and mrs. lee. mr. lee was the dialysis patient and he's probably in his 80's and every time we would drive up to buchanan street, the hospital, mr. lee would say, "good job, fine driver number one driver" and he would go like this [thumbs up gesture]. and then as brian would be helping him off the van, mr. lee, i heard him so often say "brian, if anybody gives you any trouble you send them to me and i'll take care of them." and here great big old brian would say, "henry, you're the first one i would try to get help from." and he says, "the second one is elsa." [laugh] so we knew that we were being relied on by brian. a few weeks back, mrs. lee called brian early in the morning to tell him not to bother picking them up because they were already at the hospital. mr. lee was ill and she had taken him to the er. the next day or so, brian, on his lunchtime, found out that mr. lee had been admitted to the hospital and he went up to mr. lee's room and just stuck his head in just to say hello. and the minute mr

updyke or mr. lee mr. updyke mentioned the process when the ordinance passed in 2002, the rigorous process the hard looking forward look at the properties what is the process now i know the departments have to summit a list to the zoning administrator and it is submitted to the mayor in july of this year what's the process now and what was the last time at cac met. >> i'll let olsen talk about the cac status with respect to the current process after that first rigorous review it is important to know that a lot of time and energy was spent in multiple staff and departments immediately after the ordinance was passed to review all the city's properties and going forward on an annual basis it a self-reporting process the city reports to the real estate of the availability for assets for sale we've had sales of property not to say we haven't and in 2007 we sold i think it properties through public auction procedures went to affordable housing some of which didn't but that was another behest of the board on occa

chairman i want to thank mr. leeor responding it boo would be helpful to get the numbers open the 10 thousand to be routine by the planning commission, and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote by 2020 i know we have to make public housing a habitable for people that live there for seniors to count that into the 10 thousands didn't make sense we have facing a displacement criticized i want to say for the teacher housing i know since the feinstein and park side school issued years and years ago we've been trying for many years rent subsidizes or other thoughtful going forward as you're trying to figure out that the teachers union and sciu and 10 to one and people vong for more hours we're not all adapted from the city during the terrible crisis thank you for your prediction and all the work. >> colleagues, any other questions from any of our departments okay want to thank all the departments for being here and look forward to continue our conversations so at that point item number one i'll read your name line u

. >> but colleagues, we did ask mr. lee to come back given the housing portfolio deals with homeless certainly not only exist but in the pipeline i want to include that as part of the conversation. >> good afternoon olsen lee director of the mayor's office of housing in terms of the most cd mission wanted to clarify how our mission fits within the subject matter of that particular hearing in terms of the the providing the financing and facility the purpose of affordable homes in san francisco one of the decision this were made n many years ago the decision to create permanently supportive housing rather than lease hotels or other housing and this is define in part by creating permanently affordable housing we could leverage or leverage outside resources to pay for the cost confident housing in some cases the operating costs of housing is lower than the lease housing and ♪ cases the hours is built to current standards in terms of of accessibility and other important issues of people with disabilities the people has a dual tr

chairman i want to thank mr. leeor responding it boo would be helpful to get the numbers open the 10 thousand to be routine by the planning commission, and may be acted upon by a single r

mr. lee and for your partnership. >> members of the public claire. >> thank you sciu retiree. >> and our r.c. c has asked i want to thank you and thank neil and mr. lee for all the work that was done on those for those rates that's a big issue we're happy wish it could be more and increase our benefits but we understand t and are very grateful. >> thank you very much any other public comment in these hearing none we're ready to vote all opposed by the same sign. >> i. >> all opposed by the same sign no so ordered we're ready for item number 6. >> item 6 discussion item presentation of pharmacy trends. >> as as we look at this particular item we've been talking about points of education for members of the board for those things that are happening across the spectrum providing the health benefits for the employees this presentation i'll classify a discussion item at this meeting but something we need to focus on because i think you've heard if in item number 3 the issue of speciality drug costs

director ram thank you to director ram and the head of the mayor's office of housing and thank you mr. lee with that i'd like i'm going to turn it over to mr. updyke. >> thank you, supervisors good afternoon john updyke director of real estate first, i want to thank you for the opportunity not only revenue the sale of van ness but how it fits as supervisor kim mentioned our overhead do space strategy so thirty van ness i'll briefly describe that a hundred and 80 foot square feet office building we have above a corner walgreens and commercial uses we acquired the building in 2001 it was built in the 1920s as 3 separate 2 story buildings and in 1965, 3 stories were you added to the 2 stories and seismic retrofits done an important site underutilized in its current form and function the city use are dpw department of public works and the did you want and the department of emergency management and others those uses and what they do and the services they delivery to the public can be delivered for intellectually through better destine more sustainable properties and until a viable designation l

mr. lee: mr. president i ask unanimous consent to engage in a colloquy for up to 30 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lee: mr. president i'm here to speak today in support of the u.s.a. freedom act a bill that would restrain the power of government to collect data on phone calls made by average everyday ordinary law-abiding american citizens. 300 million-plus americans. without any suspicion that any one of them is engaged in any kind of criminal activity, any kind of activity involving the collection of foreign intelligence. i appreciate the support that i have received from this bill, and i appreciate the opportunity to work with my distinguished colleague, the senior senator from vermont. senator leahy and i feel passionately about this issue and although senator leahy and i come from different ends of what some would perceive as the political spectrum, although we don't agree on every issue there are many issues on which we agree. many issues on which like this one, w

we didn't know what the sexual or yen taegs of mr. lee was. >> mr. e won the support of london's equality commission, saying he felt prejudiced against. on the basis of his beliefs, or marriage. on tuesday. a judge agreed. ruling that the bakery was a commercial business. had a duty to treat everybody equally regardless of its own beliefs. >> there is no such thing as a christian company. there are christians who trade in the commercial sphere. once you enter into the arrangement you are bound by the laws of the land. >> reporter: gay marriage is not permitted in northern ireland. the cake in question was ordered in may 2014. for a function marking international day against homophobia. mr. lee was awarded $750. ash's bakery will appeal to a higher court. isa suarez, cnn, london. >> let's take a short break. still to come. controversy at cannes. coming up later in the show. we'll tell you why some women were turned away from the famous film festival. back in a moment. >>> you are watching "cnn newsroom." your last half-hour of day with us. i'm errol ba

mr. hung lee was also a trained air force pilot. today, he is an entrepreneur in louisville and involved in the veteran activities and service. [ applause ] >> dr. khue tran was in the army of the republic of vietnam. today, he works as a doctor at force knox. [ applause ] >> finally, we have mrs. hao tran. she was a pharmacy student when shemar married during the war. today, her and her husband reside in elizabethtown kentucky. [ applause ] >> like dede said we have five people up here with the last name tran. none of us are related. >> except for the married couple. i hope they're related. but not in that way. all right. [ laughter ]. >> so we want to begin tonight's conversation with the start of the vietnam war. dr. gary tran you were a veterinaryian student at the university of oklahoma when the vietnam war broke out. how did you learn about the war overseas and how did you feel about your country going to war? >> thank you, dede. before i say anything, i would like to take this opportunity to convey to our brave veterans our d

public, private partnerships can do and it is not without bumps in the road and i know that our ta and mr. lee have been working with the trust very hard and they have been, a landlord that has ste warded their land carefully to say the least. but, it is, i think that it is an amazing testimony of the per severe ans that we have gotten to where we are today and in the terms of the closure in a few weeks, by the way, is that the four and this final meeting last night? >> the final meet? ing >> it is may 28th. >> it is. ju. so everyone is aware it it is going to start on thursday, ten p.m. and friday traffic will be impacted and the normal commute and the idea is to be opened by monday morning, and the first time this happened, there was i was down there over the weekend and my children and i watched as the big cranes came in and it was like a scifi movie but in real life and this will be a little bit different but i do think that we need to all get the word out that it is going to be a traffic nightmare for a few days and to the ex-at extent to the people that don't have to use that part of the

want to do anything to stop the progress we've made so for but she's not leaving us a lot of options mr. lees helping me but needs you guys to make sure this didn't happen arrest to those guys get the same contract they have an inside deal and you u know how they'll miss treat us to show a profit thank you very much thank you for your time. >> thank you thank you for coming. >> >> know commissioners we said one we had a human rights commission and you know the human rights that people that worked and we had compliance officers now we have the contract monitoring division and we have the city administrator and let's make that very clear the mayor can sit with the city administrator and the developer and do as they please you've heard as norman he expresses as best he could she's not coping well, he brought himself here three or four times people calling him he's got people working for him and not making ends meet i have an office at the executive park and the local business enterprise quiz the minority have not been working in two or three months we've got people talking about millions of thi

. >> public comment is closed commissioners yes i have a couple of questions, mr. lee yeah. i just want to know they're in compliance with is dw b everything and for the record supervisors to answer our question yes they've been working closely with us outreaching with small businesses and selection of small businesses as well so, yes >> okay thank you. >> second question is about the parking how many parking you you know for one parking for 4 units you said. >> for the ocii funded unit yes. >> then what is the other people where are they going to park. >> well, for the remainder of the unit the ratio is .4 spaces per one space if you read lined up is design guidelines push to limit the parking we talked to the developer about that they ran some market studies and came up with what they throughout the parking needed to be what we're really trying to do it push the transit pedestrian and is bicycle along with the rest of the city is trying to do and our ratios are right there was getting approved. >> do we have other projects with ratios like. in the city one parking for ever

terrible will that the athletics should have the equipment they need i want to give a shout out to mr. lee and the scientific teachers that embarked on taking the multiple folks to the awe culturalism on the buses it was monumental for the operations and they did it effective and finally recognize the architecture foundation of san francisco that presented it's breakfast on may '78 and acknowledge the leadership of allen stan letter there were 15 of our students that were recognized and participated in their programs where they learn about architecture and then spend two days of the week at architecture firms that was a reflection of what we have brainstormed as the vision 2025 and using the city as a campus in participating with the architecture firms our students really benefited and in the architecture foundation design connection a women's sweep all 3 winners were from lowell hayes valley congratulations to those girls that designed the public safety listen related to the super bowl for the super bowl village next year other announcements. >> commissioner vice president haney. >> yeah.

. >> the only other question mr. lee we've asked the kinds of question let me ask a different question not about number i didn't but do we keep or we able to ascertain from a compliance stand up which general contractor have a better i made a comment one of our sessions on the sbe session the general contractor tend to be the same people nibbi is definitely in there as a definite on a continuous general contractor but there are others that you know obviously know how to do business that's the reason their chosen my question is do we have a kind of report card, if you will, who donna does a better job. >> we have the history in the sbe mrargs participation and workforce george has a wealth ever information since he's been with the agency for 16 years in terms of the raw data and generating a report we're responsible how i would be interested i don't know in the commission is interested if the compliance. >> certainly the last quarterly report it showed on the contracting basis and professional services as well as contract

. >> i know we have the mayor's office of disabilities olsen lee here thank you mr. lee for coming and your hard work and look forward to the conversation today as well. >> before john leaves the room i really would like to thank the department of city planning for their collaboration on the mayor's office of disabilities and xhept community development i'll talk about our programs development that's the focus of a lot of what the office has done in terms of creating new resources to address the affordability criticize and under the leadership of john has been a great partner to problem solve and create tools it he has helps us regulate and create for housing to recollection look at the possibility of building on the public sites as well as improvements in the inclusionary program the mafdz what do we do obviously work on the development of the city's housing policy whether the implementing agency to assist in the construction of affordable housing we're also the office that provide for pass through grants to the strength of the neighborhood fantastic and the goal of our

here his family lived peacefully until april 8th 1865 when mr. lee was asked to show him a place that was suitle for lee and another general to meet. when his first suggestion was rejected mr. mclean offered his home for the meeting and the rest is history. that most likely would not have happened if not for a battle that took place about 80 miles to the east in did witty county virginia. the battle of five forks. this battle was a decisive clash that forced confederates to abandon their capital and ultimately led to the surrender of the army of northern virginia. today the united states postal service is pleased and proud to concludes its series by issuing two new stamps one that depicts the battle of five forks and one that depicts robert e. lee's surrender to you listese s. grant on april 9, 1865. the art director created the stance we dedicate today. the battle of five forks' stamp features a reproduction of a paining by a french artist who is perhaps best known for creating this 360 degrees battle of gettysberg cycle ramma that first went on dis

mr. lee actually tried to escape vietnam 10 times unsuccessfully. he continued to live in vietnam for 30 years. can you describe what life was like under communist vietnam? >> i am the unlucky people. i tried many times but failed. but i still have a lot of friends in vietnam right now. they don't have any chance to get out. finally, i have been here 13 years. i finally found my luck. i'm not in a camp. but my friends, let these people, were in the camps. they tried to escape. some of them try to escape several times but failed. and then when they got back to the camp, they tried to kill them. actually several people have died because of that. >> is that right? >> yeah. in the situation of dr. tran here is very lucky. it's like playing a game, not escape. for me, i'm living under the communists about 20 years before coming here. the first 10 years is very terrible. the whole country in south vietnam, i don't talk about north vietnam because i don't know anything about it. but in north vietnam, i don't think they're better than south vietnam people.

from time to time, mrs. lee would invite some of the girls from the community to entertain some of the boys. some of the memoirs say how awkward it was between the young cadets and the young girls, but lee took note of the young cadets who were doing well in school and took note of this tall boy, godfrey weitzel. godfrey was one of the top students in his class all four years. this is the grade from his junior year. the number one position was held by cyrus comstock from massachusetts. godfrey weitzel was in third place by the end of their junior year. comstock was 20 when he entered west point. official records say weitzel was 16, but we know he was 15. even though he was five years younger, he was nipping at the heels of cyrus comstock. weitzel had only 60 merits for the entire year his junior year, pretty remarkable feat at west point -- weitzel had six demerits. you can see below him, ebenezer had 100 demerits. you were a member of what they call the century club. if you had 200, you were expelled from the e

here his family lived peacefully until april 8th 1865 when mr. lee was asked to show him a place that was suitle for lee and another general to meet. when his first suggestion was rejected mr. mclean offered his home for the meeting and the rest is history. that most likely would not have happened if not for a battle that took place about 80 miles to the east in did witty county virginia. the battle of five forks. this battle was a decisive clash that forced confederates to abandon their capital and ultimately led to the surrender of the army of northern virginia. today the united states postal service is pleased and proud to concludes its series by issuing two new stamps one that depicts the battle of five forks and one that depicts robert e. lee's surrender to you listese s. grant on april 9, 1865. the art director created the stance we dedicate today. the battle of five forks' stamp features a reproduction of a paining by a french artist who is perhaps best known for creating this 360 degrees battle of gettysberg cycle ramma that first went on dis