. >> vice president elias. here. >> president cohen you have a quorum. >> thank you i appreciate that. ladies and gentlemen, will you join me in pledge ago allegiance to the flag. place your right hand over your heart and repeat after me. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. folks, also it's a new day. today is inauguration day. we have a new administration in place and president joe biden has been busy ushering into a flurry of new agreements. i want to just acknowledge sfgovtv is saying there's a network error so we may have some technical difficulties on the sfgov as well. sergeant, could you please call the first item. >> also we have chief william scott from the san francisco police department and paul helpedder son from police henderson from police accountability. we have general public comment. the public is now welcome to address the commission regarding items that do

. >> vice president elias: thank you. following up on your question, director mcguire, i understand how you're saying that the efforts for diversity are usually geared towards up coming classes for the police department, and i understand your description that that's the easiest -- [inaudible] >> vice president elias: how did this affect diversity when it comes to promoting from within, especially women of color? how are budget cuts affecting that because it doesn't seem to be happening within the department, and i, like president cohen, don't understand the correlation. >> you know, i'll take that question in terms of the promotions, the diversity is a priority period, across the board. hiring, promotions, all of that. we actually do have a diverse command staff, and when it comes to the silvservice promotions, you can only promote some on the list, and if that list is not diverse, which is a whole other set of circumstances, if it's not, then why not, you still have to only go from the list. our command staff, we have a

commissioner elias? >> vice president elias: thank you. i just wanted to briefly say thank you to the commissioners. commissioner de jesus was very adamant to get youth representation here at the police commission, and i have to say any time you appear before us, i'm always amazed at the breadth of knowledge and what you guys present to us, so thank you very much for taking the time for us. i really appreciate it. >> president cohen: i have a question just in terms of priority to the youth commission. you gave a bevy of recommendations. could you prioritize, maybe give me your top two, which you'd like to see implemented here at the police commission? >> yeah, go ahead. >> you go ahead. i'm not part of your [inaudible]. >> okay. that's tricky. so [inaudible] we haven't discussed laying any specific ones over another, but to the resolution that was written in conjunction with the defund sfpd over the summer, so our first one that we had on our presentation, that the mayor and board of supervisors cut the sfpd budget by a minimum of 50% rela

of course, commissioner elias. burning up the chat line to get in queue. >> thank you president cohen. this d.g.o. has been a long time in the making and we worked very hard on this and i'd like to especially thank the chief, who we had a special meeting with respect to some of the language in this d.g.o. to finalize the adding additional language for report sewing we wilreporting ss in investigation and have a more thorough data set. i'd like to thank julie tran from the san francisco bar association, rebeca young from the public defenders office and janelle kaywood for providing memos regarding the issue that were helpful in guiding our discussion so we can get this to the finish line and bring it before the commission. i would also like to thank the group and the members that participated in this, especially all of those that attended all the various meetings that we have so thank you to the community for your support. with that, i would ask that the fellow commissioners support 5.03 and i'll turn it over to the

elias: i think you are bang on right there.dip recession in the euro zone, we're going to have a contraction in q4, as well as q1. the big risk for euros on economic activity is if this contraction spills over into q2. because this would now be real the ecb's economic forecast -- derail the ecb's economic forecast. at this stage, it doesn't look like we're moving towards a significant drive in q2. they project it to recover, starting in q2, and maintain momentum in the second half of this year. that's one of the reasons you're underpinning it for the year. annmarie: on the vaccine progress, some say this has become an fx trade thing. the u.k. is so much more ahead when it comes to vaccine district vision. do you agree with this type of premise when you look at the fx market? elias: the way i look at the fx market, i'm relative monetary policy, the relative payment structure, and valuation. these are the three major cyclical and structural drivers of currency. the relative trend in vaccine inoculation rates is more interesting,

of course, commissioner elias. burning up the chat line to get in queue. >> thank you president cohen. this d.g.o. has been a long time in the making and we worked very hard on this and i'd like to especially thank the chief, who we had a special meeting with respect to some of the language in this d.g.o. to finalize the adding additional language for report sewing we wilreporting ss in investigation and have a more thorough data set. i'd like to thank julie tran from the san francisco bar association, rebeca young from the public defenders office and janelle kaywood for providing memos regarding the issue that were helpful in guiding our discussion so we can get this to the finish line and bring it before the commission. i would also like to thank the group and the members that participated in this, especially all of those that attended all the various meetings that we have so thank you to the community for your support. with that, i would ask that the fellow commissioners support 5.03 and i'll turn it over to the

. >> vice president elias.esident cohen you have a quorum. >> thank you i appreciate that. ladies and gentlemen, will you join me in pledge ago allegiance to the flag. place your right hand over your heart and repeat after me. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. folks, also it's a new day. today is inauguration day. we have a new administration in place and president joe biden has been busy ushering into a flurry of new agreements. i want to just acknowledge sfgovtv is saying there's a network error so we may have some technical difficulties on the sfgov as well. sergeant, could you please call the first item. >> also we have chief william scott from the san francisco police department and paul helpedder son from police henderson from police accountability. we have general public comment. the public is now welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear o

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of course, commissioner elias. burning up the chat line to get in queue. >> thank you president cohen. this d.g.o. has been a long time in the making and we worked very hard on this and i'd like to especially thank the chief, who we had a special meeting with respect to some of the language in this d.g.o. to finalize the adding additional language for report sewing we wilreporting ss in investigation and have a more thorough data set. i'd like to thank julie tran from the san francisco bar association, rebeca young from the public defenders office and janelle kaywood for providing memos regarding the issue that were helpful in guiding our discussion so we can get this to the finish line and bring it before the commission. i would also like to thank the group and the members that participated in this, especially all of those that attended all the various meetings that we have so thank you to the community for your support. with that, i would ask that the fellow commissioners support 5.03 and i'll turn it over to the

commissioner elias? >> vice president elias: thank you. i just wanted to briefly say thank you to the commissioners. commissioner de jesus was very adamant to get youth representation here at the police commission, and i have to say any time you appear before us, i'm always amazed at the breadth of knowledge and what you guys present to us, so thank you very much for taking the time for us. i really appreciate it. >> president cohen: i have a question just in terms of priority to the youth commission. you gave a bevy of recommendations. could you prioritize, maybe give me your top two, which you'd like to see implemented here at the police commission? >> yeah, go ahead. >> you go ahead. i'm not part of your [inaudible]. >> okay. that's tricky. so [inaudible] we haven't discussed laying any specific ones over another, but to the resolution that was written in conjunction with the defund sfpd over the summer, so our first one that we had on our presentation, that the mayor and board of supervisors cut the sfpd budget by a minimum of 50% rela

. >> motion by hama saki and seconded by commissioner elias. without objection the motion passes unanimously. >> i will take us into closed session. >> thank you i'd like to entertain a motion. is there a motion? >> motion. >> all right, motion made by commissioner lai, seconded by dejesus. thank you. without objection and the motion passes unanimously. all right. i don't believe we need to take public comment on that do we? >> normally we do, yes. >> i'll take a motion to rescind. is there a motion to rescind. >> motion. >> made by elias seconded by -- thank you, dejesus. so the motion is rescinded. public comment not to disclose what was in closed session. >> public comment on line item 12 regarding not to disclose, please press star 3 now to raise your hand. and we have no public comment, commissioner. >> excellent. thank you very much. all right, let's redo that motion. motion made by commissioner elias not to disclose. seconded by commissioner dejesus. we can take that again, without objection. without objection, motion passes unanimously.

and elias trapani a pillar of the lebanese music scene dies at 83 to take a look back at his life. hello we've got some quotes of weather coming into the eastern side of the u.s. for the time being his right sleet and snow pulling out of the way still clinging on to the canadian maritimes as we go through chews day and of course in quotes with a coming in behind us i said temperatures hovering around freezing that a bit of a wintry mix are rolling across the prairie on either side of the border but look out to the west it was coming in more right state and so coming in to say pacific northwest and that'll slide its way across washington state oregon pushing down across northern parts and the into the northern of california eventually making its way further east was that snow that we had moving across the rockies well that tends to right as it pushes across the southern plains heavy downpours there just around texas up towards console but it is quiet it was used to see both little on the chilly side temperatures in new york and they say around 6 degrees celsius quite across the cari

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of alexina volley at least 800 were arrested in the capital moscow including of ali's wife union of elia the kremlin critic was jailed when he returned to russia after recovering in germany from a poisoning he says was sanctioned by the government so when you get us the news international i came to ready for the 1st time today i'm tired of the despotism and lawlessness of the authorities no questions have been i want clarity openness and change this is what made me come here alexandra go try has more now from moscow. the organizers announced that that is it for today that they made their point by you managing to reach the detention center where no virally has been held to but that didn't come easy today 1st of all the original point where the protesters were supposed to gather was completely sealed off the whole center of moscow the heart of moscow was sealed off with buses not running metro not stopping so they started together in the reserved points and these points were changing in an hour because every time they would start gathering coming out on the streets the police would immedia

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trillion dollars building ports railways highways and energy pipelines foreign policy analyst art eliagive us his insights on china investment strategy and how it contrasts with western goals. only. already seen the effects of the battle to order the ship in germany a good example it's a city of 2 spork. specific regional boats hit hard by the end of the mining industry and other factors a lot of unemployed and so on and no sense. of their automation tariff but we see across from asia happening into that direction we see many new jobs being created and this is just one example of course china is not just trying to cope without getting anything from this but there is a very big difference we see the west getting involved in some regions of the world and by this i mean there neoliberal western east and longleat approaches stared they only care for their own interests so called cooperation was to westerly one sided there was no real development happening in this country it's basically their scheme missteps they if all of their natural resources and in return they all this get nothing now

comes from the shattered glass that litter the streets after nazi paramilitary forces raided and found elias synagogues and jewish owned stores thousands of jews were arrested that night and dozens were killed mary klute director of the holocaust and genocide center thinks the parallels with last week's events are misguided. believe that allergies are unhelpful and certainly holocaust and they. are inappropriate we always have to look at the context each circumstance and each shift context needs and the new aren't needs to be. always taken into consideration in each occasion and each circumstance needs to be unpacked in its entirety because for many survivors still alive today because it's not a memory is not history it's an experience it's the loss of the family members the torture the a polling circumstances that they were forced to endure and so as dreadful as these events and these particular events last week were on capitol hill we need to be careful in making analogies around calling it chris down. still ahead of lot of mir putin meets with the leaders of our media and azerbaijan to di

thank you. >> president cohen: motion made by hamasaki and seconded by commissioner elias. next item, please. >> clerk: item 13, adjournment, action item. >> president cohen: okay. we need a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> second. >> president cohen: item passes without objection. good night, everybody. ♪ >> welcome to hamilton recreation and aquatics center. it is the only facility that has an integrated swimming pool and recreation center combined. we have to pools, the city's water slide, for little kids and those of you that are more daring and want to try the rockslide, we have a drop slide. >> exercises for everybody. hi have a great time. the ladies and guys that come, it is for the community and we really make it fun. people think it is only for those that play basketball or swim. >> i have been coming to the pool for a long time now. it is nice, they are sweet. >> in the aquatics center, they are very committed to combining for people in san francisco. and also ensuring that they have public safety. >> there are a lot of different personalities that come throu

of alexina volley at least 800 were arrested in the capital moscow including of ali's wife union of elia the kremlin critic was jailed when he returned to russia after recovering in germany from a poisoning he says was sanctioned by the government alexandra gold for has more from moscow.

lebanon is mourning the loss of legendary composer and cultural icon elias for bonnie he was known for a unique genre of music blending styles from different parts of the world under looks back on his life. when a song 1st lays eyes on the hood in the 1973 film my blood tears and smile the audience is introduced to a melody that manages to capture true love and utter heartbreak at the same time. decades later this and other songs composed by in the us right bonnie are timeless classics the soundtrack for so many other moments. born in 1938 he was the youngest boy in a family full of talent with older brothers months or an aussie who married singer faith in the 1950 s. . she and the ronnie brothers shaped an entire genre of music born in lebanon distinctly different from anything else blending western and middle eastern styles with lebanese folklore politics and audiences loved it. during lebanon's civil war and the us wrote songs for her that helped to cross the factional divides and became a source of pride for all lebanese. songs that you just wrote for his children during the war co

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alexina volley at least 800 were arrested in the capital moscow including the volleys wife union of elia the kremlin critic was jailed when he returned to russia after recovering in germany from a poisoning he says was sanctioned by the government so when you get us the reason i came to ready for the 1st time today i'm tired of the despotism and lawlessness of the authorities no questions have been haunted i want clarity openness and change this is what made me come here alexandra go try has more now from moscow.

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democratic voting rights attorney and founder of democracy docket marc elias is here.py new year. i'm so happy that you're here. >> thank you for having me. >> you won a bunch of cases. you know this back and forth like the back of your hand. you say this call is outright criminal. what do you think is the most damning that trump said that's criminal? >> two things. number one, he is clearly trying to pressure a state official to falsely change the results of the election. and that is so deeply, deeply troubling and legally problematic that it's almost -- if you didn't hear it on tape, you wouldn't believe it was true. >> i mean, just outright on tape, right? who was it that said -- someone said today they couldn't believe that they would ever hear the president of the united states committing a crime on tape. the president and his team have failed disastrously in the courts. you have them at 61 losses and just one win. and tonight trump is complaining about the supreme court. listen to this. >> and i'm not happy with the supreme court. they are not stepping up to the

who made the extreme assertion that no in-person voting was appropriate partisans.y democrat mark elias made the extraordinary remark, or example, that people voting in person in wisconsin one week before the election, everybody would die. and yet days later made the argument that if we did not expand in person voting in nevada we would be violating the constitution and democracy would die. so there were a lot of extreme positions taken there, but many people voted. in and of itself, voting in person work pretty well. ofer being a problem child our last heavily contested election, florida really did clean up its act, and the election went very well in florida. this is the importance of improving election laws, as demonstrated in florida. some places that were problem as recently as 2018, broward county and florida had terrible officials who were replaced with that election cycle linear officials who follow the law as written. we had a great and orderly outcome and a result on election night. i would have to respectfully disagree with my fellow panelist regarding the rapidity with which

outside one of the cabins we meet met up boss elias. lowing the action with binoculars. her husband orca and her brother of god who are taking part in the hunt . order for 2 it we asked her why people here are so crazy about now walls what things. are important. for the warrior. you eat the meat you need more or. that. you need. to do and be right here because you are. you know through. metal invites us to stay for lunch. is on the menu it's the children's favorite method tells us that much has changed here in recent years. and asks if we'd like to join them on a boat trip up the fuehrer in the coming days. we travel almost 400 kilometers with them up the scoresby sound at 50 or 60 kilometers an hour navigating our way through the ice. after 4 hours of a very cold and for us often a nerve racking journey we take a break in stunning surroundings. the silence is only broken by the sound of melting glaciers. while her youngest son bryant keeps an eye out for polar bears which can appear out of nowhere at any time we ask about the biggest changes she's observed here in recen

elias lived a few doors down on bancroft street. back then this neighborhood was filled with black working class families. that's changed. it's totally gentrified. i mean, so all of the homes here permit it's predominantly caucasian. very expect. the homes are all probably a million dollars in that at the time, porter was part of a school integration program bus, 2000 oaks. memory in the berkeley hills since kindergarten. a year later, harris joined her on that bus for the 40 minute commute to and from school. did you have to show her the ropes because you had a year ahead of her? no, no, no, no. the new friends met every day at the corner of browning and bancroft be bused to school in the affluent, mostly white neighborhood. it was the issue of bussing that arguably introduced the country to harris back in 2019 after she got into a testy, bare knuckle exchange with then candidate joe biden for opposing. passing at the time. you know, there was a little girl in california. who was part of the second class to integrate her public sch

tough break for jimmy elia, he bet a thousand dollars on the snowman.erway. it lasted longer than the mcgregor fights. adding insult to injury after divulging the 70 tiger signed an autograph on him and p. [laughter] says he will be back but he is definitely looking at a rebuilding year. all right, now that the trump trait is been kicked off the internet, there is only one place you can go to hear from bunch of know it all loud math control idiot dumb dems. it's my twitter reply. this is a viewer mail. defender of democracy kicks us off did they let you off of the asylum early? now because ronald reagan change the law thank god there's no more incarceration michele writes kennedy nation, who are you again? i am that bad bid you looked up on twitter because you're so obsessed with you got to try to say something. love for billy jack's tweeted, when will you wipe that stupid smirk off your face? what this one? this one? never. never. debbie sent this one, kennedy nation you are the weakest link, good, give me my money woman. we'll be right back understand

. >> vice president elias. here. >> president cohen you have a quorum. >> thank you i appreciate that. ladies and gentlemen, will you join me in pledge ago allegiance to the flag. place your right hand over your heart and repeat after me. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. folks, also it's a new day. today is inauguration day. we have a new administration in place and president joe biden has been busy ushering into a flurry

lebanon is mourning the loss of legendary composer and cultural icon elias for money it was known for the unique zone of music blending styles from different parts of the world under subpoena it's back in his life. when a song 1st lays eyes on the hood in the 1973 film my blood tears and smile the audience is introduced to a melody that manages to capture true love and utter heartbreak at the same time. decades later this and other songs composed by in the us right bonnie are timeless classics the soundtrack for so many other moments. born in 1938 he was the youngest boy in a family full of talent with older brothers months or an aussie who married singer famous in the 1950 s. . she and the ronnie brothers shaped an entire genre of music born in lebanon distinctly different from anything else blending western and middle eastern styles with lebanese folklore politics and audiences loved it. during lebanon's civil war and the us wrote songs for her that helped to cross the factional divides and became a source of pride for all lebanese. songs that you just wrote for his children during

i want to recognize my vice chair, miss cindy elias, and we have a full complement of commissioners here today. sergeant youngblood, could you please call the roll. >> clerk: yes, president. [roll call]

. >> vice president elias. here. >> president cohen you have a quorum. >> thank you i appreciate that. ladies and gentlemen, will you join me in pledge ago allegiance to the flag. place your right hand over your heart and repeat after me. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

. >> vice president elias.ou have a quorum. >> thank you i appreciate that. ladies and gentlemen, will you join me in pledge ago allegiance to the flag. place your right hand over your heart and repeat after me. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. folks, also it's a new day. today is inauguration day. we have a new administration in place and president joe biden has been busy ushering into a flurry of new agreements. i want to

, and we have spoken to a number of the commissioners, the president, vice president, commissioner elias, and they're going to continue to push so that we're on the same page in terms of the data collection, and that helps us understand how we're making progress, and that leads me to my next question. where we are on this work in terms of increasing racial equity in terms of policing, would you say that that's an important goal of what we're trying to do with this recommendation? ultimately, it has to have a final outcome, and i think there's been a constant strive toward the elimination of racial disparity in policing, so really wanted to see if, you know, we can get you on the record saying that that's a top priority and if you're committed to that, and i'm sure you have said that in the past, but just wanted to ask again on the record. >> yes, it is, and i'm committed to it. the department is committed to it, and the police commission is committed to it, and the mayor is committed to it, and you are committed to it. i know it is a priority of ours, and i know there's a lot of work to

i want to recognize my vice chair, miss cindy elias, and we have a full complement of commissioners here today. sergeant youngblood, could you please call the roll. >> clerk: yes, president. [roll call]