Their match is also coming up in Natalie Pirks report. Wearing black arm bands in honour of ray clemence, england travelled to belgium knowing only a win would do, but the worlds number one side hadnt lost at home for four years, and they were off to a flyer Romelu Lukaku finding Youri Tielemans in space. A dubious free kick was handed to belgium and Dries Mertens gave Jordan Pickford no chance. England were the better side in the second half, but ultimately had nothing to show for it. Their hopes of qualifying for the Nations League finals are over. Scotland fans are no doubt still celebrating after winning their euros play off final last week, but in slovakia Steve Clarkes side had lost their fizz somewhat. The only goal of the match came courtesy of jan gregus, to end scotlands nine match unbeaten streak. Northern ireland suffered the agony of play off final loss last week and in austria their losing streak continued. Theyd taken the lead late in the second half but austria came bac
The crash of a ups cargo plane in alabama. New information coming out throughout the day. The very latest, plus fire sweeping through parts of iota including around several bigname ski areas. They are being threatened right now. Well tell you about that, but, first, to sue at the new york Stock Exchange. Good to see you, ty. Well start with the markets right now. A down day right here on the floor of the nyse. The Dow Jones Industrial average is off 93 points, twothirds of a percent. The s p is off a third of a percent or about 6. 33 point. The nasdaq is down 7. 33 points and the russell 2000 is off two points on the trading session. The tenyear yield is right now up above the 2. 70 range. Were now at 1. 71 . The gold market, after a little bit of a selloff yesterday bouncing back, up number 13 bucks on the day and brent crude is up 17 cents. Apple above 500 bucks in todays trading session. 502 cant 45 to be exact. More on that in just a second. First though to bob pins on the floor fo
Background, just introduce why we are here today. The hospitality and travel industries are some of the Largest Industries in our city. Just last year, in 2013, San Francisco benefited from a record of 16. 9 million visitors who spent over 9. 4 billion dollars in our city on tourismrelated activity and we only expect that number to continue to grow in the coming years. Hotel tax revenue is up, 8. 1 percent, to 607 Million Dollars and tourism jobs have increased to 3. 8 which is a total of 76,834 jobs. And Hotel Room Rates have also risen, 12. 8 percent to an average of 207 per night. And even though we see all of this growth in the millions of dollars, being spent right here in our city. Some groups are not seeing, or reaping the benefits overwhelmingly these groups have included specifically the African American community. And earlier this year, a coalition of leaders and businesses, governments and industry, and education, all convened, and lodged the citys First Initiative on equity
Thank you. Chair, and supervisor tang, and chair, and cohen, and chiu. We are so excited to be here this morning to present to you what we think is a successful model and we know that we thank you all for your leadership on this issue. And we think that this is a model that can actually work and change the tide and equity and inclusion in this city and in particular with the respect of African Americans to participate in the higher wage and growing industries and also, coming out that this has been a cross racial coalition, and we think that it is a model secondly for that, that it is across a group of stake holders and who are outside of the government. And that have successfully implemented or started the implementation activities for something that is persist ent in the city. And so, we will move to the presentation. And the general structure that supervisor cohen mentioned is that i want to give the different information on the contributers in the background and we will give a litt
Hearing, and i want to thank, supervisor cohen for her leadership on this matter, this is definitely very important issue, and i know that there is a number of leaders here from San Francisco, black chamber of commerce, and the folks from sftravel, and working together, and i think that we could make sure that the industry is opening its doors to the African Americans for Employment Opportunities and other things that exist, all over. And thanks, for the leadership and i am looking forward to the presentation, and looking forward to the feedback on how we can Work Together to make this city more open and inclusive to the African American, and president chiu, would you like to say a few words thank you. I also want to say that i am happy and i want to thank supervisor cohen for calling this hearing, this is actually a topic that we have discussed a number of times over the past year. My district includes our major Tourism Industries and supervisor said, we talking about an over 16 milli