mr. bryant, thank you very much, just a repipeline der to the board -- reminder to the board, this is something we voted on last year, where we're going to have educational presentations brought to us on a recurring basis. why don't we open up for public comment? any members of the public that would like to address the committee? seeing none, we close public comment. >> item 16, discussion item, the executive director report. >> i had the pleasure of attending new commissioner carmen chu's swearing in and certainly welcome to her. we've had an opportunity to meet with her last week for a brief period of time i believe there is going to be continuing orientation. and she has her own ideas of what she needs to know, so that is very refreshing. we appreciate her interest and look forward to continuing to meet with her. we sent out by e-mail a copy of the status report on her 2018 proxy vo. you got a hard copy here at this meeting just in case. meeting just in case. >> unfortunately, working so close to retiring, he fumbled -- he finally got the bug i decided to leave. we wish him well, and we obvi

mr. updike cost about $2.7 million estimated for 945 bryant and about $6 million for 777 brannon street. these costs are actually being paid from the justice facilities improvement program. board previously appropriated $16 million to this program in '17-'18 and '18-'19. however the capital plan actually calls for an additional $17 million to be appropriated which would total about $33 million for the relocation of departments from the hall of justice. this is something wewill be looking at and will be subject to board of supervisors approval. the other question i think you answered, one we called out in our recommendation is we recommend the board continue to urge the real estate division adul probation to work together to co-locate at 945 bryant street. we estimate about 13,000 square ie of the building. some units we identified that could be co located departments within the hall of justice that have not ybeen located, includes sheriff's warrant unit, prisoner legal and police department i.d. unit. we recommend the board continue to urge co-location at 945. wemmen reco approval of bot

mrs clinton's emails. here's our north america correspondent, nick bryant.fbi's handling of the e—mail investigation cost her the presidency. donald trump believes the fbi failed to prosecute her because it was politically biased against him, and both believe that the former fbi directorjames comey — fired by trump, castigated by clinton — was out to get them. ..will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me god. the internaljustice department report says he made a serious error ofjudgement by making public statements about the clinton e—mail investigation, but found no evidence he'd set out to influence the election. "we did not find that these decisions were the result of political bias on comey‘s part", the report reads. but it also concluded that he departed clearly and dramatically from fbi and department norms. the report has also revealed a text exchange between two fbi agents already accused by the white house of pro—hillary bias. it spoke of stopping trump from becoming president. that's been seized upon by the white house

but even as he was announcing the order, mr trump stressed the need to toughen america's immigration laws. the bbc‘s nick bryantent encampment close to the mexican border that has become a sweltering detention centre for some of the thousands of children taken from their parents. donald trump's zero—tolerance immigration policy has provoked outrage across america, and the world. we are going to have a lot of happy people. so today, from the president, that rare thing, a reversal and climb—down, and all it took to end child separation was the flourish of his pen. so we are going to have strong, very strong borders but we are going to keep the families together. i didn't like the sight or the feeling of families being separated. this was a political crisis of his own making and up until today's turnaround, this ‘america first‘ president had vigorously defended the practice. we want a great country, we want a country with heart but when people come up, they have to know they can't get in, otherwise it's never going to stop. but these images of children in what looked like cages were too much even for a loyal repub

mr trump's ‘zero tolerance‘ policy on immigration had been widely criticised, after footage emerged of young children detained in cages. nick bryant a tent encampment close to the mexican border that has become a sweltering detention centre for some of the thousands of children taken from their parents. donald trump's zero—tolerance immigration policy has provoked outrage across america, and the world. we are going to have a lot of happy people. so today, from the president, that rare thing, a reversal and climb—down, and all it took to end child separation was the flourish of his pen. so we are going to have strong, very strong borders but we are going to keep the families together. i didn't like the sight or the feeling of families being separated. this was a political crisis of his own making and up until today‘s turnaround, this ‘america first‘ president had vigorously defended the practice. we want a great country, we want a country with heart but when people come up, they have to know they can‘t get in, otherwise it‘s never going to stop. but these images of children in what looked like cages were too much even for a loyal r

bryant, bbc news, washington. at the same time, president trump has said the german public are turning against their leader over immigration. on twitter, mrade a mistake "in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture." in berlin, the german interior minister has given chancellor merkel until the end of the month to engineer a european deal on immigration, before he begins turning away migrants at the border. 0ur europe editor katya adler has more. this is a fiendishly complicated issue and donald trump really stirred controversy today as we heard, suggesting that the german people were turning on their leadership because of spiralling migration and crime rates. —— spiralling. this is unfair because crime rates in germany are down and that 50%, angela merkel‘s popularity rating is one of many world leaders would dream of but it is true that politically she has been very much weakened by her liberal migration policies and that is why she is convinced that her political future in the future of the european union depend on herfinding a common accepted workable pan—european solution on migration and

mrs trump, who is reported to have urged her husband to change the policy, said she wanted to help reunite children with theirfamilies. 0ur north america correspondent, nick bryant white house and sent us this report. the first lady has made herself a centralfigure in this row, and today decided to make a dramatic journey to a detention centre in texas where more than 50 children are being kept. publicly, she's called for a country that governs with heart. privately, she's pressed her husband to reverse the policy of taking children from their parents. and today came questions that any mother might ask. when will families be reunited, and in what conditions are children being detained? i know you housed children on a long—term basis. and i'd also like to ask you how i can help, to these children, to be reunited with their families as quickly as possible. much is being made of the coat she was filmed wearing, bearing the slogan "i really don't care, do you?" words which seem to contradict her actions. her office said there was no hidden message. today, she completely upstaged her husband, who stayed in washington, where he lashed out at his democratic critics. so

mr. com breaking dramatically with agency norms. secondly, the new york attorney general is suing president trump and three of his children, saying they used the charitable undation as a personal checkbook. from new york, nick bryant reports. believesillary c the fbi's handling of the e-mail investigation cost for the presidency. donald trump believe the fbi failed to prosecute her because it was politically biased against him. james comey, fired by trump, castigated by clinton, was out to get them. the justice department report said he made a serious error of judgment by making public things about the clinton investigation, but found no evidence he set to influence the election. "we did not find thas these decisire the result of lyrical bias on co -- political as on comey's part," the rert reads, but said that he departed dramatically from lspartment norms. hangedexts e between agents already accused bias, -bility pro-hillary bias, speaking of stopping trump from beg president. some centers: it revealed --sarah sanders: it reveals the bias among members of the fbi. y and that's an investigation into hillary clinton's use of ate e-mail server during her years as secretary of state. ms. clinton: i made a mistake us

bryant, bbc news, washington. well, it's notjust donald trump trying to put pressure on angela merkel over migration. italy's new prime minister has told the german chancellor that european union rules need to change mrsng an ultimatum from her own interior minister: tighten germany's borders, or police will start turning people away. lebo diseko has the story — just a warning there are flashing images coming up. at that time, it was a source of pride to germany. thousands of people welcomed into the country at the height of europe's refugee crisis. but now resentment over this opendoor policy threatens angela merkel‘s future. opendoor policy threatens angela merkel's future. her interior minister, horse to see proper, has given two weeks. if not, he will tell german border p lease to turn people away. -- horst seehofer. translation: if the europeans summon oi’ translation: if the europeans summon orany translation: if the europeans summon oi’ any agreement succeeds translation: if the europeans summon or any agreement succeeds in reaching our goal, to send back moderates as soon reaching our goal, to send back moderates as soon as reaching our goal, to send back moderates as soon as they reach the bo

bryant, bbc news, washington. well, it's notjust donald trump trying to put pressure on angela merkel over migration. italy's new prime minister has told the german chancellor that european union rules need to change mrscing an ultimatum from her own interior minister: tighten germany's borders, or police will start turning people away. lebo diseko has the story. just a warning, there are flashing images coming up. at that time, it was a source of pride to germany. thousands of people welcomed into the country at the height of europe's refugee crisis. but now resentment over this opendoor policy threatens angela merkel‘s future. her interior minister, horst seehofer, has given two weeks. if not, he will tell german border police to turn people away. translation: if the europeans summon oi’ any agreement succeeds in reaching our goal, to send back moderates as soon as they reach the border, we would be very happy and wish good luck to the chancellor but if this doesn't succeed, we want to make it possible to send them back immediately. mrs merkel says such action goes against eu principles but her interior minister also leads the party she is in coalition with and she can't afford to sack him. translat