mr. mcgill. james patrick, peter strauss, and bob finebaum. >> hello again, commissioners. now, to your question, supervisor peskin, i think it was four years ago i brought up the fact that a similar amount in new york, the world trade transit center generated a billion and a half for a 99-year lease and i'm not sure what happened in san francisco. the top priority is to restore public confidence in the structural integrity of the transit center before we resume bus operations. the best way to manage the structures is acoustic monitoring, because steel and the stress emits low frequency sound waves before cracks can be detected like conventional methods. structural acoustic monitoring is implemented by the installation of microphones on a steel elements of a structure and then later triangulation was used to warn of the formation of multiple cracks in the bridge and was recommended by the bay bridge peer review group to monitor rods and cables in the new bay bridge three years ago. please ask m.t.c. to direct the peer review group to implement for transit center and conside

mr. strauss. next speaker. >> commissioners, i'm jim haas, i was a member of the r.a.b. working group, and as some of you recall, i appeared a number of times over the last decade about this project. and, of course, we were reaping what has -- what we sowed long ago by not paying attention to it. the basic problem was that the first executive director kept the project and the agency under wraps. she asserted it was not a city agency, and she did her best to keep the city out of the project, as some of you are well aware. including the mayor at the time. and so, you know, a lot of what went on occurred because nobody knew what was going on. there's an old expression that says, a power deserves scrutiny, not gratitude, and i think that your desire to change the bureaucracy around is not as important as developing a way to scrutinize what is going on. to open it up to the largest extent with technical and public involvement. so along with my colleagues worried about the time frame, i, too, would like to see some of the work continued and would rather than six months, 90 day

mr. strauss? seeing no additional public comment, public comment is closed, and the t.a. is adjourned. >> in november of 2016, california voters passed proposition 64. the adult use of marijuana act. san franciscans overwhelmingly approved it by nearly 75%. and the law went into effect in january of 2018. [♪] >> under california's new law, adults age 21 and over can legally possess up to 1 ounce of cannabis and grow up to six plants at home. adults in california can legally give up to 1 ounce to other adults. >> in the state of california, we passed a law that said adult consumption is legal. if you are an adult and in possession of certain amounts, you will no longer be tried. you will not be arrested or prosecuted for that. that is changing the landscape dramatically. [♪] >> to legalization of cannabis could bring tremendous economic and social benefits to cities like san francisco. >> this industry is projected to reach $22 billion by the year 2020. and that is just a few years away. >> it can be a huge legal industry in california. i think very shortly, the actual gro

mr. strauss? seeing no additional public comment, public comment is closed, and the t.a. is adjourned. >> look at that beautiful jellyfish. the way to speak to students and motivate them to take action, to save the planet, they do, they care and my job is to speak to them in a way that they can understand that touches their heart and makes them feel powerful with simple actions to take every day. ♪ ♪ >> i was born and raised in the desert of palm springs, california. my dad was the rabbi in the community there. what i got from watching my father on stage talking to the community was learning how to be in the public. and learning how to do public speaking and i remember the first time i got up to give my first school assembly, i felt my dad over my shoulder saying pause for drama, deliver your words. when i was a kid, i wanted to be a teacher. and then when i got into high school, i decided i wanted to get into advertising and do graphic art and taglines and stuff like that. by the time i was in college, i decided i wanted to be a decorator. but as i did more work, i reali

mr. strauss? seeing no additional public comment, public comment is closed, and the t.a. is adjourned. >> president cohen: good morning, ladies and gentlemen. welcome back to the budget and finance

and cbs interim chair dick parsons has stepped down he's replaced by strauss zelnick. >> there were people who were surprised that mr the job in the first place. he's battling multiple myeloma we wish him the best strauss zelnick stepping in. key question is more around the leadership of joe ianello, current interim ceo and whether redstone and the board will make a move there and i think that's still uncertain at this point but certainly a possibility they will, as is the possibility at some point they'll revisit the potential of a combination of viacom and cbs as i've been reporting. not this year but perhaps next year on friday kimberly clark was up on the p&g numbers and now down today. >> the numbers were better, 1% organic growth was better than the street was expecting expectationings wes were low the leadership change also not hugely surprising. su was number two to faulk who had been ceo of the company for 16 years investors see it as continuity in the strategy su is a familiar face previously at craft hynes then kimberly-clark still big brands are having trouble. number two, the currency pressure is intens

marina strauss spoke with the director of the world food program david beasley about the spike in those facing starvation. mr beazley the war in yemen is considered the world's worst humanitarian crisis in haiti according to the u.n. two out of three people could stuff by the end of the year if nothing changes what can be done to improve the situation yet it is undeniably the greatest catastrophe on earth today so many people lives are at risk nation of about twenty nine million people literally eighteen million people of food insecurity about eight to nine million who literally are on the brink of starvation we're calling on all parties in the war in the conflict so that we can bring some civility back to the people of yemen is a disaster globally speaking what other countries are experiencing a rise in hunger and just conflict the many culprits. the good news is in the last forty fifty years we've made so much progress most so much progress on hunger reducing hunger rate but in the last two years the hunger rate has risen from seven hundred seventy seven million people two hundred to eight hundred twenty o