mark buell, who is not here today. here's our mayor, but i meant to go over here to the commissioner. mark buell is president of the rec and park commission, and says it takes a village. this takes an entire city to pull this project off. and there are so many people to acknowledge and thank. i'm going to that and then turn the microphone over to our mayor. there are a lot of people who have had some skin in the game here. let me read off the beginning of a list. obviously, let's start with the late mayor ed lee. who was here for -- [applause] our current mayor mark farrell who has been a park champion from the get go and helped make stuff happen. representing assemblyman phil ting. he delivered a total of $6.5 million of state funding, including $3.5 million for this project. our recreation and park vice president allan lowe, who has given this project all kinds of leadership at city hall. we have representatives from the performing arts workshop here today. the community arts stabilization trust. you're going to hear

mark buell. >> thank you, commissioners. it's nice to be here again. my name is mark buell, and for 14 years, i've served on the board of the golden gate national park conserveancy, 12 of those years as the chair of the board. i watched over those years as the conserveancy raised in those particular years over $300 million for the national park. i think they're up well past 400 now, and some of the projects you'd be familiar with are crissy field and some of the improvements you're familiar with, the warming spot at crissy field, the golden gate bridge visitor center is a collaboration with the bridge district, and there's seven book stores around the bay area, and all this material is presented by the conserveancy. i mention it because they take great pride in how they edit what they sell and make sure it's of the highest quality. they make sure what they build is the highest quality. the lands-end visitors center got an architectural award for the building that stands there. so coming down to the harbor to make an improvement for this embarkation, i

years in office has more from syria former military head of state brigadier general julius mudd a buell wins the first round of saloons presidential election with forty three point three percent of the vote but not enough to avoid a runoff he leads the anointed candidate of president on his bike or almost up to come out who scored forty two point seven percent of the vote now the third and fourth candidates who interestingly broke away from sierra leone's two main political parties to form their own and challenge for the seat of president may decide who becomes the country's next president according to the election commission ninety four point eight percent of registered voters like to preach it in the election so i run over several full two weeks from now that means that several units will be required to come out again on the twenty some of march to vote the next president of this country. fighting has broken out in turkey's parliament after a controversial law was passed changing election regulations government and opposition politicians shot each other traded punches and chase each o

a ball went over the cliff and the pit buell we want over after it, whn the dog went over, the owner went over as well. they were rescued by the fire department without injury. still ahead. >>> i'm glad it happened. this is the time. >> the time has come and the warriors are sharing "black panther" with others who may not see the movie. >>> the unique opportunity for teenager that is may not be able to afford a prom dress. >>> i'm meteorologist drew tuma, today was the 15th day in a row hi, we're alaska airlines. and we don't just fly lumberjacks to glaciers. we fly all kinds of people all kinds of places. like app developers to mexico city. musically inclined novelists to nashville. and pilates instructors to palm springs. sure, we love a good glacier. but we also like a little cocoa butter. from the west coast to the world. alaska airlines. that's how we fly. from the west coast to the world. at at&t, we believe in access. the opportunity for everyone to explore a digital world. connecting with the things that matter most. and because nothing keeps us more connected than the intern

opposition parties are not allowed to run anymore and it is quite likely that they will rather would for buell the opposition candidate then for the governing party has been a heavy critic of the current administration especially when it comes to the economic situation in the country there's been double digit inflation rates here and he says the government has not handled that in an appropriate way and also has a very heavy critics on the issue of corruption in the country we talked to him exclusively earlier and this is what he set. go to say that it is actually. to our development national food even our national missing to do this character of this country we have the necessary laws what was what is lacking in these. the political will to support them to give them the freedom the desire to do freedom do to be able to prosecute that is what is lucky and that is what i am going to provide. so heavy criticism against the government i also talked to that there can you get some work and he actually told me well it's not such a big deal the issue of corruption they're trying their best but as a ma

former military head of state brigadier general julius made a buell wins the first round of saloon presidential election with forty three point three percent of the vote but not enough to avoid a runoff he leads the anointed candidate of president and is by koroma dr commander who scored forty two point seven percent of the vote now the third and fourth candidates who interestingly broke away from seventy two mean political parties to form their own and challenge for the seat of president may decide who becomes the country's next president according to the election commission ninety four point eight percent of registered voters like to preach it in the election so i run over several full two weeks from now that means that civil unions will be required to come out again on the twenty seventh of march to vote the next president of this country. still ahead on the news hour as scaping syria's war almost one hundred fifty people are allowed to leave the rebel enclave of eastern kuta ross and nazi bookkeeper from los waste dies before he could begin his jail tear and in sports venus gets the better

that is seen as a positive step to buell to manage it.trieve that. the details and steps on that aren‘t very clear. joining us joining me now is kim gittleson from the new york stock exchange. this is certainly a symbolic gesture but how significant is it?|j this is certainly a symbolic gesture but how significant is it? i won't say how significant it is. investors are very happy. shares have increased by over 1% since the move was announced this morning suggesting they think it might play kate regulators are little in the uk and the us. we have seen a lot of increase. it suggests there might be more ex—take facebook there small roles in place regarding user data. these new changes why they make it easier to find out how your data is used and deleted they won't control the fact that third—party apps may have been able to access your data over the last few years, you can't get that data back. that is the key thing at the heart of this particular story, the cambridge analytic access to face facebook using a app. and more broadly, we talk ab