but erica has friends in the communist german party so she goes to berlin and is believed that thereis a trap set for her and she is tortured into confessing that she was working for the cia. she has an entirely different experience, so she humanizes prison if that's possible. key difference when he's in solitary confinement which i think is one of the most brutal forms of punishment. for five years virtually no contact except for the hungarian guards. erica is sent to the northernmost outpost of the gulags and is laying out railroad tracks in the freezing weather that has companions and has about as full a life as you can have in confinement. when the entire family is suddenly free it's not because there is an ounce of kindness and humanity in the kremlin but their interrogators turns up in the big cia news conference. i was very heartened that they found a great deal of material in the book. >> anyway, he steps up and says that they have been given for dead. i know because i interrogated which is a euphemism for torture and at that moment the state department starts bombarding mosc

. >> meteorologist erica martin has the details in the first alert forecast. >> that's right. this is the last friday of 2016 and it's going to be a dry day. temperatures are going to be mild. just about average for this time of the year. a live look outside, not seeing much going on right now. we're seeing partly cloudy skies and that's pretty much going to be the story for today. don't forget to look the a the bottom of your screen for your local neighborhood forecast. in and around philadelphia for right now seeing mainly 30s, parkside currently at 32 degrees, fox chase warmer at 37. 33 for chestnut hill, west mt. airy 35 with andorra and at 34 degrees. out the door forecast for today, in and around philadelphia, seeing mainly 30s at 7:00 a.m., upper 30s at 11:00 a.m. and looks like the pa suburbs seeing a similar trend in the 30s. plenty of sunshine as a high pressure system pretty much dominates across the region. we will start to see clouds develop later tonight. leahy valley expected temperature 7:00 a.m., lows 30s. delaware seeing low to mid 30s for the morning start.

>> reporter: erica's husband has worked at the plants for 15 years. she believes mr. trump's deal will help him make it to retirement in a couple of years. >> i didn't vote for him, but hey, i do support whatever he is doing right now because it's helping me and my family. >> reporter: united technologies gets 10% of the revenue from federal contracts. the company has not said if those contracts played a role in its decision to keep the jobs in america. kenneth craig, cbs news, indianapolis. >>> a dramatic hostage rescue this morning during a florida bank robbery. an armored s.w.a.t. truck blocked the entrance to the bank in jacksonville. police say the robber entered the building and took 11 people hostage! two people hid from the suspect. they were able to make a break for it. that distracted the suspects and that gave s.w.a.t. officers a chance to get inside. the suspect was arrested and everybody was released unharmed. >>> new at noon, the airline involved in a crash that killed 71 people including members of a brazilian soccer team have been suspended. this was t

>> erica's husband has worked at the plant for 15 years. she believes mr. trump's deal will help him make it to retirement in a couple of years. >> i did didn't vote for him but i do support whatever he is doing right now. it is helping me and my family. >> united technology gets 10 percent of its revenue from federal contract, the company hasn't said if those contract played a role in it decision to keep the jobs in america. kenneth craig, for cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> philadelphia mayor jim kenney is reacting to words that a city employee is accused of vandalism. video circulating for days. we now know one of these men is duncan lloyd, assistant city solicitor. one of the two men in the video spray painted anti-trump graffiti on the fresh market in chestnut hill last friday. while police have not made any arrests, mayor kenney says the behavior unsuitable for any citizen. >> it was a dumb thing to do. and not the type of activity we expect for which -- and not the type of activity we expect from our citizens. this continuation of this election fall-out

one psychologist has come up with a new formula to stay on top of whatever goal you may have for 2017. nbc's erica edwards has more. >> i want to be kind and considerate. >> my goal is to travel more. >> reporter: change can be hard, especially once life goes back to normal after the holidays. >> i have weight loss goals that i don't think i'm going to make it a resolution. >> reporter: resolutions going forward, sports psychologist recommends looking to the past with the acronym p.a.s.t., "p" stands for plan. >> being able to identify what our goal is and establishing steps to be able to get there is critical. >> reporter: "a," arrange your environment. up earlier in the morning. >> by setting my cell phone across the room or on the edge of my bed, it forces me to get up in the morning. >> reporter: "s," stick to one thing. >> if we try to chase too many rabbits, we get none. we focus on one goal and just go hard and obsessive at that particular type of goal. >> reporter: "t," make it too easy to fail. instead of committing to one hour of exercise every day, try something less altering. >> if we'

nbc 10's first alert meteorologist erica martinez has the neighborhood forecast for us. erica?

>> reporter: erica ferguson's husband has worked at the plant for 15 years. she believes mr. trump's deal will help him make it to retirement in a couple of years. >> i didn't vote for him but hey, i do support whatever he's doing right now. because it's helping me and my family. >> reporter: united technologies gets 10% of its revenue from federal contracts. the company hasn't said if those contracts played a role in its decision to keep the jobs in america. kenneth craig, cbs news, inap >> now carrier still will be laying off several hundred workers from that plant. president-elect trump will travel to ohio later today for a rally in cincinnati. it's the first official stop on his thank you tour that will also make stops in iowa and michigan next week. >>> montgomery county police are trying to track down what appears to be anti-trump vandals. take a look at what they did to three cars parked in a family's driveway on spencerville road in burtonville. they spray painted one car with with a swastika. the word racist and other offensive terms. police believe it's related to t

>> reporter: erica ferguson's husband has worked a the plant for 15 years. she believes mr. trump's deal will help him make it to retirement in a couple of years. >> i did vote for him, but i do support whatever he is doing right now because it is helping me and my families. >> reporter: united families gets 10% of its revenues from federal contracts. it has not said if that pl the jobs in america. cbs news, indianapolis. >>> and julienne edelman is a new dad. he flew out to be with the baby's mother as she delivered. and he and the model ela rose welcomed their daughter lily yesterday. edelman is expected to be back in foxborough for sunday's game against the rams. >>> coming up on wbz news at little girl lesson a little girl learned that helped save her baby sister. >>> and what we're learning before a deadly colombia plane crash. >>> are you being hacked? and what it could mean for you. at fallon health why move forward alone when we can move forward together? >>> we're learning more about what brought down a jet carrying a brazilian soccer team in colombia. the pilot tel

nbc 10's first alert meteorologist erica martinez has the neighborhood forecast for us. erica? >> rosemary, that's right. we have a change on the approach. we have some rain in the forecast. meantime, conditions are dry. you'll notice just a few clouds moving from west to east. earlier today we did have some reports of some light wintry precip reports in the lehigh valley. some showers moving across delaware. and southern jersey really as well as the jersey shore. notice right now conditions are pretty much dry with those thick clouds. current temperature of 46 degrees. so it's pretty mild. we are trending warmer through this upcoming weekend, the holiday weekend. and the current wind profile currently at 14 miles per hour coming out of the southwest. neighborhoods right now really comfortable seeing lots of mid to upper 40s. it looks like 46 for fox chase, westmont 44. manioc 45. and kensington 46 degrees. port richmond 44 but certainly very comfortable all around. your hour by hour forecast shows dry conditions for the next couple of hours. 36 hours. and then we're tracking s

nbc's erica edwards has tips on how to maintain a healthy balance. >> kids will want to spend as muche as possible on their new tech toys. screen times will understandably increase, but pediatricians say maintaining a balance over holiday break is important. >> one tip, before your kids even open their gifts, it may be a good idea to set some ground rules so they don't overdo it. >> have a discussion with your children that these are the holidays, but you knowat when we get back to school, we'll get back to our usual routine. >> make sure children are part of all holiday festivities and that they're also engaging with friends and family. setting up media-free zones like at the dinner table can be helpful. experts say parents should lead by example. >> put away our cell phones and tablets, look at each other and interact and have conversations. because nothing is, nothing takes place of that important face-to-face interaction. >> for moms and dads still considering whether to purchase their child's first mobile device, experts say it's not the age that parents should be looking at, but

has. >> reporter: if only, erica thought, her daughter had a bigger audience now. but she didn't know where to find it. >> so for this next event, i would like to bring out robin gutierrez. >> reporter: but robin did. at high school. everyone at robin's school makes a wish at the start of the school year. yet only some are selected to present theirs in front of the entire school. >> i have thought a lot about life, and the people in my life. >> reporter: here, robin shared the struggles of her life with her classmates and made her wish. to get more subscribers to her youtube channel. >> thank you. >> reporter: the school said, let's do it. >> that's something money can't buy, is making that particular wish come true. and i am really grateful that they're going to try and make that happen for her. >> reporter: robin says she is excited for the followers to come, and to complete more episodes of the series she's working on for them to watch. still, even with the subscribers, robin knows that fame can be fleeting. but then again, so can life. so she is determined to m

. >> pal alto has have an richesses in -- erica white are now facing felony burglar charges. they were part of a team who drove an suv through apple's university eave knew storefront window 4:30 in the morning. up to ten people stole a large up in are number of items and ran off twotimes were arresterred. police are investigating if this crime is connected to the two recent robberies at the san francisco marina district apple store. >> accuweather we are tracking the arrival of cold with rain on the horizon. doppler showing you the weekend it was dry, quiet, live doppler 7 giving us the all-clear. we're all in the 50s. 59 in concord, 56 san jose, napa, 47. overnight today. out are outside of the north bay we'll have clear skies and patchy fog developing. that will limit how low temperatures will drop overnight tonight. so you can see a lot of areas across our region will hold steady the 40s. the hour-by-hour forecast getting you back to work and school, areas of fog in the morning and quickly burn off, by mid-day. a lot of sunshine but a brisk day, into the afternoon a few cl

"news4's" erika gonzalez has the details. erica. >> that man shot multiple times. we're just getting word of this incident that happened around 11:00 last night in southwest d.c. this on the 100 block of irving street. this is some video from the scene late last night. we understand police responded to the scene after once they got there, they found a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. that man was tack on the the hospital but he did not survive his injuries. at this hour, we're not hearing word of a suspect or description or motive in this case. from the live desk, i'm erika gonzalez. >> thank you. we're following breaking news on the clara barton parkway. the morning commute. justin, good morning. that's right. we're off the macarthur boulevard. you can see behind me, car after car having to make their way off the parkway onto the boulevard to find their way somewhere else this morning as a result of what is now a single car fatal crash there on the parkway. we do have an overhead view of the crash response there. the single vehicle wreck happened close

the state public defender's office says it has hired illinois assistant appellate defender erica nichols cook to lead the division. cook is expected to start in december. the division investigates cases where iowa inmates claim they are innocent. two schools came together to make sure students know someone cares. why some parents say this is a time for students to share positive messages. but right now, here's a look at today's opening farm markets. good morning! it's ---. like it.a stray flurry may be possible early this morning; otherwise we're dealing with cloudy skies once again today. temperatures will start off in the low 30s, but warm into the middle to upper 30s again today. winds will also be strong again today, blowing out of the west at 10 to 20 mph. the clouds will stick with us throughout the evening hours, but the winds will west at 5 to 10 mph. low temperatures will drop into the upper 20s. conditions won't change much for the rest of the week and into the weekend. the dreary skies will remain and high temperatures will stay in the middle to sunday where the chance for sno

. >> yeah, erica, it's amazing. donald trump hasearse on twitter, and that tweet was one very notable one. he tweets 125 to 150 times a month on average. the real impact, though, comes from the media coverage of what he says. and let's not forget that that's one of the important parts of his candidatcy. and i think will be one of the important parts of his presidency, he says something provocative on twitter. yes, a lot of people hear about it, but the amount of media coverage that comes in and provides the amplification to that message is huge. 300 times, at least, by comparison, just on twitter alone. >> it's huge, but oftentimes it ends up with a little bit of a back and forth. and there's a need for clarification. and yet we just heard from his incoming press secretary, sean spicer, he was talking with our alisyn camerota yesterday and say, yes, you should absolutely take every tweet, as long as it comes from donald trump, literally. and yet we've had to see him go back on things or clarify things. so, even though he's using it,

erica hill. president elect donald trump has appeared to be interested in building a relationship with russia.m to be striking a slightly different tone. donald trump releasing a letter from vladmir putin calling for a stronger relationship between the two countries. this is both sides weigh in on expanding their nuclear weapons capability. trump tells nbc news said if necessary let there by an arms race. in that letter putin wrote i hope after you assume the position of the president of the united states that we will be work together. trump said i hope both sides will live up to the thoughts. it's the last line that got a lot of us thinking. i want to talk to jill doherty and ryan lizza and mike baker who is a former cia cohavenvert operations operative. when you hear the line, we do not have to travel on alternative paths. it sounds like a bit of a line in the sand. how is that playing out in russia and with putin? >> i don't think it's really being perceived at that. i think president putin, i'm sure already knows that mr. trump will be doing a lot of tweeting, will be talking in short sent

cg: alma rosa nieto/abogada de inmigracion como lo hizo erica landa,, quien llego de puebla a la edad de 2 anos. y que gracias al daca han poco mas tranquila: tener daca me ha quitado muchos miedos verdad,, el miedo de un dia llegar a la casa y no encontrar a mis papas. cg: erica landa/ participante de "daca" pero que pasara si se termina le programa de daca ? ahorita todo lo que se esta diciendo es especulcaion realmente nadie sabe que es lo que pasara bajo el presidente trump cuando empiece el próximo ano licenciada con cierta certeza ha dicho que el nuevo presidente va ha cancelar esto. esperamos que ni los toque. ese es mi pensar pero predecir lo que va a hacer este nuevo presidente imposible. paola --fue un informe de raymond mesa... --ahora, si usted decide que quiere renovar su permiso de daca, el consejo de algunos abogados de inmigracion es hacerlo en las proximas tres semanas. para asegurarse de que se tramite antes de que donald trump tome el poder. paola/ots --precisamente para protestar por lo que consideran amenazas a la comunidad inmigrante y en especial a los jovenes que se benefician del programa daca..

has. >> reporter: if only erica thought, her daughter had a bigger audience now. she didn't know where to find it. >> for this next i'd like to bring out robin gutierrez. >> reporter: but robin did. the winter wishes rally at branham high school. everyone at robin's school makes a wish at the start of the school year, yet only some are selected to present theirs in front of the entire school. >> i thought a lot of life and the people in my life. >> reporter: here, robin shared the struggles of her life with her classmates and made her wish -- to get more subscribers to her you tube channel. the school said, let's do it. [ applause ] >> that's something money can't buy is making that particular wish come true. i'm really grateful that they are going to try to make that happen for her. >> reporter: robin said she is excited for the followers to come and to complete more episodes of the series she's working on for them to watch. still, even with the subscribers, robin knows that fame can be fleeting, but then again so can life. so she's determined to make the most of

has. >> reporter: if only erica thought her daughter had a bigger audience now. but she didn't know we to find it. >> for this next i'd like to bring out robin gutierrez. >> reporter: but robin did. the winter wishes rally at the high school, everyone at robin's school makes a wish at the start of the school year. yet only some are selected to present theirs in front of the entire school. >> i thought and the people here. >> reporter: here robin shared the struggles of her life with her classmates and made her wish. to get more subscribers to her youtube channel. >> thank you. >> reporter: the school said, let's do it. >> that's something money can't buy. making that particular wish come true. and i'm really grateful that they were going to try to make that happen for her. >> reporter: robin is excited for the followers to come, and to complete more episodes in the series she's working on for them to watch. still, even with the subscrib s subscribers, robin knows that fame can be fleeting. but then again, so can life. so, she's determined to make the most of it w

the state public defender's office says it has hired illinois assistant appellate defender erica nichols cook to lead the division. cook is expected to start in december. the division investigates cases where iowa ia some dakota access pipeline protesters moved their demonstratio n indoors. their protests inside the iowa utilities board office brought the iowa state patrol to the building. up next... this morning's meteorologist britley ritz joins us now. welcome to the first day of like it.a stray flurry may be possible early this morning; otherwise we're dealing with cloudy skies once again today. temperatures but warm into the middle to upper 30s again today. winds will also be strong again today, blowing out of the west at 10 to 20 mph. the clouds will stick with us throughout the evening hours, but the winds will start to die down out of the west at 5 to 10 mph. low temperatures will drop into the upper 20s. conditions won't change much for the rest will remain and high temperatures will stay in the middle to upper 30s. it won't be until sunday where the chance for snow arrives back

erica, thank you. it's 5:03. developing this morning we just learned that a dealt investigation in alexandria has just been ruled a homicide. police responded to colonial avenue to reports of shots fired. upper body trauma. police say the man was not from the area. there were two murders in the same area over the summer. this is the seventh murder in alexandria this year. >>> today we'll learn whethermy trow will cut eight hours of service per week on the line. the board will decide whether to close. on friday and saturday trains would stop running at 1:00 a.m. the system wouldn't open until 8:00 a.m. on sunday. all of thishi considers general manager paul wiedefeld's budget plan which includes raising fares. they're launching a new campaign called "back to good." >> we're going to look at delays due to track issues, car issues, and we're going to improve their environmental, particularly in the stations. >> tomorrow wiedefeld will trump and mike pence will make stops in indiana and ohio. the president-elect is expected to make an announcement in indianapolis at the carrier plachblt he made a deal with the compa

has that story. >> reporter: twins eva and erica sandoval are recovering from surgery resting in separate beds forhe first time ever. the two-year-old girls literally joined at the hip since before birth until now. >> they have a strong loving family and they'll -- they'll have the independence that they've been looking for, too. >> reporter: at stanford lucille packard children hospital earlier this week goodbye kisses from family and prayers from the medical team before doctors went to work separating the conjoined twins in a marathon surgery lasting 17 hours. >> fusion was right up to their sternal bond. >> reporter: a team of 50 working around the clock using a 3-d imaging system to help with the procedure. then for the first time in their lives the sisters were wheeled out into their em rooms. the twin's parents and other siblings embracing as they learned the surgery was a success. mom and dad looking for toward new challenges. >> 33 always say when you have twins you're going to go crazy because one is over here and the other is over there. i wants to go chasing after one that way and then

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has asked to be excused. and are clerk today is erica major and we would like to thank her for being there today. we would like tothank jennifer larson of sfgtv who is filming and making sure that there are transcriptions available and online. mme. city clerk, do you have any announcements? >>yes.please silence all cell phones and electronic devices during the meeting. >>we have a motion and a second. can we do that without objection? >>[gavel] >>item number one is approved without objection. mme. city clerk, can you please read item number two. >>item 2 ishearing to consider that the transfer of a type 21 off-sale general alcoholic beverage control license to whole foods market california, inc., dba whole foods market, located on 1150 ocean avenue (district 7), will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of san francisco. (public safety and neighborhood services committee) >> if approved they will be allowed to sell beer and wine. they are considered a high crime area and it is considered an undue concentration area. the aou approves with the following recommended condi

erica —— erdogan. taking a step forward, taking a step back and confusing their allies in the region and that has beencause at the sport iran there was much more policy. talking about good and bad years i would suggest it has been a bad year for the european union. this is what i meant to say when you are walking, about the interests of putin. the weaknesses in europe also stems from the unsolved problem in the middle is. putin is causing ever more refugees to be shipped in to migrate to other parts of europe which would increase instability in the west. it leads onto the last question as to whether or not there isa question as to whether or not there is a cold war in europe? the westerners too weak to present a solid front that it used to have. it is struggling to compass to terms with his own crisis. 2017 will not see the end of that. the case for a cold war. for there being some kind of new cold war in this continent of hours, is ukraine, which you have pointed out is a matter of great sensitivity to russia. as you know, the baltic nations, sweden for example is reinforcing islands in the baltic th

has asked to be excused. and are clerk today is erica major and we would like to thank her for being there today. we would like tothank jennifer larson of sfgtv who is filming and making sure that there are transcriptions available and online. mme. city clerk, do you have any announcements? >>yes.please silence all cell phones and electronic devices during the meeting. >>we have a motion and a second. can we do that without objection? >>[gavel] >>item number one is approved without objection. mme. city clerk, can you please read item number two. >>item 2 ishearing to consider that the transfer of a type 21 off-sale general alcoholic beverage control license to whole foods market california, inc., dba whole foods market, located on 1150 ocean avenue (district 7), will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of san francisco. (public safety and neighborhood services committee) >> if approved they will be allowed to sell beer and wine. they are considered a high crime area and it is considered an undue concentration area. the aou approves with the following recommended condi

thank you colleagues, this has been quite a run and i look forward to all the times that we did things together in a different way. >>[applause] >>thank you. >>i forgot erica maybomb was a staff member in my office for six months to and i really appreciate her taking over think you. >>[applause] >>okay with that, i will call on supervisor-- thank you for your service and your comments supervisor avalos. supervisor mar. >>> >>i just want to thank my colleagues for the change that they have started and i just want to thank the team leaders and for chair breed and i want to thank you guys instead of focusing on the power and the sites were the real power emerges and gives us strength encourage but think you so much for being here. my colleagues, thank you for allowing me to serve with you as well. i have learned so much from all of you and hope to continue the relationships with you. for me, it has been like 15 years and when i see the little ones i think about jade. she was just born when i joined the school board. and, i had known john before then. but, power does weird things to you. it tears her soul out to make you egotistical but it mostly pulls you awa

thank you colleagues, this has been quite a run and i look forward to all the times that we did things together in a different way. >>[applause] >>thank you. >>i forgot erica maybomb was a staff member in my office for six months to and i really appreciate her taking over think you. >>[applause] >>okay with that, i will call on supervisor-- thank you for your service and your comments supervisor avalos. supervisor mar. >>> >>i just want to thank my colleagues for the change that they have started and i just want to thank the team leaders and for chair breed and i want to thank you guys instead of focusing on the power and the sites were the real power emerges and gives us strength encourage but think you so much for being here. my colleagues, thank you for allowing me to serve with you as well. i have learned so much from all of you and hope to continue the relationships with you. for me, it has been like 15 years and when i see the little ones i think about jade. she was just born when i joined the school board. and, i had known john before then. but, power does weird things to you. it tears her soul out to make you egotistical but it mostly pulls you awa

. >> reporter: it has been a long road for these two little girls from antelope, near sacramento. >> this is eva and this is erica born at 32 weeks by emergency c-section the tips spent 7 months at lucille packard's intensive care unit. following the surgery, you see one of the twins eva being wheeled down the hallway for the first time in a bed by herself. lead surgeon gary hartman was concerned about the smaller twin erica. >> we were very concerned about her preoperatively. she basically kept getting smaller. the more calories we gave her, the bigger that eva got. >> reporter: erica is now recovering even quicker than her big sister. doctors expect the little girls to spend another month at the hospital before heading home. in the meantime they are sharing a hospital room, just in separate beds. ktvu fox 2 news. >>> still to come, a warning for amazon shoppers much there's a new scam happening and it involves getting your personal information. we tell you the best way to make sure that your info stays safe. >> we will look at stocks. a lot of green on the dow jones. similar on the nasdaq and s&p. stocks are ri

erica davis. i want to ask you about this -- most people would think why are you doing this? why are you starting a magazine? but it hastaken off.>> i get that all the time. it is very hard to make a magazine. there is a demand for healthy, quality food especially gluten- free. in we also embellish it with a lot of really stunning photography so i think that does the trick.>> that demand is across the country? >> there are a lot of people that need to eat gluten-free.>> let's talk -- this table is beautiful by the way. let's start on the end. walk us through about these ideas that we have.>> i don't know about you that i really like to spend a majority of my money on the food and gifts. >> i do. so my mother who turned 85 and i threw it brunch for her and i hired someone to make fat flower arrangements. it caused so much money i was shocked. i did not want to do that. in general i don't do that. so what i did was i wanted to show people how easy it was. this was under $10. this was from safeway. you can kind of curate what you like from it and put it into a few short glasses that i grabbed from ice covered and suddenly

sports analyst, hines ward, erica hill, flula borg, e crawford, john berman, helen hong, and seaton smith. it's all the best, all the worst, 2016. welcome and what a year this has been. i'm tom foreman. every time, it seems, we have one story rounded up, another one came charging around the corner. in big news, in sports, in science, in music, in movies and technology and tv and most of all, in the exhausting, exhilarating wildfire of politics. >> hillary clinton is a bigot. >> i am sick and tired of the negative, dark, divisive, division and behavior. >> this was the unpredictable year. >> definitely a crazy year. >> this was crueler, meaner, nastier. >> like, the mind screw of the century. >> i'm taking the gloves off, right? yes? >> this really was the worst election in modern history. i mean, it was like, not dumb and dumber, it was like hated and hateder. >> the presidential race was unprecedented. voters facing a choice between former secretary of state and u.s. senator, hillary clinton, a democrat, who would be the first woman to hold the oval office, and republican donald trump, a billionaire reality tv star, who would behe first president with no gover

america has made up many religions, there are more people more religions in s erica than religion evangelicals. mike pence religion is personal. i served 30 years in the military, my religion was personal. couldn't put my -- force my religion on my soldiers. soldiers from all over the world and i had to respect them, but we are getting to the point they told me first thing they told me as a private when i ent into the military, i gave up my rights to protect the people.nd serve other mike pence is the vice president all the ited states, creeds, all races, all all religions, he can't just represent his. america is great. was a little kid, a black an, we was oppressed more than anybody, but we knew, we knew america was great, they told us in school, america was of nations, nation but we have forgotten our history. somebody needs to go back and people our history, we got to learn to protect all people of us have us, none any priority with god, because all feel it, we need to stop putting priorities on who is who is best and who is religio religious. host: tony cook, pick up on this point. of alke

has asked to be excused. and are clerk today is erica major and we would like to thank her for being there today. we would like tothank jennifer larson of sfgtv who is filming and making sure that there are transcriptions available and online. mme. city clerk, do you have any announcements? >>yes.please silence all cell phones and electronic devices during the meeting. >>we have a motion and a second. can we do that without objection? >>[gavel] >>item number one is approved without objection. mme. city clerk, can you please read item number two. >>item 2 ishearing to consider that the transfer of a type 21 off-sale general alcoholic beverage control license to whole foods market california, inc., dba whole foods market, located on 1150 ocean avenue (district 7), will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of san francisco. (public safety and neighborhood services committee) >> if approved they will be allowed to sell beer and wine. they are considered a high crime area and it is considered an undue concentration area. the aou approves with the following recommended condi

thank you colleagues, this has been quite a run and i look forward to all the times that we did things together in a different way. >>[applause] >>thank you. >>i forgot erica maybomb was a staff member in my office for six months to and i really appreciate her taking over think you. >>[applause] >>okay with that, i will call on supervisor-- thank you for your service and your comments supervisor avalos. supervisor mar. >>> >>i just want to thank my colleagues for the change that they have started and i just want to thank the team leaders and for chair breed and i want to thank you guys instead of focusing on the power and the sites were the real power emerges and gives us strength encourage but think you so much for being here. my colleagues, thank you for allowing me to serve with you as well. i have learned so much from all of you and hope to continue the relationships with you. for me, it has been like 15 years and when i see the little ones i think about jade. she was just born when i joined the school board. and, i had known john before then. but, power does weird things to you. it tears her soul out to make you egotistical but it mostly pulls you awa

america has made up many religions, there are more people more religions in s erica than religion evangelicalske pence religion is personal. i served 30 years in the military, my religion was personal. couldn't put my -- force my religion on my soldiers. soldiers from all over the world and i had to respect them, but we are getting to the point they told me first thing they told me as a private when i ent into the military, i gave up my rights to protect the people.nd serve other mike pence is the vice president all the ited states, creeds, all races, all all religions, he can't just represent his. america is great. was a little kid, a black an, we was oppressed more than anybody, but we knew, we knew america was great, they told us in school, america was of nations, nation but we have forgotten our history. somebody needs to go back and people our history, we got to learn to protect all people of us have us, none any priority with god, because all feel it, we need to stop putting priorities on who is who is best and who is religio religious. host: tony cook, pick up on this point. of alked ab

thank you colleagues, this has been quite a run and i look forward to all the times that we did things together in a different way. >>[applause] >>thank you. >>i forgot ericaaybomb was a staff member in my office for six months to and i really appreciate her taking over think you. >>[applause] >>okay with that, i will call on supervisor-- thank you for your service and your comments supervisor avalos. supervisor mar. >>> >>i just want to thank my colleagues for the change that they have started and i just want to thank the team leaders and for chair breed and i want to thank you guys instead of focusing on the power and the sites were the real power emerges and gives us strength encourage but think you so much for being here. my colleagues, thank you for allowing me to serve with you as well. i have learned so much from all of you and hope to continue the relationships with you. for me, it has been like 15 years and when i see the little ones i think about jade. she was just born when i joined the school board. and, i had known john before then. but, power does weird things to you. it tears her soul out to make you egotistical but it mostly pulls you away

thank you colleagues, this has been quite a run and i look forward to all the times that we did things together in a different way. >>[applause] >>thank you. >>i forgot ericaaybomb was a staff member in my office for six months to and i really appreciate her taking over think you. >>[applause] >>okay with that, i will call on supervisor-- thank you for your service and your comments supervisor avalos. supervisor mar. >>> >>i just want to thank my colleagues for the change that they have started and i just want to thank the team leaders and for chair breed and i want to thank you guys instead of focusing on the power and the sites were the real power emerges and gives us strength encourage but think you so much for being here. my colleagues, thank you for allowing me to serve with you as well. i have learned so much from all of you and hope to continue the relationships with you. for me, it has been like 15 years and when i see the little ones i think about jade. she was just born when i joined the school board. and, i had known john before then. but, power does weird things to you. it tears her soul out to make you egotistical but it mostly pulls you away