reporter cindy hsu talked to that student and her teacher about how she made it happen.h all my friends are really supportive."anna rezk is incredibly modest but she just made history at high technical high school as the first student to be accepted into all 8 ivy league colleges on full ride scholarships. anna rezk-12th grader:" it was very surprising and very surreal at the same time because i didn't actually think it was real"but anna put in the work... she has a 5.63 grade point average thanks to all the advaced placement classes she took, and scored a 1570 out of 1600 on her sat's. her parents immigrated from egypt and her father died from pancreatic cancer when she was just 13, so now she wants to find a cure.anna's twin brother john says anna became like a second mother. john rezk/brother: but she was always like the mediator and always take care of us and making sure we were on track" anna came to tears talking about her dad, and says she has an idea of what her father is doing right now. "anna i think he's proud probably bragging to other angels or something, li

(robin) that was cindy hsu reporting. coming upif you build it, they will go around.ance the city tries to make a dangerous bike lane safer, but in the true spirit of san francisco, drivers don't want nothing to do with it. i'll explain in the next edition of people behaving badly (robin) and here's a live look outside... at the embarcadero. (ácommercialá) (áábreakáá) there's a traffic trouble spot in san francisco that's a mess.. stanley explains on this edition of people behaving badly. if you build it they will go around (traffic noise)back in october of 2017 i highlighted a dangerous section of a bike lane located at battery and the embarcadero(throwback)but you will see driver, after driver, after driver make that illegal maneuver across the dedicated bike lane so the city of san francisco installed flex posts to keep drivers from crossing over the bike lane and cutting off bicyclist and other drivers but in the true spirit of san francisco, drivers don't want nothing to do with it we almost what this uber driver who not sure what to do so he stops. (traffic nois

allies in the middle east however security analyst charles hsu bridge believes it's the saudis who should be concerned about their friendship with washington. is using this issue as a stick to beat qatar and of course qatar has used its considerable wealth to attack for example a propaganda term saudi arabia both countries have been uncomfortable allies for some time said that by backing the syrian rebellion of course in this particular instance saudi arabia knows that qatar is not in a position to physically provide troops on the ground simply because its armed forces are small but of course they would like to see qatar finances further trained it's interesting donald trump's remarks and self has said that without us in other words without the americans those countries would fall within hours or weeks or something like this he said this is a truce that is very rarely spoken publicly and they want to get deflect attention onto one another but. facebook has had another grilling from lawmakers this time in the u.k. the social media giant has been taken to task by m.p.'s over the platform's

the n.g.o.s human rights in china and professor of law at new york university and from beijing kindo hsu a political analyst at china radio international and senior fellow at the pangle institution thank you both for joining me in the arena chinda let me start with you is she jinping or some say the numero one of his biographers says he's now emperor for life. no it's different from the period run by a chairman more for one thing this is a nod to the cultural revolution in then sixty's that we are living in the twenty first century. twenty four seven basically water war media coverage and also social media no government no one person can basically control the whole society no it's not the case and secondly i think a lot of people don't really understand what's going on within china is specially with this removal of thermal limit i think that there is. also i think want to see this as part of the chinese explore recent to seek a model you know that feeds perfectly for the chinese situation so that's part of the effort i don't think this is the end of the chinese politics this is not the e

minister waiting to see what comes next well security analyst and former british army officer charles hsu bridges told r.t. that any gulf states sending troops into syria would be breaking the law while a lot depends on the difference of course between what is being stated quite grandly by various politicians and leaders and what actually my actually turned out to happen on the ground let's not forget that this would be an occupation force because syria of course is a sovereign entity certainly the recognized government of syria has not invited these other countries from the g.c.c. the gulf cooperation council states to come and join in any action or any military operations inside syria itself let's not forget. president assad and his forces are winning the war in syria and almost certainly at some stage those that then replace american troops may well end up in combat against syrian forces and possibly also russian forces and those countries will be keen to avoid that i suspect. the french president has concluded a three day trip to washington by addressing the u.s. congress where he got

hsu. >> so let me see if i can try to answer your question. during this evening, i tried to flag which amendments would be substantive or require a continuance. the only one that was in that category was commissioner kopp's proposal, which failed. the vast amendments that have been considered on the floor and have been adopted by the commission have not been substantive. if there were a meeting of the minds for those bodies, then we would be done. >> supervisor safai: so through the chair, just point of clarification, if the commissioners were to approve what we had just approved, is there still an opportunity after tonight if they wanted to amend that, or is it done? >> i mean, it's a -- through the president to supervisor safai, i mean, i guess there are all sorts of permanent permutations out there. >> supervisor safai: i guess what i'm saying is, if the commissioners were to vote and approve after we've just done this now, they are going to have a regularly scheduled meeting. at that regularly scheduled meeting, they could make the decisio

yes, director hsu. >> thank you, madam chair. so i'm encouraged to hear that this joint effort with b.a.r.t. on the station homeless services seems to be having some results. i'm just curious. do we just split that evenly with them or how will that take shape going forward? >> generally how it works with the stations, is we share maintenance responsibilities roughly 50-50, so for those pilots, we've just carried this forward. we -- you know, a lot of the areas are shared, and that's where a lot of the issues are, in the shared areas, but we both equally benefit from anything that improves the rider experience or reduced the maintenance ticket or both. >> and i take it well, this is something that could come from additional city sources, but we've got to get it done. >> i think it would help b.a.r.t. to say well, the social service agency should be paying for that. the social service agencies have their own budget challenges that they're trying to address. these are our stations so we're working very collaboratively with them on t

. >> 10.1, any -- yes, director hsu? >> i do feel some concerns to residents who find it hard to park in the area. this is an area where we could explore that thethe -- in the future. >> it's a little harder to enforce, but it is something that is -- it is being kind of bandied and about and discussed a little bit, so yes, that's on the radar. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. anyone else? yes? >> so how many potential residential parking spaces will be is beingrsacrificed? >> it's something like 16. >> so three blocks from 33rd to 36th or 50 -- >> including, in total, including both of those segments, so it would be -- it's about 15 in each of those. >> do you have an alternative. >> well, just as an example, if you stand at the corner of 44th and taraval, within a quarter mile, there are roughly about 1,000 parking spaces, and about 60 would have a time limit. >> did you provide outreach to the disableds and seniors as a result of having to walk this quarter mile? >> i think one of the things we're making sure is

. >> [role call] >> director hsu will be absent and you do have a quorum. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. >> the use of cell phones, p e pagers or electronic devices are prohibited at the meeting. any person responsible for the ringing of a cell phone or whatever in the room may be asked to leave the room. cell phones set on vibrate do cause microphone interference so please turn them off. approval of minutes. >> chairman brinkman: any public comments? no. a motion to approvement. >> the closed session discussion regarding the paul case has been remove from the agenda at the request of staff. in addition, staff has asked that 10.2h and i will considered separately under the consent calendar. that's it for communications. >> chairman brinkman: item 6 introduction of new or unfinished business by board members. >> i have something to mention. i'm sure that you've seen e-mails from neighbors talking about the traffic calming work that went on there. a little bit of unhappiness with the big changes on the street. so director rubke and myself went to meet with the neighbors. i had a fanta

human rights in china and professor of law at new york university and from beijing kindo hsu a political analyst at china radio international and senior fellow at the pangle institution thank you both for joining me in the arena chinda let me start with you is she jinping or some say the numero one of his biographer says he's now emperor for life. no it's different from the period run by the chairman more for one thing this is a nod to the cultural revolution in the sixty's so we're living in the twenty first century the twenty fourth wall to wall media coverage and also social media no government no one person basically control the whole society not of the case and secondly i think a lot of people don't really understand what's going on within china is specially with the removal of thermal limit i think that there is of course technical reasons they want to bring the through that unified the with the parties secretary and also chairman of the central military commission and also i think are going to see this as part of the chinese exploration to seek a model you know that feeds perfectl

and also when i heard hsus is on this, i think that's another piece like the ninth sir advice. thank you, mr. chairman. >> other comments? yes, sir, five minutes. >> just a brief constitutional question. some states have made marijuana legal. others have illegal. would this now set up a cause of action for a state that's made marijuana legal for another state that has banned it from being imported? for instance california saying they should sue iowa because they cannot now import legalized marijuana. so i'm worried about unin epgs tended consequences. and it would be great to hear whether the underlying bill could set up this cause of action between states. >> would the gentleman yield. >> yes. >> i can't imagine anyone attempting to tell anyone in california how to raise marijuana. so we are out. >> anyone else? i intend to vote against the denim amendment. i believe the king amendment is better path forward. share with my colleagues. any other comments? seeing none, the motion is -- the vote is on the gentleman's second agreement. for all mr. denim all those in favor say a? t