whether they're in paris, or even zurick. how are they contributing to keeping the medicine out of our bay. speaker: next speaker, please. speaker: good afternoon, commissioners. joshua, speaking in my capacity as president of the san francisco commission on the environment. first i want to thank you president breed for your leadership on this issue and moving us to this point. it has been a long time coming. there's a lot of us who are excited about moving forward and we hope you will with strong recommendation today from the committee to the full board. we've had hearings that the environment commission, you've heard from our staff, our expert staff who leads the nation in thinking through these issues and how we do good for the environment and community and public health. we heard a question about outreach. we have our environment team who is the best community base outreach team in the country and they don't get enough applause for what they do sometimes. [applause] speaker: they're amazing so if people need to know, it's

stelter and we have director of media affairs at george washington university frank sesno and david zuricktimore sun." >> we know a big meeting held at nbc yesterday. the ceo was there. and part of the conversation was had with williams he was said to be in good spirits, he was likely part of this conversation. was it voluntary, the six-month suspension? what do you know? >> he was part of the conversation but he was told to do this. he was described as shattered at the end of the long day. because he is in the middle of the media whirlwind. it's hard to imagine what it's like. and the exaggerations are serious, the scrutiny he's under is very serious. having him suspended for six months it gives nbc some breathing room. it lets everybody step back a bit. and allows it to be figured out if he's too damaged to return. lot of people at nbc think he won't be able to return to the chair. >> frank you say this punishment and suspension sends a confuseing pleng to the american people. why do you say that? >> i think it's a very confusing message. the way i think of it is if you're a major league