troy adams, john mccormick. leann lamonte. sf public defender's office. glide, laura sign, hillary brown, june bug and tak fatina. you have two minutes. speak directly into the microphone. if you have prepared written statements leave those with the clerk. no applause is permitted. in the interest of time speakers are encouraged to avoid repetition. >> hello. in the spirit of melvin bell high i want to use demonstrative evidence as my debate. i am the evidence here. i don't have a doctor in front of my name but i do have a ph.d. in drug addiction and homelessness. i was a drug addict for 20 years, 15 of those i was homeless on the street of san francisco. i had three sons on the street between fifth and sixth on market street. i have been clean and sober for four years. i know the programs today in san francisco have worked for me. i want to talk about why i am passionate about treatment on demand and i believe we need treatment on demand now. we live in a age in a society. it is now. when i was homeless in the 1990s i had a lot of opportunities and peopl

. >> i am john mccormick in the community organizing office. i am here to tell the story of cheryl china co-worker and member of the tenderloin people's congress. on wednesday of this week cheryl was attacked on the corner of golden gate and leavenworth across the street from my office. a whole can of mace was unloaded to her. she ran across the street and was briefly pursued by the gentleman who unloaded the mace on her. he unloaded a whole can of mace. under no circumstance is that okay in any circumstance. cheryl is very traumatized by this. she is not feeling good. she is in the condition i haven't personally seen her in before, and she believes like i did that if we had treatment on demand, this never would have happened. treatment on demand if it was implemented years ago, the mental health of the people in the tenderloin would be better and this never would happen. cheryl isn't here because of the trauma she is facing. we talked before this so i can tell her story. this is something we can fix if we get some mental health services. pleas

mccormick, our guest from natwest markets in our london studio. let's get the first word news with annabelle droulers in hong kong. president trump says he has fired his national security advisor john bolton. the notoriously hawkish bolton left minutes before a scheduled briefing on terrorism. five minutes after the announcement, he contradicted the president saying he'd offered to resign on monday night. the white house says bolton and the president had been disagreeing on "many, many issues." to u.s. farmers, china's opening the door to u.s. sort -- soybean shipments from argentina. beijing has processed imported beans itself. a report in the china morning post said a deal is being worked on for beijing to step up american farm imports. saudi aramco is said to have picked banks including j.p. morgan chase for top roles on its planned ipo. bloomberg learned aramco is considering selling a 1% stake on the saudi stock exchange before performing an overseas -- pursuing it overseas listing. the big ipo decision will ultimately be made by shareholders themselves. south korea says it will file a wto complaint against japan. at exportnhappy curbs in chips and display manufacturing. was p