as supervisors, you understand transportation in the context of broader issues, such as education, employment and housing. i feel that information exchange between the board of supervisors and the sfmta board is not only appropriate but necessary for a city that has a dynamic as complex as san francisco. should i be fortunate enough to receive your support, i would make it a priority to meet regularly with your offices, hear your concerns and ensure that a dialogue exists. i want to close by thanking each of you for your attention and commitment to excellent transportation in san francisco. i look forward to answering any questions you may have. thank you. >> supervisor safai: i think we're going to go straight to public comment on this. i'll save my comments. i just want to see how many people are here to comment. ok. please proceed. >> good morning. my name is brian, i am the executive director of the bicycle coalition. on behalf of 10,000 members, i voice strong support for mayor breed's nomination of amanda eaken to the sfmta board. i do not have to tell the committee the sfmta has work t

it's nice to look at it but you need to transport it where you want to to explode so it's understandable that the rocket technology should have been into the deal at the beginning. and really it's between iran and the americans because europe is completely paralyzed whatever is said by mr michael and all of us it's not true we cannot do anything the companies the states in europe have so many items so many products that are exchanged in the dollar of the currency of the dollar like airplanes built in europe are sold in dollars and the oil we import is paid in dollars that we cannot go against the terrorists the sanctions imposed by the u.s. even china is not for you see what happens now with the tit for tat negotiation so they sell a lot to the u.s. they don't want to have that problem on top because they would continue dealing with iran so really it's america on one side any iran on the other they both need to accept to go further and we can only help russia china and europe the twenty fifteen deal took so long to achieve lots of delicate marathon negotiations russia's deputy foreign mi

you can't possibly understand its impact. therefore, you don't even ask the question. >> great question. we have actually been working collaboratively with the transportation authority on these studies with regard to tncs. the city is in a process of collecting as much data and information as they. with regard to the criteria. we know they produce the emt. per capita metric is population. if it increases and the per capita is still low. we are stating in terms of for the soma area it might go up because if cars and tncs. effectively the population will go up as well. people walking and all you have that would be part of the group and effectively would lower the emt per capita metric. to address the question about the transportation study about tnc today, what they studied was within the san francisco you area whereas what we are actually analyzing is the sf chat model. it is -- i don't know the acronym. it is a model that takes into account every trip within the region. while the transportation authority has collected more information within the city travel we can't compare to what we have studied which is more robust. we looked at it from a regional persp

isn: i -- our understanding ice alone is spending about $3.6 billion on detention and transportation of the undocumented? could you talk about this explosion of the amount of money spent on detaining and goodporting, which awesome in deporting, the undocumented immigrants? >> i think the outrage is well-placed. this massive sum of money is going to open up new detention facilities, including really big facilities that are operated by private prison companies. as you say, transporting people for deportation. so really putting into practice some of the worst and most harmful policies for communities. i think, while i am really glad the fact that money was taken from fema to be moved into the account of detention and deportation, it is really coming to light in a major way, i think we have to zoom out even further to understand it is not just fema money is coming from. these precious taxpayer dollars could be going to housing or health care or any number of other things that help communities thrive together rather than so violently and aggressively separating them. amy: fema agency spokesperson tyler holton said -- "

you that live when it happens. >> we have been talking to people who had to evacuate from that building. jackie, everybody is accounted for now? >> reporter: everyone is accounted for. two people transported. we understand t i mayor very close so they may have to dip out of my live shot so you can hear what she has to say because, obviously, this fireat has very g consequences for the district of columbia. this is a building that housed hundreds of senior citizens. o they are not going able to go back in there any time soon. i mean, there's stille fighting fire, the roof collapsed. people were here earlier today, just, panicked trying to find their relatives. here's wt some of them had to say. and you are looking at a live picture of the mayorde head here to speak. we might as well let her get up there and listen what she has to say. >> again, she's standing outside thisvaation community sent center. let's listen in. >> i'm muriel wser, mayor of washington, d.c. we're located in ward 6 of washington, d.c. near the arthur capper senior housing building. this building, we received the call just about 3:20 in the afternoon for smoke in the building. our fire and ems responded and has been actively engagedi

you looked at some department of transportation contracting regulations and as i understand it, correct me if -- the government -- you counted to five. you identified five supreme court justices who you believed would not accept the government's argument in defense of those d.o.t. regulations, is that right? >> that's correct. under the precedent that existed at the time. the crowsen precedent was the most following order. ordering the previous question on the house resolution 1051, and adoption of house resolution 1051 if ordered. the first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote. the remaining electronic vote will be conducted as a five-minute vote. the unfinished business is the vote on ordering the previous question on house resolution 1051 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house calendar number 181, house resolution 1051, resolution providing for consideration of the bill h.r. 6691, to amend title 18, united states code, to clarify the definition of "crime of violence", and for other purposes. and pro

you that live when it happens. >> we have been talking to people who had to evacuate from that building. jackie, everybody is accounted for now? >> reporter: everyone is accounted for. two people transported. we understand t i mayor very close so they may have to dip out of my live shot so you can hear what she has to say because, obviously, this fireat has very g consequences for the district of columbia. this is a building that housed hundreds of senior citizens. o they are not going able to go back in there any time soon. i mean, there's stille fighting fire, the roof collapsed. people were here earlier today, just, panicked trying to find their relatives. here's wt some of them had to say. an

home for the christopher honestly can't understand why you need a support boat license the pilot the amphicar in germany because it's hardly a sporty mode of transport churning along so casually just turning it takes a lot of patience because the steering only functions through the front wheels and the turning circle as a whopping thirty five meters if. those salt water could be corrosive the amphicar is even sea worthy and one nine hundred sixty two for britain has crossed the english channel into cars it took them just under seven and a half hours getting into the water isn't a problem but getting out can be the seven seventy is a rear wheel drive model so the front wheels are of no help when it comes to navigating steep shorelines. that instead of picking up christopher says the vehicle is pretty high maintenance to after five hours in the water there are a dozen spots that need greasing and that's not his thing and the one nine hundred sixty s. most potential buyers were the same opinion of the twenty five thousand vehicles plant just three thousand eight hundred seventy eight were actually built and production ceased altogether in one nine hund

you know, the threat seizes. we're going to be focused on community lifelines. we've got to quickly understand the damage that's been done to the transportation systems. the communications systems. the power systems. and we are positioning and had been positioned for multiple days now to get ready to get those critical lifelines back up and stable as quickly as we can. but let me set the expectations. this is a very dangerous storm. we call them disaster because they break things. the infrastructure's going to break. the power's going to go out. it could go out for a number of days. it could go out for many weeks. it's hard to say at this point. so not only that, but many of you who have evacuated from the carolina coastlines are going to be displaced for a while, particularly where the areas received the highest amounts of storm surge. so, you know, we need people to get their mind-sets right. that disasters are very frustrating. and it takes time to get the infrastructure back up and running. we're going to do everything we can to push forward as quickly as we can to get things back up and working along with our state partners in the private sector

you understand at this point took place. >> good morning. we understand that these women were being transportedy sheriff deputies through the pd area of south carolina where there is a lot of flooding happening right now and it is going to continue for several days. they were being sent to medical facilities in a different area. they went through an area of marion county, as you noted, next to the little pd river, one of the bodies of water that has been quickly rising as the water continues to flood into this state from north carolina. their van was swept away in rushing, rising water. the deputies were able to get out. share of thompson said they tried to get the women out, but for some reason more not able to get into the back of the van. they called for help. as you noted, their bodies were pulled out of the water yesterday. nermeen: can you talk about the time lapse between the incident and the recovery of their bodies, and why you think it took so long? calls came inadio around 6:00 p.m. tuesday night. it wasn't until yesterday afternoon -- if not 24 hours, very close to 24 hours later, t

understand that they subsidize fares. your friend when it comes to pick you up. so with the amazon of transportation. their crushing rates to own market share until they can replace drivers with robots. i think collectively we don't care about one another as people in america pushes this idea of boxing out for your soul. how do we get the political will without kinda being that society to actually care about one another and make things better for the bottom 90%. and make things better for the bottom 90%. i think that is the question. we would solve 70 problems if some new problems if we just did that. in terms of the business model it's in terms of how we do that private and public. describing it as a app that helps venture capitalists. basically they're not making any money there just like you said spending subsidizing the 8-dollar ride. i think there is policies in new york city pushing towards minimum wage for uber drivers and certainly they are doing those same things to put into context what was just not the story of transportation in new york city but the story of a service economy that has lef

the shutdown who if you rebels in yemen say the united nations has agreed to transport critically ill people out of the country for treatment they say a memorandum of understanding was signed out talks with united nations officials in amman but the saudi led coalition fighting the who are these in yemen has not commented on the agreement last week talks in geneva to end the conflict collapsed before they even began members of the remote liberation front an organization once banned in ethiopia have been given a hero's welcome on their return back home the group's leader and fifteen hundred fighters have returned to addis ababa after twenty six years in exile refugees stranded in bosnia say they've been beaten strip searched and robbed by the croatian police seventeen people interviewed by zero zero said the abuse took place during attempts to cross into croatia bosnia has emerged as a new route to western europe since the e.u. tightened its borders gratian officials deny allegations of police brutality those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after upfront so much of that so much of our. in an instant in shifting news cycle the receiver in c

transportation regulations. but the court has already granted, so what to do? as i understand the emails, you recommended a course of action that would allow the government to make its case in a way that would allow the court to decide that perhaps it shouldn't have granted review on the case. on my correct so far? >> that's correct, senator. >> what is that called when the court decides it shouldn't have granted a case? >> dismissing as improperly granted. >> you came up with the strategy for having the court dig oh court that had already been granted. you didn't want the government to have to endure that. did they accept your arguments? >> the supreme court did, yes. >> the government, the bush administration followed your advice and wrote the arguments as you had prescribed, thus prompting a dig. as a result, the regulations stood up, isn't that right? >> i believe that's so. >> they stood where they otherwise would have fallen. >> that's right. >> here again i have a hard time seeing this as anything other than something that helps you, not just with republicans but helps you with democra

. >> when you said one person on the wing, that means there was a person on the wing that was alive? we understand a second person was transported. was that person on the wing or inside the airplane? >> that person was not on the wing. they were extricated from the aircraft. >> the person who has died in that incident is still at the scene, or was that person also transported and pronounced dead? >> the person is deceased. >> okay. what can you tell us about what was taking place regarding what the pilot of the airplane was doing? doing a take off her coming in landing? >> the information i have is that the airplane was attempting to land and it was reported to have come from reading. i do not know the details of how it got into this situation where it is right now. >> you don't know of any distress call or mechanical problem that preceded the crash? >> i have not received that information yet. >> have you been able to determine who was on board or piloting the airplane? >> no, ma'am. i did not get the names of the passengers. two adult women and one adult male. >> chief, can you explain the extent of the injuries of those two i

understand it, you were being asked in this instance to provide some advice on what might happen if a particular argument were presented to the supreme court on the merits. you looked at some department of transportation contracting regulations. and as i understand it correct me if i'm wrong. if i've understood it correctly. the government was considering making a series of arguments before the supreme court. and you did what a good lawyer should do when advancing an argument to the court. you counted to five. you identified five supreme court justices who you believed would not accept the government's argument in defense of those d.o.t. regulations, is that right? >> that's correct. under the precedent that existed at the time. the crowsen precedent was the most relevant precedent. >> and yet at the time the supreme court of the united states had already granted review of the case, granted certiorari. the supreme court is in charge with very few exceptions remaining today. of its own docket. it decides which of the 10,000 or so cases that want to go to the supreme court each year will in fact be reviewed by the court. the court had granted a review in that case, is that right? >> that's correct. i be

transportation is where you went as a freshman. at least there were roads and bridges and people can understand those things. you always need those. i was put on a select committee. select committees had no legislative authority, but they discussed various issues. i was on the committee for children and families. dan coats who just retired from the senate was the ranking republican. miller was the ranking democrat. he would listen, but he would vote against you. finally, linda got tired of that and started voting with me. it was a good thing that they eliminated the committees, because the subject of the hearing is what our children worried about. the first panel was, children are worried about nuclear attack. that is all right. more politics for california than my part of the country, but he is the chairman. that is okay. we rolled with that. but, the third panel was a group of very knowledgeable child psychologists. one of them testified and they all agreed that their children's primary fear was that their parents would divorce. having raised my children, that was their primary fear because more and more d

understand what is needed. you mentioned the recreational peer. what we are talking about is not recreational. we are talking about for actual transportation. it is probably not something you and your project alone, which is why we directed the comments to john, it is something josie we are aware. we are developing 29 acres and there are 25 acres. we are just putting two brand-new neighbourhoods and the density of people i think it really does raise the issue of what kind of commuter transportation should be thought for the area. it is something for the area that needs to be thought through just like we are doing with the mission bay landing, i think there is another reason why there should be something done on a larger scale basis to consider that. is to be part of what the proposal should be. it is not just the individual project by yourself but combined with pier 70. >> i appreciate your comments. we look forward to being part of the broader conversation. it has been a core pillar of our project. we have held eight on site community meetings and we have done monthly tours. we do weekly developer office hours for anyone who can come in an

you can still see it from the cemetery that, is all purposely laid out and designed. we're stepping here. >> we understand that this mosaic was created in the united states by an artist. and then, transportedere on the wall by a french artist. how that happens i do not have the answer. i don't know. that is why the sword but everything you see has a semblan semblance. the american and prevenlg were side by side. there are plastic changes and everything else is original. that goes back to the idea of a percenting thumb print. everything else is opinion here and perfect what i've told from my crew is that it's never damaged. it's in it's provisional view, in the pieces that don't fall off. it's a magnificent piece of art work. it's beautiful. >> why is it? because we can never forget when someone gives his life for us or our country. we can't forget that. these men died for us and for france. for the rest of humanity. i've had americans tell me none of these men to the to go home, walk their daughter down the aisle. see their son get married and sit in a lounge chair or rocking chair and die of old age. let's to the forget them. let's not forget. >> american history tv is on presidency. if i

transport themselves cheaply people who are owning boats trying to make a living to another white often boat filled up well beyond their capacity the boat in question we understand how to confront you about one hundred people who may have one two three hundred people on board. one thing going wrong in. an area where many people don't know how to win the war rescued them quickly. very high. is from gaza now why the health ministry says one protester has been killed and at least forty injured by israeli fire on the gaza border the demonstrations against the israeli blockade on the gaza strip have been going on for more than five months many demanding their right to return to their homes and land their families were expelled from seventy years ago harry forces sent us this update earlier from the task so we're here just a short distance away from the israeli border and the man you can see at the center of that scrum there is yassin was a hamas leader in gaza the second most senior hamas official in the whole of the organization matches you a very interesting thing that there is a real improvement or all of us which controls the gaza strip on this protest it is by far the most sizable

do you remembers, and it allows people to understand how these spaces have shared purposes, and it also allowed people to give us comments about how to make further improvements for the transportation and public access to open space and recreational needs that the city would like to have supported along the waterfront of our future. we've followed up these walking tours with a workshop that was dedicated to a discussion of the public realm, as well. and this, too, was staffed with the m.t.a. staff and the planning department staff so that we could integrate all of the city's policies along with a waterfront plan access policy so that we could explain to the public how it is that the waterfront plan update could embrace all of these different facets which relates to transportation improvements, both pedestrian, bicycle, water, transportation, as well as land transportation and public transit and road ways, to -- how to make those sidewalk pedestrian spaces delightful and improved for public access and open space enjoyment. how to improve the connections and the safety of crossings and create spaces for each of those modes to coexist together in an integral way, and to respond to the

transportation projects. i'm just trying to understand your views here. do you believe that the use of race is a factor in federal contracting programs violates the 14th amendment? >> so my note in that case as i understand it and i have seen it briefly was rooted in supreme court precedent. the case -- it is a supreme court precedent where the court had invalidated a richmond contracting program, as i recall, so that precedent made clear what conditions need to be satisfied before a racial -- a contracting program of that kind could be sustained consistent with the constitution, and the analysis that we went through suggested that at least as it was being applied, as i recall, the federal program went afoul of the supreme court precedent specified in that case, so in that sense i was providing advice about how the program would fit within the supreme court's existing precedent in that case. at least that's my best understanding. i haven't gone back to restudy it, but that's my understanding it was rooted in the precedent of the supreme court. >> maybe we can ge

are you understand the specifics of how they wa nt to understand the specifics of how they want to try and do that? there is enough detail. the 60% is more looking at electricity and heating. transport is treated separately as far as i understand it. that is the more challenging target. 2030 is only a decade away. some of it is doable. we have to work the scale of activity on renewable energy and energy efficient she. what is very challenging is moving homes to low carbon heating by that date. the number of homes doing that at the moment are very few. we have to shift away from gas, oil and what we used to heat our homes to meet the target as well as generating renewable electricity. he's talking about trying to do that. getting homes are properly insulated in the first term of a government. in the space of four orfive first term of a government. in the space of four or five years, every home in this country would be insulated, heated, better, more efficiently than it is today?” think they are properly not saying that but they are pledging 12.5 billion to help do that. as i understand it, a quarter of energy demand cut from homes by 2030. how do we do that? is this real basics? sola

in fact it was transporting feels important lot of food ok good to get your perspective directly from me to understand exactly what it is like in iceland right along the johnston thank you for your time. there was an interesting edition of witness on waiting for to the episode itself is no longer available you can read the filmmakers view which is really interesting on whaling in the faroe islands that's between norway and iceland they're they're used to hunting their own food and doing so sustainably. with the laws and waiting for the grey think of some of their traditions if you search for the archipelago in the program section it out to zero dot com you can have a read of that. now you'll be hearing a lot tomorrow saturday about the tenth anniversary of the global economic crisis temba fifteen two thousand and eight it was the day the one hundred fifty eight year old investment bank lehman brothers collapsed biggest bankruptcy in u.s. history it was and it sent global markets into an absolute tailspin but as you will see today friday the day before the economy was already in all sorts of trouble here's a graph of the dow jones industrial average the benchmark stock m

you only have to look at ourjammed roads, power packed public transport systems, power oversubscribed schools and overflowing hospitals to understandur that it can move anywhere in the world where it needs it. and it is also an ideological policy, it is about undermining and destroying national loyalties and national identities, in order to more readily... in orderto national identities, in order to more readily... in order to more readily introduce rule by supranational body such as the european union. immigration policies in the western world a re immigration policies in the western world are the result of an unholy alliance between big business and the political left. big business once had endless supply of cheap labour. left—wing politicians want to replace the traditional working—class voters that they no longer represent and have abandoned. people see their living standards driven down. they see property prices driven up. they see property prices driven up. they see their quality of life decline because of overpopulation. they see crime increase. they feel for the future of their children and their grandchildren. and if peopl

understanding he was about to be fired. we'll let you know. meantime letting you know, a lot of you were wondering mode of transportation he sought or was in disguise know the deputy attorney general is at the white house as we speak. we have got a selloff going on as we speak. a lot of it has to do not so much with political drama but trade war trauma between ourselves and chinese. we slapped tariffs going into effect $200 billion additional goods from china. china responding by slapping very highly selective tariffs on about 5000 u.s. products. about 60 billion bucks. just the kind of thing that worries jonathan hoenig when he sees it no matter who does it. jonathan, where are we going with this is. >> i thought this was negotiating tactics neil. that is what we were promised. this isn't a trade war -- this is a trade war. a trade war is a tax, neil. these tariffs, the president talks about it as if he is putting taxes on china. neil, tariffs are taxes on americans and stuff we want to buy. things like christmas gifts, holiday gifts coming into the fourth quarter. we're seeing millions and millions of businesses, kneel, have to rejigger the suppl

transportation projects. do you believe that the use of race is factor in federal contracting programs violates the 14th amendment? >> my note in that case, as i understand it and seen it briefly, was rooted in supreme court precedent. i think it says see croson in the e-mail. the court had invalidated a richmond contracting program, as i recall and that precedent made clear what conditions need to be satisfied before a racial -- a contracting program of that kind could be sustained consistent with the constitution and the analysis that we went through suggested that as it was being applied in federal program ran afoul of the supreme court specified. in that sense i was providing advice about how the program would fit within the supreme court existing precedent in the case. that's my best understanding. i haven't gone back to study it but that's my best understanding is it was rooted in the precedent of the supreme court. >> maybe we can get that in writing at some point if you want to look back at it. we have witnessed unprecedented attacks on journalists and journalism over the past several months. this should be concerning to every one because of the

transportation projects. do you believe that the use of race is factor in federal contracting programs violates the 14th amendment? >> my note in that case, as i understand it and seen it briefly, was rooted in supreme court precedent. i think it says see croson in the e-mail. the court had invalidated a richmond contracting program, as i recall and that precedent made clear what conditions need to be satisfied before a racial -- a contracting program of that kind could be sustained consistent with the constitution and the analysis that we went through suggested that as it was being applied in federal program ran afoul of the supreme court specified. in that sense i was providing advice about how the program would fit within the supreme court existing precedent in the case. that's my best understanding. i haven't gone back to study it but that's my best understanding is it was rooted in the precedent of the supreme court. >> maybe we can get that in writing at some point if you want to look back at it. we have witnessed unprecedented attacks on journalists and journalism over the past several months. this should be concerning to every one because of the