U. S. Led attacks targeting the terror group. Last year, we introduced you to dmitry. When his teenage son joined a terror group and disappeared in syria, he began the dangerous and incredible measure to bring him home. Scott has his story of the great escape. Scott if you did not go to syria to get your son, would he be alive today . No he would have paid the ultimate highpriced. Dimitri faced was an almost impossible and certainly frightening challenge for any father to save his son from a terror Training Camp inside syria. Even the lead up to the moment was baffling. Was hardly the ideal foreign fighter. Born in belgium and raised catholic, he seemed an average teen, even visiting washington, d. C. , and speaking admiring the admiringly the american dream. But he met a girl and began to change. Soon after under the lie he was going with friends to amsterdam, he soon went to syria to join islamic extremists. I was shocked of course, what do you think . We are not muslims. Scott dmitr
Welcome to countdown. We are encroaching on ¥100 to the dollar but we are keeping a close eye on where this next leg in the dollar goes. Is this a yen strength story or is it a dollar weakness story . I would contend this is now more eight dollar weakness story. The fed is fading. The dollar is down for a third day, the lowest since brexit. The last time they posted a trade below 100, that was post brexit. That thehown 80 odd yen will touch 100 in the coming months. It looks quite sneakily as if it might get through today. Mulls theams possibility that 2 inflation targets are no longer really that relevant and they are not welding not working. The flows in dollaryen over the past hour have been significant. They are hitting record levels in model funds and they are filling in the asian session. Keep an eye on those. Lets look at the risk radar. Little bit lower as well. You have the dollar index down for the third day in a row, the lowest since brexit. Atan equity, which you have 140.
The hearing today, what does it deal with . Guest something called the commission on care. Something that was part of the choice act. When Congress Asked the robert to carve out six 2 60 of our budget million of our budget. Time, they came up with 18 recommendations. Of the 18, we said we agree with 15 of the 18. 12 of the 15 are already underway or already completed. For us, the commission and their findings reinforces but we are trying to do with our my v. A. Transformation in transforming the work of the v. A. To better care for veterans. Host although care delivered by the v. A. Is comparable or better than clinical quality generally available to the private sector, it is inconsistent from facility to facility. How would you respond to that . The Biggest Issue was inconsistency. Some were leaders and Lean Technology as a way to provide care. There are some who had never heard of lean. We tried to defuse best practices across. I came from the private sector, i was 33 years of procte
Do expect commissioner swig and will not hear any bills but were going to start with some of the housekeeping items this evening. Commissioner swig will be absent tonight. To my left is debbie attorney, here. And will provide legal advice to get at the controls is gary can terrorist could use the board legal assistant and him cynthia cole stained executive director. Also joined by representatives of the city department. Sitting in the front row is amanda hagans without San Francisco public works of cities and mapping and at the tables cory t assistant Zoning Administrator is also representing the Planning Department Planning Commission. We will be joined shortly i believe by senior building inspector joseph duffy will be representing the department of building inspection. The board request you turn off or silence all phones or other Electronic Devices will not disturb the proceedings. These carry on conversations in the hallway. The portables presentation are as follows the pounds perm
This week on the communicators, the discussion about the guidelines and rules proposed for selfdriving cars. Our guests, mark rosekind, who is the admin straight tore of the national highway transportation administration. Dr. Rosekind, what should the public right now know about selfdriving cars . Theyre here. The question, not even a year ago, six months, when are they going to arif . Theyre here. Theyre on the roads. All of us need to focus to make sure that they are safe as possible because they offer us tremendous lifesaving potential. Your agency put out guidelines for proposed rules for selfdriving cars. What was your focus . The policy focuses in four areas. To make it sort of week, the vehicle performance guidance for people that are going manufacture these. If youre going to design, test, deploy, here is a 15point Safety Assessment you have to go through to make sure it is safe before it gets on the road. We can talk about this more but its a total reversal. Right now were try