we are inside the historic clark 24 inch refracting telescope dome of lowell observatory. this was established in 1894, before arizona was even a state. here, heirst came out had grown up out east, came from a wealthy family, got interested in astronomy, and realized if he was going to build an observatory back east, it was not ideal because it was the 1890's, you had the proliferation of electric lights that were shining on the skies and making it more difficult to see stars and planets and such. so what he decided to do was go to the american southwest. he sent an assistant out here, andrew douglas, to map sites around the territory, and they chose flagstaff. flagstaff has very dark skies, and was at a higher elevation, 7000 feet. the higher the elevation, the less air you have to look through. the less distortion. the air is like a swimming pool. when you open your eyes in a swimming pool everything is kind , of fuzzy because the water is bending that light -- air does the same thing. so the more air you look through the more distorted stars are going to look through. t

lowell told us mr. kushner preserved records of his, his messages, by taking screen shots of his conversations and then forwarding them to his official account. three months letter -- three months later, after i disclosed our conversation in a letter to the white house, mr. lowell claimed that my letter was, quote, "not completely accurate" about what was said. i was at the meeting and i know what i heard. but this committee should not have to rely on me or mr. lowell to answer questions about kushner's issues of messaging applications to conduct official business. mr. lowell himself stated in his letter, and i quote, "if there wasn't a question about the use of what's app, that is a question for the white house council, not me. that is why i have repeatedly requested information from the white house about this issue over the past two years. there are serious questions white house's use of personal emails. and we need subpoenas to get answers. i want to distinguish myself with mr. starbangs. i mean, we

lowell at our requested information about mr. kushner's reported use of what's app to communicate with foreign officials. during our meeting, mr. lowell confirmed to me that jared kushner uses messaging applications to conduct official business preserved records of his, his messages, by taking screen shots of his conversations and then forwarding them to his official account. in a letter to the white house, mr. lowell claimed that my letter was, quote, not completely accurate about what was said. i was at the meeting and i know what i heard. but this committee should not have to rely on me or mr. lowell to answer questions about kushner's issues of messaging applications to conduct offic l official. if there wasn't a question about the use of what's app, that is a question for the white house council. not me. that is why i have repeatedly requested information from the white house about this issue over the past two years. there are serious questions about this white house's emails. and we need subpoenas to get answers. i want to

we are proud parents of caitlin and skyler wong, they attend lowell high school -- lowell and josÉ ortegaelementary school. we have been residents with the parkside district in san francisco for more than ten years. last year, 2018, we were doing an earthquake retrofit and other renovations at our house. because of the dust hazards and temporary interruptions of water and electricity, we temporarily moved to daily city for one month and extended to about seven weeks because of extenuating circumstances. policy 5111 . ia allows for tempering provisions with no mention of a 14 day notification we never permanently changed our residency. my wife was going through a bitter inheritance battle with her brother. he was the one who fraudulently and vindictively reported as to the school district for residency fraud. he knew exactly when we were going to move to the other house he originally started the residency audit in march of 2018 and we were notified november 2018, and twice we gave them additional information. we provided them with 92 pages of residency documentation over ten years and 142

all listed organs has need to be reformed according to a lowell and this load this. videos we have a say in it although the military will will and or take the actual implementation of that low when it comes to reforming the military the rapid response force the security but then that is according to a low as a civilians will have to say so i think it will set a precedent that we can have a transition jointly managed by the military and civilian and hopefully so then has a rich history of transition and do remember during the last 6 decades so that and there. went 3 transitions one from the from the coup.

my name is shivon foster, and i'm an incoming 11th grader at lowell high school. in my first year at lowell, i've seen many microaggressions toward me and my human beings. imagine how many microaggressions are triggered at washington high school when they walk into this. also, they talk about this moments diversity, but when you see the people that are negative or affirmative for keeping the mural, it's usually white males, old males that aren't in the school system. also -- [applause] >> also, we always learn about our histories, we get the turns, the comments about learning of slavery. also, if this was a story of whites being beaten, the tables would be turned. >> my name is julie roberts fung. i'm hear on behalf of an organization called showing up for racial justice, and i want to emphasize the showing up. i want to thank you for your courage. i also want to take a minute and speak to white folks who are concerned about being called racist or worried that they're upholding white supremacy, and i want to emphasize the showing up. this is not where our hearts a

thank you, and i'm turning it over to lowell from s.f. environment. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. >> hi. good afternoon. my name is lowell chu from the department of the environment, and i'm here to give you all a snapshot of the transportation future. we need to continue prioritizing transit, biking, and walking, but at the same time we have to shift the focus to zero emission vehicles by -- we need to direct the people towards other modes of transportation while simultaneously -- as you can see, over 450,000 vehicled registered in the city and over 135,000 commutes in daily and with 45,000 network company vehicles operating on our roads, it's quite challenging. at the same time, the medium and heavy duty vehicle sector, as well as our neighbors and residents in the multivehicle dwellings, face a particular challenge in vehicle charging in particular. speaking of multivehicle families, their multibuildings have challenges -- as a result, they really depend on the publicly accessible charging network. we have over

she met lowell thomas.dy who could buy, inexpensively, all the supplies to build houses for the refugees. >> that is amazing. over the decades, naomi stockpiles her beads in her san francisco condo. >> i thought she was a smuggler, which made it even more exciting. >> what?! >> she was this kind of bigger-than-life, independent woman who did exactly what she wanted, and i thought she was magic. >> she never married? >> no, she never did. she had many proposals. she had so many diamond rings that she took all the diamonds and made one band. >> from different guys? >> all from different guys. >> by the early 2000s, naomi is long retired from pan am, and her world travels have come to an end. but even into her 80s, she's still feisty as ever. >> she was probably about a year beyond needing full-time care, but she kept sending her caregivers home. so mom and i decided that the best thing to do was to have a family member live with her, and i was portable at the time and eager because i loved her so much. >> lis

the west hollywood city council unanimously approved the business license fothe lowell family farms cafe. the business owners say cannabis products will replace alcohol, patrons can smoke, vape or eat cannabis along with having their meals and feature indoor and outdoor eating area and prom to use the same kind of air filters used in casinos to keep marijuana smoke from spreading outside of the property of the cafe. >>> facebook is back in the hot seat. coming up, the argument executives are making in favor of starting their on crypto currencymay not have caused large scale damage to gulf coast states but pointing out flaws, how officials are prepare for the worst. >>> traffic is going the be busy if you are driving on the commutes already early in the morning. eastbound 580, seminary, avoid that off ramp. we will tell you what is going on here and why it is partially shut down. >>> not much change, we are stuck in a pattern, 80s, 90s. near the coast, fog and sun and 60s. . s a capitol hill digital currency proposed by facebook. the hearing starts by 7:00 this morning our time. senators

one witness told a lowell tv station that it didn't sound right.appeared it climbed about 200 feet before it veered into the hangar. the victims's names have not been released. tomorrow will usher in new laws in california. >> this is more for home defense. >> starting minute, people buying ammunition have to go through background checks. california has some of the strictest gun laws in the country. it will be the first to require it at the point of sale. another law directly impacts law enforcement. from body worn cameras within 45 days. it includes if officers fire weapons or if the use of force causes death or injury. still ahead on abc 7 news, a scary close call for one family. illegal fireworks chlblowing ou the backdoor. their message for whoever was behind the explosion. >> there will be lots of fog and a lot of ♪ ♪ this is how driving should feel. the tech-advanced nissan leaf. the best selling electric vehicle of all time. this is nissan intelligent mobility. ♪ you mighyour joints...ng for your heart... or your digestion... so why wouldn't

this started around 10:00 right here on stanford avenue at lowell street at the opry emeryville border. this was supposed to be a multi house apartment complex but it was under construction and one man said the dog was barking so loud last night he had to come out and see what was wrong. >> all of a sudden we saw the flames and a lot of heat and we got the baby in and got out on the street as quickly as we could. >> we have no information in regards to potential arson and that is why we have the crews out here. one person in particular has expertise in terms of cause and origin. >> reporter: the atf special agents, again, certified fire investigators. they say the fire is currently under investigation and that is the same thing we are hearing from the oakland fire this morning. we understand, again, the building is under construction. it's unclear whether it is related to the other fires in the last two years. in recent memory there have been fires at housing units recently under construction. it could be the case here and whether that is connected is unknown but all this is under inve

west hollywood council approved the business license for the lowell farms cafe. >> never once did i think i could be part of oh something that's ground breaking and symbolizing the end of prohibition. >> the business owners say cannabis products will replace alcohol. patrons can smoke, vape or eat can bus along with their meals, the cafe will secure indoor and outdoor eating areas and secure filtering systems that are smok from going judd of the property. >>> facebook is capital hill. the argument executivcurrency. >>> tropical storm barry did not cause the large scale damage predicted. we look at ho officials are preparing for the worst. >>> this is 80 westbound, heading out to the macarthur maze. >>> fog making another move this morning. lit head to the coast again. temperatures are close to where they were yesterday. we will take a look coming up. you got your homework? yeah. yeah? hey, give me a kiss. announcer: what's the role of a car company? [ kisses ] announcer: to take your kids to and from school? don't forget your science project. announcer: we think it can be something bigger

parent reached out to william matson last year about how the boeing a raton high school handles the lowellnsas state in its curriculum. he said, quote, i can't say the holocaust is a factual historic event because i am not in a position to do so as a school district employee. they call this not just offensive but completely out of step. he -- >> the 1-year-old daughter of an indiana police officer slipped out of her hands and fell from the 11th story of a cruise ship. he was holding his granddaughter outside of a window while the ship was docked in puerto rico. the girl's father has been identified by south bend police as officer alan weigand. they were traveling with two siblings and two sets of grandparents aboard the freedom of the seas. >>> strong tv ratings for the u.s. women's national soccer team world cup victory sunday despite the midday time. 14 million people watched on tv in the u.s. that beats last year's men's world cup final between france and croatia which averaged 11.4 million. ♪ we are the champions ♪ >> team u.s.a. arrived back home last night and spoke about the equal p

the west hollywood city council unanimously approved the business license for the lowell farms cafi.>> never once did i think i could be part of something that could be groundbreaking and symbolizing the end of prohibition. >> the business owner says cannabis will replace alcohol patrons can smoke, vape or eat cannabis along with their meals. it will feature indoor and outdoor eating area and promises to use the same kind of air filters used in casinos to keep smoke from spreading outside the property.>>> wildlife officials have more money to get rid of an invasive rodent threatening the waterways in the delta. the state is getting $2 million to get rid of this, a 15 pound rodent native to south america threatening wildlife, digging into canals and tear up wetlands. the state plans to use birth control as well as dogs to help catch these rodents.>>> hundreds protesting the first homeless navigation center. we are live with the proposed occasion and by leaders are facing intense opposition.>>> a democratic presidential candidate making his first campaign stop today in san fransisco. t

it's located on stanford avenue, near lowell street. that's right near the oakland, emeryville border. we're told the building was under construction to become a multiunit housing complex. >> there was smoke and fire showing. they quickly went in. initially from the interior. and then due to the structural instability for the building, it is under construction. and also, there was some visible signs of instability. then we regressed it to outside of the structure continued applying water. >> that fire was quickly upgraded to a two-alarm fire. and a lot of crews were out here last night, trying to get a good handle on this investigation. as they begin to try and understand what caused it. at this point, it is unclear what caused the fire. a lot of speculation from neighbors. but we don't want to mention anything until we know for sure. and we have a call in to the oakland fire department this morning. trying to get more word on this investigation. as soon as we have more details, we'll bring them to you. live in oakland, cristina rendon,

daniel and i wrote a paper to her three years ago, where we post the question, what is natural gas's lowell -- what is natural gas' role? it is beneficial for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. ben: that is the challenge in gas goings is off-line. ishard: the other key aspect natural gas is a greenhouse gas pollutant, so minimizing emissions and leakage of natural gas into the atmosphere is important. finally, and the longer run, if and when deep decarbonization, isthat happens, natural gas another issue that will affect whether or not natural gas is a long-term part of the constrained carbon -- yeah, i remember a saying that you would not wash your dishes with champagne. [laughter] gears tont to switch electric vehicles, something i read a fair amount about a gets a lot of attention. how thedering how forecast of electronic vehicle deployment have changed, and play?ole can they sarah: similar to my natural gas time, we are at the same point with electric vehicles, and understanding how to model the variability's. electric vehicles are difficult to figure out how they make it into the mix b

this commercial building catching fire on sanford avenue near lowell street on the oakland border. >> we saw there were big flames and a lot of heat. and we got the baby and got out on the street as it is we could. >> reporter: at daybreak, the building owner inspected the damage. he said the old printing shop was under construction since 2017. they were converting it to live/work units. >> the construction crew was in last night to pick up tools to do a job. one of them talked to a stranger who asked for a cigarette. >> reporter: yet another fire at a house and veltman under construction. the seventh in the east bay in the last three years. some of which have been under investigation. because of pacifiers that happen at construction sites they brought in atf and the alameda county task force to help determine a cause. >> i will not make a >> elation and say that is the case. regardless of whether it was arson or not, it is unfortunate that homes for oakland residents and those who see to work in oakland, have been delayed. >> reporter: it is unclear if they will rebuild the site agai

near lowell street. we're told the building was under construction to become a multiunittousing complex. and one of the neighbors in the area said his dark -- his dog was barking so much. he went out to see what was wrong. >> all of a sudden, we saw that there was big flames and a lot of heat. and we got the baby and got out on the street as quickly as we could. >> we have no information to say yea or nay, in regards to this potential arson. so that's why we have crews here. i have one person in particular. we have the expertise, in terms of cause and origin. >> this fire quickly upgraded to a two-alarm fire overnight. but it has been put out. now, crews still monitoring any potential hot spots that may flare up. and again, the cause of this fire is under investigation. but it does bring up instances or memories of recent fires here in the area, within the last two years. there have been issues with construction units or housing under construction that have caught fire. we don't know if any of those case

. >> i met with lowell reicher.nd one of the questions i had to answer was can an independent govern. the answer was yes. and i think that worked for me also as eight years as governor. but it's a thinkability issue, chuck, new jersey, pennsylvania, california, they're just not used to the idea. and people have it in their heads, oh, if i vote for an independent, i am throwing away my vote. so the biggest thing is to convince the voters that you're a realistic option and it can work. that's happened in maine now. i've been elected governor twice and senator twice. but it's hard to translate that to other states. >> but i am wondering now if it's harder and harder to convince people you are still an independent. i say this, there are a lot of people who believe in politics. everything's binary now, right? you're either with trump, you're against trump. you are either with the resistance, you are against the resistance. and right now our politics is very binary. and it seems that that makes it even more difficult for

emphasis on walk and roll to school day and trying our first transit to school day with a media event at lowell high school. we will also be doing smaller pilots at certain target schools with the idea of having an opportunity to really evaluate different campaign and promotional efforts and resources that we would provide to make sure that before we scale things up to the entire school community, we know what is working and what is the best bang for the black in terms of staffing sources and the program resources. a lot of things going on in the city to reduce collisions, including at schools. and particular interest to this board is the new fund based on the traffic engineering assessment at 103 schools. we have 19 locations that have been approved for speed humps that have been implement it for the fall, and we are finalizing three locations for a walk audit to explore more in-depth engineering improvements and we are also working on improvements to the crossing guard program for the sfmta. lastly, i want to talk about our efforts around coordination and communication. i would like to introd

i grew up in the outer sunset, where i attended lowell high school. to this day, i'm still living in the neighborhood with a family of my own. and fortunate to be able to own a home, just several blocks from where i grew up. now i bring this up with you, because as a homeowner and someone who wants to remain in the city, and invest in our city, the proposed legislation makes it increasingly difficult to expand. and make improvements to my home for a growing family such as mine and for other families who are looking to settle their roots here. the proposed additions in the legislation would put limits in place that are not family friendly. for instance, one of the commissioners mentioned that 1200 square foot limits per unit, which seems unrealistically low for expanded families. particularly if there's an interest in multi-generational living. and in my case, my parents are a couple of blocks from where i live, when one passes away, we're hoping that they can come and live with us.

she zeroed in particular on one inson for female inmates lowell, florida. it came to her attention that many of the women in that prison were there because they had been trafficked over the years and the subject was of great interest to her. she began to research the topic of human trafficking in the name jeffrey epstein kept coming up. so she decided to dig a lilittle deeper. that is when she discovered this deal enginineered in 2007 and 28 by mr. acosta when he was the u.s. attorney. concurrent with that, mr. acosta have been named as thehe labor by newry and designate president trump. she observed at his confirmation hearing that he got kid glove treatment by virtually all of the lawmakers who were there to grill him with one or two exceptions. so she decided to take a very deep died into this topic, working with the visual journalist, and the result was a series of stories called "perversion of justice." i belieieve as a reresult of tht series is what we saw yesterday, the indictment of mr. epstein and finally some measure of justice, perhaps, for his m

these numbers hit by the low -- lowell in oil and gas prices. your outlook for european gas and lng prices in the years ahead? >> good morning. thanks for having me. we reported results today. dropwere affected by the in both oil and gas prices. that's the main reason you see behind the drop. it comes to the question about the outlook for gas prices in europe. againieve it will pick up in the third quarter, especially in winter. you see this reflected in the prices. nejra: you said that you will dedicate more of your norwegian explanation efforts specifically at natural gas prospect. are you reconsidering that? from discovery to production, it takes 5-10 years, dependent on whether this is something you can tieback twin existing installation or not. tenure timehe horizon, there will be spare capacity in the pipeline for gas export to europe. why we said what we said when it comes to increasing discovering gas in the norwegian continental shelf. nejra: what about your efforts to acquire gas assets that would allow you to build -- fill an upcoming

the data collected from the lowell observatory in flagstaff, arizona was used to ake maps of the moon's surface before the mission. the apollo astronauts often spent time in northern arizona preparing for the mission. they hiked the grand canyon to learn about geology and visited meteor crater to get an up close look at what they would encounter them in. during a test of the first generation spacesuits at sunset crater, also in arizona, nasa learned the suits were not thick enough to withstand damage from rocks, forcing a redesign. the most significant training was done at a lake outside flagstaff. scientists of the u.s. geological survey developed a 500 square-foot lunar environment, including 47 craters, to test rovers, hand tools and scientific instruments. these efforts show what we can do as a country when faced with a challenge and be successful and achieving our goals. national political support, robust funding, and innovation meet president kennedy's goal a reality on july 20, 1969. as we enter the next phase of space expiration return to the moon, when you to continue to utiliz

i grew up with a working class family in lowell, massachusetts and i attended public schools my whole life. i was the first person in my household to graduate from college. in massachusetts, we are fortunate to have some of the best public schools and institutions in the country, however a high-quality college degree remains far out of reach to students, especially students of color and low income. these are students who often worked two jobs to make ends meet, they need to miss classes to take care of loved ones. my district has a number of community colleges, including middlesex. they educate and support diverse student populations. these community colleges offer flexible class schedules so students can come and learn at a lower cost. unlike certain schools that boast a proportion of students that they reject, community colleges take pride in educating the top 100% of students. because community colleges serve a higher share of underrepresented students yet -- students, yet receive a lower share of resources to do so, i'm wondering if you have any recommendations on how the federal