saying that it would cause a huge amount if it could lead to citizens in both the suburbs i think a brinkman city of rawalpindi now the government also that attempted yet another round of negotiations and when backfill it seems that their patients ran out on saturday morning thousands of police and were deployed to storm the protest site and to fire tear gas rubber bullets water cannon that the protesters the protesters forced back as well but it was all to no avail it seems that they were not dislodged and i was at a protest site about an hour ago and there are still at least a thousand people there and they're vowing not to leave so a very resilient group of protesters who are from a relatively new and also hard line islamist party tell us more about this grouping how much support does it have. yes so the person who's leading this bogus is a man named cardinal centers we know what the risk really is a cleric who's well known in the northern and central java problems as a hard liner who's made his name campaigning and rallying support around the issue of blasphemy he's very well known in th

chair brinkman. i'm jeremy pollack.wrote you a letter earlier today expressing my opposition to the policy and i posted it online and

chair brinkman. i'm jeremy pollack. i wrote you a letter earlier today expressing my opposition to the policy and i posted it online and i reconsidered it after hearing feedback of exp exposure to youth and it should only be in places where there's adults and i can approach this from the point of view of adult and not looking at it through the youth issue. i think cannabis legalization is the law of the land. that's not going back anytime soon. i think the line of the resolution expressing the changes are intended to address the uncertainty in the state and regulatory environment isn't seem accurate. the regulatory environment the permutations a permutations can change and i suggest something about protecting youth or along those lines. lastly i have to talk about director torres' comments in the chronicle -- >> director: they were not accurate. >> it wouldn't be the first time it would be incorrect. i appreciate you making that record straight. i think all this draws to attention the need for a real public education ca

this is julie brinkman riding her bike. she gave president trump's motorcade the finger.red out there. she talked with msnbc yesterday. she says she doesn't regret what she did. >> i don't think he respects the office so i don't respect the office. a friend of mine said all of virginia was riding the bike with you to the polls yesterday. i'm very proud of my state. >> bringsingman says that other other people at her company have been reprimanded for social media posts but allowed to keep their jobs. msnbc reached out to her company but they did not -- >> i think they're -- >> it's now 5:49. new rules will kick in that make it tougher to travel to cuba from the u.s. the rules are designed to steer money away from cuba's military, intelligence and security services. this is only a partial rollback of policy changes made under president obama that were designed to push warmer ties between the two countries. >>> pope francis is calling out church leaders and parishioners who use cell phones during masses. on wednesday, the pontiff says the services are not a show. the pope ha

and i want to acknowledge the leadership of our chair k cheryl brinkman, our vice chair malcolm heineke who is a regular rider of the system. i know the daily feedback that i get when things aren't quite as they should be and those incidents will become less and less as more and more of the new trains come into service. we're joined today by one of our directors and would like to welcome another one of our directors to come forward on behalf of the board. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. if there was ever a day to wear a bow tie, today is that day as a director. i couldn't be more proud and pleased to welcome these trains on to our streets. you know, the most exciting thing about it as a daily and judo rider, i'm awakened every day at about 5:30 in the morning by the sound of these trains going by my apartment so to hear that they will be lighter is going to be welcomed. most importantly, though, i think we're all just trying to get to work. we're all just trying to get to school. reliably and in a time we can predict and move at the speed of commerce. and to really grow the econom

. >> good afternoon chairman brinkman and i'm director of government affairs for the sfmta i will present the proposed draft legislative program which governs all aspects and becomes our work plan to the extent we can predict anything that will happen in any legislative body we attempt to do that. this becomes a framework for that engagement. we attempted this earlier in the year and we see departments trying to get their programs lined up as early as possible. we took the program to our citizens advisory council early in october and was approved with the support position as required this draft program was also presented to the city-state legislation committee comprised of representatives the city attorney's office, board of supervisors and mayor's office and other and approved in that arena as a draft as well. in the process of doing this work, it's important i think to share with you that we have also sat with the metropolitan transportation commission, our colleagues at the transportation authority, checking across both at the regional and local level to see where we can be working up

. >> good afternoon, chair brinkman and i'm the marketing manager for the sfmta. we're pleased to share the results of the 2017 muni customer satisfaction survey. this say survey we conduct annually to measure and track our service as a whole. we conduct this survey consistently to assess muni's value to our customers. using this tracking tool we're able to see our progress over time and measure the impacts of change have been implemented to improvement service. ib in 2016 we reached the largest satisfaction numbers. over the last two years we've continued to implement the changes and we rolled out more than 200 new busses into our fleet. i'm pleased to report the investments into our system, thanks to your support, are working. satisfaction continues to be high. here to present the survey results is john canapari. the agency is a full-service marketing research firm in san francisco. they've been in business more than 45 years and certified as an lba and worked with the mta including on the travel decision survey presented at a recent board meeting as well as on-