now we are able to track and we picked up 0 wheelchair customers or you picked up 54 wheelchair customer and now we can track that and this is one of the reasons that many in our industris that been afraid of that technology because now we are able to enforce the standards that were on the books before but no one was able to truly enforce without looking at the hand records that were produced by the driver themselves. >> what we want to do and demonstrate to our drivers and to our medallion holders is simply that, the days of simply driving and doing whatever you feel like are done. what we now want you to focus on is actually serving the public. no more coming in and say, well, it is so busy here, well it is not busy enough. now we are saying, no. now we know what you are doing. now we want you to track people. now we want you to pick them up. we know that you are sitting down at the airport all day in a ramp vehicle and you are not going to come out to the city and pick up wheelchair customers. well the business is so slow, now we are able to track that. now we are able to see what you

and then the sfmta put more burden on them by asking them to pick up more wheelchairs, eight wheelchairs a minimum a month without [speaker not understood] the sacrifice they are being put into. i think the problem is because we did not recognize that this driver put a lot of sacrifice because they're waiting for one day to get their medallion. [speaker not understood], asking us to put -- push [speaker not understood]. in one hand -- >> thank you, yeah. >>> i'll wrap real quick. they gave medallion to driver who didn't put them on the list and then punishing [speaker not understood]. >> thank you. >> thank you, sir. mary mcguire followed by bruce oka and then jacob madel. >> good afternoon, ms. mcguire. >>> good afternoon, mary mcguire, taxi driver. they are leasing the rent medallions to the cab companies. i'm concerned about how, how this will impact the service. now, it's a current standard of 8 wheelchair pick ups a month. that is not very many. if that is the standard, would that be for each driver or each medallion? and who is responsible for maintaining the standard applied to th

is it only ramp taxis that wheelchair users have, or do we have wheelchair users who also use nonramp taxis? it's not saying that they toshiba -- it has to be that the ramp taxi medallion holder provides a service that has a record of exemplary service to passengers who use wheelchairs. * so, i don't know if i read that, that it has to be the ramp taxis that have provided service, that the company services wheelchair users. thank you. >> well, the way that we're looking at it is for the service done by the vehicle itself. so, we're not looking at the particular driver -- for instance, right now, the requirement is that there are 8 wheelchair pick ups per month. it's not driver specific. it's vehicle specific. so, we recognize that, you know, there aren't as many pick ups in the evening so that driver won't have as many. but medallion holders responsible currently for making sure there are at least 8 pick ups per month. right now, this responsibility would transfer to the company to ensure there are at least 8 wheelchair pick ups per month on each ramp vehicle. our wheelchair clients d

every public accommodation needs to be wheelchair-accessible. there are also other other forf disability. most of the issues we are hearing about are wheelchair accessibility issues. there is a small group of private individuals who are wheelchair-down that go around the city and they look at small businesses. and i dare say anybody in small restaurants have some accessibility issues. it is another attempt at making your building wheelchair accessible. i am not sure which of you may be merchants and which it may be landlords. the law applies to both. and that means you were 100% liable for any barriers to access and any damages that may be associated with those barriers. there are ways you can defend yourself. with your landlord or at senate -- or a tenant, this can avoid a lot of problems later on. the inspections offer a limited attempt at bringing a civil action for damages. it does not affect the ability to bring damage claims under the symbol laws. however, most lawyers -- they will not pursue the case. so, oftentimes, it works it to stop t

from the services, it is desirable to have the wheelchair pick ups, that was back in 2000. it was... this number three wheelchair pick up was adopted way back then because we did not have in san francisco, an entire mini fleet that could deal and pick up those wheel-chair bound users, there was not that many vehicles in san francisco city that served the community. and there was a lot of changes since then, the 100 wheelchair capable taxi cabs, and every single muni bus is adopable or available, or able to pick up those wheelchair people beside hundreds and hundreds of dollars, buses that serve the community, my point here is when san francisco city took over in 2009 from the taxi commission, a lot of things changed. no umbudsman that insists between the city and which is huge on its own, and when sfmt came out with the draft or memorandum back at the end of 2011, i immediately expressed my opinion about that to the sfmtstaff saying that this is just illogical, you can't regulate something which is random. taxi cab van, even though it is a van is not a bus that has a certai

even though i'm in a wheelchair, they don't limit my activities.where people can click like to be a contest winner, possibly. >> oh, my god! this is amazing. >> go! >>> we hear of all the animals, kangaroos are the best boxers, right? why are they good boxers? i have a secret video of a kangaroo boxing training session. we are looking at love bug. love bug is working over a large, stuffed hippo here. love bug is really working there. >> this is the weirdest video. it's such a strange group of animals. where are they? >> the exotic experience. >> it's hilarious. there's a dog in there with these guys. >> he couldn't be more bored. >> liam is out there officiating. he's making sure it's fair. love bug really starts going to work on this hippo. the referee is making sure everything is legal there. all right. round two. there's one part where he's dancing around the ring like a boxer would with his dukes up. love bug has a discrepancy with the referee at the end. i think he was awarding points on technicalities. so he chases that around. >> you are not

>> we don't track the wheelchair users. i can tell you that we get five or six of those a month. >> have any been tracked to this company or this driver? >> well, it would be really difficult to track to a particular driver. it can be tracked to a company, but i could not give you any real numbers on that. >> okay. >> but it couldn't be tracked to a driver because no one showed up because it has to be... >> so in the town or luxor or yellow. >> do they have complaints. you don't have that information? >> i don't have that information for you. >> thank you. >> how many are registered in the para transit program? >> you know i actually don't have the numbers that are registered in the program. >> and is there no process whereby they can get credit for those who are not registered but who utilized their service? >> well, we have actually kind of built that in to the regulations so as part of the regulation we require at least 6 of those pick-ups to be through the para transit car system so six out of the eight, if you have got

as you can see, lucy is in a wheelchair.ccording to the mother who posted this video, the tsa officers wanted to pat this little girl down. mom is saying, you know, i'm not comfortable with this. and begins to record this incident. the reason this video is getting so much attention is how upset the child is. >> i want to go to disney world. >> kids cry at the airport no matter what. >> tsa has to follow protocol. >> do they pat her down or what actually happened? >> to tell us about this incident we have lucy's dad nathan from missouri. >> after 20 minutes or so they backed down and decided that it wasn't worth it. they swabbed her wheelchair. i'm assuming for bombs or drugs, i don't know. but that was it. they did not end up patting her down. that was after a 30-minute delay and a lot of embarrassment and humiliation standing in line. >> what was your main concern about them actually patting down your daughter? >> as an attorney i think we have to respect basic civil rights. would you let a stranger come up and pet your chi

he is also confined to a wheelchair.ll of it pure upper body strength. >> i can feel lie legs, but they can't move. it's called spinal cord tran section. the doctors don't know how, when, or why. it was a disability from birth. >> he was a young boy when he decided not to let his disability keep him from his dreams from being an athlete. >> it's my best subject. >> i wasn't very good at anything else. i know that i had to get this sport right if i wanted to succeed in life. i was very lucky. i was talented at an early age and the wheelchair took over my life. >> he began training at age 8. he started with the medals at age 25. >> he is also starting to give back, helping to train the pair a limpic athletes of tomorrow. >> i give them tactics and they sit in their chair. i got a lot of colleagues over the years. >> anyone dealing with disability whether they are headed for the olympics or want to stay fit, exercise is the best medicine. >> for a few hours of what happened and stuff like that f it's wheelchair racing and b

officials estimating 15% of wheelchair requests are fake. meanwhile, one slate columnist wants airline passengers to decline to recline. dan coy thanks putting your seat all the way back is rude, but blames the airlines writing people we klein their seats because their seats recline. why on earth these seats recline? wouldn't it be better if seats didn't? shut up. for mow we go live to -- for more we go live to our travel correspondent in moscow. >> incredible man, by the way. and a pediatric surgeon. anyway, gavin, we send out these talking points and i what is shocked at your perspective. you are actually against people who recline. people who pay the price for their seats own that seat. it is their right to do what they want. if they paid for. it you recline. and you who i thought was a libertarian say people don't have the right to recline. >> my beliefs do not include destroying other people's lives. and when they are sitting and doing work on a five-hour flight and you impale them by forcing the computer into the rib cage you are not j

goodlett is accessible via ramp and wheelchair lift. the other three entrances are accessible via ramp. assistive listening devices are available and the meeting will be closed captioned and sign language interpreted. other materials in alternate format upon are request. with persons please refrain from wearing scented products. this includes perfume, scented lotions, hairspray. thank you for helping us to provide meetings that are fully accessible to all people with disabilities. members of the public who wish to listen and/or participate in this meeting, but are unable physically to attend please call into the council's bridge line at area code 415-554-9632. thank you:thank you. denise. we'll have our roll call now. >> >> council member james? >> present. >> >> council member burgett? >> present? >> council member kostanian? >> present. >> council member senhaux? >> present. >> council member supanich? >> present. >> council member wilson? >> present. >> council member wong? >> present. >> and roland wong is on excused absence. >> tha

our wheelchair clients do also take some sedans as well. a lot of it is because they are a little bit lower to the ground, easier to get into, things like that. but our ramp vehicles, they're required to give priority to our wheelchair customers and -- you can actually strap a wheelchair in a vehicle as opposed to a sedan where you can fold the chair into the back seat and help the person into the front seat there. >> excellent, thank you. and i just want to also echo the concern that director oka brought up, that this legislation does not specifically indicate which taxi companies we would perhaps be leasing these permits to, but it does open it up for -- to the point if green cab has no history of ramp medallions, should they still be able -- they will still be able to participate in the ramp permit program. >> well, the way that it's written, it is not as much. however, this is a starting point for us. so, what we're going to start with is who has a history of that performance. does it guarantee they'll always do well? so, it's part of t

her earrings, not the wheelchair set off the metal detector. eventually agents inspected the wheelchair and allowed the little girl to pass through without a patdown. the tsa issued a statement for bad guidance given to the family. they have a policy allowing for a patdown if an agent cannot figure out what set off the metal detector. >>> dramatic new video of a fiery crash on the las vegas strip. it was the result of a shootout between people if two cars, one of which is still on the loose. police say that yesterday morning an argument started in the valet area of a hotel. the people got into their cars and started shooting at each other. one car crashed into a taxi. that taxi burst into flames. the driver of that car was killed. two people in the taxi you as well. three other cars also crashed and the other car involved in the gunfire still on the loose. >>> today boeing will try to get the 787 dreamliners back in the skies during a meeting with the faa. the manufacturer will present how it will fix battery problems that have plagued some of

he's in a wheelchair. a great guy. he answers any question i have. >> was he involved in the shooting as well? >> no. he wasn't. he was in a diving accident. >> he was able to talk you through, i guess, the psychological journey you were going to go on. >> right. >> because he's been there. >> yeah. because he's paralyzed, too. he knows exactly what i went through. people will tell me, you know, yeah, i know. if i tell them it's hard for me, they'll be like, yeah, i know. >> but they don't know. >> you don't know. >> somebody who's been paralyzed, and let me come to you, this is every mother's nightmare. this is your son. he's 17, as he was at the time. and suddenly his whole life changes. i guess your first feeling is, thank god he's alive. and then you have to deal with the fact that he's paralyzed. what was it like for you as his mother? >> it really didn't happen that way. it was -- i think it was just denial at first. i said, nick was shot. then somebody said, oh, he was shot through the shoulder. you know, you're

traumatizing a three year old wheelchair girl. the father will be joining us and we'll ask him if that apology is enough. >>> and dimension how scientist are working to bring of i egyptian mummy back to life? >> i am uma, america's news headquarters live in the nation's capitol starts right now. -- hello eeverybody. well, time is running out. next friday. 85 billion in spending cuts kick in unless congress and the white house work out a deal to stop the highly controversial sequester. many including president obama say if the sequester goes through will spell disaster from the national defense and food safety and affect everything from the teacher tots air traffic controllerings. others say the cuts might be just what the country needs. molly is joining us with more. >> it appears each side is digging in. there are overt sign there are deal. president obama said today that there is it time for congress to come to a deal that he would sign provided that it incluppeds more tax increases to go along with the spending cuts. >> they ca

they agreed not to take pictures of him in the wheelchair.his is one of the very few photos known to exist. >> in terms of the design of the fdr memorial, in the early 1990s, there was controversy. there was, "how do we wrestle with showing and depicting him?" in fact, we erred on the side of being realistic, telling the truth, telling the real story and showing him in a wheelchair and showing him seated, because he really was not able to stand. >> despite his disability, roosevelt was a towering world leader. he led the u.s. out of the depression and on to victory in world war ii. >> to then come out of world war ii in 1945 as a superpower -- that was a massively huge transformation for this country. >> roosevelt didn't live to see that final victory. he died in his fourth term. but he'll have many enduring legacies -- for example, establishing social security and laying the groundwork for the united nations. one of fdr's achievements will never be matched. no president can be elected to more than two terms again because congress changed the

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