item 8 is appointing franklin wong to chief financial office. and director gonzales will present this item. >> thank you donald. directors, i'm pleased to present this item that you appoint franklin wong. following extensive outreach over the last several months, 11 individuals submitted resumes. qualified candidates, mr. wong stood out among the 11 applicants and ultimately, the candidates considered in the final interview process. he has both operations and capital project experience and brings a mix of strong technical skills and finance and capital program management and his enthusiasm for the vision of the transbay program really set him apart as the best fit for the position of chief financial officer. he comes from us from the santa clara valley transportation authority serving as executive director of finance management. and he was with bart for 12 years holding positions in financial management. franklin is with us this morning and is available to address the board if you wish. but, again, directors, i'm pleased to present him for your

any wong family members here and amen from the chin family and so forth you would raise your hand and they would shepherd you to the organization where your family clan would be located and often knew that you were coming because that would have been your primary target when you arrived other groups were based on district for instance the other ningyoung building. men were born in hoysan district would come to join this organization. so it's quite possible to join both. your family association your district association, then you might join a fraternal association here is the chinese freemasons the bengong town if the organization discovered you could get a charter for a building if you were listed as freemasons, and so they did and so today they are listed as the chinese freemasons. the one fact one would be hard put to prove that they actually have a connection to the european freemasons. now, this was a very important part of the foundation of chinatown. one of the things that happened was it allowed chinatown to rebuild in two years the city took three years to rebuild after the ea

people are collecting their valuables in fleeing from the calder fire right now as kron first, lonnie wong shows us progress on containing the fast-moving flames is proving difficult. >> the mandatory evacuation orders are no joke here just outside of flight park. residents can see the head of the fire making its way to their homes and more slowly toward pollack pines to the north. the fire only started saturday night. but by this morning had going to 6500 acres in steep canyons around the area of grizzly flats, south of highway 50. it started moving north with the prevailing winds. we have 0% containment. >> and we know that the fire is growing rapidly it's really tough to make access a lot of logging roads there and they're made of dirt. they're not paved. so that provides the first challenge. and then once we get in there there, steve, sometimes the rocky and otherwise inaccessible a command post was quickly set up at the eldorado county fairgrounds in placid bill today. but crews engines didn't states there right away. instead, they were deployed directly to the fire line for managers

lonnie wong has the latest on the firefighting effort there. >> firefighters are still trying to halt the calder fire from getting to echo 7 on highway well, there are homes along the south fork of the american river around pipers. there are more homes around slight park and grizzly flats. some of them painted pink with fire retardant by fire crews as the flames just filled the skies are obviously flat as i was a fire in areas already burned flared up. this includes of smoke on the other side of this 50 foot wide containment line made by bulldozers hotspots, florida down below firefighters feared that they would throw up embers causing spot fires on the other side of this a helicopter attack knocked down the flames still firefighters ran hose along the containment line to protect homes on the other side of the ridge. this is area where the fire started. that has been problematic since. >> the beginning of this incident. >> us weekly at road dozens of fire engines and crews were stationed around the evacuated homes and several wineries. we've had active structure protection structure,

firefighters were welcome any advantage they can get. >> that was lonnie wong reporting.ng the dixie fire that continues to burn across 5 northern california counties. it is scorched more than 735. >> 1000 acres. it's now 45% contained. it has destroyed more than 1200 buildings and continues to threaten almost 2000 others. it's in its 5th week. now. still no word on what caused the flames to spark in the first place. one of california's best known chefs and restaurant owners is thanking the fire crews at the dixie wildfire in his own way. >> the county sheriff's office shared these photos of guy fieri posing with a deputy ferry and his foundation did bring food for all the firefighters, all the public safety officials assigned to the dixie fire. the chef grew up in the north and he's a known for helping to feed evacuees and emergency workers during last year's devastating fires. all right. taking a live look outside world looks we're looking at san francisco's embarcadero. yeah. pretty blue looking skies from markedly a forest. how about the how long? yeah, i saw on shore

lonnie wong has that story. >> we've lived here 40 years and i've never seen it. this low this early in the year sharon rogers walks with her group along lake oroville every tuesday. it's not just the historically low water levels that worries are between in and drought. it's going to be a rough year standing on the world them in a curtain of smoke republican assemblyman james gallagher congressman doug lamalfa and state senator jim nielsen say this was avoidable. they blame democratic governor gavin newsome for not managing water better. ignoring the needs of agriculture in favor of a program of preserving fish in the delta that isn't working to begin with. at the same time cutting that funds to reduce force feels worse. the water. >> why are you managing it this way. >> why are to managing our forests. were you putting more investment into that. this is the kind of policies that are leading. they are killing people. there are literally killing people. these policies. the frustrated protester at the president actually blamed their elected officials for not doing

as we learn from scott wong, shuffling back and forth between offices for hours. it was after midnight yesterday that democrats pulled the plug on moving forward for now. they were supposed to bring to the floor a vote for the rules for the debate and they did not do that yesterday. the speaker says they will do so today. they are going to meet in a little over an hour and talk about the path forward. in the meantime, read, what do you think your party should do -- marie, what you think your party should do? caller: i support the infrastructure bill. that would be half of what it is. during president obama's first year in office, he offered stimulus for infrastructure. they decided they would vote no on everything he put forth. we would not even be dealing with the roads and bridges and all this stuff that started as part of infrastructure had they supported that bill when president obama first put it out. the bill would be half of that, not including roads or bridges. we are behind a lot of the nations in that part of the infrastructure because of the selfishness

if you're vaccinated medical experts say such precautions can be a game changer. >> now as lonnie wongng for us tonight here in the bay area, high school football is set to start next week with 96 games scheduled next friday and saturday. and so far they all are expected to go on as planned. now to our 4 zone forecast as we give you a live look outside from the top of mount tam. and you can hardly see anything except that one little ridge close to the camera. yeah. there's like basically nothing there to say the air quality advisory has been extended until tomorrow. but launch. we're hoping that won't affect the for fun things. yeah, we'll keep our fingers crossed. i don't think it will. i think we've got some improving air quality for the weekend. right now we're seen. >> a little more proven that we had this time last night. you see that ocean air has pushed on shore along much of the peninsula. now in green stretching across the bay into san leandro. also in hayward much the rest, the bay area under moderate amounts of pollutants with the haze outside afternoons look up the skies an

wong had said to us there were only 12,000 chinese-americans who served. we're scratching our head going, well, that's a pretty low number. we'll take your word for it. and then as we searched more, the numbers kept growing, until we got to 22,827. that's the final count. and since we published the book, there's been more. we are getting more service notifications and we've gotten at least a half dozen since we published. we've only been published for about two weeks now. that's when we sent the document to our distributor. >> tyler? >> yes. >> the 14th air support group, which is in the picture behind samantha, was an all-chinese unit that was formed to deploy to china as part of the 14th air force under the theory of we get all these chinese-american soldiers, they will speak the language. and thus they can be over there and help integrate the american air groups into the chinese units there -- not integrate them into units, but to help them just like the americans who went to england, you know, get to know the locals. they found out, one, some of the ch

lonnie wong has more on that. >> the new policy calls for employees and state workplaces to be vaccinated or take regular covid test and wear a mask while on the job. hunt will be implemented or enforced is unclear since there are 246,000 state employees in dozens of departments and agencies. no one knows exactly what's going on. richard lewis brown as president of the state's largest employee union with 56,000 dues paying members representing over a 100,000 workers so maybe say don't worry about it. we're not any adverse action against you. other agencies are threatening our represent employees and not just look at 1000, but the other 11 public sector unions brown blames governor gavin newsome for haphazard policy that was not thought out union attorney say the policy violates its contract that calls for a meet and confer processed before a change in the terms of employment. i believe in the vaccine's jacob. the court says department of water resources staff perform vital tasks that can be interrupted. i think the vaccinations and the mandatory testing is a good thing. anything we can do

for instance, directly across the straight is the wong family benevolent association. this means if you arrived in 1860 and stepped off a ship, there would be chinese men on the shore calling out, any wong family members here? any men from the chin family? you would raise your hand and they would shepherd you to the organization where your family, clan, would be located, and often knew that you were coming because that would have been your primary target when you arrived. other groups were based on district. the ning yung building. men were born in the district and would come to join this organization. so it's quite possible to join both, your family association and your district association. then you might join a fraternal organization. here is the chinese free masons. the organization discovered you could get a charter for a building if you were listed as free masons, soy they did. the one fact, one would be hard put to prove they actually have a connection to the european free masons. this was a very important part of the foundation of chinatown. one of the things t

lonnie wong. >> the threat of the caldor fires forcing some vacationers to cancel their lake tahoe kronviewer tells us air bnb is refusing now to issue a refund crystal reached out to kron 4 saying she booked a property through air booked a property through air bnb back in july given th severity of the situation. she recently decided it would be best to cancel her family's trip. she says that she contacted the property host to refuse to issue a refund. she says she then contacted air bnb multiple times and they told her they did issue a refund if and when evacuations were put in place for the property. my self and other folks that my positions are a response at a reasonable response. not sorry. hey, we can't. >> accommodate your do anything for you. the other message i would like to share is, you know. booking on their website is based on customers booking the a's rentals without customers booking them. the host make some there for air bnb. nick, somebody. so i think air bnb just need to take a step back and really think about that because for myself and you know, probably for other fol

hogan, secretary austin, minister wong, superintendent reinebold, distinguished guests, the familiesfallen, and, most importantly, the many veterans of the korean war who fought and guaranteed freedom in the republic of korea, welcome to this groundbreaking ceremony at the korean war veterans memorial wall of remembrance. as chairman of the korean war veterans memorial foundation, i'm honored to most this moment us event. the groundbreaking of the wall of remembrance addition to the korean war memorial, which will add 100 panels with the names of 36,595 americans and 7174 korean augmentees to the united states army who were killed action during the korean war in 1950 to 1953. it will be a physical manifestation of the strength of the rock and u.s. alliance. it will educate over 4 million visitors here each year on the cost of freedom and the cost of war. and most importantly, it will honor and pay homage to those who paid the ultimate sacrifice, their lives for freedom. i personally wish to thank president moon for his unwavering support of this project. i want to thank the ministry

joining us is scott wong from the hill to tell us about it.et's begin with what was supposed to happen yesterday. guest: what was supposed to happen was a procedural vote to advance joe biden's -- key elements of joe biden's domestic agenda forward. what nancy pelosi had done was to package three items of that agenda, the john lewis voting rights bill, the 1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure package that passed the senate recently, and this budget framework that would pave the way for the bigger bill of $3.5 trillion in human infrastructure. what happened was that democrats and democratic leaders underestimated the centrist rebels who are objecting to the process. they did not like how nancy pelosi was packaging this together, the timing of this. they did not like her political strategy of how the bills would come to the floor. they wanted to see infrastructure past first and quickly to give joe biden that win. what we saw was a standoff that lasted hours, hours of negotiations between pelosi and her leadership team and one of the leaders of th

yvonne: we are losing cindy wong. out of type a, thank you for joining us.have been talking about when it comes to shipping rates, we're seeing that, they are just skyrocketing. david: yeah, as rishaad was pointing out, the bulk index is the highest since 2000. a big part of that are the biggest and largest ships. that is vertical. high in at least -- highest in the seven years. rishaad: 10 times, some of these shipping rates, taking times before what you were paying in 2019 for getting a good container across the pacific. yvonne: i think they were talking to some of these shipping companies like evergreen marina in taiwan, and they are thinking that this shortage of capacity and port congestion is not likely to be resolved until the fourth quarter, or even maybe 2022, so this could be going on for a while. coming up, an exclusive interview with airlift technologies ceo. they recently raised the highest amount of money in their funding round for that pakistani startup. this is bloomberg. ♪ yvonne: online shopping delivery from airlift technologies scored the

joining us is scott wong from the hill to tell us about it. let's begin with what was supposed to happen yesterday. guest: what was supposed to happen was a procedural vote to advance joe biden's -- key elements of joe biden's domestic agenda forward. what nancy pelosi had done was to package three items of that agenda, the john lewis voting rights bill, the 1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure package that passed the senate recently, and this budget framework that would pave the way for the bigger bill of $3.5 trillion in human infrastructure. what happened was that democrats and democratic leaders underestimated the centrist rebels who are objecting to the process. they did not like how nancy pelosi was packaging this together, the timing of this. they did not like her political strategy of how the bills would come to the floor. they wanted to see infrastructure past first and quickly to give joe biden that win. what we saw was a standoff that lasted hours, hours of negotiations between pelosi and her leadership team and one of the leaders of

that was lonnie wong reporting.ew study is linking wildfire smoke with rising covid infections and deaths. the authors of the harvard university study said they found evidence linking smoke from wildfires in california, oregon and washington last year to rising covid cases and deaths. they said that smoke carries foreign fine particulate matter which acts as a vehicle for spreading infection, even faster and making existing cases worse. >> wildfire, smoke irritate stay airway, lining. and the lining of the air sacs. that's exactly what happens with covid you get your attention and inflammation. of the long. and so the wildfire smoke already sets the stage, if you will, 4. a bad response to the coronavirus. >> doctor john bombs, a professor of medicine at ucsf says this is an added reason why it's important to take precautions against wildfire. smoke. kron four's gayle ong we'll have more details in on this in a live report coming up on kron 4 news at 9. >> the sec. a live look outside right now from our camera atop

homes stuff is hard to come by after losing nearly all their belongings. >> again, that was lonnie wong reporting right now. kron 4 dot com. we have tips for fire season just scan that qr code on your screen with your mobile device. it will take you straight to our dedicated fire season page. >> this take a live look outside now from our camera atop mount tam pious is still light outside and it's also pretty hazy. and the camera is bouncing around a little bit more signifies, i guess some wind, right. yeah. that healthy sea breeze has been blowing and that's been good for us as far as our air quality again, that nice on shore wind coming from the ocean and really the forecasted materialize. we thought we'd see a little more smoke in the bay area that hasn't happened saying good air quality. all around. in fact, the latest sensor showing good air quality from san jose to livermore up to fairfield back up into guerneville along the coastline just about green everywhere you go. >> of course you get in and around those fires is a different story. they've got a lot of smoke up there. but the

reporter lonnie wong explains why firefighters caught a little bit of a break with the weather today.our strike teams are making slow progress in containing a fire that has wheat 144,000 acres. it is now marching eastward toward the community of strawberry on both sides of highway we're creating defensible space around cabins in the area and dispersing more flammable more resources were being sent to the area. 3200 firefighters are now on the job. 400 more than yesterday. >> they all had to make their way to a blanket of thick spoke at times visibility was less than 200 feet. taking it slow going for crews and equipment that are being shuttled into the area. flames 100 feet across the south fork of the american river could barely be seen. but the presence of thick smoke isn't all that. it's a sign of an inversion layer with calmer winds in areas of the containment on the fire is moving slowly across the ground right now. the winds are relatively calm, but every few minutes through a gust of wind in these canyons. and that's bad news for firefighters. stronger winds gets in flames up i

wong and this case in general? is that something we can put forward here or is it something that we would be discussing in a scheduled closed session? >> deputy city attorney ann pearson. i don't think the brown act extends to a broader discussion, which goes to the discussion of this particular settlement. we'd have to determine whether there are grounds for briefing in closed session to talk about that. but given what we'd like to to -- that. >> supervisor ronen: but given that what we'd like to discuss is the broader corruption of the department of building inspection, and given that that might lead to further litigation, i would guess that would not be something that the city attorney would be willing to have in public and would probably fit in the litigation exception. so i'm wondering, how do we have that discussion because it's been a while, and that discussion in s.f. local was shocking. it detailed mr. wong having staff embedded in d.b.i. that would come in on weekends and have special files and special, y

long and lonnie wong has more. >> they've lived here 40 years and i've never seen it.w this early in the year sharon rogers walks with her group along lake oroville every tuesday. it's not just the historically low water levels that worries are between 5 erin and >> drought. it's going to be a rough year standing on the world them in a curtain of smoke republican assemblyman james gallagher congressman doug lamalfa and state senator jim nielsen say this was avoidable. they blame democratic governor gavin newsome for not managing water better. ignoring the needs of agriculture in favor of a program of preserving fish in the delta that isn't working to begin with. at the same time. cutting back funds to reduce force fuels worst. the water. >> why are you managing it this way. >> wire to managing our forests. were you putting more investment into that. this is the kind of policies that are lling people. they're literally killing people. these policies. the frustrated protester at the presidtnt actually blamed their elected officials for not doing better. i'm going to be l

lonnie wong has more. >> the new policy calls for employees and state workplaces to be vaccinated or take regular covid test and wear a mask while on the job. hunt will be implemented or enforced is unclear since there are 246,000 state employees in dozens of departments and agencies. no one knows exactly what's going on. richard lewis brown as president of the state's largest employee union with 56,000 dues paying members representing over a 100,000 workers so maybe say don't worry about it. we're not any adverse action against you. other agencies are threatening our represent employees and not just look at 1000, but the other 11 public sector unions brown blames governor gavin newsome for haphazard policy that was not thought out union attorney say the policy violates its contract that calls for a meet and confer processed before a change in the terms of employment. i believe in the vaccine's jacob. the court says department of water resources staff perform vital tasks that can be interrupted. i think the vaccinations and the mandatory testing is a good thing. anything we can do to

wong and this case in general? is that something we can put forward here or is it something that we would be discussing in a scheduled closed session? >> deputy city attorney ann pearson. i don't think the brown act extends to a broader discussion, which goes to the discussion of this particular settlement. we'd have to determine whether there are grounds for briefing in closed session to talk about that. but given what we'd like to to -- that. >> supervisor ronen: but given that what we'd like to discuss is the broader corruption of the department of building inspection, and given that that might lead to further litigation, i would guess that would not be something that the city attorney would be willing to have in public and would probably fit in the litigation exception. so i'm wondering, how do we have that discussion because it's been a while, and that discussion in s.f. local was shocking. it detailed mr. wong having staff embedded in d.b.i. that would come in on weekends and have special files and special, y

lonnie wong fox 40 news. >> because health care workers fall under those new state guidelines kaiser permanente is now requiring all of its employees to get the covid shot. the mandate will apply to more than 230,000 kaiser employees here in northern california. 78% of kaiser employees and 95% of physicians are already fully vaccinated. >> we believe that this is what we need to do to keep our employees, our front-line workers safe, our patients safe. our goal is that by september 30th, we will have a fully vaccinated workforce by august 23rd. we're going to begin requiring all of those that are unvaccinated to have twice-a-week testing covid-19 testing and even of this we starting by trying to understand the vaccination status of all of our employees. >> employees who remain unvaccinated will be required to apply for a medical or religious exemption. another big story this morning. most students around the country will be heading back to school in person. and while most agree that that's a good thing. there is concerned because of the delta variant and the low vaccination rates amon

my name is tiffany wong. as mark said, i am the acting audit manager for the whistle-blower program. i'm stepping in for our program manager, dave jensen. i'm pleased to present today's update on the whistle-blower program's recent activities and initiatives. next slide, please. [inaudible] from the california government code commission, 53.76, appendix "f," and the campaign governmental conduct code, article 4. next slide, please. the whistle-blower program has jurisdiction over specific matters. the whistle-blower program shall investigate or otherwise attempt to resolve reports concerning misuse of city funds, im improper activities, deficiencies in the delivery of government services and government practices. also per the charter, the whistle-blower program does not have jurisdiction over specific matters. and it must refer certain matters in which another city department is required to investigate by federal, state, or local law, matters which may be resolved through ag ag aggrievences. our whistle-blowe

that was reporter lonnie wong reporting. on kron 4 dot com. we do have information including the latest on mask mandates. a breakthrough covid cases. we. >> even have transit schedules and there you can scan the qr code on the screen there with your phone and be directed to our web page. dedicated to covid-19 coverage. >> tonight at 9 alameda may be the first city in the count in the country to approve a voluntary land tax that will support a local native american nonprofit. that group is going to use the money to continue an effort to reclaim their native land and to regenerate tribal culture. >> kron four's ella sogomonian is here with details l a. >> katharine and johnathan the group that you mentioned is called so great. a land trust. it's the first women let organization of its kind right here in the bay area. they were can represent various local native american tribes, including was shot and a loney. california is home to one of the most diverse indigenous populations with more than 200 tribes. but unfortunately the co-founder of so gre

lonnie wong has the story. >> they've lived here 40 years and i've never seen it.s low this early in the year sharon rogers walks with her group along lake oroville every tuesday. it's not just the historically low water levels that worries are between fire in and drought. it's going to be a rough year standing on the world them in a curtain of smoke republican assemblyman james gallagher congressman doug lamalfa and state senator jim nielsen say this was avoidable. they blame democratic governor gavin newsome for not managing water better. ignoring the needs of agriculture in favor of a program of preserving fish in the delta that isn't working to begin with. at the same time. cutting back funds to reduce force feels worse. the water. >> why are you managing it this way. >> why are to managing our forests. were you putting more investment into that. this is the kind of policies that are leading. they are killing people. there are literally killing people. these policies. the frustrated protester at the president actually blamed their elected officials gor not doin

here with waiverly, we see the wong family. there would be men p.m.? i wang family members here? they would shepard you to the organization where your family clan would be located, and often knew you were coming. other groups were based on district. the ning yung building. it's possible to join both. you might join a fraternal organization. here is the chinese free masons. the organization des covered you could get a charter for a building if listed as free mason so they did. the one fact, one would be hard to prove they have a connection to the european free masons. this was an part of the foundation of chinesetown. it allows chinatown to rebuilt in two years. even though they could not own the land,s buildings were held by the organization. they had the entire membership to draw on. they didn't waive to wait for one individual to rebuild. they were able to rebuild quickly. number two, if you belongs to a family or district occasion, once here, you are guaranteed a certain amount of revenue. people can come and go and there would be arguments over revenue-producing activities. t

the burns along highway 50 toward south lake tahoe, lonnie wong has the latest on the firefighting effort there. >> firefighter stationed along highway 50 were on the lookout for flare ups like this flames climbing up on the american river canyon up to the roadway and be on. >> plus, the canyon deficit, the highway. you can see the fire steadily use of the highway as a fire break with the fire spotted across the roadway at several points their the fire continues to progress towards the northeast. there's been some foggy and half a mile mile. >> ahead of the fire and said think 19 new fires ahead of the main. >> front of the numbers continue to be carried by super-heated their long distances. the fears that spot fires like this can grow quickly climbing to the top of the ridge. whether is it the most when to fan the flames. >> this is terrain that is unreachable firefighters who are relying on but results may by bulldozers to stop the spread of the fire. >> highway 50 isn't the only barrier to the flames spot fires like this are just not the other side of the south fork of the american riv

michael wong maintains exemptions are handed out after a complete physical exam. >> are the exemptions legitimate? are the kids actually needing these mask exemptions? >> a mask exemption letter, the one that we do provide, each and every one of them is after basically a careful clinical exam, and we will give it appropriately. >> reporter: parents like lou f he says his two eureka school district kids have breathing issues. >> my kids today are in school. they're unmasked and they've been integrated to their classrooms. >> reporter: but dr. and district parent dr. chris liles worries about the immunocompromised kids in his child's fifth grade classroom. >> i'm exasperated because i feel like it's such a small gesture to wear a mask, to potentially protect the health of someone who is less fortunate, that's someone who is more vulnerable than we may be. >> reporter: so what is a legitimate radical excuse? from breathing problems to something more severe, cdp age has not laid out what that means. in fact, only friday the state clarified the exemption needs to come from a doctor and not

the chinese government either can't understand that or accept that they think the detention of miss wong and the explanation, extradition case is political and they are planning it their side of the this fight completely politically as a result. so yes, it all hangs on what happens to miss mung and vancouver perhaps later if she's extradited in washington. says that mean if this is part of an attempt by the chinese to leverage that it will not work well, it hasn't so far, but it's been extremely painful. but canada, individual canadians, who are in detention in china, the one who was sentenced by others still to come. and it's cause great angst in canada inside the canadian government. but they basically stood by the rule of law . of course, they stood by the tradition trade the that would be and it states this leverage hasn't worked with that doesn't mean that china won't continue to try to put as much pain in on canada as it can. would you make the chinese argument? there's actually no grounds for long to have been taken in by canadian authorities, but this was just thought of doing th

excused for mask wearing and class students have to have written approval from a doctor doctor, michael wongot writing false exemptions and that he's doing work that other physicians refused to do other doctors tell us it is rare for people actually need a mask exemption. >> coming up at 6, laurie smith, the santa clara county sheriff pushing back against the calls from local leaders for her to resign over mismanagement at the jail. we hear her response a pharmacist in trouble with the fbi after selling back seeing cars online sheet. the charges he now faces. plus an update on the efforts to get a vaccine for younger children. we're going to hear from researchers at stanford. all comin

claudine wong ktvu fox two news. don't think it matters what flavor they all sound good boy that and it's many. i love the little mini mini's. those are going to need a lot without convincing yourself as beaten a lot. all right. that'll do it for us tonight. thanks so much for joining us sports wrap with joe fonzi and frank mallicoat is coming up next year later, everyone tonight. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hey google, turn up the heat. ♪ ♪ ♪ receive a chargepoint home flex charger or a public charging credit. see your volvo retailer for details. done it again. the giants literally built their way to another series win and extend their best record in baseball. wait r b i single for stalin, marty have a series martin, their trade deadline acquisition continues to produce and the a's move up a notch in the playoff race. coach walsh. he gave me the confidence to follow my heart 10 nfl career without you. i'm not standing on this states today. another hall of famers cited as john lynch takes his place in canton, while a raider from the

i'm clouding wong in tonight for julie julie haener and i'm frank somerville. we begin tonight with the latest on the withdrawal from afghanistan, the pentagon announced today that they they're now asking five u. s airlines to help evacuate people in afghanistan defense secretary lloyd austin says he's activated what the military calls the civil reserve air fleet. it's a 70 year old program. it was created after the berlin airlift during the cold war, it gives the u. s government the power to call on private commercial airlines to help in the event of an emergency 18 aircraft from american atlas delta, omni, hawaiian and united are all being directed to ferry evacuees who have already been airlifted out of the country. the airlines will not actually fly into afghanistan itself. president biden. afternoon gave an update on the evacuation out of afghanistan and the increased threat against those trying to leave. we're maintaining the concert business to monitor and disrupt threats from any source, including the likely source being isis isis k, the afghan affiliat

first, this commission should investigate the interactions between walter wong, london breed, her campaign and city staff and the shanghai sister city committee regarding records for the 2021 chinese new year parade floats. second, the mitigating factor identified by staff for london breed should be given little if any weight. your staff said regarding the unlawful gift from a subordinate, in litigation, breed reported the gift, however, that was only after mohamed nuru was arrested, and your staff said, further, breed had no further violations of the city's campaign violation finance laws, and this incident appears to have been an isolated incident. however, this was only brought to light after another individual was arrested and these items were brought to light. in addition [inaudible] and the use of other city services and breed has, in fact, asked agencies to assist [inaudible] when he asks for it, and i have provided documentation to you about that, as well. breed has been found to have personally committed three violations of san francisco sunshine, all involving breed conducting pu

i think deputy city attorney wong put it best. the project is not before the commission today, and i want to make that clear. what's before this commission today is whether this structure is eligible and worthy of landmark designation, and beyond that, what features should be included in that designation. so i wanted to separate these two, the project from the landmark designation. oftentimes, you know, hear about a project is how we -- you know, then, you know, dispensary sources in a way of prioritizing things to move forward with the landmark designations. in that same context, i want to remark that it's really up to this commission if the three-story height and the roughly rectangular footprint are part of the key features here or whether it's just the facade, and i would argue in support of the department that the roughly rectangular footprint and three-story height were included in that process, and i would strongly urge the commission to that recommendation, but that decision is up to the commission. >> thank you. commissio

there are now more than a 100 bison, roaming wild, finding their own food and ranger florine. holostar wong is monitoring them for a re wilding program, trucking them by gps and radio links. the bible, marcia before 100 years ago. here they have they own roles. it's a chain for this. we said we need 1015 years from now to demonstrate the day on rolls in the forest in bio diversity and company in the area and the bison, already breeding, born into the wild. one of the cars is seen here. this we wilding program does look successful. the face of the bears, though, is causing consternation. hunting lobby on one side, conservation is on the other. andrew simmons al jazeera in the copy of mountains of romania ah.

there are now more than a 100 bison, roaming wild, finding their own food and ranger florine. holostar wong is monitoring them for a re wilding program, trucking them by gps and radio links. the bible, marcia before 100 years ago. here they have they own roles. it's a chain for this. we said we need 1015 years from now to demonstrate today, own roles in the forest, in by diversity and company in the area and the bison, already breeding, born into the wild, one of the cars is seen here. this, we wilding program does look successful. the face of the bears, though, is causing consternation. hunting lobby on one side, conservation is on the other. andrew simmons al jazeera in the copy of mountains of romania ah, fellow, again, the headlines on al jazeera us president joe biden has warned that another attack on cavalier port within the next 24 to 36 hours is highly likely bite in has also promised further strikes against ice ok in retaliation of thursday's deadly bombing . that killed at least a 175 people. gabriel alessandra has.