staying on that managerial theme, tributes have been paid to the former manager jim smith who died yesterdayt various clubs including derby county and oxford united. he also worked with harry redknapp at portsmouth of course, who described him as probably his best ever signing. anyone here who comes into contact with him, loved him, he was such a great character, great football man, great character, great football man, great knowledge. great knowledge of the game. he knew players and he was a great character, great fun to be worth, always made you laugh. he could have a go at the players, he would blow up and go off his rocker, he would get read out would be shouting and screaming our ten minute late 80 would be having a cuddle with them and having a laugh. and every body love him, the players would accept whatever he said i'd accept the rankings at the ups and downs with him. everybody loved being aroundjim. let's take a look at some other sports stories around today. fifa has been advised to launch legal action against former president sepp blatter and ex—uefa head michel platini, to recov

jim smith, who has died at the age of 79.ells in charge of oxford, and derby leading the latter to promotion in 1996. we managed a total of nine clubs across the legs ina career total of nine clubs across the legs in a career which spanned 49 years asa in a career which spanned 49 years as a player and manager. rovers and natalie are well has died at the age of 29. she was one of the club's longest serving players. in a statement they said they thoughts are with her young daughter and family at this sad time stop pakistan cricket captain has thanked sri lanka for returning to the country a decade after a fatal attack on the team bus which brought an end to tours there. government ambush the two a coach living people dead and six players injured. they have sent played in the middle east. should a complaint in an limited overs match. the security might an historic moment for both teams. that is all from the bbc sports centre for now. you are watching bbc news, inafew for now. you are watching bbc news, in a few moments we will

yee: on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff sfgov tv, colina mendoza and jim smith who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public on-line. madam clerk, are there any communications? >> clerk: i have none to report, mr. president. >> president yee: okay. so can we please call -- madam clerk, can we please call the consent agenda? >> clerk: items 1 through 6 are on consent and considered to be routine. if requested, an item can be removed and heard separately. >> president yee: colleagues, would anyone like to remove any items from the consent agenda? seeing none, on items 1 through 6, madam clerk, please call the roll. [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president yee: okay. then without objections, these filings pass unanimously. [gavel]. >> president yee: madam clerk, let's go to our regular agenda and all items 7 -- call items 7 through 9 all together. >> clerk: items 7 is the ordinance to amend the planning code and the zoning map to create the 3333 california special use district. item 8 is an ordinance to approve an agr

i would also like to thank jim smith and matt at sfgovtv for staffing this meeting.o you have any announcements? >> thank you. please ensure you have silenced your cell phones. your speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. items today will appear on the december 17th agenda unless otherwise stated. >> do i have a motion to excuse supervisor brown. >> so moved. >> thank you. mr. clerk please call item two. >> resolution authorizing the planning department to confirm existing and create new and resized designtions of priority production areas by the association of bay area governments and the metropolitan transportation commission as part of the planned bay area 50 update. >> thank you. i am proud to expand this city-wide alongside supervisor fewer. it is important for san francisco to plan for our own future to pro actively say where we want more housing and to plan for increased housing density alongside improvements to public transit and important in. >> structure. we must do this with the input and support of the community. we continued from last week for fu

if it was jim smith, president of the united states, they'll say he's the greatest president that everith me, they can't get over it. there's unfortunately not many of them left but they're people but despite crooked leadership at the top of the f.b.i., crooked, dirty cops at the top. f.b.i., great people, but at the f.b.i., you had dirty cops. deep state sabotage. prosecutors.crat these were all put in there to destroy us. think of what we did. of heard russia -- think what we did, think of where we've come. how vicious it was. had 13 angry democrats. they were smart, vicious, evil. 18.it built up to they had 49 f.b.i. agents. thousands of subpoenas. hundreds of people and they found nothing. there's nobody in this room that through that and found nothing. i really mean that, too. it's incredible. they found nothing. how clean am i? no, think of that. but endless congressional investigations -- but think of it. of people interviewing everybody and they found nothing. the mueller report came out, it dud. total after 2 1/2 years. they have a baseless impeachment. of pages of fake news p

tributes have been paid to the former derby county, portsmouth and oxford united manager jim smith, who'sball league and led derby to promotion to the premier league in 1996. in recent times, he was most well known for being harry redknapp's assistant at portsmouth. the originator of the hairdryer as well. yes. ididn't well. yes. i didn't know that. he was known for being able to do that. very effective. ronnie o'sullivan says he'll continue to take risks after a trick shot almost cost him victory at the scottish open. have a look at this. he shook his head as if to indicate... he needed to pot this black to level the match against dominic dale but tried what's called a ‘banana shot‘, causing the white ball to fly off the table. it left everyone a little bit bemused. the ‘rocket‘ fought back, though, to win a—3 and progress in the tournament in glasgow. i never knew i was doing a trick shot. exactly. we had a pool table in the studio a few years ago and we both tried to doa few years ago and we both tried to do a trick shot. mind was useless and yours was perfect. can you play snooker as

tributes have been paid to the former manager jim smith who died yesterday at the age of 79. nto contact with him loved him. he was a great character a great football man, he has great knowledge, great knowledge of the game and he new the play, he knew players and he was a great character, pun if to be with, always made you laugh and he could have a got go at the player, he would blow up, got go at the player, he would blow up, go go got go at the player, he would blow up, go go a his rocker and his head would be red and he would be shouting and screaming and ten minutes later he would be having a cuddle and a laugh with him. everybody loved him. the players would accept whatever he said, the rucks and ups and downs but everybody loved being roundjim. rucks and ups and downs but everybody loved being round jim. that‘s all the sport for now. thank you. see you later. see you later. more now from the last day of the general election campaign, as party leaders target key seats in the hope of winning over undecided voters. let‘s go to cardiff and speak to our wales correspondent,

certain friends including thomas smith, jim pearson, kim dennis and the kings college, especially josiah peterson worked on research. i'd like to thank my family, my husband and my daughter flora who areboth here tonight . the first sentence of the thbook is a question. why not socialism? this is a question we asked d ourselves last night when we watched the presidential debate. how do we answer it? question all centrists, all common sense people, all market people want to be able e to deliver an answer. we all feel an obligation to undertake the long-term investments in projects that would open american minds so that american minds see the challenge and tragedy of socialism. we want to share the record of the past or the record of venezuela so that when they come to vote or these businesses and families, younger americans recognize what is not useful policy but where are we? it's november in 2019. educating is a long-term investment and some of us don't have the heart for the long haul. we feel frustrated at the prospect of outcomes and perhapsoutright failure in our intellectual entrep

the san francis looking for its first win in seattle since 2011 get this back when jim harbgh was the coach. alex smitharterback seattle didn't even have russell wilson ye last year the niners lost by 27 up the now good thing this time is george ttle will be in the mix he ssed the first meeting with the hawks that monday night overtime heartbreaker and carol knows at kind of loud atmosphere to expect that's enyway. >>not be no real effect you'd often tessa click on it as make big the come out of the end zone, so we've got to keep playing our type of football and i ow hopefully we can take right out of the lel of intensy of these games as a its real i think. >>if you don't know that going into you're ing to beds to that spot. so i thi just our team's mindset. when started these ysas monday night here i was a elven atmosphere too so because i know what you'e getting into. >>and goff just after 5 sunday night to thraiders doesn't look like josh jacobs will be sitting up in theirregular season finale at denver. the rookie running back did not practice today nd is in line to miss his second straight game wi

have left seattle with a victory the last time to be exact in december 2011 when jim harbaugh was the head coach alex smithk and russell wilson was still in college. now an opportunity for the niners to end tt awful streak and clinch the nfc east top seat, neither seawks and a 94 will not be making s return doesn't look like quasi todd will be suiting up either. >>now last year in seattle the niners lost by 27 this they fell on the field goal in overtime. good thing here george kittle will be in th mix after missing the first meeting with the hawks and kill knows what kind of loud this year to expect that centrally. >>me to come not be you know click on it as make big the o come out of the end zone, so we've got to keep playing our type of footall and i know hopefully we can take crowd out of it the level of intensity of these games as a its real think. >>if you dot know that going so i think just our team's ot. mindset. started ese ys is monday night here i was a shl of atmosphere too so because i know at you're getting into. >>kickoff just afte5 sunday night to the raiders highly unlikely josh jacobs sui

smith. >> reporter: 50 years ago, caroll spinney was a puppeteer in search of a purpose, when muppet creator jim henson asked him to join his team. >> he said, i'll be involved with a new show. ♪ how to get to sesame street >> would you be interested in working with the mup itpemuppet? >> reporter: in the day to day going ons, there needed to be an innocent a character without guile. his was a child'aks ic 8'2" bird ♪ full of different bf thire kio wanted to do the right thing that's what big bird is always trying to be, a good kid >> reporter: awkward, flightless, and sweet, big bird was the perfect counterpart to oscar the grouch, who was also played by spinney. >> oscar is cool it is fun to play somebody very different than oneself on the other hand, big bird is my kid in some ways, i love him best. >> reporter: big bird brought him all over the world, opened his mind, and nurtured his soul. thank you, caroll spinney, for 50 years you have been our fine feathered friend harry smith, nbc news, new york. >> caroll spinney was 85 years old. >>> we are close to the end of the season, but the nfl

here's nbc's harry smith >> reporter: 50 years ago caroll spinney was a puppateer in search of a purpose when muppet creator jim hensen asked him to join his creation. ♪ and won the day-to-day goin o that. see, it's got letters on it. >> reporter: a character without guile. 8'2" bird >> i was one of those kind of kids who wanted to do the right thing. that's what big bird is always trying to be is be a good kid. >> reporter: awkward, flightless, and sweet, big bird was the perfect counterpart to ostor the grouch who was also played by spinney. >> oscar's kind of cool. it's fun to play somebody very different than oneself on the other hand, big bird is my kid in some ways i love him best >> reporter: big bird brought him all over the world, opened his mind and nurtured his soul thank you, caroll spinney, for 50 years you have been our fine-feathered friend. harry smith, nbc news, caroll s5 >>> another loss in the entertainment community, "ar" an his home the cause of death was metastic lung cancer. he earned an emmy nod in the sitcom "benson" and he played in star trek deep space nine. it is a terrible loss of a

thank senators rubio and enendez, chris smith and tom suozzi. i thank jim mcgovern for his bork -- his work, and i that i partner in -- my partner in unning the subcommittee, mr. yoho. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey. yield to the gentleman from florida, mr. yoho. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. yoho: thank you, mr. speaker. and i just want to give my strong support for s. 178. look back over the years when we've seen this and e had these discussions in our foreign affairs committee about are going ons that in the xinjiang province. you know, we -- last year we the concentration camps that we see going up and about ere were reports the creamtoriums going in and we ead advertisements to hire guards for the creamtorium, they must be physically fit, they be able to defend themselves, and they need to know how to use a weapon, so creamtoriums set up in this province. my question is, why do you need crematoru -- crematoriums o burn people, you know, america is the leader of the free

rogers: i thank the ranking member and chairman smith in bringing this conference report to the floor. i'm very pleased that spaceforce that jim cooper and i have been working on is finally becoming a reality. this report establishes the u.s. spaceforce as the sixth armed service of the united states under the department of the air force and first new branch of the military since 1947. it also recognizes space as a warfighting domain and transfers personnel to the spaceforce. this is an important step for our national security. our adversaries are moving quickly in space and this new service will align our efforts towards countering them. the originally passed ndaa that every republican opposed, i am pleased those the unreasonable border restrictions have been moved. this is a strong defense bill and i urge the house to pass this bill. mr. smith: i am pleased to yield two minutes to the the gentlewoman from new york, mrs. maloney. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. mrs. maloney: thank you. ndaa in support for this conference report and particularly for its inclusion of language from my bill,

taking over, jim which again i don't think is that much of a surprise given what, you know, i've been hearing of late, i assume you have as well it is not an interim role either mr. smith, who is going to be the interim ceo for three weeks for whatever reason calhoun is not actually taking over as ceo until the 13th of january and kellner will become chairman. >> i think calhoun as we all know -- we thought -- very difficult to imagine him not being ceo. and this will be very good you simply had to get muilenburg out to get this process going. i don't think anyone wanted to deal with him. that first day he appeared in front of congress was a disaster people will never forget that. he had -- they asked him about his pay package, and he said it was up to the board, come on it is up to you. be human and i think this was an actual response and i think now the process that we have i think it is going to accelerate whatever was going to happen people realize this plane is going to be on the air some day. i don't think that dennis was going to get to the promised land. >> yeah, jim, to your point, calhoun's quote here i strongly believe in the future of boeing and the 737 max