Speak the language in a statement and remove a considerable time frame. The statement and an updated forecast is due out at 2 00 p. M. Eastern today. A half hour later, chair janet yellen will field questions from the media. Beyond the fed, the ruble and oil. The russian currency dropping about 60 against the dollar this year. Cnbcs Geoff Cutmore has made its way to moscow and will join us there in just a minute. He is looking at russias move to sell the currency. As for oil, worries about a surprise pressure in prices, france is now down nearly 20 since opec decided to keep rates steady late last month. Add all these stories together and we have a very jittery market. The dow has shouldered triple gains and losses in the session. The blue chip index swinging 700 points yesterday alone. The dow, nasdaq and the s p closing at their lowest levels since the understand of october. Just a little after 6 00 a. M. Is how we stand right now. The futures look like they are headed up. But as we
Development worker warren weinstein, who was kidnapped by al qaeda in 2011. And 39yearold Italian Development worker giovanni lo porto, who was kidnapped al qaeda in 2012. This week we learned that both men were accidentally killed in a c. I. A. Dren strike in january. Heres how it happened. The c. I. A. Spotted an al qaeda safe house in pakistan and closely monitored it. Judging senior Al Qaeda Leaders to be present, the c. I. A. Attacked. And while the drone killed a number of al qaeda terrorists, including an al qaeda leader and an american fighter for the group, mr. Weinstein and mr. Lo porto were later found to have been hidden in the building. Al qaeda had made sure the hostages couldnt be seen by u. S. Surveillance efforts. President obama apologized for the loss of life. President obama as president and as commanderinchief, i take full responsibility for all our counterterrorism operations, including the one that inadvertently took the lives of warren and giovanni. I profoundly
Authorizes him to be recused. I move to recuse commissioner courtney. Second. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . That motion carries. Id like to move the item and second. Further decision. Public comment is closed. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The motion carries. Is there any other new business from the commissioners. Seeing none the meeting is adjourned at test. And Parking Authority director brinkman director borden director heinecke is present director nolan droomentz director rubke will be absent please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones pagers and similar soundproducing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing Electronic Devices. The board respectfully ask develops to be turned off prevail of minutes. Motion to approve. Future decision all in favor, say i.
Into what is coming up in accident next group of slides on may 12th so there is a lot of good things that cca is moving forward it can help power the enterprises and have comments on the transition line but that will wait until another time. Good afternoon commissioner eric brooks San Francisco green party San Francisco i want to say what jason fried lafco said those points are good points ill get to joid was not able to get to the elephant that the room that has been written about for decades if not more the trick of the nicole substation and the last 15 miles the assets on the screen because of quote unquote reregulation would be good assets if we make sure our power line ran from the hetch hetchy to San Francisco without toughing any per diem touching any wires you keep wires separate we should have bun or duplicate that with the transition and distribution relationships it is time that decades have gone but of pointing out this out in the month and many people claiming we get to co
I want to thank my wife and family for the support and i was always [inaudible] keep going supervisor kim messed up on the time not you. My super visorerize here and are support rfb of what i try today do sout of market and everyone at south of market. I turn around and dont know what to say. Im embarrassed but glad you are here. [inaudible] and just want to thank everyone is this is the reason i do what i do. I dont think i do anything special but want to make life for everyone easier. Thank you so much. I feel deeply honored. Thanks for directing traffic. Thank you and congratulation, we appreciate all the work you do for our kids. With that i would like to reg supervisor tang congratulations to the honorees today and clodeen chang for doing such a wonderful job in organizing. Building on the theme of supporting our youth and children in San Francisco i want to bring up alan maw as a our district 4 honoree for apa heritage month. So, let me first say that in the sunset we have very v