by the asem but are any mere. mortal should more allusive because the man. was he not one to us got a testimony most of it in me but he says. when i said kind of thing this year. the whole lead on. n t you know julio to notice them and. you know be able to command. decency yeah them and eat. each other thing good to see. the joint hearings of the house select committee to investigate covert arms transaction with iran. and the select committee on secret military assistance to iran in the neck iraq when opposition will come to order congress began to address what they perceive to be an insanely out of control series of covert actions with little to no congressional oversight we have been supplying lethal weapons to terrorist nation involving the us government in military activity in direct contravention of the law and lying to the congress now i believe that democracy cannot survive that kind of abuse. and people like dick cheney and donald rumsfeld who are relatively new to government at the time did not like when congress had we need to step in and confront

in the news, there have been more than 4,000 cancer victims suing monsanto in various asem blages. the most recent decisions it was stated that quote, all evidence round-up that causes cancer is quite equivocal and strong evidence they don't care whether their product is giving cancer. the justic gift gist of these. there's no science round-up but we proceeded beyond that once it was categorized as a car since , we started looking for alternatives. it will be interesting to see how this unfolds as the year goes by. i'll talk about pesticide use trends and we like to talk about the tier 1, the highest use and city limits. the text covers up the graph there, but in 2015, that's when glyphosate was considered one. this year it's 97% from 2010 to 2018 and from 2015, there's a 76% reduction and that's contributed to all of the department collaborators who have worked so hard. in material terms, and some of you have seen a graph like this, in 2010, if you look at the total amount of herbicides in all 2300 acres of city parks, it would have been 60 gallons of herbicide active ingredient.

we have asem education center where people can learn about the science and technology behind so many things. last year we did neighborhoods throughout san francisco. you will see concerts in west portal, the bayview. every district, if you will, will have a concert taking place. if i could give you a couple of my favorites relative to the community and troops at-large, we have an honor our fallen concert at the sf jazz center on wednesday evening of fleet week. that is october 9th. it is a free concert. we invite the community to come out. every year the united states mari--marine corps band comes o. we would like to show support for that tribute concert. we are going to bring a 40 piece marine corps band to city hall on thursday, the 11th, for a half hour lunch concert. when you feel the walls shaking here, you know what is happening. it is not the airshow, just the band. we are doing things like that. also this year on pier 30-32 where the flagship is tied up, on friday, october 11th, we are going to do a welcome hero's concert at the pier. i can't tell you elaine your staff is fab

2100 could be much higher.co business andmics correspondent paul solman focuses on the extreme risks aseme of the worst scenarios. his story is part of our "making sense" series, and part our contribution to "covering climate now," a global llaboration of more thanab 300 news outlets to enhance coverage of the climate story. >> so look, you can start to see erosion along here... >> reporter: economist martin weitzman, four-plus years ago, on the homtead he built onhe north shore of massachusetts. >> the water has risen a couple of inches at least, in the time, in the 40 years i have been living here. >> reporter: a usually understated, math and data driven theorist, weitzma who died in the past few weeks,di began as a climate catastrophe skeptic. >> i was wondering, how could it be possible that mere human beings could change the climate in a serio way? >> reporter: but geologic samples of carbon dioxide going back millenniaidegan to scare him. >> we were way outside the historical range for at least 800,000 years, and we're climbing very strongly.he at t current trajectory that we're on,