mr. wilcox out of order, mr. wilcox is laura's father and has been a tireless advocate for laura's law. >> thank you very much for the honor. for the record, my name is nick wilcox, i live in penn valley in california here with my wife amanda who because of the crowded conditions is in the overflow room, she's also put in a speaker card and would like to reserve the right to speak at the end if she deems that necessary. i would like to thank supervisor farrell and mayor lee for your steadfast support of laura's law. as supervisor farrell said, amanda and i are the parents of laura wilcox, laura when she was 19 in 2001 died in a rampage shooting while she was trying to help people with severe mental illness. she was working at the behavioral mental health clinic, i man named scott thorpe came in and shot her pointblank 4 times and she died instantly. since that time we have come to realize, actually we came to realize rather early on in the process, that there are significant gaps in the mental health services syst

mr. wilcox up. next speaker cards, marty halloran, steven jaffey, martin fox. mr. wilcox i apologize, i did call mr. wilcox out of order, mr. wilcox is laura's father and has been a tireless advocate for laura's law.

mr. wilcox walked right past amanda miller not knowing she was a threat. >> she apparently came up from behind and shot from close range. it angers me so much. >> reporter: tonight police are emphasizing if you see something, say something. lives are hanging in the balance. >>> now to severe weather targeting parts of the country. 13 million americans in the path of the storms tonight. we have seen the flooding in maryland. and there were people trapped under an overpass who had to be rescued. the water simply too deep were their cars to handle. i want to bring r bring in chief meteorologist tracking this all in the weather center. there was a lot more rain to come. >> there certainly is more flooding on the way. a narrow band of storms between d.c. and baltimore. it sat there. the rain falling at three inches an hour. the next 48 hours it's going to be widespread. we're looking at the potential for more than four inches of rain from the gulf coast up to the midatlantic with the risk of more flash floodings. >> in the meantime, there's severe weather coming tomorrow. >> one of them across the

and mrs. wilcox as well. i want to appreciate that my colleagues are willing to bring this to the board of supervisors as an ordinance instead of a ballot measure. as i was deciding whether to sign on to this measure and to support it, i really had to fully understand how this was supposed to work and i would have to say i will not pretend to understand what it's like to be in the shoes of someone who suffers from mental illness or who is a family member who is dealing with it, but i do want to emphasize that some of the i guess misconceptions that i have heard out there, i want to restate what is in the ordinance which is that failure by the subject to comply with aot san basis for involuntary civil commitment or contempt of court. so that is something that i really want to make sure that i emphasize to the community out there. so again with the understanding that we are going to continue this conversation at the board of supervisors i am willing to support that. i also believe that as we move forward i real

mr. wilcox had a chance to do the same. he could have escaped, but he chose to stay and confront the danger. he had a concealed weapon. the kind of man he was with his mother debra wilcox and his sister. >> i'm so sorry for your loss and i appreciate you taking the time to be here. tell me about your son. what was he like? >> he was your average, normal kid. i can call him a kid, i keep forgetting he was a 31-year-old grown man. he liked going to the movies, he liked to go four-wheeling with his sister. he loved helping people, which is what got him into this. he helped his grandparents all the time. just a good kid. >> c.j., what do you want people to know about your brother? >> um, he was a protector. i mean, he was one of the people i trusted most. i spent most of my life around him really. we used to go to the movies and geek out all the time over marvel movies and he used to show me trailers of movies coming out and he would say get that or quick that. he was just a great guy. i loved his sense of humor. i loved going

mr. joseph wilcox is 31 years of age. so a chronology of events yesterda yesterday. ng their lunch break. at that time, mr. jared miller entered into the restaurant, looked around briefly and immediately exited the rest raupt. one of the booths and immediately upon passing them pulled a handgun out. he immediately -- there was no further movement from him. at that time, immediately react when he was confronted from jared. very quickly, amanda miller didn't move from her. this entire incident is captured on video tape. we are still conducting a review of that video. immediately upon finishing the suspects pulled the officers out of the booth and on to the ground where they placed a flag, which is a don't tread on me yellow flag on the body of officer beck. they also threw a swastica on top of his body. miller then pinned a note to the officer that stated this is the beginning of the revolution. they made the same types of comments inside of the restaurant where numerous restaurant patrons heard that commentary. they then walked out of the restaurant. they then crossed

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thank mayor ed lee for his support i want to thank the wilcox family the parents of laura that this law was named off after and our district attorney mr. george and our excessively enclosing our fire chief chief joanne haynes-white and countless others that are standing behind me barbara garcia and other colleagues that have provide shelters for the homeless. people from our labor and business organizations from across town this is a piece of legislation that should unite us i look forward to it moving forward i want to introduce one the laura's supporters our great mayor of san francisco mayor ed lee >> (clapping) >> thank you supervisor farrell and thank you for your leadership on this as well. you, you know, san francisco is is a very came pact city. we spent $2.7 billion a year a great bulk here in the general hospital and the public health department aid thanks to the classification of our fire and scheef and district attorney we pick up a lot of people own the streets and we know when the environment they go back perhaps a day of respite and they're back. while we, provide pride in moving some 18 thousand homeless people into sh