. >> commissioner covington: state of the art, i hope. >> yes. >> commissioner covington: okay. what is the change in the fentanyl deployment, just so everyone knows? >> so we give medication on the ambulances, and the providers, and we've been using morphine. the medical directors have -- for the city and the e.m.s. agency said they want to switch over and use fentanyl and see it as a better medication for the patients. so we've -- just through the process of switching over, doing some training, and now, on the ambulance, we have deployed fentanyl to give to our patients who are having pain on a pain scale over six per the county policy. >> commissioner covington: is this a trial run or we're committed to this change for the long haul? >> no -- well, we were having issues getting morphine to give to the patients, but even in our discussions with that, many agencies across the state and the country are moving to -- to give fentanyl as a first-line medication for pain. >> commissioner covington: not -- well, morphine doesn't agree with everyone. some people become extremely comba

commissioners, commissioner covington. >> commissioner covington: thank you, mr. president.at we have this on the agenda. i know the time of the day was not the most opportune time and so many people expressed to me they couldn't be here today, but of the few people who did speak to us spoke eloquently and very specifically. i very much appreciate your comments, and i took notes. thank you. >> commissioner hecommission. >> commissioner veronese: this is an opportunity to choose somebody to take this department to the next level. i am a little disappointed. maybe this is not the right way to do this we didn't hear from more members. i know the fire department like members of the police department are never short of an opinion, and those opinions are really important to this commission. we as a economics before we decide need to figure out a way to really gauge the temperature and the needs of the members of the department because this clearly didn't work. there weren't enough opinions here. i thank the people that did take the time to show up. i don't think it is a very good

commissioner covington had a follow-up question. >> thank you very much. on this, can you please make sure that our commission secretary has your powerpoint. we were furiously taking notes appear. if she could distribute your powerpoint, that would be great. thank you. >> thank you very much. madam secretary, i would like to table item seven, the drone policy update in deference to time, since we have a number of items we have to go into closed session on. lets table that for our next meeting, and i would like you to call item eight please. >> item eight. commission report. report on commission activity since the last meeting on november 28th, 2018. >> is there any public comment on this item? see none, public comment is closed. anything to report? >> mr president, not so much to report, i just want to make a request to commissioners that when you do put together your priority list of your findings, that perhaps the item of awss importance throughout the richmond and sunset district, might find a place within that report as an important program for this de

. >> commissioner covington. >> commissioner covington: thank you, mr. president. i echo commissioner hardeman's seniowaments. it was -- sentiments it was a happy day to see dirt being moved. things will be happening very quickly with the build of station 49, also known as the ambulance deployment facility. it is just a very exciting, you know, and the people waiting for so long to have the facility to finally see there is going to be some movement. very nice day today. >> thank you commissioner covington. deputy chief gonzalez. >> thank you. i am not sure if this is the right time can adjourn -- adjourn in memory of michael kirk. >> happy to do so. no question. >> anything further commissioners. >> i had a couple meetings this past couple weeks. one with the executive director of the bicycle coalition. we have a representative doing a very good job. that individual should come at a future meeting to update how we are interacting with the san francisco bike coalition. we have issues sometimes with them. it is a much better relationship now and i am happy to see tha

michael hardeman and commissioner francee covington. it's been a long time coming to get this from planning to where we are today. i know some of my fellow commissioners have been on the commission up to 24 years, and it's been a discussion all that time. how can we improve our e.m.s. because that's obviously one of the biggest facility -- one of the biggest services that we provide to the city's residents and visitors, so it's a really proud moment for us today on the commission, for the fire department, and certainly for the department of public works to get this launched, and so i'm very proud to say congratulations on getting it done. congratulations again as mohamed said earlier to the voters. thank you for passing the bond that made this possible, and we're going to need another bond down the road so we can have another new training facility, so let's get that word out. so thank you very much, and i'm pleased the rain has held out. >> chair nuru: thank you. thank you. and now, a good friend of mine, good partner with public works,

commissioner covington? >> thank you. i would like to move this item. >> is there a second class. >> second. >> seconded. all in favor for proving --dash proving to november 14th minute meetings? it is unanimous. >> approval of the regular meeting on november 28th 2018. >> his or any public comment on these minutes? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners? commissioner covington again class. >> i would like to move this item as well, mr president. >> very good. do i have a second? >> second. >> i see that chief gonzales had a comment. >> it was in relation to the next agenda item. i wonder if we can move it further down the agenda. that she will be here in a few minutes. >> okay. >> we have a motion on the floor at a second to approve the minutes. all in favor say aye? >> it is unanimous. all rights. we will jump over item four and come back to that, and move to item five. madam secretary class. >> item five is discussion of desirable qualities for the next san francisco fire chief. this is an opportunity for

struggled wier sarah kordenbrock grew up in a bucolic setting just outside the kentucky suburb of covington. her family -- solidly middle class. how far are we from cincinnati? sarah: umm, maybe 15, 20 minutes. soledad: oh, that's it? sarah: yeah. soledad: oh my gosh. i feel like i' th'inaptain of her high school volleyball and softball teams. she injured her knee during a regional volleyball tournament at the age of 18. her doctor prescribed percocet. sarah: i took maybe two one day and really i liked the feeling. it was more of a buzz than just the pain gone and i liked that. soledad: it would be the beginning of her descent into heroin addiction. what happened when you did it the first time? sarah: i was immediately in love with it. i loved the feeling. soledad: when our cameras began following sarah back in 2012, she was trying to kick her heroin habit. when did you start using heroin? sarah: it didn't take long. um, maybe within a year. it got to a point where pain pills were too expensive. soledad: what did you pay? sarah: 80 dollars for one pill. soledad: sarah's parents, kim and gre

compromised, the nrcc really went into -- they really spent hundreds of thousands of dollars at covington berling, a washington law firm, mercury public affairs, a d.c. public affairs shop, to try to figure out exactly how to contain the damage here. >> so you're telling me very briefly that they told these law firms covington berling and told a public affairs firm but they didn't tell the speaker of the house? >> that's correct. and party leaders including paul ryan, kevin mccarthy didn't know until just yesterday. so this is something that has surprised a lot of people that we've been in touch with over the last couple of days. >> count me among them. alex, thank you very much. great reporting as always, sir p for more i'm joined by barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney in michigan and professor at the university of michigan law school. go blue. barbara, thank you for being here. can you help us put some context around this, especially if this is potentially a foreign agent here? what is a country like russia or china learned potentially from hacking into e-mails like this? >> well, it'

michael hardeman and commissioner francee covington. it's been a long time coming to get this from planning to where we are today. i know some of my fellow commissioners have been on the commission up to 24 years, and it's been a discussion all that time. how can we improve our e.m.s. because that's obviously one of the biggest facility -- one of the biggest services that we provide to the city's residents and visitors, so it's a really proud moment for us today on the commission, for the fire department, and certainly for the department of public works

and one of the most often quoted incidents comes from the diary -- who lives near covington, georgia. she frantically prepared for the arrival of the marchers. "where shall i go? what to do? she amended on the night of november 17. by the following day she had sprung into action. she arrange for livestock to be hidden. barrel of salt in the garden of an enslaved woman. she packed up her clothing in case she needed to flee. on november 19, as the first soldiers approached, she steeled her nerves, told her slaves to hide and walked out as you said "to claim protection and a guard." to her dismay, like demons, they rush in. "my yards are full. to my smokehouse, my dairy, pantry and kitchen and cllear like feminist -- clellar, like famished wolves they come. my smokehouse is gone as a twinkle in, my lord, butter, alex, pickles. bat turkeys and my hands and chickens and folws. wls. are shut down and hunting. her horses and meals and whatever takes they had not cot were rounded off. -- they had had not cot were rounded off. -- they had not caught were rounded off. money and clothing belongi

that is a $150 million investment that needs to take place, between port covington and 95. >> is johns hopkins a good partner? >> excellent partner. >> they are not just a eyewall? -- we did a forum in baltimore. faculty members from johns hopkins who were saying themselves that they were failing in doing some of the ,hings that they were doing that they had not done as much as they should. >> it is interesting. >> do you think they should be doing more? reporter: they have been an excellent partner for me. -- they have been an excellent partner for me. between bloomberg and johns hopkins, with me as mayor and our communities, i remember going, we had this committee called the greater baltimore committee. wanted ative committee conversation on crime and what i needed to be doing and how i needed to be doing it and i needed to get on it now, so let's begin the conversation. why? i can tell you, where we are, how we got there and where we need to be. i asked for $10 million. first $2.1s put the million in, i walked out the door and i had the $10 million by the end of the week. they have