i i would just like to also add my voice to the chorus of kudos to lisa spi nell -- spi naly. i will tell you as far as keeping children always first, lisa spi nalia has always been first and -- spinali has always been first and foremost of keeping the children of this district first and foremost. she's been a true partner to the principals and teachers and staff members at our schools and as it relates to our work in social justice, she's been a true thought partner and although we're sad to see her leave her position, we're very, very fortified and very happy by the fact that she will remain a san franciscan. so we're all going to benefit from her expertise. so i just want to say thank you on behalf of all 55,000 kids in our school district, thank you, lisa, for all you've done. president mendoza: thank you. roll call, please. commissioner wynns: yes. commissioner fewer: yes. commissioner maufas: yes. commissioner murase: aye. commissioner norton: yes. vice president yee: aye. president mendoza: yes. >> that's unanimous. president mendoza: congratulations, lisa. >> so i just

you are my sister nell. you were my sister then. you were my sister for ever. when it got through today, it remains to be seen. they say you should never leave a podium without finishing. you are not supposed to come back. i had to say thank-you to all of you that have listened to me and are doing what you're doing. president mendoza: think you to everyone that came out to share those kind words. i would like to share comments from the board and the superintendent. commissioner norton: in listening to all of you tonight, talking about the achievements and the impact she has had, it is a reminder to me of how important the impact of educators are on their students. we remember you. even if you don't always remember us. you may not remember me, but i remember you. you were my seventh grader typing teacher. i still tied over 50 words a minute. -- type over 50 words a minute. this feels like police we can do to honor you. i am so pleased to support this resolution. thank you for bringing this to our attention. we're so grateful, this is a meaningful thing for us, e

nell, on board. i wanted to tell you ♪ climb every mountain, for every stream, fix up balboa street with some green ♪ supervisor chu: thank you very much. are there other members of the public that would wish to speak on item number one? seeing that, public comment is closed. is the remote -- motion to send it forward? i have a motion. sent forward with recommendations. [laughter] done without objection. thank you. item number four, please. >> resolution authorizing the mayors -- item number four. resolution authorizing the mayor's office of housing to expend soma community stabilization funds in the amount of $120,000 to provide grants to nonprofit organizations for: 1) a soma community coordinator to coordinate and focus community participation related to the development of 333 harrison; 2) assistance in reassessing and refining the soma community stabilization fund strategic plan; and 3) a union journey- level instructor to provide employment training for soma residents. supervisor chu: thank you

nell between 10 and 15 -- northwesterly between 10 and 15. this is a switch. earlier today the northeasterly offshore breeze helping to really warm us up, westerly, southwesterly wind in santa rosa 12 right now and napa reporting nine. it is it -- this is the beginning of the big changes expected as we move through the evening hours and more so for tomorrow. northwesterly wind in concord a light breeze and still an east- northeasterly in livermore, 6 miles per hour at this time. so this ridge of high pressure again beginning to push off to the east. it's a system that will pull in from the gulf of alaska, bring us cloud cover, cool us down but won't bring us rain. take a look at our forecast. by tomorrow morning, this onshore flow could bring us low clouds to the coast, we could see a little bit of fog in the morning hours and by 9:00 or so we have got clouds over the north bay. it will continue its trek south throughout the afternoon and in through the afternoon the peninsula, the east bay beginning to see it by about 1:00. takes most of the day before san jo

today, perhaps the death nell for the once most popular diet drug on the market. public citizen, the consumer advocacy group, petitions the fda to ban it from the pharmacy, saying it identified rare cases of hepatitis, 47 patients with acute pancreatitis and 73 cases of kidney stones. >> it is pretty clear that this drug causes these diseases. and it notches it up enormously in terps of how risky it is. >> reporter: glaxosmithkline, which makes alli, told abc news today there is no proof of a direct link, and insists "its safety has been established through 100 clinical studies involving more than 30,000 patients. even so, in what may be the final straw, just hours after the call to ban the drug, glaxosmithkline decided to sell the brand. that once had so much promise and now may join the long list of disappointing and now off the market magic diet pills. george. >> boy, that's telling. okay, jim, thanks very much. >>> coming up, the tv move today that had thousands of women posting memories. and playmate. ecret-keeper do you think i'd let osteoporosis slow me dow

death nell for once most popular diet drug on the market public citizen also consumer advocate groupn the t fda to ban it with rare cases of heap tights, pan decree and kidney stone. >> pretty clear this drug causes these diseases and not just in terms how risky it is. >>reporter: we were told today that there noise proof of a direct link and insist safety has been established through 100 clinical studies involving more than 30,000 patients. >> that was jim reporting. one note. hours after the call to ban the drug the company tried to sell the brand. >>> still ahead tonight. new rehab tool for the elderly. 3 detect knoll agility help you get back in shape. woman who s.uld be >> postal service issued a new stamp with the statue of liberty except that it feature features, -- stamp is not on the harbor but the republic clay in las vegas. "new york times"says this was an accident. stamp collector the and fan of the real statue figured it out. even so the post office says it is keeping the stamp in circulation. >> new technology helping some elderly patients regain their balance and flexi

so if you wanted to cover that fighting, there was artillery coming in, schrep nell, bullets. and it was hard-- and air strikes. you know there were jets flying over that would just drop two bombs 150 meters from you. i mean, so it was a hard war to navigate and to figure out where, where is a place i can cover this from and stay safe. >> rose: an is the response in terms of the people who are the cappers different? >> i mean there was a time we were loaded into an armour personnel carrier and blindfolded and bound. and i was sort of placed against the soldier who petroleumed my body up against him and was very aggressively touching me and covering my mouth and saying don't speak. and i started crying very hard. and one of the soldiers next to me actually pulled me away from him. and i thought it was tyler but it didn't done on me that tyler's arms are bound and there is no way he can pull me away. this soldier actually bear hugged me and pulled me away. and then the soldier who was touching me pulled me back and started groping me again. and that soldier pulled me back again

as darkness nell across the boarder in georgia -- fell across the border in georgia, residents were noty chances. >> we heard the sirens going off. we were watching tv and it said to seek shelter. >> they were right to run, buildings and homes were destroyed and the numbers of casualties is climbing. in mississippi and tenmicy, thursday will be a day to assess the damage and begin the recovery. across the region despite destruction and tragedy, there's hope. >> the real recovery will be seen in the relentless spirit of our residents, dre'ing that our -- demonstrating that our faith and strength will overcome all. >> reporter: and rescue crews have been working into the flight and into the morning, combing the area looking for survivors. back to you -- back to you. >> thank you. >>> it was quite a sight in los angeles. checks out this video of a broken fire hydrant, spewing water high in the air. a driver slammed into the hydrant which sheared it off and created a huge guiser. no one was hurt. but i'm sure --age a huge geyser. no one was hurt but i'm hour that it impacted people who eded

the organization -- the organizer of the most important called nowlication called nell lebanon. >> it was created before the first friday of demonstrations in syria. >> it is often the case that you can find out what is going on in syria for what is going on in lebanon. >> definitely. thank you. >> unfortunately, lebanon and syria are linked to and cannot talk about lebanon without talking about syria. the link is obvious. watching has flaws reaction will .ell you and syria's allies >> i want to make sure you are heard. >> watching has below reacting by not pushing for the formation of the government by also creating incidents that would show you their marking their territory inside lebanon. i will talk about to devote incidents that happened after this area uprising happened. hezbollah two weeks ago started a campaign in south lebanon where they forced some shops to stop selling alcohol. this is not a big deal. it is not like they are closing liquor stores or anything. inside their community, they're telling their people they are the authority, marking the territory inside the commun

we nell are at the series will do it. we have these halos over our head. there is the crash of 2008. there are hundreds of banks going down. what if your congressmen and their preneedy were coming? what if your president saw it coming? they know it in enough time to prevent it from coming. what would you think of him? i do not think of this spirited this is wrong. this is the most predictable economic crisis we have ever had in this country. we owe it to our men and women to fix it while it is fixable. shame on people who want to demagogued and politicize this. our country's better than that. they have this budget gimmicks and county checks. is not what is really needed to save this country. >> thank you very much for speaking. i know you are here. they are going to have to get the programs they like. to many people think these cs will not hurt. >> we are about to do a whole bunch. we are refming agricultural subsidies. he is taking the lead in doing reform. we have people in congress now you are doing that. we have no choice. >> use said -- he said that t

we nell are at the series will do it. we have these halos over our head. there is the crash of 2008. there are hundreds of banks going down. at if your congressmen and their preneedy were coming? what if your president saw it coming? they know it in enough time to prevent it from coming. what would you think of him? i do not think of this spirited this is wrong. this is the most predictable economic crisis we have ever had in this country. we owe it to our men and women to fix it while it is fixable. shame on people who want to demagogued and politicize this. our country's better than that. they have this budget gimmicks and county checks. is not what is really needed to save this country. >> thank you very much for speaking. i know you are here. they are going to have to get e ograms they like. to many people think these cuts will not hurt. >> we are about to do a whole bunch. we are reforming agricultural subsidies. he is taking the lead in doing reform. we have people in congress now you are doing that. we have no choice. >> use said -- he said that the

more and whether in a moment a quick check on wall street, more corporate deals nell help include chips reporter: wild weather across the country, first wild fires and floods. this is the aftermath of texas wild fire, 16,000 a. destroying 34 homes. another fast-moving wildfire spreading through 60,000 a.. to a third-place 71,000 a. of planes. fema is expected to respond to the displaced victims. the flames in florida everglades, this is what you see here. they are keeping an eye on a brush fire that broke out near fort lauderdale. officials say no homes are threatened and no roads had to close down. so far no injuries just wild video. >> james: to flooding in north dakota several roads are covered with water forcing people to use boats. this is in for go they were tried to keep the water at bay forecasters expected to continue to rise because more rain and melting snow. another inch of rain is expected in some spots. in iowa a tornado touched down ripping apart homes in knocking down trees. this is some of the damage in the shop. the damage done in mableton will likely cost millions of

nell, with the pension that my wife received, we cannot pay for it with the legitimate deductions that we have had for the last 10 to 15 years. it put us into a different bracket. and you hear the issues coming up with companies like general elektra, paying no taxes based on the degree of profits. the working people and senior citizens of america are in big trouble with the entire congress. what is happening here is the so-called tax savings that are happening bar on the backs of working people and senior citizens. i always like it when you are on the program, steve. thank you. host: thank you. this comment from the twitter page. host: her point is that the budget needs to be corrected and is full of errors, like the number of jobs. this is the 400 -- this is the anniversary of the start of the civil war. a number of ceremonies are taking place across the country. host: at c-span we will be covering a number of these ceremonies in the coming weeks and months as we mark the start of the civil war and the anniversary of the swearing in of abraham lincoln. you can check much of it out of

i'm not sure you can just see the edges of them, but there are large police barriers that nelled useetting a van in now, so that's causing a little bit of excitement. big police presence and on either side of the barriers that you can't see, dozens and dozens of people. some of them dressed up already in wedding garb have gathered looking for a glimpse of kate middleton and her family whenever they are to arrive. they've also built a little privacy tent right outside the front entrance of the hotel. that may prevent us from getting a glimpse of kate in the morning when she comes out wearing that gown. she wants to keep that secret. when she comes to the a abbey, that could be the first time we get a glimpse of what she's wearing. she will spend the night with her mother, her sister, pippa. it's a five-room suite that's renovated to the tune of $200,000, and it's said to be decorated in the style of royalty, that there's a replica gown that queen victoria wore for her wedding day. matt. >> all right, michelle, just a couple of blocks from us here. ann, let's get a check of the top sto

we nell are at the series will do it. we have these halos over our head.here is the crash of 2008. there are hundreds of banks going down. what if your congressmen and their preneedy were coming? what if your president saw it coming? they know it in enough time to prevent it from coming. what would you think of him? i do not think of this spirited this is wrong. this is the most predictable economic crisis we have ever had in this country. we owe it to our men and women to fix it while it is fixable. shame on people who want to demagogued and politicize this. our country's better than that. they have this budget gimmicks and county checks. is not what is really needed to save this country. >> thank you very much for speaking. i know you are here. they are going to have to get the programs they like. to many people think these cuts will not hurt. >> we are about to do a whole bunch. we are reforming agricultural subsidies. he is taking the lead in doing reform. we have people in congress now you are doing that. we have no choice. >> use said -- he said that