professional and they really deserved to be recognized and david read them well and a special shout-out to ann cooke and carrie killstrom to help on the effort and they've been instrumental and to others in particular. it's a team effort with support staff from every division and the team was strong with strong leadership from all three of the committees. thanks very much and it's a celebration for everyone. >> congratulations. >> item 6b, port commissioners' report. >> i want to make a few comments. i think the award represents multiple things. i think of you and the waterfro waterfront is like the conductor of the orchestra and it take a strong conductor and i think that's the role you play. it was a huge team effort i also think accepting the award from spur which is a highly recognized organization and we are a role model for how we'd like governance and the and the agency to operate. from that standpoint elaine, you also deserve credit for leading the organization and i think we can raise the recognition on a broader level. i think the land use exceeded all of our expectations and all the leade

byron rhett, david bopray, ann cook, cary killstrom, carol bach, dan hoda, and brad benson. [applause] >> thank you so much. and even more significantly, perhaps the most significantly, thank you to the waterfront plan working group. their advisory team, the citizens who devote so much of their lives out of a simple but powerful need to serve their city. they do this in their own free time. it is amazing. there were many divergent views, but their intelligence and hard work and respect that everybody brought to that process -- they are the qualities that brought the near unanimous recommendations that are going to drive the update to the policies that will serve our future in the waterfront improvements. so, of course, a unanimous set of recommendations -- how does that happen? well, we had rudy nothenburg as one of our co-chairs. i don't know if any of you have ever worked with rudy, but he and janice lee, his co-chair, they're the best co-chairs in all of the land. and they were served by a very deep bench, alice rogers, linda richardson, peter hinkle, some of you are here

astronauts anne mcclain and christina cook will be on a mission to upgrade batteries on the space stationanwhile kristen fachei le will provide ground support for the women from the nasa space center in texas. the all female spacewalk, just a coincidence, but the women cannot contain their excitement as they get ready to make history. >> it's important for a lot of people to look out and see somebody that looks like them. we're keeping our heads down. we're focused on our task. >> their mission is expected to last seven hours to take place march 29th to mark the last week of women's history month. >> good for them, girl power. >>> march madness tips off in two weeks. >> when you're filling out your bracket, don't forget about 'd i sak girl power, the penguins are having their best season since they joined division 2. if you're looking for the most prolific scorer in the entire bay area, take a trip to the igloo. >> one of my teammates calls me lbj. she came up with it a couple months and was laughing so hard. i said why are you calling me that and she's like it's lebron james, jr. >> repo

but christina cook and anne mcclain was set to change that, stepping out together and into the history of the international space station. i think that my career and perhaps me being up on the international space station can really show women and girls and everybody that, hey, we're not just and girls and everybody that, hey, we're notjust sitting at and girls and everybody that, hey, we're not just sitting at the and girls and everybody that, hey, we're notjust sitting at the table, we're notjust sitting at the table, we are leading the table, there are no excuses, you can accomplish whatever you want to just accomplish. was just one whatever you want to just accomplish. wasjust one problem. both women required a medium—sized suit. and there is only one on board. maclean had trained in both medium and large, but after a spacewalk with fellow american nick hague earlier this month, she realised the smaller size fitted better. now, we all know the importance of packing carefully ahead of a long trip, and nasa says it does try to anticipate reductions in body fat and muscle mass which as

ann mcclain and christina cook were scheduled to go outside and change batteries on the internationalpace march 22nd with a male astronaut. she's the one wearing red stripes. but with both women scheduled to go space walking friday, there weren't enough size medium suits to go around. that launched snarky tweets like we can put a man on the moon but we can't put a woman in a space suit? even hillary clinton chimed in, make another suit. some fun facts about space suits. first, they're not actually custom fitted to each astronaut. the ones currently being used were designed over 40 years ago and could cost as much as $250 million to create a new suit from scratch. turns out they do have a second size medium siguit on board the space station but prepping it takes time. they didn't think they'd need it because ann trained on the ground wearing medium and large suits, but when she went on her first real space walk, she thought the medium fit better. christina is now being paired to go space walking with a larger male astronaut but they have the option of just switching the people. the mis

difficult position i think that both the chicago police department and the cook county attorney's office finds itself in this afternoon. >> anne thompson, thanks so much. eric and danny and andrew blankstein as well, thank you all. we'll keep track of this. >>> meanwhile, in washington, president trump is headed to capitol hill to rally senate republicans behind a campaign to punish those responsible for the mueller probe in his view. his strategy includes close ally lindsey graham, judiciary chair, proposing a new special counsel to investigate what he calls the other side of the story involving the justice department, fisa warrants and the steele dossier. house democrats meanwhile are demanding that attorney general william barr turn over the complete and unredacted mueller report by a week from today, april 2nd. joining me now, nbc white house correspondent peter alexander, and phillip rucker, white house bureau chief for "the washington post." peter, going on the attack rather than moving on, it's palpable as the president prepares to join the senate republican lunch today. >> yes, andrea, you see it with the president's a

. >> anne, you have another update for us? >> this just came in from the cook county state attorney's office. after reviewing all of the facts and circumstances of the case, including mr. smollett's volunteer service in the community and agreement to forfeit his bond to the city of chicago, we believe the outcome is a just disposition and appropriate resolution to this case. so what is interesting about this is the prosecutors are talking about his volunteer community service. smollett's attorneys are saying there is no community service attached to the deal. it will be one of the things we need to clear up. also, there has been a statement, kind of a response from fox, that is the company that produces empire, which is the show that jussie smollett stars in, you'll remember that once these charges happened they announced they were going to reduce his role on empire, and in fact, fox declined comment once he was criminally charged. and chris alexander, who is the executive vice president of corporate communications for fox sent an e-mail saying many of you have