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The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C. , april 4, 2016. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honora...

Thank you. Good morning, everyone and welcome to the San Francisco budget and finance committee for a wednesday, september 16, 2015, my name is mark farrell and i will be chairing this committee and i am joined by tang and we will be joined by eric mar and i want thank sfgtv no covering this meeting as well as the clerk miss linda woning, do you have any announcements . Please, silence all cell phones and Electronic Device and completed speaker cards and the documents to be included as part of t...

We get over 20 million a year from the feds through the continuing of the care process and so the count is geb, again is a condition of that, but it also helps us to measure our progress, clearly and also gives us a much richer understanding every couple of years of the population on the street and we couple our point in time count, which is done by the volunteers. And i think that we had over 500 volunteers span the entire city and you walking or driving to attempt to encounter those who they s...

I would like to thank those in the bay area who in supporting those projects. My neighbors and i agree. The project is listed in a town that is to lower income chinese families and immigrants. Up until this recent sale this project was offered by the demographics. We are curious as to how this story luxury penthouse wrapped in floor to ceiling windows can be desirable. This is completely out of context with the surroundings. Casting a permanent shadow that leaves many homes. Perhaps this is why ...

Information, compiled for the 2015, pointintime, Homeless Count. Thank you, and so colleagues, today i asked for this hearing, to take place, to discuss our recently completed and released 2015, point in Time Homeless count here in San Francisco. As many of you are aware, the Homeless Count occurs every two years, in order to receive, federal funds to address, homelessness here locally. Back . January, i joined the city staff and the nonprofit partners to participate in the count and the white h...

Are numbered, possibly in the single digits. Reporter employing a floating plank like this, they began to close in on the busy center where they face house house combat against dugin i. S. I. L. Fighters. Back in may i. S. I. L. Took ramadi with shocking ease, routing a force with just over 1000 attackers. Months of Coalition Bombing and lowlevel ground attacks have whittled the i. S. I. L. Attackers down to 350 or fewer, while the iraqi numbers over 10,000. It is backed by u. S. Air pour which ...

Board member Elizabeth P Miller who is the New York Times Washington Bureau chief they previously covered the pentagon and the white house. I am delighted to be back. Thank you. Briefly she including liberia. Yesterdays paper. Very powerful story. The covering in liberia. [applause] a house, and the biography. And she again. [inaudible] the White House Correspondent for cbs news. She has been at cbs says 2012. Iraq, afghanistan, recently working the climate talks in paris. During the talks the s...

Preclearance approval. If the expert said the draft map satisfied the Voting Rights act and the only reason to additionally depopulate the district was to achieve a further partisan skew, then that shows that partisanship was a very i understand two of the members said it was not the primary motive, but it certainly was a pervasive motive in the process by which these districts were drawn. Our position is a very narrow one that we ask the court to hold, is that partisanship does not justify devi...

This is what happens when hollywood comes knocking. A short film about friendship gets a shock nomination at the oscars. We begin in syria where at least 63 people are believed to have been killed in strikes apparently carried out by russian planes. The syrian observe tory fo observatory say nine children are among the dead. Raids in two neighboring towns has skilled scores in the past two days, gerald tan reports. Reporter they gather to search for bodies. To sift through their belongings. And ...

Reporter theres an amassive game happening now and i will have the latest for you. Also ahead Novak Djokovic wins his match in the australian opeopen we begin with developments in syria where it is estimated at least 100 civilians have been killed in the Eastern Region in the past two days. The u. K. Based organization for human rights say at least 63 people were killed on saturday alone. It is said russian air strikes are to blame. It is understood theyve helped regain area in lak. The diplomat...