have the tailwind of the massive secular trend toward online advertising and at some point if there is a recession it will be the first time there will be a recession since facebook is a thing and you will see a slowdown in ad spend and you will see a deceleration in their sales and those are the sorts of things where a lot of investors were crowded in fang and they happened to go at the same time. >> acceleration in their spending which is the messes that we heard in washington. >> again, let's get political, but you have to ask yourself, a lot of people are pinned on the fact that they'll get something done with the chinese. ask yourself something now do you think the chinese are in a hurry to get in a trade deal with the unrest that we've seen. not a political thing. that's just fact >> i didn't think they would do anything, prethe elections in noef poef. >> . >> and it sounds like people are getting cautious >>. >> you k

and civility and empathy. it did not succeed. right? it didn't stop the war of 1812. but because this woman modelled bipartisanship at a time where they didn't even have a word for it, we now know we had that model in our history. and if we as americans look to our history for guidance and we do because we're quoting it all the time, there was a woman and a moment back there where there was a different model for politics. >> so jefferson is president without a first lady. >> sally hemmings is going to be considered a first lady. >> that's what actually the question, right? >> i'm there. >> please go there. >> obviously, she wasn't able to exercise agency or open power as a first lady. >> the relationship certainly existed at that point. >> i'm not sure we can call it a relationship. >> right. >> we're very careful as to how we describe that. we describe her as the way madison described her and her mother as concubine, and we know that she was at monticello while he's in the president's house, not yet called th

and for them to be in that school and to look up and see, you know, ed and anita lee's name up there and to know what they did to, and to understand the connection between what they've done and their service and the people who were in that building every day serving them and caring for them, is so powerful. we will never be able to measure the impact that this has on children in the future. this name -- 100 years from now, this will still be the name. some of our school names, you know, at last that long and beyond. this is a a very big deal. it is is something that we are very proud to do. it is an honor for us, also to have mrs. lee allow us to do this. i want to thank her and thanked the lee family as well. i'm sure there were a lot of people who wanted to name things after mayor lee and for the family to say, yes, this school feels right, means a lot to us too. it speaks to what we are doing in the school dressed strict -- school district. i am very proud to be part of this. i think the last thing i will say, school names matter. they do communicate. to children, who they should

bush, who loves the outdoors and loves flowers and plants and natural landscape and the national parks, always looked to mrs. johnson as an example of, you know, someone who so appreciated our natural beauty. and mrs. bush would say, would look at mrs. johnson and say, oh, she loved flowers. but really what she was was our nation's first conservationist first lady. so i think that her presence and one of the personal recollections i have of mrs. johnson, which is seared in my memory for the rest of my life is linda johnson rob, who we all heard from last night, of course, on the descendants panel, but linda had called me when i was chief of staff to mrs. bush and said, i'm bringing my mother back to washington for what i know will be her last time. to see some of her friends, of course, she had a stroke, she wasn't speaking, she was in a wheelchair, but she was still very vibrant. and she said, do you think we can come to the white house? so i knew instinctively, laura bush's reaction would be, of course. and i never answer for anything on mrs. bush's schedule wouitho talking to her fi

problem and i don't need to try to cajole you and put it off and not deal with it, and i need to do everything i can. so i just want to set the table at this hearing, who the secretary is present to thank him for giving me the time he's given me in the last month to talk about this and appreciate what his attitude is about customer service being the principal foundation with his administration in the va and for all of you in the vsos and various interest or any other benefit anywhere to know that this is a committee and a va that will tackle your problems and will do it as fairly as we can, but we're not going to get bulldozed into a corner and we're not going to bulldoze anybody into the corner either. i wanted to bring that up because it will take care of a lot of questions. i hope it does, and i want to thank the secretary for the time he's given me and the time we'll be sharing together in the weeks ahead and i'll turn it over to the ranking member for any comments he might have. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thanks for your comments and i want to thank secretary wilke for being h

issue and issued a report and we decided to try to focus on fines and fees and we thought how are weget the board of supervise source and the mayor to agree to this. and so we brought it to then president of the board and supervisor london breed. and she didn't ask for a report. she didn't ask for a hearing. she just said we're going to make this happen. she got it right away. she understood how these fines and fees crushed families. crushed individuals who are trying to turn their life around like joseph and destabilize communities. you know, even though when you get a call from our treasurer, it's usually not good news, he got it right away, too. so we were able to go to sheriff hennessy, d.a. gacon and probation chief fletcher and they all agreed. so, that was very important. and it sends an important message. you have to remember that san francisco is a place where ban the box first started. [applause] that initiative within two years went statewide. and this week, there is a bill in the federal government that's going to be introduced in congress. so we can do the same thing her

and i would thank you and, mr. speaker, i would yield back my time to the distinguished gentleman from florida for his time that he would, i'm sure, choose to reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from florida. >> we reserve. we're ready to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from texas. mr. jackson: -- ms. jackson lee: to the gentleman from florida, are you prepared to close, or are there any other speakers? >> yes, we are. ms. jackson lee: thank you. first of all, let me certainly thank mr. sessions, my colleague out of texas, for his very posh words and moving commentary -- important wordses and moving commentary. an thank you, congress -- words and moving commentary. and thank you, congressman rutherford, for your commitment, and the other co-sponsors of this legislation. it really has more impact. let me conclude my remarks by acknowledging a tragedy in my district. as a hrdworking mother was -- a hardworking mother was separating from he

and he and i prayed about it.ith a 40-foot retaining wall and we prayed whether or not we should buy this property. i remember, both of us felt like god said, yes, this is the place that you need to buy, but let me just tell you this, what you need to know personally is that god's yes and god's go are two separate things. because typically from the time he says yes to the point where he actually wants you to move and activate on that yes there's usually a period of waiting and during that waiting period he's preparing you to handle what he just said yes to. but see, what we do we'll make a decision, god says i can do and i'll run out and do it and we haven't become the people he wants us to become. specifically when he said yes to oust, we felt like god said yes, but don't go in debt. but we were le like, god, we ned to build this tomorrow. we got a loan, 1.7 million or whatever it was and put our money down and got that loan and we had that sucker built. we had three bids to build that thing and we had it built,

and earthquake preparedness and erica and her team and other folks will be there from a lot of your departments to engage with the community. with that, i'm happy to take any questions and move along. we're moving quickly today. >> okay. if there are no questions, we can go into roundtable. if anyone has any announcements about activities that your department is working on. >> three things. one, the elderly and the elderly care facilities especially, we do have a lot of that information, where they're at, in terms of info on the c.a.d. it would be great if we can get more of that, especially the permanent housing. it's easier to track, where you know you have someone. where my grandmother is at, it's tougher. it's a regular residence, but with six people. so we need to get that in. the harder thing would be, 20 apartments and there is one that needs help. those are temporary premise information that can go on the c.a.d. and the problem is, if somebody moves, it changes. but that needs to be updated and i don't know if your department can help with that or not, but that would be grea

privilege and status was rigidly bound by caste and color and ethnicity and religion. even in my own country, even in democracies like the united states, founded on a declaration that all men are created equal, racial segregation and systemic discrimination was the law in almost half the country, and the norm throughout the rest of the country. that was the world just 100 years ago. there are people alive today who were alive in that era. it is hard then to overstate the remarkable transformations that have taken place since that time. a second world war, even more terrible than the first, along with a cascade of liberation movements from africa to asia, latin america, the middle east, would finally bring an end to colonial rule. more and more peoples, having witnessed the horrors of totalitarianism, the repeated mass slaughters of the 20th century, began to embrace a new vision for humanity. a new idea, one based not only on the principle of national self-determination, but also on the principles of democracy and rule of law and civil rights and the inherent dignity o

he travels and articulate and given a new lease on life. it is a wonderful way -- [applause] >> well, we've not had time for questions because we ran out of time but i hope you think it was an interesting story. i highly recommend this book. stuart eizensta on president carter, thank you. [applause] >> this year but leave marks the 20th year of bringing you the country's top nonfiction authors and their latest book. find us every weekend on c-span2 or online at booktv.org. , one. >> hello, all. good afternoon. it is good to have you here. thank you for coming in. this is a discussion and a production of the kepler's literary foundation. i'm a member of the events team here at kepler's. kepler start or, kepler's .org, kepler .com, nonprofit organization that brings literature and enlightenment and enhancement of life to everyone here and out to the schools and in various venues across the peninsula. thank you for all your support by virtue of being here you are supporting kls. thank you for that. i have to ask is it someone in the audience h

and he wrote about this later and he went home and studied pretty hard over the summer and worked hard to get where he thought he should be. and when he came back, his professors were impressed and he made the cut and was where he should have been. that is understanding monroe. here at highland, we understood that this house is not the entire monroe main house. we thought it was a part of the main house and thought it was a remnant wing of two reck standing will structure and we know from documentary sources. and three of them show sketches of two wings put together. and this is one wing. when i started here in 2012, i eally sought to understand the history of the property itself. the wing that is no longer here, we should be able to find traces of it underground and i wasn't satisfied with the sense that we haven't found it. keep looking. and we ex castedal around the main house and it was in the front of that 18 70's house that tall victorian building that we found a big deposit of archeological debris and we opened up larger excavations and found the building that contributed to tha

tasha small and mean and petty. -- can seem small and mean and petty.is brave and -- it seems brave and tough, but it is born in fear. >> the america of john mccain has no need to be made great again because america was always great. >> [ applause ]. >> reporter: in washington, caroline shively, fox news. >>> and we will sit down with the political scientist in an hour or so. >>> it is 7:10 and budget cuts call for an end to a program. >> why parents are just finding out about the cuts and what kids are eating after school instead. >>> and one man hoping to feed at least 100 people. he will be helping the homeless today. >>> good morning to you. alive look via the approach to the bay bridge -- a live look the other approach to the bay bridge. i will have the numbers for the week coming up. >>> and mark from san francisco is baking and serving fresh pizza for the hungry. today he plans to feed 100 people at the east bay homeless encampment in oakland. he has a pop up peach or -- pizza shop and is raising funding for the action center in oakland. so far h

farmers and ranchers, and everyone up and down the food chain. i live -- as i have traveled kansas having the farm bill in place, that tops the concerns i hear about. the congress committee is doing our very best to get a bill to the finish line as soon as possible. along with that, i also hear about trade. i hear from wheat growers about the need for market access to celebrate produce. i hear from producers across agriculture about trade policies. and i hear across the industry and across the value chain about how trade policies impact their prices, their decisions, and their livelihoods. these are not new concerns. the united states has long had to work to overcome barriers to trade around the world. sometimes those barriers are regulations not based in sound science. that may impact certain products. foreigns, barriers are governments that choose not to adhere to or abide by the same rules which we have all agreed. -- hold ourrade trade partners accountable, but i'm concerned there is uncertainty with agriculture industry. already low prices t

we have a limited amount of time so during the q and a, state your name and the news outlet and limit yourself to one question and the follow-up. please state your name and outlet. restart all devices to silent mode, the wi-fi password is at the back of the room. this is on briefings for hurricane florence. >> good afternoon. we in the department of defense appreciate the immediate attention to the status of and preparations forhurricane florence. secretary matus and shanahan are monitoring storms in the atlantic ocean , getting daily updates from us indo pacific command and northern command and response efforts currently 100 percent of rfa and been approved . the secretary is receiving reports on actions in military services but are taking to protect the well-being of the military community and ensuring the readiness of dod within the region affected by hurricane florence. hurricane florence is a dangerous storm and we encourage those in our military community in the path of the storm to heed the warning of state, local and dod installation official. the official have the expertise,

when we collect it and shared it and we shared it with nonlawyers and nonpolicy people and we asked what issues they had and went back and reconsidered the concerns and worked in clever things like animations, graphics and pop-ups. we don't view that work as complete or static. the goal is to keepitier ating on it and evolving to make sure people do understand what we're doing with their data. >> so speaking of static, it would include a provision that a consumer could withdraw consent to the terms of service just as easily as given consent. do you think that would be helpful, mr. kiernan, to include that? >> thank you, senator. we provide a variety of ways in which people who share information can opt out of sharing afterwards. we provide a settle tools from the privacy panel that allows people to determine what information they are sharing with us. so we do think it is an important component. >> so do people have problems with an opting out idea? okay. good. i think i'll just use my last minute on the -- on -- and there is obviously remedy and i'll ask the questions in writing und

and we are security and operations and maintenance and we are supporting them. so our role has changed here. and so will our presentation as well. so with that said, we do have a project overview. but i really want to take this opportunity, please, to take a look at your screens, to enjoy five of the eight years in about a minute's time of the construction. and i wanted to take advantage of this to say to the board members that we appreciate your support throughout this entire construction process. it's been invaluable to getting us to this point. you have supported us through the monotonous years of being a hole in the ground to our year of steel in 2015, which was instant gratification, all the way through the time of the, you know, the completion of last month. i also want to take this opportunity to put out a strong thank you to the labor force. you know, the men and the women that worked in the trades that worked so very hard to build this transit center for us. all 25,000 jobs throughout the country that were created and were put together for us. i wanted

and welcome to our research panel, perspectives and insights on research from cyber-bullying and aggression. i'm with the national institute of justice at the department of justice which is the research development and evaluation agency atdoj. i'm happy to have our guests here with their research about cyber-bullying. i'll just take a brief moment to introduce you each and begin. first we have marian underwood, the dean of the college of health and human services at purdue university. we have megan moreno, the associate professor of pediatrics, the school of medicine and public health at the university of washington. we have melissa maracado crespa, behavioral science officer at the national center for joiror , and lastly, the associate professor in the division of environmental health sciences at the university of minnesota. and so the way that we're going proceed this morning is we are going to -- each of our panelists have a presentation to begin. we're having a few technology difficulties that we'll be resolving shortly. we're going to get started with our panelist. they' -- panelists.

and mr.badwaza, on the elections, everyone always wants an election asap, but it's got to be done right with a full account as to who is eligible to vote. and the whole process, i was there in 2005 when the president hijacking the election and it was one of the most, one of the worst processes i've ever seen or election. and so we want a free and fair and totally transparent election, so united states i know can be helpful to the ethiopians. what date should there be, should be an aspirational goal or should it be more hardened as to when that day should be? parenthetically, karen bass and i and staff were slated to go to the dr congo right after our visit to ethiopia. we couldn't get in. we were denied a visa by the president. and, of course, the issue of elections there and the postponement of what i believe to be nefarious purposes to stay in power, not because all the eyes are not don and the keys cost, but we've got to be helpful to the ethiopians to get that right as well -- the keys cr

this and that and you make associations and you past these sound bites back and forth and all of this, so i understand what's going on in hollywood today. i understand it. i was right there, you know. and those people are focused on their work, too. they're trying to just get jobs, so it's convenient for them to be politically aligned, too. so i was one of those guys, and i believed what i had been ingesting, and one of the things was that the war in vietnam was really our problem. that if we removed ourselves from it, that the south of vietnam and the north of vietnam, the communists under ho chi minh would come together and embrace as brothers, as family. and i bought some of that, and i was in the streets, you know, against the war and that stuff, and then what happened? the people in the streets, and by the way, you know, we never lost -- our military never lost a battle in that war, and we were on the way to the defeat of the north, but the real energy that closed out that possibility was those people in the street, and they certainly weren't the majority of americans. but they w

emerges is the way and make sure they are clear and operational and free of debris. as a relates to our healthcare facility evacuations and evacuations celica most of those have been completed and the rest will be finishing up today so far we have successfully transported and effect with over 2200 patients. thank you. >> department of social services. >> thank you, governor. i'd like to give an update on our shelter situation. as of 2 p.m. we had 61 total shelters open across the state. 49 of these were general population shelters, and 12 or special medical needs shelters that we have one general population shelter that is at full capacity and that his goose creek high school. we have one special medical needs shelter that is at capacity and that's carolina medical center in florence south carolina. currently there are 4358 clients in shelters across the state. 79 of which are special medical needs. our current total shelter capacity is at 35,602. we are at 12% of that capacity. that leaves us with 31,324 spaces and shelters across the state at this time. as a remind

and mr. mar? >> i -- i'm proud to have qualified for the city's public financing matching program, and through that, i've agreed to a voluntary spending cap of $250,000, and i'm able to get city matching funds for my campaign. by qualifying, we've been able to show that i -- or my campaign or i have broad base support, i'm in the neighborhood in the city from a large range of small, individual donors, so that's a key part of my campaign. i do want to say, though, that the city's public financing program does need to be looked at in how it's being implemented because i do think the fact that a number of candidates, my colleagues, were not able to qualify for public financing. it was very problematic, and a lot of it was because of the poor way that the program's been implemented. so yeah, i guess i would really support efforts to improve our city's public financing program and make sure all candidates are able to have the necessary information to apply. >> thank you very much, and mr. mcneil? >> th

cotts, and david callen and john avalon. john avalon and john berman, i want to start with you, and i remember how anita hill testified and we were all riveted. look, this is all of these years later, and cable news is much more ubiquitous, and there is going to be a woman that takes sworn testimony and is going to say that brett groped me and tried to take off my clothes and he had a hard time because he was so drunk and because i was wearing a one-piece bathing suit under my clothes, and i previoused he was going to rape me. i tried to yell for help and he put his hand over my mouth to try and stop me. >> this is history in the present tense today. this is a jump ball moment because we don't know how this day is going to end. tribalism and hyperpartisanship infused this entire process. but if there's a few fair-minded folks left in the senate and they are swing votes in either party, and those are the folks to watch and they should be affected by the testimony of kavanaugh and professor ford and those questions that come a

and sat down with peter guber and joe and talked for two or three hours and went to dinner and when we were saying good-bye they said if you want to do this this is your job. >> you mentioned to them you can pretty much guarantee three championships in two years and a new arena in san francisco. so obviously, they wanted to hire me. >> welts spends most of his time now on construction of new chase center, but for all of his accomplish ams, welts believes his biggest contribution will be coming out in a page one new york times story as the first openly gay executive in major pro sports. >> it's been such a big part of my journey, and you know, the most important thing i will ever do in my life. hopefully there's some kid out there who today believes that he or she can be successful because of who they are, and not in spite of who they are. anything else i do probably pales in comparison to that. >> larry beil, abc 7 sports. >>> now your accuweather forecast from abc 7 news. >>> good morning, i'm meteorologist frances dinglasan. we are waking up to lots of clear skies out there and patch

pain and misery, and pain and misery and shame do not lead people to health or recovery. they keep people unwell, keep people where they're at. it's really hope that brings people to health and recovery, hope and a belief in a positive different future, and if a person can't have it for themselves, somebody else has it for them. and i know this not because of the work i do and i've done it for the past 30 years, i know it from experience. i am a former heroin user, and i got clean through haight-ashbury health right programs over 30 years. i came to haight-ashbury neighborhood did etox like nin times, and welcomed every time with love and compassion and support. so on the tenth time, i thought, i can't do this anymore. there was someone there who i trusted, who i built a relationship with, said maybe it's time to try something else, and because i trusted them, i did. i went onto one of health right 360's programs. it was because i trusted them that i believed in what they had to say, and i went on, and i've been drug free for the past 33 years. so it's really hope that br

prior to cbs, and reported on congressional and presidential politics at the washington post and is a mainstay in washington dc realistic circles that we are so grateful and excited to happen here with us today to moderate this important and necessary discussion area ladies and gentlemen, please join me in a warm welcome and welcoming o'keefe. >>. >> good afternoon. we will get started because i know you're here for our guests and we want to have a thoughtful conversation. i met with cbs news, thank youfor being here but let's bring out our panel . the margus hunt resident or the 31st district of california. inland empire, san bernardino. gresham of the first district of new mexico encompassing most of albuquerque and will heard of the 32nd district of texas . he's got 800 miles of us, 820 miles of us-mexico border. the longest stretch, i forgot i have a microphone on. >> thank you for taking the time to be here. i appreciate it.and we need an interesting times. we always seem to but there was news today that it's entirely relevant to the conversation we're going to have. we learn yes

and the division and the corps. how will be courtney our efforts together in a way faster in forward structure that we used in the past? we've been in a fight where we could think about what are going to do three days from now? because the enemy, was not an adversary and was having to work slowly and approach their goals, and so we did boards and committees and then they kind of fight the chief doctor this week, those boards and committees will be too slow. we will be taught about target federal exist anymore and launching joint fires against them that may not be there anymore either. so chief, we are working together primarily focus on how we will share our ability to commit and control so that we converge on multi-domain solutions like you talked about. >> thanks. so three of our new commander cd general miller, general brown, general ray, a cautious came in the says as new commanders what are you focus on as you take the reins of your new command? >> it's funny we're all sitting here right together as well. chief

they come from that work day in and day out with residents and businesses and workers and tenants and families across district 10. and trying to fight for changes against a city that really only thinks we're important when they can make money off us or take our land. how about you? how is the status quo working out for you? do you think the city's on the right track or not? do you feel represented at city hall? do you feel that politicians are working for you or someone else? we all know friends who have been pushed out of the city. a lot of us know families in bayview where three generations died of the same cancer. we know seniors that live on one meal a day. we know long-time renters that know that the for sale sign means you're out and the new building is for us and not for you. so we know we need to stand up for change. let's talk tonight about the change and how to get there. [applause] >> all right. how's everybody doing this evening? that was weak. how is everybody doing this evening? all right. that's better. my name is theo ellington. and i am running for district 10 supervi

cycle of crime and violence and poverty. only by national borders or to destroy national gangs can we break this cycle to establish a foundation for prosperity. we recognize the right of every nation in this room on immigration policy in accordance with national interest. just as we ask other countries to respect our own right to do the same which we are doing. it is one reason the united states will not participate in the new global compact on migration. migration should not be governed by an international bod body, unaccountable to our own citizens. ultimately the only long-term solution to the migration crisis is to help people build more hopeful futures in their home countries. make their country's great again. currently we are witnessing a human tragedy as an example in venezuela. more than 2 million people have fled the anguish by the socialist regime and its cuban sponsors. not long ago venezuela was one of the richest countries on earth. today socialism has bankrupted the oil-rich nation and driven its people to abje

1940s and '50s and '60s.topart i believe in response labor mill. and i think for businesses this is not an ideological issue, it's a practical issue. for example, foxconn has a lot of experimentation with robotics, and in one of their plants, they reduced their workforces with robotics. they did reduce it from 100,000 to 50,000. but when they built this plant in china to build iphones, it's got 300,000 people. it's cheaper often not to robotize. so the united states, with high wage levels, many of the factories staying here are pretty heavily automated and that may be a good thing. but in other circumstances, it's not necessarily the path we are going to see right away. >> as china's standard of living increases, as the country cracks down on pollution, do you see reindustrialization in the u.s. or production moving to the next low wage country? prof. freeman: it depends on what you are looking at. if you are a german automaker, we are a low-wage region. so there's been a lot of investment in the manufacturin

she was a kindred spirit, and she appreciated outdoors and her family and friend. she was a real dear friend to many community organizations and community members here in san francisco, and we all mourn her loss. and then, i'd also like to adjourn today's meeting in the memory of linda peterson, an artist in north beach, who you will recall was one of the street artists who after super bowl l who came and testified before this body she had been pushed out of her work where she made a meager living by selling her fantastic art on the streets. i've got a piece of it in my office, if you want to come by and see it. she fell critically ill during the recess and succumbed at st. francis hospital, and the rest, i will submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor peskin. madam clerk, it's 230. >> president cohen: seeing that it's 2:30, i'd like to go to smeshl commendations, and supervisor kim, you have a special presentation. supervisor kim, if you'd like to present, the floor is yours. >> supervisor kim: and i did want to ask members of the community, along with jessie gonza

very little change and morning low clouds and overcast and 60s and 70s. and we'll get more 80s in the mix. it is not as widespread. but we have through the main parent trough to keep us on the cool side. there is an onshore breeze to the delta and the straight. in the upper atmosphere, this swings through today, it will start to transition to a lot of high pressure kicking in tomorrow. 60s and 70s on most of the temperatures. 8:31 and the man is here to tell us about the south bay it looks like a lot of red there. >>> yes. this new commute that we've had for the month now that we've been back to school mode, we have a lot later commutes going on, including this one. we have to talk about the east shore freeway it has been slower than usual because of much earlier problems. all the crashes are gone but everyone is delayed. you get to the bay bridge you add the typical 20, 25 minute delay. today might be the day that you use the ferry or the bart. heading north up to downtown oakland, 580 is slow up to golf links and up to lakeshore. westbound 92 has been s

and section 8 and plow it into this.et me name one name in particular, and that is cathy lamb who pioneered this with such love. we know the mistakes governments are capable of making. mayor breed spoke to that legacy of distrust, of broken promises. that did not happen here. all of those 103 residents who unfortunate temporarily had to leave the seismically unsafe building, all of them taken care of with love, each and every day, their needs taken care of. thank you to cathy and her team for that. thank you to the mayor's office of housing and everybody who brought them back on schedule. and let me thank the tenant's association. this was done as a collaborative project. it was not top down government, telling people how it was going to be, it was done in close collaboration, democratically, in the best sense of the word, with the tenant's association. the person who presided over the tenant's association, dorothy ramsey, who i knew and loved did not live to see this day, but i want to invoke her memory, along with ed l

, and nuts and bolts of the contract. yesterday i'll hear from you in a second. yesterday a similar item related to this one was heard in the rules committee, and i was wondering if you could summarize for us the labor harmony agreement between the ferry operators. >> so that is subject to a separate ordinance, and that ordinance would provide labor harmony requirements on excursions and operators that offer excursions from the port of san francisco and any waterfront location. we understand that is moving through the process. we have a similar labor harmony agreement as relates to hotel workers from my understanding, and we had our staff testify in the hearing yesterday. we do not find it to be an i impediment to the port. it's in everyone's interest for labor harmony and have spoken to that ordinance. >> president cohen: thank you very much. pivot to the budget and legislative analyst and hear their thoughts and comments as it results to this lease agreement. >> good morning, chair cohen, members of the committee. this

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to make families and patients and students and workers and our middle class. our bill builds on the strong work we've done to increase access to child care and early learning. it includes targeted funding to address the opioid epidemic, especially in underserved areas, significant new resources to address the truly alarming issue of maternal mortality. senator blunt just went through much of what this bill -- is in this bill, so i won't repeat all of that but just echo that we have done much in this bill for a lot of our families, and i'm proud of the work we've been able to do. i do want to note -- i was disappointed that we were unable to include language clarifying that the department of education can allow title 4 funding to arm teachers and put more guns into our schools. i believe congress was clear when we passed the bipartisan students act. i had hoped we could clarify this further for secretary devos in our bill. i do want senators to know that i will keep working to keep the pressure on her to do the right thing. mr. president, the conference report

and there is the hiring and job creation and retention issue. those were the ones i wanted to summarize and stand in the room knowing that they were most likely be echoed by all of us. >> thank you commissioner moore. >> thank you, again, to all staff involved from all the departments, all the companies. again, good to see the health commission here as well. i do have multiple comments regarding to the construction site of this project. >> rebekah gregory: i'.i'm not e hospital side. i'm an electrician by trade. before i got into this position, while still working in the field, i worked at multiple of the cpmc campuses on california campus and pacific campus and later on, it was fortunate enough to work on the building of the new general hospital. i clearly remember the day where i was capable of filling out my local resident paper work and photo copying my driver's license and submitting that end. and it is a big pride for build like hospitals and we frequently see hows and commercial projects but hospitals are a essential corner stone to a wel

the affected parties and the applicants and the sfmta and hopefully the commissioners can come and attest to that. secondly, something that supervisor -- excuse me -- president cohen and i worked on together but this is something that's been vexing the residents of district 11 for some time, we're putting forward legislation today for a special use district and district 11 as it relates to single family homes. we had an incident on 278 monticello and that home was turned into a 15 bedroom, 13 bath, home. it was designed -- literally. i'm not making a joke. this is not my misspeaking, supervisor kim, i'm actually speaking the right numbers this time. and, yes, 15 bedrooms and 13 baths. neighbors attested to it. essentially parts of district 11 are book ended by the city college and so speculators and people are buying these properties up and going for over-the-counter permits and taking those permits and converting them into these large mini dormitories in many regards. it's not safe. it's taking advantage of the people that are there. it's tremendously impacting the quality of life in the

is an and sober and happy to be able to play music and perform and express myself if i make. >> few people happy of all ages i've gone my job so i have so stay is an i feel like the piano and music in general with my voice together i feel really powerful and strong >> we came to seven straight about 10 years ago. -- 7th street about 10 years ago. the environment is huge. it is stronger than willpower. surrounding yourself with artists, being in a culture where artists are driving, and where a huge amount of them is a healthy environment. >> you are making it safer. push, push. that is better. when i start thinking, i see it actually -- sometimes, i do not see it, but when i do, it is usually from the inside out. it is like watching something being spawned. you go in, and you begin to work, excavate, play with the dancers, and then things began to emerge. you may have a plan that this is what i want to create. here are the ideas i want to play with, but then, you go into the room, and there maybe some fertile ideas that are becoming manifest that are more interesting than the idea yo

and to my left we have new yorker and new york times magazine contributor dan kaufman. - - and the future of american politics. fight. [let's get personal before the road trip too far into politics and what's going on and what the heck the future may hold i was hoping, i could get you guys to talk a little bit. all of you have a deeply personal connection to the work you've just come out with. i'm hoping you could tell us a little about them and how it shaped the project. i will let you start if you want. >> all right. well, i up in texas. abilene and dallas. i was in dallas during the kennedy assassination. something that marked my life because when you are from dallas during that period of time, people heated you. they hold you responsible. you actually did have a sense that people thought you were a murderer. it was also politically off the rails. i fled texas and dallas as soon as i could when i graduated high school. i went to college in new orleans at tulane. it was the city least like dallas that i could find and i thought i'd never go back to texas. in 1978, i was working for a lo

and she has been taking all my calls and she told me about a father and a girl and a 7-month-old baby that was stranded in trent court that is literally almost underwater, and i just got me and my husband and his mom in the car and we went through and got to them, and we were able to get them out of the house, and we got them to another house where they are safe right now. >> and what was the condition of them when you found them? how were they? >> i mean, they were literally trying to get the water out of the house. they had the baby sitting on the steps. they didn't want to leave. these are people that are just so distraught. they can't believe that their homes are literally going to be underwater within hours, and they didn't want to leave. they felt that they would be safe on the second floor and i'm trying to tell them. you have got to get out now before it's too late because we already have almost 200 people that are on their roofs right now waiting to get rescued. >> and where were you during the storm when it first hit? did you evacuate? >> no, i didn't. i got my family out to

, no, and we have to go back and say, we can't always be no. it's a balance for me. >> supervisor yee: appreciate your answer, and it is a balance, and it is the neighborhood gets to weigh in, and the commissioners can say guess what, we heard your input. >> commissioner richards: yeah. >> supervisor yee: but at least we heard your input. there's no way to object or anything, and i'm seeing that more and more is sort of my concern. the other question i have is in february of 2017, over a year ago, the board passed a resolution to urge the planning commission to codify, is that something you could get in terms of defining what we mean when we start talking to people? >> commissioner richards: sure. so i have a booklet at home that i believe you and your office -- the department worked on around designing buildings for families. i think that's a really important thing that when we're talking about how we want to create family housing, that, you know, this is where i think commission commissioner moore brings a lot to it, as well. we have a lot of

and anecdotally, thank you for that data and h.r. department for working with us to provide that, it jives with what we're hearing. we're hearing that teachers don't feel supported both in special ed and gen ed setting. there are too many students on i.e.p.s in a classroom and not enough qualified and trained adults to support and keep students on task, address behaviors and it ill pacts entire classrooms. for every teacher that leaves the district and then has to be replaced, the learning policy institute estimates in an urban environment like san francisco it costs about $20,000. so if we have 400 how to teachers that we have to train this year because of resignations, that's $8 million we're spending just on training new teachers. it would cost a whole lot less to hire a few more para-educators, to maybe have some additional classified staff or other personnel that would act as case managers to take some of the burden. i'm struggling to understand personally how an r.f.p. can individualize 28 i.e.p.s and teach 28 students on their

so one of the things i want you all to do tonight i want you to go home and tell your mom and dad androthers and sisters and aunts and uncles that we are in competition because sometimes i think that -- that lots of america doesn't really understand what this means when we say we are in great power competition, we have to open the competitive space, right, in the military as we have read and start today -- started to digest, how do we do that, how does that mean in a world that we talk around thinking we are goliath and we need to think more like david and get, how do we get fast and agile and take advantage of this amazing technology that exists across the planet. so let me ask a question here and see if anybody would dare to do this, is anybody -- if you do not have a smartphone in your pocket, please stand up. okay, i don't see anybody standing up. if i would ask that question 11 years ago, everybody would have stood up. and so today half of the world, half of the world has got a smartphone capability and we are soon going to connect the smartphone to 5g network and what's that goi

and facebook ten-cent and allie bob and around the world the iranian and the chinese or whatever they all have their own internet now. and that model is not sustainable. we need a new internet giving the individual with control with their own assets and that is accomplished through this cryptographic revolution initiated by bit coin and with life after google. >> so the internet is benign in the way that we use it? it's not really hurting? >> it was completely benign with communication and bulletin boards and news groups and for the free internet that as soon as it became the center of the world's transactional economy then security became a central factor. and to solve the security problem each of the internet companies one after another created its own silo and its own cloud. that broke up the internet also with the centralization of the data that was conducting transactions. so the internet filled with usernames and passwords mother's maiden names all of this personal data to be centralized. and each of these accompany centralization was safe but it isn't. it tells the sensitive da

and i went and got my twin sister and i said, you need to see this.e bulge. we called our dad and said dad, we need you to come and pray. dad says it didn't look good, guys. [laughter] i get that, let's pray. we got a few contractors because the rain didn't stop and one of the contractors told us, boys, i'm not sure what your drainage looks like behind that wall. so we had a contractor come out the next day, the wall started to teeter a little bit and there was a ravine, this side of the wall and our building was about three feet from it and boy, we were in dire straits and called in another contractor, guys, this doesn't look good. i don't know what we'll be able to do we went down below the wall looking at it, we walked back up, walked back into the building. 15 minutes later we heard an earthquake, boom! and everybody in our building, 12,000 square feet, fully leased out and everybody went running in the front parking lot. this is crazy and we went running out and that entire wall blew out and fell down. now, fortunately, our building was so big th

and businesses and tragically cost lives. in hershey, pennsylvania, a creek crest at over 17 feet, the second highest level since the weather service began keeping records. as we speak, the carolinas continue to recover from hurricane florence, which took the lives of over 40 americans. it is clear these reforms are needed now more than ever. i thank chairman shuster for his support and getting this bill over the finish line. i like to submit and op-ed co-wrote for the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman from oregon. mr. defazio: i yield one minute to esteemed member of the committee from tennessee, mr. cohen. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from tennessee is recognized for one minute. mr. cohen: i want to thank ranking member defazio and chairman of our committee, mr. shuster, for their excellent efforts to work out this compromise on the f.a.a. re-authorization. finding consensus with our senate counterparts. there are four important measures in the package. thanks to senator nelson and

how do we turn words and ideas and principles and commitments and values into that? how do we use one set of solutions to solve multiple problems? what we know here in san francisco is we can look at how do we take tangible steps to move away from all fossil fuels? how do we move away from buildings and buses and pipelines and use it to transition away from fossil fuels towards clean energy and cut the pollution that's making us sick and create the jobs that we all need? i'm excited to be here right now on the eve of a global climate action summit to be helping to announce and to celebrate a series of thoughtful, progressive, ambitious, and even daring actions that we desperately need across the city, across the state, and across the country, not just to increase the amount of prosperity that we need here in the city, but to show leaders all around the world that we can do this. we can make dramatic progress in a short period of time, and all it takes, all it takes is leadership, is confidence, a belief that we can solve some of our biggest problems. and the commitme

they were so proud and they learn the constitution and learn the presidents and waved the flag and they would bring their mother, father, sister and everyone from the neighborhood that i will be an american citizen. they swear allegiance to our country. today, totally different. i'm illegal and i am here. i want housing and medication and education and i want you to give me every constitutional right. you know what? i don't have a problem with people who love their own subculture. every one of us should be proud of our our heritage. i am. every one of us. if you want to fly the flag of another country on your car, while you hate america and burn the flag of the united states, and you then kick and scream if we decide that you should be deported back to the country of the flag that is fine on your car and you say, i want my constitutional right, that makes me angry. it should make you angry. you know what? for all of them, for all those people who want to drive around with the flag of their country, god bless you. i have no problem with that but don't you dare say no america or burn our