search rescue agent laura thomas and you cannot see the k-9 but he is there in the -- ainsley: this is your first time in new york. >> it is my first time in new york. ainsley: commissioner, you met with the president yesterday. what was that like at the white house. >> it is. have our agents honored for the work they do. narcotic seizures and rescues which agent thomas' efforts. steve: agent, how did that make you feel to see some of the rank and file people you work with being recognized by the president saying come on up here and tell us what you do. get in the publicity that they deserve? >> it's great to see, actually feel appreciated, that's a big thing for us. it's nice to see boots on the ground. brian: commissioner, how do you feel about this whole abolish ice movement that's out there. local law enforcement being told not to work with you? what does that do for you? what do you tell your men and women? >> right.

and also vice president laura thomas. i've learned a lot about just who we serve within our entertainment commission. and i'm very excited to really create this platform, a storytelling platform where we're a city where community matters, culture matters. and one thing that i'm very proud of is that we create a safe, diverse, inclusive nightlife offerings across the city. we have a complicated and complex city. we live hard, work hard, play hard, love hard. and i think we need to support residents and businesses in creating and expanding our entertainment hubs throughout the city. so that's something i'm looking forward to in creating bridges between the neighbors and night life and carrying out the legacy of female leadership within the entertainment commission. >> president tan: i fully support that. i think the way the elections work, we just vote. if there's no other nomination, we can go ahead and vote. >> clerk: do we need a second on that? >> president tan: sure. >> i will second that. >> clerk: [roll call vote] i

. >> laura thomas is the deputy state director in california for the drug policy alliance. >> this is not about enabling drug use. this is about providing people with some dignity and respect so that they can take that next step to get into treatment, if that's what they want. >> the safer inside demonstration is open through friday at glide in the tenderloin neighborhood. there will be no consumption of drugs at this demonstration silent. it's not clear when an actual site could open. in the newsroom, melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. >> okay, melanie, thanks. as we said, san francisco's safe injection site initiative is modelled after a program in canada that started in vancouver. we spoke with people there about how that program is working. >> we found that in the first four years the facility was open, there were over one thousand overdose events within the facility itself. >> dr. mj malloy is with the british columbia center on substance use. he's been studying the impacts of safe injection sites like this one in vancouver called incite. it opened in 2003. >> the primary objectives of

>> an edit under the call to order where it said that laura thomas was absent, i'm there, because i hadade a comment about how my name was misspelled on the previous minutes. >> president tan: thank you for that important correction. any other edits or happy to entertain a motion. >> i move to approve with commissioner thomas's edit. >> second. >> president tan: motion and second. any public comment? all right. let's take a vote. >> clerk: [roll call vote] >> president tan: motion passes, minutes approved. item 3, report from our current acting director, ms. wyland. >> thank you and good evening. i just wanted to update you. i know that dylan rice has been speaking with you at hearing about the plastic reduction ordinance that supervisor katy tang's office has been working on with the department of the environment, so i wanted to give you a brief update that that did pass at the board of supervisors on july 31 and it's been referred to the mayor's office for signature to make it go into effect. dylan and i -- especially dylan -- was project managing on this legislation representing our

. >> reporter: laura thomas is the -- policy alliance. >> this is not about enabling drug use, it's about providing people with dignity and respect so they can then take the next step to get into treatment if that'shay want. >> repter: the safer inside demonstration is open through friday at glide. >> there will be no consumption of drugs at that demonstration site. it's not clear when an actual site could open. >> melanie, thanks very much. >>> san francisco's safe injection site initiative is modeled after a program in canada that started in vancouver. and we spoke today with people there about how that program is working. >> we found that in the first four years the facility was open there were over 1,000 overdose events within the facility itself. >> dr. mj molloy is with the british columbia center on substance use, he's been studying the impacts of safe injection sites like this an at vancouver called insight that opened in 2003. >> the primary objectives are to reduce the risk of disease transmission and in particular deaths fm crse uak medical care. >> this video shows an addict c

laura. you clerked for the second circuit and for judge thomas. you don't win fights with federal judges and you don't try to pick fights with federal judges. i don't mind that the prosecutors are being aggressive and standing up for their position. i don't know if i would have filed something like that and would have asked for a side bar and say you told the jury -- you said something yesterday could you remind the jury that what you say is not evidence and you don't have an opinion in this case. that's how i would have handled it. >> one of the uncomfortable exchanges and there are many in the past few days, some of it is just entertaining. let's just say that. there's one point where judge ellis thinks that one of the lawyers for mueller is not looking at him. and so the judge says, "i'm here. from the bench." and he says i'm sorry, i'm listening. and ellis says i know when you look down, it's as if to say that's bs i don't want to listen to any more. and he says you continue to interpret our actions in some way we don't do that. and ellis says

laura. look you clerked for the second circuit, justice thomas, you do not -- prosecutor's, you don't win fights with federal judges. and you don't try to pick fights with federal judges. look, i don't mind that the prosecutor's are being aggressive, that they're standing up for their position. i don't know if i would have filed something like that, and instead probably would have asked for a sidebar and said, hey judge, you know you told the injury, injury i, you said something yesterday, i'm not sure it was correct. could you remind the jury that what you say is not evidence and you don't have an opinion nick? >> james one of the uncomfortable exchanges and there are many during the past several days but some of it is entertaining. there is one point where judge ellis thinks that one of the lawyers for mueller is not looking at him. and so the judge says, i'm here mr. andres, like i'm here from the ben of, andres says i'm sorry, judge i'm listening. ellis says i know but when you look down it's as if to say you know that's bs i don't want to listen to any more from you. andres says judge you a

welcome to thomas, ev and laura.lers. caroline, you are an officerfor sellers. caroline, you are an officer for the rspca, sellers. caroline, you are an officerfor the rspca, explained to us officerfor the rspca, explained to us what the problem is at the moment and what you think needs to change? 0ver and what you think needs to change? over the last few years will we have found is that the selling puppies and kittens has become big business and kittens has become big business and what that has meant is that the welfare of the animals has called the bottom of the pie all. —— drawn to the bottom of the pie all. they are being bred all over the place, whether in this country, overseas, the condition over there i would hate to think what they are like. then the animals are moved, often too young, arcane diseases, so we are then presented with animals that are then presented with animals that are dumped when their health problems become too much or the owners do the right thing and they come to the vet with a little pup

says thomas freedman, he thinks exposing trump's personality will discourage moderate republicans. how does that work in 2016? lauraoing downhill because of

says thomas freedman, he thinks exposing trump's personality will discourage moderate republicans. how does that work in 2016? laura ingram under fire for saying america's going downhill because of immigrants. were her comments racist? ohio's special election in what's normally a deep red congressional district still too close to call. many is blaming on this man. they thi i will ask another famously accused green party spoiler jill stein what she thinks. does the media help for covering trump's rallies. this debate persisted ever since we elected donald trump. new york times columnist, thomas freedman and this set off a new fire tomorrow. keep up the blanket coverage of trump, it hurts him. freedman says "it appears to be the toxic lying and bullying and unpresidential behavior that trump exhibits most in his rally and tweets that we excessively cov cover." bring on the coverage. the reaction like places of fox news, is this what everyone says leading up to the 2016 election. >> what a great idea, remember what happened the last time the media covered every tweet and rally and every word of donald trump and every

says thomas freedman, he thinks exposing trump's personality will discourage moderate republicans. but how did that work in 2016? laurangraham under fire for saying america's going downhill because of immigrants. were her comments racist? or part of a larger white culture war? ohio's special election in what's normally a deep red congressional district still too close to call. many are trying to blame this man, green party joe manchik. i will ask another famously accused green party spoiler jill stein what she thinks. does the media help or hurt president trump by covering his rallies? this debate persisted ever since we elected donald trump. this week came an interest crop-offer, however, from an unlikely source, "new york times" columnist thomas freidman, and this set off a new fire storm. keep up the blanket coverage of trump, it hurts him. freedman says "it appears to be the toxic lying and bullying and unpresidential behavior that trump exhibits most in his rally and tweets which we so incessantly cover, that's turning off those trump will need. bring on the coverage. the reaction like places of fox news was -- i

says thomas freedman, he thinks exposing trump's personality will discourage moderate republicans. but how did that work in 2016? laura for saying america's going downhill because of immigrants. were her comments racist? or part of a larger white culture war? ohio's special election in what's normally a deep red congressional district still too close to call. many are trying to blame

thomas. >> the big day is saturday. go to nbc bay area.com. most of the shelters waiving or reducing those adoption fees and, laura, you and i will be out at berkeleyhis weekend. >> saturday morning. broadcast live. will be there early. you know it's worthwhile when we're excited to work on a saturday. >> a lot of animals. >> come on out. there you go. a ten weather's going to crank up just a little bit. >> a lot. for the inland areas. we have enjoyed a nice little break and still taking it all in now. i want to show you a live picture of kelseyville near where we had the mendocino complex fire and just last week opening this camera i wouldn't be able to see anything because of the thick smoke but now over clear lake right now and the air quality there improving just a bit as we get more containment. but we have drifts of smoke coming into the inland parts of the east bay and that's the reason it looks so hazy outside. taking a live look outside in dublin at this hour. still moderate air quality as we have the shift in the wind that's going to carry some of that smoke into parts of the inland east bay and kind of get trapped in santa clara valley.

laura: but is not an opinion journalist. i am! i'm not a reporter. i'm a commentator. i work for the reagan administration and for justice thomas. don't pretend to be objective. i'm an opinion journalist but i think i am fair and i think there are great reporters -- >> but the impact on fact and story, sean hannity is single-handedly given incredible credence to some of the worst conspiracy -- >> laura: first of all, if you will come on this network and attack fox, philippe -- conspiracy theories. you know what i think it is a conspiracy theory? saying garbage people, jeering at another pearson, falsely accusing them, flipping them off -- marc cavuto, who says the most horrific thing, as a political reporter -- >> i don't know -- >> laura: marc cavuto? >> at sarah jeong. everyone said things they should regret, whether they do or not. >> laura: these people are reporters! they are supposed to be calling balls and strikes, correct? >> and they are. >> and wendy sarah sanders lies, they call it out. speak up when jim goes to a trump rally -- >> you will have trump supporters and conservatives -- >> these are americans. the audienc

injakarta is thomas howells, director of programme implementation at save the children. dr lauraere on the third floor of the catamaran resort in senggigi. we were getting ready to go out for a meal and the whole of the resort shook, violently. it was just terrifying. me and my partner grabbed each other, hid under the table, as the ceiling collapsed, the floor cracked, the glass and the tiles smashed to smithereens. it was just for. people we re smithereens. it was just for. people were screaming —— it was just horror. people had shards of glass stuck in their legs. the staircase had gone. the whole of the hotel had been demolished. flattened in the earthquake. then everybody... at the back of the resort, we had to run up a very steep hill because of the threat of the tsunami. sorry. people we re threat of the tsunami. sorry. people were crying, being sick, the locals that had lost most of their livelihoods, they were worried about their own families. a lot of poor people in lombok and everybodyjust help each other. people do not realise, this has been really... it has been real

university professor laura edwards teaches a class on public land and the law in the early american public. competing westward expansion among the founders, alexander hamilton and thomas jefferson. type of the multiple federal laws aimed at land distribution. and usurping native american land. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. public lands in the legal order. up for a second to link this class to the to the last time. about federalism and the balance of power between state and totality's. let's talk about federalism, they usually use the term -- the federal government and state. last time we are talking about the differences between state and local levels power. the debates of the federal level, anything much more contentious because so much governing authority was located. we talked about the system of layered authorities. they control over the rights of citizens and public interests. discussion brought over a wide range of dust. the republic interest. over the discussion over this broad area of the public --. they operated simultaneously, with local areas doing that thing and safety in that thing. two differentween kinds a lot. we have a universal law and which

university professor laura edwards teaches a class on public land and the law in the early american public. competing westward expansion among the founders, alexander hamilton and thomas jefferson. type of the multiple federal laws aimed at land distribution.