and presentation of the budget report and resolution 13-26 and adopted may 7, 2014 and enforcement of ride share program violations. update regarding the fourth quarter 2018 compliance with administrative code chapter 96a. i'd like to add there's a vision zero report provided prior to the beginning of the meeting and it's on the public binder on the table. >> we're ready for the report. >> good evening. on behalf of chief scott on the east coast attending a law enforcement seminar. i'm begin my presentation with the weekly stats rate. crimes are down 21% and homicides, aggravated assaults, rapes and human trafficking. we have a total of five homicides for 2019. this is a decrease over 2018. there was one homicide in february. of the five, four have been cleared so for. gun violence. we're down 38% over 2018. there have been two fatal shoot and 14 with injuries. property crimes are down 19%. they include burglary, motor vehicle theft, larceny including auto burglaries. burglaries are down 18% and auto burglaries down 23%. hot -- homicides this week. shooting updates, none to report thi

note the ringing and use of cell phones and pagers and sound producing devices are prohibit and the chairman may order the removal of anyone and a note to the public, there will be public comment on every item as well as an opportunity to for general comment for items that aren't on the agenda. we ran out of speaker cards. there's a lot of folks in the room so we have a few speaker cards here we received. the chair will call the speaker cards we received first and then folks can come to the microphone one by one after that. you also have a right to speak anonymously. with that we'll move to item 1, call to order and roll call. [roll call] there is a quorum. the next item is item 2, president's welcome. this item is open for discussion. >> commissioner: welcome, opportunity. i hope you had the opportunity to see the wonderful slide show in honor of cal broomhead. we thank you for joining us tonight. it's a very special meeting for the commissioner on the environment and our meeting today is held in honor of our friend cal broomhead. he worked at the san francisco p.u.c. and the department of

johns harrison and christopher notten and james hancock and jim paulson and steven bails and karen opierce and tim knee rious and linda richardson and sherry williams. please come up and you have two minutes to speak. first speaker, please. >> good morning, my name is steve bails and i'm with lion sails s.f.a. we're a fiscally sponsored project with the marina link. and our mission is to provide sailing instruction and hands on sailing experience in boats to blind and visually impaired sailors. we are in collaboration with the sailing center for the last several years. our program is april-november and at least one sailing day a month in. 2018 we provided sailing instruction for upwards of 100 visually impaired blind sailors and we also run a blind sailing racing program. so we teach individuals who have no experience in boats to sail as well as advanced racing clinics. and i'm speaking in support of the approval of the lease for the treasure island sailing center. without the support and collaboration of the treasure island sailing center, blind sailors san francisco would not be able to

diane oshima and i'm with planning, development and engineering and our real estate and development colleagues going forward and i'll acknowledge you next time because i'm sure you'll help me with the item. we have an informational presentation on a request for proposal for historic peer -- pier solicitation. get settled in your seats. i'll give you found jagsal public processes and i'll go through the criteria staff has been looking at in order to develop the recommendations and get in the recommendations which is are initial rpp for piers 19, 19 1/2, 23 and 29 and a proposal to add 31 and continue recommended studies of piers 38, 40, 26 and 28 and with want to hear your thoughts on next steps on strategy in order to develop this further and come back to you with age -- an action item. there's a couple key background points as we consider the item. the embarcadero historic district is one of the primary reasons we're here. it's important to remember that port cdc our stakeholder group came to the point of recognize and wanted to establish the contribution the piers make to the au t

and i get to page 22 and he just ups and leaves the room. and i'm thinking to myself, what have i done wrong here? this is my chance to save my career and i obviously haven't been successful. the guy's just left the room. and i'm thinking to myself, i've got to come up with something to turn this meeting around. and i'm thinking what am i going to say? i'm coming up with these ideas in my mind. 10 minutes goes by. he's not back. 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 40 minutes, 50 minutes. i'm coming up with all this crazy stuff in my mind to get the meeting back on track. 52 minutes later he walks back into the room and before i have a chance to say a single word he says, bill, those slides you showed me are the single most compelling thing i've seen in my investment career. i've just gone to the risk management committee of solomon brothers, i've got you $25 million to invest. please stop everything else you're doing and invest this money in russia. it was like this huge, huge weight lifted off my shoulders. i went and invested the money and then seven

and a and a half. and i used programs here facilities here, the san francisco sheriff's department, went through programs there. also became a certified domestic violence facilitator, and worked for 10 years as a service provider inside. so having those two aspects, both as offender and someone who is a survivor, and someone who has also worked in programs, developing programs, to help with the violence and drug issues in san francisco. so since then, i've worked with various organizations in the tenderloin community. i've developed a program in glide memorial, a pilot called "men in service, service" which is now a certified program. and i'm working with a& ebetebethel church, and i'm currently working with father george at the university of san francisco, to think about how u.f.s. can get involved. what we hope to do is think about ways that we can collaborate -- let me say this, too, i'm also doing work in 111 taylor, which is considered a halfway house, where there be 90 citizens there which are em

and of science and government. kelvin droegemeier is on leave as regents professor, he says without pay, of meteorology at the university of oklahoma, a b.s. in meteorology from the university of oklahoma, and a ph.d. in atmospheric science from the university of illinois champai champai champaign urbana. he's been chair emeritus of weather views and has -- was a co-founder of the national science foundation engineering research center for collaborative adaptive sensing of the atmosphere, which go. oklahomans know him for his newspaper weather column. many of us in the science community know him because he was appointed by george w. bush and subsequently by barack obama to two six-year terms on the national science board. he's been an adviser to the governor of oklahoma. he's a trustee of various scientific and educational associations and corporations. he's a fellow of the american meteorological society and a fellow of the aaas. everyone who works with him finds him to have a very accessible manner. we scientists

and that, too, has had some surprising developments and twists and turns. so i would say that those are the things of which i have been most proud. with one exception, and that is how collegial our commission has been. we almost always rule unanimously. over 99% of the time, though frequently for different reasons. i don't think it is a sign of weakness. i think it is a sign that the commissioners are willing to listen to one another and take into account the concerns of each commissioner so that we have move forward together. >> thank you. >>> chairwoman: ms. black? >> good morning. i'm kate black. i'm the new kid on the commission. i'm really happy to be here today. and i'm honored that mayor breed has submitted for your consideration my reappointment. if i'm reappointed, i will continue to bring 30 years of municipal planning and historic preservation background. most of my carrie career was in the public sector. so, like you, i know how hard it is to be prepared. it is very important to be prepared. it is important to work hard. it is important to liste

and so what mr. and mrs. truman did was they bought this home from the estate of madge gayts wallace and all the paperwork was done by the middle of 1953. and then we could legally call it the truman home. and really from 1953 to 1972, were the only years in which harry and bess truman lived in this home by themselves. and many say perhaps those were the happiest 19 years of their lives. >> good feeling. your thought of us is always highly appreciated. we're back home now nor good. i'm in the army of the unemployed now. [laughter] although it's, very small army. and i'm here to tell you that a little later on, when i get the job done, mrs. truman has for me, which she says i'll have to do to unpack our goods and chattel, and think about seven or eight men three months to get it done, so i don't know how long it's going to take one man to get it done. after that i'll be open for dinner engagements and things of that kind but i may be hungry at that time. mr. richardson: after they came home in 1953, almost eve

and there is a gym in every tel and military and capitol hill and white house. they have workout rooms. and it has been very successful and i have seen a lot of people doing it and i know you are working out regularly and keeping in good shape. and the obama works out every day and he is in good shape. we get off and leave, i want to reiterate again that this subject that we are talking about, both of us sitting here today is not because it is a drk not a democratic or republican sue, both parties have gerrymandered. it is the politicians and not the party. we want to take this the power giving it away from the politicians and create coherence. and i'm going to go to states with the cases to maryland and to north carolina and i invite you to come with me and share ideas. bipartisan issue. american issue. the people's issue. and i want to leave you with. we need to work together and be successful in that, people power. mr. holder: i have never bench pressed and i have no idea what my capabilities are and my skinny little arms. i have no basis for comparison. 700

and racial and ethnic composition. this resolution signals great promise to equity in san francisco. thank you all for your time and consideration and thank you supervisor mandelman for your important leadership on this issue. >> chair peskin: thank you so much. are there any other members of the public that would like to testify on this item number one? next speaker, please. >> i believe that the proposed declaration underscores the global proliferation of an increasingly common feature of toadyism. there's clearly and factually no climate emergency in san francisco. some of the testimony i've heard today reflected selective bias of data and the false attribu attributions. nature tends to be self-correcting and our reservoirs are all full today. if you want to reduce global emissions related to public transportation and housing, for example, you can do so without the unnecessary alarmist packaging or framing. >> chair peskin: thank you. seeing no other members of the public for public comment, public comment is closed

[cheers and applause] and if we truly believe we are a country of immigrants and asylum seekers and refugees, the very premise of our strength, success and, yes, our security, then let us free every single dreamer from any fear of deportation. [cheers] let's bring millions more out of the shadows and onto a path to contribute to their maximum potential to the success of this country. let's not only follow this country's asylum laws, but let's make sure we never take another child from another mother at the most desperate and vulnerable moment. [cheers and applause] let us reunite every single one of those families that are still separated today. [cheers and applause] and let's remember that every single one of us, including those who are just three or four blocks from here, detained under the international bridge that connects us with mexico, behind chain-link fence and barbed wire, that they are our fellow human beings and deserve to be treated like our fellow human beings. [cheers] i can hear myself. i can't hear myself. [chanting 'beto'] >> we will find security, not through walls, not th

and treated in a stormwater begans and wetland areas. and so in lieu of using a impervious material which is harder to maintain, clean and less durable, we've focused the stormwater treatment on on landscape-based approaches rather than on the paving material. >> thank you. we'll have this braille type at the intersections. i know we talk about the digital signals, the electronic signaling and all of those. and those will be again -- it will be incorporated into the infrastructure, right? >> i'm not certain about the use of the braille signage throughout the intersections. we used the braille map really as a way to coordinate with the lighthouse for the blind in terms of the design of the actual paving materials and way finding. but at the intersections, i'm not certain. >> yeah, it would be great, you know, and the subsequent meetings that we've had. and you were not here then. what happens at those intersections? and so this has been an ongoing discussion from this body and all of that. it will be great when we look at your map and we'

his judgment, you have 2020 and get out and knock on doors and say he's done this bad stuff and getfriends out there. if you are owe posing him and beat him at the ballot box. >> is there one candidate on the democratic side announced or expected to announce who you think would provide a real challenge to president trump? >> i don't really see a real challenge right now and frankly i'm surprised, i thought there might be challenges. i thought the launches have been weak. the one thing i think is different in this primary season than any other in american history is that the -- the sitting president, donald trump, is going to have a vote in the democratic primary. that is a reality. and this is because of the -- of president trump's house style. he's going to be engaged and i think a perfect example is -- is elizabeth warren. >> he's defined her -- >> more well-thought through -- she has probably, if you look at other candidates, pretty well defined policy initiatives on big tech, on getting people more -- participation and ownership in society. >> which are things that you have been

and, three, government and oversight. and we're happy to report that is under way and we'll be presenting more of an update next month. we had eric cudo update the pgpa citizens' advisory committee on the status of this report last week. >>> turning to bart, the bart trains are running one hour later and the morning, to enable vital repairs in our trans bay, the critical earthquake safety work. there are over 2400 east bay riders coming into the city at that hour, and it is very important that we ensure they maintain their access, and bart has worked with a host of transit operating across the region. 64% of the riders coming in from the east bay disembark downtown. so the plan does create 14 new express buses that run from 3:45 a.m. to 6 p.m., and two san francisco and peninsula routes. please visit www.bart.org, and we'll keep tracking this to make sure that service remains reliable and as good as possible. san francisco has received $8 million from the active transportation program for two projects. last month i mentio

creating a welcome and open and safe environment.ources will serve to inform the next phase of the project by providing us with the community supported concept plan to implement. i'd like to close by thanking the trust for public land for their partnership on this project and to recognize the senior program manager here with us today. thank you very much for your time and we hope that you will support acceptance of this grant. >> president fewer: thank you very much. any questions or comments for mr. sinclaire? there is no report on this and i do have a question for you, mr. sinclaire. and that is that this term of this grant is from october 2n october 2nd, 2018 through march 31st, 2019. which is next week. why is this retroactive? and have you begun expending the funds? >> so this is all in-kind. so the final work product is what we're accepting now which is the concept design and feasibility study. we have been working for several years now with the trust for public land on that process. but no funds were exchanged as part of this

the list goes on and on and on. yes, we know in the filmore western community about the work that she has done around the turkey give-aways, the toy give-aways, the -- every time there is a funeral, she is the one who is cooking the food. every time someone comes home after serving time, her house is the house that they go to to get some support. and oftentimes she is doing this by pulling her own money out of her own pocket to help support people in the community. utey is there to uplift us, she is there to pray for us, she is there to support us, she is there to comfort us, especially during challenging times in the western addition community. she is this unifying support and voice. she is just a constant support. and even when we're going through oftentimes very challenging times, she is right there to lift us up. in a way that just makes us feel better. we are so lucky to have her in the western addition community. we are so lucky to have had here in our lives for so long. whether it is feeding the seniors at qu

and -, cn and sorghum and beef and poultry in a variety of things. we are not going to enumerate different levels again. negotiations are negotiations. what is the capacity. we have put proposals on the table and china has come back with that and it's not appropriate to do specific digits negotiations in public. >> thirty seconds left, plug and therefore e13. i appreciate what you're doing and want to echo my peers here across the aisle as well. i want to say iowa really relies on ethanol industry, 2.1 milliod corn into that and we know that weavers went to extremely profitable refiners while our hard-working iowa farmers did not get that opportunity. what can we expect in the future to help with that? >> again, you understand the levers are controlled by the environment of protection agency and have advocated long and hard over the rulemaking about that and we have objected interagency transfer and relationships have cleared so we are putting amounts in there for waivers and the perspective portion and i believe administrator that you will see a dif

do exams and inspections and women and things like that. part of it is not just more money, but making sure that we are getting the right force in their so that we have people that are designated as health providers taking care of the women. that is a program that is going on now and we have been doing it really hard. we have many more than we had a few years ago, but there is turnover and more women coming in the door. as you say, are we doing it for tomorrow and six months from now when your side might have 1000 more women than they have today. that is the in the weeds part of it that it is hard to implement. >> that is really good to know. one quick question. do women utilize the healthcare more than men generally or less? >> women need more visits than men do. my question is are they in the va healthcare system disproportionate to man? >> no, they underutilize, about 10 points lower than men in terms of those that are eligible to come back him. >> why is that? >> we have actually grown from a greater gap than that, and more women are co

and let these things evolve and learn and evolve and learn and learn and evolve. it will all be done by bottom-up masses. if we go that route, what we know right from the outset we will not be in control. we will not be in control and so we will be setting in motion something where the amount of autonomy in the systems, we will not be up to us. i am not deathly afraid right now because i think people who imagine the scenario and think this is coming soon are just wrong. and i take orders of magnitude of difficulties stand in the way and when you take watson, in its own way, i don't know how many centuries of brilliant work of watson uses of the power of the small city, what percentage of an intelligent conches a.i. a fraction of 1%. turning watson into an actual in an agent would be the work of many persons centuries of work. and nobody knows how to do yet. >> the exercise and what they call knowledge engineering is a big enough database in dealing with all that data and knowledge and apply the information and it's a wonderful thing. >> it's a great tool. >> i don

it will take city departments and nonprofit providers and volunteers and companies and community members coming together. [♪] >> the product homeless connect community day of service began about 15 years ago, and we have had 73 of them. what we do is we host and expo-style event, and we were the very force organization to do this but it worked so well that 250 other cities across the globe host their own. there's over 120 service providers at the event today, and they range anywhere from hygiene kits provided by the basics, 5% -- to prescription glasses and reading glasses, hearing tests, pet sitting, showers, medical services, flu shots, dental care, groceries, so many phenomenal service providers, and what makes it so unique is we ask that they provide that service today here it is an actual, tangible service people can leave with it. >> i am with the hearing and speech center of northern california, and we provide a variety of services including audiology, counselling, outreach, education, today we actually just do screening to see if someone has hearing loss. to follow updates when t

and he worked for the herald and the san francisco bulletin and 1858 discxds difficulties patches and 400-paged book. and in these discxds difficulties patches, he describes lincoln's routine, linchingon's views, speculation about has policies, speculation about his cabinet appointments, descriptions of linchingon physically. it is a gold mine of information. he had an office in the old state capital called the governor's office but the governor-elect said go ahead, linchingon, you can use this office. linchingon during this period was in addition to members of congress saying don't give in on the issue of slavery in the territory but considering who came to the seat for the cabinet position should be filled. and had to write an inaugural address. he would neat with people who would recommend themselves or friends for offices or talk bout the early days of springfield. people were showering him with gifts. and he and his secretary would respond to all kind of letters they were receiving. they kept him busy. heny vmpomplmplmp a rmp d and the president got along very well -- president-e

and good pay and good benefits. one ofs competition and the most important things is that we find a way to bring college costs under control, a major issue for me in richmond and hopefully will be in washington. >> how are you personally balancing work and life? work in washington and life in the district? rep. cline: it is a big challenge. we are here for three or four days a week and we get the weekends back home and we try to maximize our time back home. my family is very important and my kids are young and they are only young once. i am trying to spend as much time with them as i can. it is hard to say no to them as it is but when you are home on the weekends, especially hard when they want to go to a park and play or ride bikes, that is something i will set aside time to do no matter what the schedule. >> joining congress from virginia is democrat abigail spanberger, a former postal inspector and cia officer. >> before iran for congress, i was working for a country that company in richmond, virginia, directly w

and to every welder, and machinist, and assembler, and mechanic, and engineer, and electrician, and carpenter, and every patriot here at the joint systems manufacturing center, thank you for pouring out your heart and your sweat and your soul to help restore the might of the american military, which very soon will be stronger than it ever was. we've bought billions and billions of dollars' worth of new planes and tanks and many other things. so, thank you all. great job. and the fact is we have the best tanks driven by the best soldiers, made by the best workers anywhere in the world. and that's true. a lot of people are asking, because they love me, and they ask me about a man named john mccain. and if you want, i could tell you about -- should i or not? yes? yes? so, i have to be honest, i've never liked him much. hasn't been for me. i've really -- probably never will. but there are certain reasons for it, and i'll tell you. and i do this to save a little time with the press later on. john mccain received a fake and phony dossier. did you hear about the dossier? it was paid for by crooked h

and then it had to do with railroads and steel and oil and so-called natural monopolies. you don't want to have two railroads parallel to each other and you had to regulate or break them up in some way. what we see now are network effects. that is you have giant, big four or the big five depending how you define them, high-tech companies all moving toward capitalization of pretty soon a trillion dollars each. they have network effects in the sense that if you want to use facebook, you've got to join facebook. there's not another substitute for facebook. >> yes. >> the barriers are huge and also big data issues. when you get a certain, a certain amount of big data and they're all racing to be the lead of big data, it's very hard for anybody else to get in. there are always monopolizistic companies. and high-tech, amazon the best example, that are keeping suppliers and contractors, they have so much market power, they're pushing down what suppliers and also providers can get. but-- you see monopolizistic processes and anybody who is concerned about, obviously obviously the

and he would return the call and show up at all door and help them out and they did not have to be the political insiders and make donations to get a return phone call. you didn't have to be part of the establishment or the insiders. that's the way we were raised to return phone calls and everybody has their cell phone. i will give you my number so if you want to text me with great ideas or you are up in toronto, take this number down, it's right in my pocket. >> he will respond. >> i get a couple hundred texts. the best way to get a how old is text. it is 416-805-2156. sometimes we say we get caught in the bubble. you get caught in the bubble sometimes and you never lose track of the people that brought you there, brought you to the dance, that voted for you, and all of a sudden you get in the office and there is 15 layers before they can get a hold of you and our case, our family comes to knock on my door and i will show up. i don't care how small of an issue it is and every single day we try to help people. to some folks they think it's a small issue and to other people it is massiv

and m.t.a. reporting standards -- standardization would enhance efficiency and accountability and transparency. for example, bond managers submit their plans in a variety of formats to the office of public finance prior to bond issuance, a standard format for these submissions would allow for quicker comparison of planned versus actual spending. thank you very much, and i am happy to take questions. >> questions? >> could we get, or is there available more of a text -- >> oh, my god, i'm sorry. >> yes, you can. >> there it is. but the recommendations in particular? >> they're in the executive summary, and may provide even more examples of that support those conclusions and those recommendations. >> okay. >> to brian's point, i noticed in the capital plan, which is also in our document, not on april 3rd, the plan will be heard by the budget and finance committee, and so i am wondering if you can presents the lessons learned to the budget and finance committee of the board of supervisors, because

and trust of our customers and employees. i can promise to you the new t- mobile will deliver for consumers, american workers and for our country. thank you and i look forward to answering your questions. >> thank you. >> thank you. it is an honor to be here and i am grateful for the opportunity to speak to you. i would like to take this opportunity to explain why sprints proposed merger would be great for american consumers, great for sprint employees and more portly it will be great for the country. i will go through it in a moment but i want to tell you about me. first i am an immigrant. i emigrated to the united states as a young man from bolivia. i had little money and i want to great university in boston and i received a prices education. i am an entrepreneur. i graduated and founded a company called brightstar and started selling funds out of my car and i graduated into the largest mobile phone supply chain company in the world. we were quite angry to over $10 billion in sales we have thousands of employees all over th

and editor and founding...she is vice chair of the graduate much -- seminaries board of trustees, a trustee of san francisco's catholic charities, families -- family service agency, the homeless port of san francisco, and to the united way a commissioner on the human race commission and many more. if all that wasn't enough, a board member of grace cathedral occasional emanuel. and home health services, clinic by the bay and faith program at the san francisco foundation. obviously, her full impact on our city and community cannot be put into words. she once said, it's important for people to keep going. it doesn't matter what you do, but you have got to do something , so i choose to spend my time doing this, and as long as people figure i can make a contribution, i will do it. rita, thank you for always doing something, and more than something. you have touched my heart the first time i met you, and i am in all of you, and i cannot fully capture here today your contributions to our city and put into words everyt

safety, and reliability and improvements. prop a.a. focuses on projects that can provide tangible benefits to the public. one of the things of the program is it only funds design and construction phase. and this adopts the strategic planning, a five-year program of projects, prior to allocation of funds. because it is such a small program, there is a strong emphasis on timely use of funds. this is the policy included in the strategic plan, but it basically says that the board can reprogram funds from projects that don't allocate in the year of programk. programming. sponsors have the ability to reapply for funds through their competitive projects, but they're not guaranteed priority. since its inception, prop a.a. has funded $33.3 million -- has allocated $30.3 million to projects. and so much of the street resurfacing and 28th avenue, dolores street to the 24th street station plaza, and a bike share station at civic center, and a bart station as well. prop a.a. has also played a key role and providing funds for projects like

and when you are a native woman and your sisters and your aunts and mother, grandmother and great-grandmother have all been victims of violence and nobody's done anything, why would you come forward? and i think that trust has to be built. not going to happen in one bill or one year. that trust is going to take years and years and years to rebuild. the challenge in the urban environment is that native women, particularly if she is not the perfect victim like elizabeth smart or had an addiction problem or homeless or maybe her children have been taken to her and go to urban or off-reservation police department, families tell us, what did you expect? then the family is left feeling as though nobody cares. so both on reservation and off reservation, we need to cultivate a culture of compassion and understanding. and not you can do through legislation but with the leadership, we will begin to see a sea change in that problem. >> representative buffalo you spoke about a couple of issues i'm interested in, data and training. we're interested in ways these concerns can be overcome. what you said in

and that district and that district. so sarah, it's pretty amazing what you do. thank you for everything. >> president yee: sarah, i guess i've known you the longest, since you first started at c.y.c. i watched you grow. and you think that in 22 years, you must have started when you were ten years old or something. what i've seen is you being program director and eventually interim director -- interim executive director, and you kept it up, and they said you're going to be the permanent executive director. i was really glad when i seen that happen because what i've seen with the organization itself, the impact that i've seen was more community oriented in chinatown. and what i've seen now is an organization that has impact throughout san francisco, so congratulations to you. sarah? >> thank you, supervisors. supervisors, you're really the leaders that i love up to, so it's really honor to receive the award from supervisor sandra lee fewer. as you know, i really can't accept this honor without really acknowledging the dre

and lincoln was known for and this is key and you'll see a connection here between lincoln and ronald reagan. lincoln told stories. he told jokes. but he realized that in politics when you have jokes, jokes often have a target. the person who they're being joked about or teased. and lincoln understood that in democratic politics where you're asking for votes, the only safe target of a joke is you yourself. if you target anybody else, well you're going to alienate them and their friends and people who feel an affinity towards them. if you tell a joke about yourself, the first thing happens is that you avoid that. and the second thing is, you make people think, he doesn't have a big ego. he can tell jokes about himself. it humanizes these presidents for people. and we see the beginning of a trend that would set in really in full in the 20th century whereby the 20th century, certainly by the second half of the 20th century if you had to , figure out who is going to win any given election, you can look at unemployment rates and political platforms and you can look at other things. but the

biking, walking is safe and comfortable, and cars and few and far between, and we have lots of roads that are completely car-free. thank you very much. >> chairman: thank you very much. next speaker. >> charles defarge. >> charles defarge, senior community organizer at the san francisco bicycle coalition. two fridays ago, tess was killed while riding a bike on her way to work. a protected bike lane would have saved her life. we've gotten pretty good at organizing around tragedy. we just rallied on the steps here, hundreds of us, and i'm frankly sick of it. i don't want to organize other rallies. the truth is i can't remember a protected bike lane that wasn't hard fought, time and time again. we mobilize when somebody is hit and killed, and then we get blocks or scraps of protected bike lanes. the question i've asked this board before: how many lives will we have to trade for the city to take action? today the answer is one more, and that's tess'. we know that the s.f.m. t.a. can build a protected bike lane in less than a week. we have that in front of us right now on howard. there ar

interests and values and saudi arabia. my wife kathy and my son david are both here today and my daughter is here in spirit. i think the family for their support to the nation, they continue to serve as paratroopers. we have spent too much time dealing with america's wars and it was confirmed i can play some small role that my grandchildren never see combat in the middle east. i am aware of both how difficult this region could be and just how essential it is and national security. is my conviction that stability in the middle east is most endangered by the continued threat of violence and iran's radical policy of expansionism. this deprives people and threatens the national security of the united states. is difficult for me to imagine that a convoy of revolutionary guards could support this unimpeded travel. the good people deserve a better future than the constant drain on the economy and to confront the threats united states must work with partners that cannot effectively combat these without them. the united states has

they are stopped by doctors and nurses and vaccines and public health awareness. they are stopped by strong investments in public health systems here at home and abroad. they say amounts of prevention is worth a pound of cure. that's certainly the case here. a dose of mmr vaccine is about $20. meanwhile, washington state has spent over $1 million already addressing the current measles outbreak. investing in prevention is not just more effective at keeping our families and communities healthy, it is more affordable as well. the vaccines for children program is another great example of this. over 25 years and it's helped low income families get shots at no cost and has saved $1.6 trillion, prevented 380 million illnesses, and saved 860,000 lives. that's more people that live in seattle. i hope we can work together in a bipartisan way to build on programs like this with strong steps to help address public health crises and that are yet, to prevent them from happening the first place. i'm glad to have this opportunity to learn more about how we can do that and conside

america and europe shouldn't do that and. on the long term you know once trumpets gone and a new president is there i think we should. approach to china and find the right to run the where we can cooperate and we shouldn't compete on trade we should always try. to be good partners and stop this. now you mentioned europe and i think europe is a bit in the middle here because politically and militarily it's still associated with the united states but. even economically benefits globalization in a ways similar to china which magnet is likely to prove stronger and do you think europe will remain united they've as it navigates these competing pools well europe currently in a deep crisis in institutional crisis not only that but the whole. framework of the european union but as saying this it may be crisis leaving leading to this finally europe is redefining it still and europe will be stronger under french german leadership saying you will be strongly united and china will be a very strong part no if you're always you know china i

and . i carry on doing what i'm doing i'm not going to i'm not going to stand down while you've chosen quite some place in which to do it london the u.k. a country in which twelve thirteen fourteen estimated russian critics have lost their lives have come to a sticky end in dubious circumstances in just recently is why here why are you in london why are you living such a public existence well as i said i'm not the person who's going to live in fear i'm not the person who's going to withdraw i'm not the person who's going to go into hiding my reaction is to go straight back at them and. i'm not going to change locations. and you know the fate may may you know deal me a very ugly blow but but that's the decision i've taken well from from the perspective of being in london. and in the context of the wider european question which we mentioned earlier why do you think these things keep happening in britain is it the case that britain is itself compromised in terms of its ability to deal with rus

and chill out in this pleasant and quiet environment and you might see butter nice, and dandelion and is squirrels hundred dollaring for their next . >> thank you for coming today. my name is debbie mezlo, and i commissioner near on the status of women. [applause] >> thank you, i'll take it. the women's rrs history month. i want to thank all of the people that are here today as we launch women's history month. it is an incredible thing to see elected officials, commissioners, community leaders, our male allies who are here, so thank you for coming to spend this time with us. i'd like to recognize my colleagues on the commission on the status of women, and if you will tanstand as i call your name. commissioner sonya melara. [applause] >> commissioner melara. [applause] >> they're celebrating, too. [laughter] >> i know. commissioner andrea shorter. [applause] >> commissioner cary pomerance. [applause] >> i also -- if you'll indulge me, i wanted to introduce and recognize marge fillhour, who is on the commission with us. and introduce our director, dr. emily maraza. [applause] >> i wante

and sing and play and get better as a musician all i ever wanted to do was keep getting better and i think that what was hard it was the world of the record companies and it's not that they were bad is that i didn't understand how hard you had to fight and you know what my biggest problem was i didn't surround myself with people who would fight for me and i expected everyone to be friendly and to do the right ridiculous. confronted by up to that and i. guess other to do it correct i didn't have a manager for the first many singles i don't have a minister doesn't your mom oh i don't know i just i just i trusted people they were so often tossed well you know. i wouldn't say that i'm disappointed as a person i think i learn from my amazing mistakes and i can't just trying to do things in a better way that suits me because i am a bit of a rebel you know i am a bit of a i was used to feign from my place and stuff so maybe it was kind of good it kept me working but now i feel very comfortable picking choosing people around me so if we do this and muti instrumentalist faster than us yes i m

thankful to you and your mercy, and ever trusting you in the evidence and ever aware of your love and presence, oh, god, you are the creator of all things that exist that have existed and will exist. you are without physical form or shame to be seen, but whose presence permeates the heavens and the earth, you have given the order for establishment and maintain the order with your mercy, which is the first rule you wrote for yourself to be extended to all that you did create, especially to all of the human family. we are eternally grateful to you, and we come forward with words to acknowledge our love, our trust and dependence for you in our lives. we praise and glorify you in your majesty, for you alone are to be worshipped. what you are the merciful benefactor and the merciful redeemer, and the master of the date where all matters in truth and justice will be restored, when the scales will be balanced and wait with regards to the rise in rome, good and evil, and the merits of what has been earned will be determined as awards or punishment. we thank you for the life you have given us,

and a parent in that camera. and that they can look at them and say. you know this isn't your fault you did nothing wrong it means a lot and for many of these men and women it's the first time they've really taken responsibility which is huge and that's a first step in recovery of any kind anytime is to take responsibility for. but even with. this little. readiness of everybody that. i was going to go to. i'm going to do the best they can to stay out of this booth. for. good this. this was you guys in good numbers can we be with. the. next chapter. from one thousand twenty two one thousand nine hundred seventy this whole half century of american history the rate of incarceration was roughly level or about one hundred ten per one hundred thousand. and this is a broad span of our history this is because the ruling twenty's and prohibition the depression and all the social change the world war two the post-war economic boom the the the fifty's the explosion of suburbia the sixty's and all the social turbulence through this whole period the rate of incarce

and he said on the radio, that he was going to try and rock the boat and get off the reef and proceed. which was just a terrifying possibility. the ship was so badly damaged, there is a good chance it would have sunk or capsized. >> and sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on the presidency, former secretary of state james baker remembers his long-time friend president george h.w. bush. >> i was privileged to serve as his secretary of state for four years. and i was extraordinarily fortunate to serve a wonderful friend and a beautiful human being as we all know. but to serve as secretary of state to a president who understood that he had to defend me, and protect me, even when i was wrong. >> and at 9:00, on the 30th anniversary of the world wide web, a conversation with its inventor, computer scientist tim burners lee. >> imagine we have a big problem, like ch whole climate change, or discover cancer, and the pieces of the problem are in different people's brains but they're connected on the internet, so can the web be a place, so a goal for the web, it should be a collaborative place where a

and the country is still currently and i think and i grieving process and still processing the hurt and the tragedy from this incident and without wanting to move events along too quickly people need time to reflect but is there a sense that there is now a new phase beginning a phase of profound reflection about what has happened. but i think that level of. introspection will take it take time to develop and i think new zealand is really will reflect on this quite intensely and i think it will come it will take time but we are seeing some positive steps and we're saying like i said. in the previously. it is positive to see these messages of unity coming out from prime minister just in the autumn for example and that's been the overriding kind of message coming from our shows at the moment and also the the sentiment with the gun reform possibly we've just heard that it will go ahead sometime in april we will see some meaningful reform a new zealand and semi automatic weapons will be will be outlawed and i think just what would you talked about unity but at the beginning of the show we ha

i had to develop as cooperating witnesses and thugs and killers and liars and business cheats just like michael cohen is. the problem is we do all we can to clean them up and impress upon them they have to tell the whole truth. don't even fudge a little bit. don't tell a little lie, even if it is a little lie that makes donald trump look more guilty than he is. why? because then you damage your own credibility and you hurt the government's case. i think michael cohen has hurt the government and the country's case a little bit because it does look like he continues to fudge. when he's lived the life he's lived, it is kind of hard to purge all of this illegality and false life out of him and he may have gotten caught up. >> i don't know, glenn. there is a lot of things in this world i would consider hard. i'm not sure i think it is so hard to tell the truth. ken, does it appear he committed perjury and if he did what does that do to the rest of his testimony? >> well, he said that he never asked for a pardon. perjury is difficult to prove. he could say i didn't personally ask for a pardon

i am brown and i am sound, i am yellow and i am mellow. i'm white and i am all right. i am red, but i ain't dead. i am a woman, and i'm wise. [indiscernible] >> i am straight and i am sensible. that is what america ought to be about and it can be that when we give everybody access for opportunity in the united states of america. god bless you, keep on. [cheers and applause] keep on turning ashes into building, and making sure that we become a beautiful city for all of god's children. we say i am somebody. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] >> and now i give you our friend, this world citizen humanitarian, philanthropist, and servant of the human family, the one and only danny glover. [cheers and applause] >> i want to thank the catholic charities, the bayview access point. thank you for participating in this anniversary and the celebration of the work while those who are in need of service, the work has been done, and those who act as agents for that work that is being done is a very, very important thing that we must do with this time. when i was asked, i did