thank you. >> thank you, ms. brown. if anyone has any information regarding the murder of aubrey abrakasa, please call the hotline. i would advise you not to go talk to that person. i will talk to you offline. any further public comment? hearing none, public comment is closed. next line item. >> item 7, all public comments on item 8, closed session. vote whether to hold item 9 in closed session. >> public comment regarding our closed session. mr. petrelis, why am i not surprised. >> i would like to object to you going in closed session about these personnel matters. we don't get accountability when you go into closed session. i know you take a vote afterward. i checked your minutes. you are taking votes afterwards if you are going to release the information, the minutes about what you have discussed and you aren't voting to release that information. because there is no transparency in terms of what you are discussing against these officers, it strengthens the distrust in the community of the commission and the work that

. >> vice president mazzucco: okay ms. brown. >> thank you. good evening. i want to say, to everyone until we get back next year, have a happy, merry christmas. i'm here it talk about my son. everybody was here asking and complaining about something. i want to make my complaint the last. not the last complaint about my son again who was murdered august 14, 2006. still to this day no justice, no recover of people that people that murdered my son. i have been asking -- i brought up other people that are here. asking for something for all the years they've been asking. the police association put this on the bus last time. we as parents will never get any closure. that's how i feel. i was asking that we have a venue at the bus barn back on buses to put these back on the buses. we're talking about homicide and domestic violence. lot of people don't want to say anything, think don't feel they'll get justice. i'm a victim of domestic violence. you don't say anything because you don't want your family torn apart. people are not saying anything about murders because

ms brown's parents will meet the home secretary later this month to discuss efforts to trace shepherdop drones disrupting flights has been withdrawn. the army was called in to try to protect the airport after more than 1,000 flights were affected by multiple drone sightings between 19 and 21 december. a ministry of defence spokesman confirmed that military hardware had been withdrawn from gatwick, but said the armed forces were ready to assist if they were needed again. the technology giant apple has issued a profits warning for the first time in nearly 20 years. ben is here. why does this matter ben? this is significant for a number of reasons, not least because apple has been at some point in its history the world's most valuable company, and says it will make less money over the next few months, and particularly looking for the three months to the end of december, the end of the year and it's as previously, it would make around £70 billion. it is now going to make £67 billion. it is now going to make £67 billion. it is now going to make £67 billion. it might seem like much. this is

this our legal system committed to ms brown should be celebrated and in another instance of the system finally hopefully writing one of its many wrongs we have the recent news of what has got to be one of the biggest breakthroughs and the u.s. criminal justice history the reinstatement of movie a abu jamal appeal writes yes just before the new year and a huge win for the free money a campaign a philadelphia judge ordered the reinstatement of a jamal's appeal rights giving the former black panther a new plant path to the retrial he's been seeking since being convicted of killing a philadelphia police officer back in one thousand nine hundred one but me as maintained his innocence throughout his almost forty years spent behind bars joining us today from new york city to discuss this incredible new development money as case is the coordinator of the campaign to bring lumia home writer professor and filmmaker chohan a friend and thank you so much for joining us johanna. thank you very much for having me john a for those not familiar with the story that he's been in jail every tragedy but i

[applause] >> ms. brown: thank you, phil.hen we were talking about this probably in 2000 -- and what was it? 10? >> it was a long time ago. >> i don't know. it's been a long time. but i want to thank mayor breed and parks and rec for saying that parks are important not only to this city, but this district. this district is very special to me, and the people who live around here. and i really am happy to see us keep moving forward with green space. but this process just wasn't a city hall or department effort. this was a community effort, and you have to remember, and all the people standing behind me, we have sheryl davis that used to be with mo' magic, and she was there, pushing for it. there's james -- where's james? he was part of it, also. and then, there was kelley groves, and barbara, who started the process. i know judith cohen is here. rodney's here from buchanan y, and then, spencer, are you here? oh, well, boys and girls club has been part of this, but you know, they're busy with the kids today. but one of the thing

>> ms. brown: y >> i would like to nominate my colleague, supervisor mandelman. i think he would be kpleexcell in this position. and thank you. >> chair peskin: is there a motion for this? thank you, commissioner ronen. is there a second? seconded by commissioner yee. is there public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. can i do that same house, same call. >> chair peskin: condolences -- seriously, i look forward to working with you on that, vice chair mandelman. with that, call the next item, please. >> clerk: allocate 3,526,007 in prop k sales tax funds, with conditions. this is a presentation. >> chair peskin: good morning. >> so the first request is to do some planning and to advance the project to about 30% design so that it can enter final design for the muni metroest expansion project. you'll see on the right side of these photos the expansion areas. so this is an existing maintenance facility for light rail vehicles. the expansion area will eventually provide capacity for the expanding light rail vehicle fleet, but in the meanwhile, once it is

is there a motion that maybe supervisor brown, would you like to indicate what direction -- >> ms. brown: so i would like to confirm and support the ceqa. >> president yee: okay. so what i understand is we're going to -- is a motion to affirm the planning department's determination, so that would -- that means approving item 56 and tabling items 57 and 58. so, madam clerk, do we need to take a vote on that? >> clerk: we need a second on that, mr. president. >> president yee: supervisor ronen has a second, and so a motion's on the table. same house, same call. >> clerk: roll call vote, mr. president. >> president yee: roll call vote, please. >> clerk: all right. on the motion to approve item 56 and the motion to table items 57 and 58 -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president yee: okay. colleagues, the determination of exemption is finally affirmed. colleagues, the definition of exemption is found to be -- whoops. let's move onto our next item. >> clerk: okay. items 59 through 62 comprise the public hearing of persons interested in the determination of exemption from environ

and my aunt said, you know, my grandmother, who raised me, she said ms. brown, who was tough as nails, she never, ever, ever cried. i don't remember seeing her cry when she was a young person, but when she was sad, there was a look on her face. and my aunt remembers her saying on that fateful day, first jonestown, and now this. how much more can our city bear? and we all know that during that challenging time when we lost two amazing leaders in our city, mayor moscone and supervisor milk, it was a really tough time in 1978. it was a tough time because of jonestown and the loss of over 900 san franciscans, and then, to lose our leaders soon after that. and we as a city, we came together. we came together to support one another, we came together to encourage one another, and what came out of that tragedy was two amazing legacies. two individuals who represented hope for so many people. and many may not be aware, the younger generation now may not be aware how significant it was to have harvey milk, who was the first lgbt member of the board of supervisors and the

ms brown's parents will meet the home secretary later this month to discuss efforts to trace jack shepherddrones disrupting flights has been withdrawn. the army was called in to try to protect the airport after more than 1,000 flights were affected by drone sightings between 19th and 21st december. a ministry of defence spokesman said the armed forces were ready to assist if they were needed again. a senior north korean diplomat in italy is reportedly seeking asylum in a third country. south korea's spy agency has confirmed thatjo song gil, the north's deputy ambassador rome, has disappeared. mrjo is reported to be the son or son in law of high—ranking officials in the north. high profile defections are rare as the consequences for their family still living in north korea are thought to be severe. let's get more from our correspondent in the south korean capital. jo song-gil has disappeared, according to a spy agency who was briefing congressmen earlier today. that is all that we know, and they have not seen or heard from him since late november, just before his post was due to end. it com

ms brown's parents will meet the home secretary later this month to discuss efforts to trace shepherdo stop drones disrupting flights has been withdrawn. the army was called in to try to protect the airport after more than 1,000 flights were affected by multiple drone sightings between 19 and 21 december. a ministry of defence spokesman confirmed that military hardware had been withdrawn from gatwick, but said the armed forces were ready to assist if they were needed again. thursday marks a dramatic shift in washington dc, and yet more of the same. specifically, democrats will take over control of the house of representatives following their victories in last yea r‘s mid—term elections. and a partial government shutdown enters its 13th day, with no end in sight. 0ur correspondent in washington, laura trevelyan has been looking at where things stand with the government gridlock, and at the democratic leader in the centre of it all. nearly two weeks into the partial us government shutdown, and here's the scene in washington, dc. iconic monuments are closed, some federal workers are home

ms. i wonder if he hands out the brown m&ms or if he stuffs those back in the bag. the morning started with a press conference about the wall, the president is pointing to other countries as proof. >> israel put up a wall, 99.9% successf successful according to netanyahu. he told me 99.9. maybe he'll change it. but they put up a wall, and they don't have a problem anymore. >> jimmy: yeah, right, never have any problems in israel. here's the thing, walls don't stop drugs from getting in. prisons have walls, drugs get into prisons all the time. you know what will stop people from getting across the border? the customs and dea agents. the people donald trump hasn't been paying for the last three weeks. one reporter jon karl asked w w they didn't just pay the workers. >> why not sign the bill so the workers -- >> do you think i should do that? do you think i should do that, jon? >> it's not for me. >> no, seriously, do you think i should just sign? tell me, tell me. jon, you think i should just sign? >> i'm saying if you sign that, these workers can start getting paid.

ms. i wonder if he hands out brown m&ms or he stuffs those back into the bag. >> no matter how much he talkeda physical wall, to many of his supporters the wall remained an imaginary thing. we're at a weird point where trump is basically the last guy who wants a wall. i mean, it's fun to chant build the wall but they didn't expect it to happen if i more than they expected trump to actually lock her up. if you go to a mets game you chant let's go mets, but you don't really expect them to go. >> following this historic midterms, democrats sent out some exciting fresh young faces. congressional democratic leaders and direct to dvd adams family chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. after trump's low-energy performance there are was their chance to fire up the opposition so juice it. >> good evening. i appreciate the opportunity to speak directly to the american people tonight. >> uh. looks like america's about to get the sex talk. [ laughter ] >> that's funny. >> can you imagine it from -- well, let's just say -- >> wow. >> total -- >> moving on. >> total break down. coming to an abrupt end. so today p

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. >> supervisor brown: anyone have questions for ms. carder? i want to give time for public comment. i know that's really important. we have lot of transit operators here. could you line up for public comment please? >> supervisor kim: at this time we are opening for public comment. >> i'm a cable operator. i been with muni for about 18 or 19 years. to be honest with you if i was looking for job today, i wouldn't come to muni. one thing it's dangerous. the pay is not good and the biggest thing is there's no support. you call the police, they don't show up if somebody is hurt. if there's a fight, they. you to -- expect you to intervene. aside from coming to drive the bus, it's stressful dealing with it. sometimes operators have to take off. just one more thing. this is question i have. do you think it will be more effective if they had -- person that was over the muni just have the transportation to deal with rather than trying to deal with these other things. that's just my question. they addressed the wage in terms when you come to work for mu

ms. is known as the john brown raid.s abolitionist who take over a federal building and is to rid theoal nation of slavery, in the institution of slavery. the senate responds that james murray mason some of the resolution to investigate this raid. the senate says we need to look into this and see how far this goes. what it does because of the first major investigation is it actually introduces more questions than anything. the investigation never really turns up what senator murray mason hopes it will, evidence of nationwideassive conspiracy to overthrow slavery. sometimes investigations will begin at the committee level. harry truman was a second term senator from missouri. what he saw in washington transforming into this place where lobbyists were seeking defense contracts, scurrying after these, the money was flowing, and it really worried truman. he takes off on a road trip and drives south to florida and through the midwest and up to dc,igan, washington, thousands of miles in his car. he came back to washington, sto

ms. fong, for your work, and that is an information item. is there any introduction of new items? seeing none, is there -- oh, commissioner brown? >> yes, i actually -- i actually was going to the treasure island mobility management, on the minutes -- >> chair peskin: that is actually a separate meeting that will start as soon as this meeting it over. >> oh, thank you. >> chair peskin: yeah. that's weirdly enough, a different agency, with a different chair. >> thank you, chair. >> chair peskin: my pleasure. is there any general public comment? >> commissioners, my name is francisco decaosta. i've been monitoring your meetings on the television. what i'm really interested in is what is san francisco county transportation authority doing when it comes to congestion? we can have all this talk about vehicles and whatever else you all waste your time on, but i'm really interested in the increase in the carbon footprint that affects our infants, our children, our youth, those with compromised health. that's what i'm interested in. i'm not interested in the b.s. because as an environmentalist and having served san franciscans for over

jerry brown has retired off to his 2,50-acre state, there's no ms-13 gang members living nearby.in schools that are safe. how can we live that? they don't have to live these consequences, so they don't care. steve: and it wasn't just sanctuary for all who were in the golden state. mike, listen to this, here is the new governor of california talking about not california, but the white house. >> here in california we will prove that people of good faith and firm will can still come together to achieve big things. we will offer an alternative to the corruption and the incompetence in the white house. steve: and when you hear things like that, where he's taking a shot at the president, you wonder is this guy running for president of the united states? yesterday here in new york, mayor de blasio announced health care to everybody. >> oh, or it's a race to as far left as possible. the state of california already has sued the trump administration 38 times. right? so california's the leader of the aunt-trump resistance -- the anti-trump resistance, and that's going to ramp up moving forw