cynthia: por un error no recibiÓ su permiso y tuvo que renunciar a su trabajo. >> ahorita es momentos trabajos. cynthia: se busca educar a las personas sobre la importancia de tener un dream limpio. >> simple puede haber un giro polÍtico y estaremos de nuevo en riesgo. beatriz:paÍs en esta Época navideÑa, personas en espera de su residencia, podrÍan tener problema al intentar regresar, cabe seÑalariaje por un aÑo, pero mejor no arriesgarse. >> a las personas que el dps estÁ en debate y están en proceso de deporten salir. si se llega a su corte y la i persona no estÁ presente puede generar inconvenientes. beatriz:gran polÉmica en contra de el chapo guzmÁn y tiene que ver con la persona que van a presentar testimonio su juicio, informaciÓn desde nu reportera: la defensa de el chapo guzmÁn se encuentra en medio de una controversia, la fiscalÍa presentÓ una moción para retrasar la identificaciÓn de sus posibles testigos por segÚn la fiscalÍa el abogado de guzmÁn le habÍa pasado mensajes del narcotraficante y uno de ellos se habÍa interpretado como una amenaza. >> las personas con las qu

i'm cynthia goldstein. we have corey teague, assistant zoning administrator, who is here representing the planning department and commission. we should be joined shortly by senior building inspector joseph duffy. and perhaps somewhere in the room i'm not seeing is amanda higgins with san francisco public works. if not, she will be here momentarily, representing their bureau of street use and mapping. the board requests that you turn off our silence phones or electronic devices and carry on conversations in the hallway. rules of presentation are as followed. appellants, permit holders and respondents have 7 minutes to present and 3 minutes rebuttal. people affiliated with the parties must be in the 7- and 3-minute parties. public members have 3 minutes each and no rebuttal. we ask that you please speak into the microphone. to assist the board, you are asked but not required, to submit a speaker card or business card to staff when you come up to speak and we have speaker cards on the mode yum for your use. we

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hope for the better. >> cynthia was working hard on that one. s cover.to bleed over into next year too. puerto rico. still a third of the people there without power. >> good point. >> all right. just ahead why singer lorde is scrapping her concert in israel. >>> plus a christmas fireworks display in cuba that goes horribly wrong. you're watching "early today." well, here's to first dates! you look amazing. and you look amazingly comfortable. when your v-neck looks more like a u-neck... that's when you know, it's half-washed. add downy to keep your collars from stretching. unlike detergent alone, downy conditions to smooth and... ...strengthen fibers. so, next time don't half-wash it. downy and it's done. achoo! snap achoo! snap achoo! achoo! snap snap achoo! achoo! feel a cold coming on? zicam cold remedy nasal swabs shorten colds with a snap, and reduce symptom severity by 45%. shorten your cold with a snap, with zicam. do i use a toothpaste that whitens my teeth or... ...one that's good for my teeth? now i don't have to choose! from crest 3d white come

. >> reporter: eric's older sisters, suzie and cynthia, spotted his drive and business savvy at an early he started a lawn cutting business in our neighborhood. the neighborhood kids, they were actually working for him. and he would pay them what, $2 to cut the grass. >> reporter: a born capitalist. >> yeah. he'll tell me, suzi, i'm going to be really rich one day. >> he wanted to go all the way to the top. >> reporter: from the day he was born, eric was a charmer and his sisters and big brother michael always adored him. >> he was just a wonderful, wonderful joy to our family and to my sisters and i. >> eric was the baby of the family, but we all enjoyed him because he was very vibrant. >> it was just the three of us, then he came along. he was sort of our little doll. >> yeah. >> reporter: then eric grew up and became a living doll to the women of the nation's capital. >> he was a ladies man. it's no secret. he loved women. >> he walked in a room and everyone liked him, like, oh, who's this? smile. and he'll just start a conversation with anyone. i mean, he just had that type of person

i will come back to you, cynthia. charlie, we have been talking about the narrative coming out of the white house and its allies that they have been building against robert mueller and his investigation. there are now some concerns that they are possibly laying the groundwork for firing the special counsel. in fact, trump's lawyer has denied that. here's what democratic congresswoman jackie spear said today. >> the rumor on the hill when i left yesterday was that the president was going to make a significant speech at the end of next week and on december 22 when we are out of d.c. he was going to fire robert mueller. >> she's definitely not mincing words about what's going to happen and how that's going to play out. what have you heard about plans to possibly fire bob mueller. is that a montpossibility. >> first trump would have to fire rod roaden stein, the person overseeing bob mueller and he has to find that there is a good cause for removing mueller, that mueller committed misconduct. he said as of the hearing whe

cynthia wesley, age 14. carroll robertson, age 14. an denise mcnair, age 11.tory and the last few weeks of what happened to a 14-year-old girl who she got in roy moore's car and went for that long ride to his house in the woods. that story turned a lot of republican voters against roy moore. but the story of what happened to those three 14-year-old girls and a 11-year-old girl, at the 16th street baptist church, drove the democratic voters to the polls who won this election for doug jones. black women. most white women voted for roy moore. but 98% of black women voted for doug jones. doug jones believes that the tragic deaths of collins, cynthia wesley, carrolle robertson and denise mcnair, woke up this country. woke up a country that did not know that going to church in the south could get you killed if you were black. and so, those four little girls have taken their place in the civil rights museum that's now right across the street from the spot where the bomb went off at the 16th street baptist church. and when i was in birmingham a few years ago, i stood

cynthia and dacy and so many others are what i call the real dream team. and i am proud to be their teammate in this fundamental fight for fairness. it is not a small fight. in oregon alone, there are an estimated 11,000 dreamers, enough to fill most every seat in the memorial coliseum. and every one of those young people has parents and brothers and sisters and friends in their communities. they have well-laid plans to work hard in school, make something of their lives, and start families of their own in the united states. the strength of their stories fuels our fight, and that is why i join colleagues today in insisting that the dream act come to the floor of this senate. this has been a long battle. i'm proud to have been with the dreamers every step of the way from dream act legislation to the president -- president obama's actions on daca. i'm also pleased to have worked with my colleagues to introduce legislation like the protect dreamer confidentiality act. this bill would ensure that the information that dreamers provide to the government isn't som

and nbc's cynthia mcfadden spoke with judd about this watershed moment. >> we can't all be sluts. we can't all be asking for it. >> i'm giving you permission to be angry. >> reporter: "time" magazine has put the silence breakers on the cover as its 2017 person of the year, the women who unleashed a national reckoning about sexual harassment and assault. >> were we supposed to call some fantasy attorney general of moviedom? >> reporter: among them ashley judd, who we spoke to today. >> i think our country is different. i think that things will be different going forward. it's going to be a process. it may be messy and at times a little unruly. it won't please everybody. >> reporter: "time" says judd, who was one of the first to publicly accuse harvey weinstein, helped launch a movement beginning one of the highest-velocity shifts in our culture since the 1960s. a growing list of public figures have been brought down over charges of sexual harassment and, in some cases, assault. not all the men are famous. but the stories their accusers are tell are eerily similar. >> i was tired of

we get details from nbc news senior investigative correspondent cynthia mcfadden. >> reporter: two government officials tell nbc news that white house officials have been informed about a sophisticated weapon advocates believe could stop north korean missiles. this declassified animation shows how the technology works. a missile flying over its target. inside the microwave weapon sending out lightning bolts of energy, frying electronics below. this video shows the result of an actual test. computers shutting down. >> think about like when you put something in your microwave that actually has some metal on it. you know how badly that can go. imagine directing those microwaves at someone's electronics. >> this technology absolutely works. >> reporter: mary lou robinson is chief of high power electro magnetics at the air force research laboratory in new mexico. she supervised a series of tests. >> it did exactly what we predicted it was going to do. and that was a huge success for us. >> reporter: general david deptula, who ran the air wars in afghanistan and iraq, calls the weapon an excellent

>> cynthia mcfadden, thank you. >>> now to your taxes. tonight republicans are just hours from starting the final votes on a sweeping overhaul that will affect nearly every american family. some worry about the effect it will have on their money. others racing to figure out if there's any last-minute things they can do before it's passed. here's nbc's kasie hunt. >> reporter: with the tax bill on the verge of passing in congress, americans across the country are struggling to understand what it means for them. just weeks before the changes would go into effect. >> i've lived in livingston 41 years. >> reporter: in new jersey walter levine pays more than $25,000 a year in state and local taxes. and under the new bill only 10,000 of that will still be tax deductible. >> it's not fair. it's totally unfair. >> reporter: he voted for president trump, but now -- >> we're going to be paying, and a lot of these benefits are coming off our backs. >> reporter: like millions of americans, he's trying to figure out what he can do now to cut his 2018

and he hasn't quite gotten it completely in his life. >> that was nbc's cynthia mcfadden.re's been no comment from hoffman's representatives. hoffman himself apologized after anna hunter came forward in november saying, he feels, quote, terrible, that anything i might have done put her in an n uncomfortable situation. it is not who i am. his lawyer called it dee familiar friday falsehoods. >> just ahead, firefighters fires in california's history. g! and get kohl's cash for you! give joy with fine fragrances an american girl doll or diamond jewelry and you'll get kohl's cash! presents for them, kohl's cash for you! and starting thursday, stores are open 24 hours. give joy, get joy at kohl's! so find a venus smooth that contours to curves, the smoother the skin, the more comfortable you are in it. flexes for comfort, and has a disposable made for you. skin smoothing venus razors. ok, so with the award-winning our customers have 24/7 access, digital id cards, they can even pay their bill- (beep) bill has joined the call. hey bill, we're just- phone: hi guys, bill here. do we

the woman's name is cynthia lane.had was shot and killed by a police officer. >> rashad, he's on his knees with his hands in the air, begging police don't shoot me, don't shoot me. he shot him anyway. >> reporter: but the story doesn't begin when the shots are fired. this story begins a few days after at the funeral home. it's about 5:30 and cynthia is just -- >> i'm exhausted. it's hot outside. >> reporter: she had asked for an open casket for her son and had been shopping for ail short-sleeve shirt for him to wear. but the funeral director tells her -- >> she can't wear a short sleeved shirt, baby. i don't know what the hell they were looking for on your baby. he said, they -- they butchered him like he was an animal. >> reporter: cynthia says the funeral director was so worried about her, he wouldn't let her look at her son's body. he would only let her sister take photos. before you see them, i have to warn you, they are extremely graphic. >> rosa, what you do with this piece, and we've all been reporters out talk

cynthia mcfadden, nbc news, new york. >>> now let's get to some of the day's top headlines before youommissioner roger goodell has just inked a five-year extension to keep running the nfl. the deal is worth nearly $200 million with a base salary of $40 million. >>> 20 years after releasing viagra, the little blue pill is getting a huge price cut thanks to its own manufacturer pfizer introducing a generic form of the pill that will hit the market next week. >>> in case you find yourself driving down the interstate in new mexico, look out for this big nativity sign with a spin telling people, quote, just skip church and it's all fake news, signed happy holidays from american atheists. >> i'm phillip mena. >> and i'm frances rive ad lib live picture-- san francisco you. as we take a live look outside in san francisco. the bay bridge there lit up, the cars are moving and, yes, it is another cold morning. good morning and thank you for joining us, i'm marcus washington. >> and i'm laura garcia. that's right, bundle up once again. >> yeah, it's another cold morning, and it's not as cold as

cynthia mcfadden, nbc news, new york. >>> on capitol hill the president's son donald trump jr. behind closed doors being questioned in the russia investigation. there's also a new report about michael flynn, what a whistleblower says flynn was promising about russia just minutes after president trump was sworn in. nbc's kristen welker has those details. >> reporter: congressional investigators say trump jr. spoke to his father and attorneys a day after the meeting became public. >> they acknowledged discussing that matter with his father but refused to answer questions about that discussion on the basis of a claim of attorney/client privilege. >> reporter: donald trump jr. on his way to capitol hill today and under a microscope amid new insight into his june trump tower meeting with a kremlin-linked attorney natalia veselnitskaya. also in attendest, jared kushner and paul manafort. the russian lawyer's testimony to the judiciary committee obtained by nbc news. in it she says trump jr. was only looking for one thing at that meeting. >> donald trump jr. was at this meeting for on

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. >> narrator: cynthia novida is a chief petty officer with the u.s. navy based in san diego. she turned to oxyelite pro to help pass fitness tests. >> it helped keep my weight down, it helped, you know, just give me that extra push during a workout, and i was liking it and i would take it. >> narrator: but only halfway through the first bottle, cynthia's eyes started turning yellow. her doctor had bad news. >> that's when he told me that, "your liver is shot, pretty much. you'll possibly need a liver transplant." >> narrator: she would get a transplant. the fda has linked oxyelite to more than 70 cases of liver dam. the company declined to be inted and denies any responsibility. doctors in hawaii still remember how slow the fda was to act. they say they followed all the directions on the agency's medwatch website. they'd phoned several times. but it wasn't until they approached the state health authorities that the fda finally called them back. >> they told one of our liver doctors that, you know, they thought she was a prankster because she had sent in her private email addr

cynthia and represent where the voice of the national republican people of course that's what they're saying to us why wouldn't they say it in an open letter it's exactly what we're hearing here and day and daily from the national republican community and people are still very concerned about brags and the impact it's going to have on our people on the potential of a new border in march and the potential of conflict of margin out of that the issues that were outlined in the open letter and the sentiment within that letter where people are sent to the we expect you to ensure that our rights are a pale that we have the c.m. access to to justice to human rights to trade to movement all of these things that they do pay are tragic of road through do be they they're not trained to road in factories and we're never going to be hard boarded you believed résumé i can't help but be very cynical about that and treason may said there wouldn't be another general election and we had one this year trey's a mayor is in hock with the. government which is very damaged and then this started . that the c

>> the woman's name is cynthia lane.shot and killed by the office. >> this story does not begin when the shots were fired. this story begins a few days after. at the funeral home, it is about 5:30 and cynthia is just -- >> tired and exhausted. it is hot outside. she asked for an open casket for her son and had been shopping all day for a shortsleeve short for him to wear but the funeral director tells her. >> he cannot wear a shortsleeves shirt. i don't know what the hell they were looking for on your baby but they -- they backutchered h like an an maimal. >> the funeral director would not let her take a look at her son's body. before you see them, i have to warn you, it is graphic. all you have to do is go to cnn.com/underneaththeskin. >> thank you, if you want to see the whole series on cnn.com and it is called "beneath the skin." 24 hours of extreme high and lows for the white house. >>> now after flynn pleading guilty and lie to the fbi after his talks. the president is tweeting that he knew about michael flynn's unt

my name is cynthia haynes and i am a senior public safety specialist for pg&e.b is to help educate our first responders on how to deal with natural gas and electric emergencies. everyday when we go to work we want everyone to work safely and come home safely. i live right here in auburn, i absolutely love this community. once i moved here i didn't want to live anywhere else. i love that people in this community are willing to come together to make a difference for other people's lives. together, we're building a better california. of giant trees. they were first discovered back in 19-98 by researchers >>> hidden deep within redwood national and state parks stands an ancient growth of giant trees. they were first discovered by researchers who decided not to share the location. the forest is about a 6 hour dr. n. of the bay area and 20 minutes south of the oregon state line. >>> john blackstone reports that someone posted the coordinates and now the trees are under threat from tourists. >>> entering the redwood forest is like stepping back in time. the exact locat

courage to speak out and what she has said echoes what others have been also saying actress and writer cynthia caught tweeting i keep thinking we've heard the worst of harvey but then most juries manage to reveal new terrible depths to his mantra powerful and heartbreaking as a. culture journalist jennifer armstrong reflecting if you're wondering why it's a big deal when this a new foster a breakthrough for women it's because of stories like salma hikes compare what she went through to make the movie freedom with a what made producer director or star does for his oscar nomination. high expert trailed off a mexican artist frida kahlo landed a six oscar nominations she took home to meanwhile the meta movement shows no sign of slowing down the question is who's next bollywood directed vivek agnihotri treating pain for all the victims like salma hayek and proud of full for speaking up hope some actress takes leadership and exposes the underbelly of bollywood's establishment as well. turning now to some sport and ballistic on leaders by munich were licking their lips at the prospect of a winless co

. >> supervisor cohen: thank you, cynthia, i appreciate the very thorough and important update. colleagues, any questions at this time? no? seeing no questions. one question. supervisor fewer seeing that this could really -- >> supervisor fewer: seeing that this could effect a lot of people in san francisco, what are our plans -- do we have any plans if these were to go through? and how do we intend to backfill some of these services or do we? >> so a lot of the federal policy changes would then impact the state so i think that our first line of defense is really working with the state legislation to see how we can mitigate the local impact. so i think that a lot of these issues are really fluid and they're changing day-by-day and so we don't have a formalized plan, but a lot of these programs go through medica well other thal, sowe'll see legislad on a state level to combat these issues at a federal level. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. >> supervisor cohen: thank yo you. heavy subject matter. thank you. colleagues any other questions and we can go to public comments

. >> the woman's name is cynthia lane.4, her son rashad was shot and killed by a police officer. >> justice for rashad. >> he was on his knees. both hands in the air. begging please don't shoot me. don't shoot me. he shot him anyway. >> this story doesn't begin with the shots were fired. this story begins a few days after. at the funeral home. it's about 5:30 and cynthia is just. >> tired. just exhausted. it's hot outside. >> she had asked for an open casket for her son and had been shopping all day for a short sleeve shirt for him to wear, but the funeral director tells me, he can't wear a short sleeve shirt baby. i don't know what the hell they were looking for on your baby. they said they butchered him lie he was an animal. the funeral director was so worried about her, he wouldn't let her look at her son's body. he would only let her sister take photos. before you see them, i have to warn you, they are extremely graphic. >> and then, i don't even understand what happened to him. just based on that little sliver that yo

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we hope we're going to open some eyes with this series over the next several months. >> cynthia, we look forward to this series. thank you for doing this. >> reporter: we'll be in touch. thanks so much. >> the nightly news series is called "one in five kids at risk." it kicks off tonight with more on what's led to the increase in these disorders, and some of the innovative programs created to deal with them. some of the solutions. that's nbc nightly news immediately following news4 at 6:00. >>> you don't hear about too sing opera, but there is a young man in the district who does. he's a graduate of the duke ellington school, of course. nbc's kerry sanders reports on his efforts to fulfill his dream against some financial odds. >> reporter: anthony anderson considers himself lucky, even if not everything in his life has been. >> here's a picture of my father. i keep it on my mirror to remind me of him. >> reporter: when anthony was 3, his dad was killed in a drive-by shooting. anthony learned to speak german. and italian. all parts of a most unusual dream, something inside him drew antho

---cynthia cano con elresultado del juicio.o me lo tenia que haber matado entre lagrimas, gritando por la muerte de su nieto jose cruz, nats su abuela y el resto de la familia del joven se retiraron de la corte esta tarde despues de escuchar el veredicto en contra del hombre que le quito la vida. take nats ernest white/ juez we the jury unanimously find the defendant guilty of murder as charged in the indictment minutos despues de la una y media de la tarde, ken johnson fue declarado culpable de asesinato y asalto con agravantes. despues de que el jurado pasara casi un dia entero deliberando el caso.fue la noche del 13 de marzo del 2016 que johnson, en ese entonces un policia de farmers brnach que estaba fuera de servicio, persiguio y luego baleo a jose cruz y a su amigo cuando vio al par robandole los asientos de su camioneta. durante los 7 dias de juicio la defensa intento convencer al jurado que johnson disparo en contra de cruz porque pensaba que el estaba armado.sin embargo, los adolescente no lo estaban... la fiscalia se

the women talked to cynthia mcfadden about why they decided to go public right now. kathryn roth played alongside hoffman several times and said he groped and harassed her repeatedly. >> i have been lying for 34 years. people go, how was it to work with dustin? i owe him everything. i learned so much, and then i would stop. there would be a knot in my stomach. the real truth was he was abusive and he was a bully. >> nbc news has reached out to hoffman's lawyers about the claims. the lawyers had previously called claims by other women defamatory falsehoods. tonight on nbc news you'll hear more of cynthia mcfadden's interview with all three women. they'll describe their emotions then and now, and how they feel about this recent wave of sexual misconduct allegations against powerful men in hollywood and beyond. >> we are staying on top of the breaking news in washington state for you. >> at least six people dead after a passenger train tumbled off the tracks and onto the interstate highway below. what we are learning about the accident and the investigation. >> i'm darc

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. ♪ new lights, new hope -- >> cynthia watson loves to sing. >> i went to san francisco state universityn the music department and music is a part of my life. >> reporter: it's how she always stays positive. but last may life got scary. her landlord told her she had 90 days to move. >> i had been living in my home for 13 years and i was recovering from a total hip replacement. and so i just had to dig down deep and get the job done. >> reporter: she was optimistic they could get the job done. she learned that from her family. the youngest of 12 and a single mother of two, she'd faced challenges before. >> a child with spina bifida -- i focused the majority of my attention on helping her to be the best she could be. >> when she faced the prospect of finding a new home. she went full steam ahead. >> i was going on faith. i didn't know where i was going to move. but i began to seek. >> reporter: it took about a month to find an apartment and then the security deposit was more than she had and she wasn't sure what she was going to do. and then she remembered a referral given to her years ago

. --- cynthia cano...... desde dallas, tiene el reporte...go mi amor, tal vez estas eran las unicas palabras que alma terrazas necesitaba escuchar take sot - aqui estoy mi negrita hermosa qui esta tu mama contigo este pasado jueves, despues de dos semanas de angustia. la madre y hermana mayor de alma terrazas lograron llegaron a dallas para poder estar a su lado 00:19:01 - take sot aurora castillo /madre de alma terrazas al momento que yo le hable yo se que escucho mi voz y emepezo a moverse.. a principios del mes alma tuvo que ser hospitalizada tras un accidente en la carretera 183 en irving. la joven de 25 anos estaba sumamente delicada. sus padres, al otro lado de la frontera a causa de la deportacion, recibieron la terrible noticia. take sot aurora castillo/ mama alma tuvo un accidente me dijo pero esta bien no se preocupe. pero yo me senti muy mal esa misma semana su hijo solicito una visa humanitaria para que sus padres pudieran venir a estar con alma. su madre y hermana recibieron sus permisos, y su emocion dicen era incontenible.. 01: