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Objection to, and it goes as a Committee Report with no objection. Then the motion passes. Congratulations. [ applause ] madam clerk. Item no. 3. City clerk item no. 3 has already been called, mr. Chair. Supervisor norman yee so, could i have Bobbie Wilson. Maybe give him a few seconds to leave the room. Good afternoon, supervisors. I am privileged and honored with the opportunity to speak with you today. Thank you. I started my legal career in San Francisco as a Legal Aid Society Employment Law...

This nomination. So moved. Okay. With no objection, the amendment passes. There is a motion on the floor with no objection to, and it goes as a Committee Report with no objection. Then the motion passes. Congratulations. [ applause ] madam clerk. Item no. 3. City clerk item no. 3 has already been called, mr. Chair. Supervisor norman yee so, could i have Bobbie Wilson. Maybe give him a few seconds to leave the room. Good afternoon, supervisors. I am privileged and honored with the opportunity to ...

Little cleaner. Okay. And i believe that was seconded by supervisor tang. Thats correct. And, colleagues, can we take that motion to amend without objection . Without objection that should be the case. [gavel] and then now on the motion to continue this item to november the 25th, colleagues, can we do that without objection or do we need a roll call . Without objection as amended, mr. President. Im sorry . As amended. As amended. Without objection this item as amended will be continued to novemb...

Working a different kind of field. Tonight, where young farm workers do back breaking work, and one athlete whose dreams of leaving it all behind. Good evening. Breaking news tonight as we come on the air. Hurricane arthur upgraded to a category 2 storm with 100mileanhour winds. Forcing mandatory evacuations along north carolinas outer banks. Abcs matt gutman is in the eye of the storm with the latest. Reporter good evening. The eyewall of hurricane arthur is right here, right above us in atlant...

50 miles an her there wind. Philadelphia at airport in south philadelphia 48 miles an hour wind gust around 9 00 a. M. This morning and mount pocono 47. You heard it, felt it, and you saw those leaves blowing around like crazy. Concerned wind gusts they have subsided. We will see that. That is typical after sunset. Win gusts though still close to 30 miles an hour in pottstown. 25 miles an hour in wilmington. 24 miles an her in atlantic city. Temperatures have been chilly all day. We did not even...

Anniversary on the steps of the lincoln memorial, id been in this job for about a month, and i remember those days. And he said for the men and women who gathered 50 years ago whether not in search of some abstract ideal. They were there seeking jobs as well as justice, not just the absence of oppression, but the presence of economic opportunity. And the passage of the Civil Rights Act less than a year later was truly historic triumph. And as somebody who has had the privilege of enforcing that ...

Weekends they bring out the hibachis and cook chicken. Their girlfriends, and. The music and guitar. And it seems very good. But i imagined what went on if he made enemies or something else, there was absolutely no official protection. Anyone. Very interested in making marijuana dealers, unbelievable he wrote geniuses, ceos of pot. All kinds of these crazy headlines. And so did general story, there is no sunset. I dont think that exists. The experience, the corona enterprise in general. You dont...

I would have thought its one to one, but the models say its only threequarters. So if you get six degrees warmer, you actually literally cannot go outside. But we werent around in the times things were like this, and surely we could evolve. If you give it enough time. But we wont. Right . And so the scenario which scares me the most is that you actually have to go you cannot go outside, and you rely on airconditioning for dear life. Its not a convenience. Its otherwise to you cannot make it. And...

And so we continue to move to make progress, but we have a lot of Unfinished Business. We have a lot of Unfinished Business in the area of Economic Justice as well. And it starts with the minimum wage. Nobody who works a fulltime job in this country should have to live in poverty. [applause] and what we see all too frequently are people working hard and falling further behind, people who have to make choices between do i pay the mortgage, do i pay the rent, or do i pay for my daughters medicine ...

On the upper right side of the page. New York University professor Marion Nestle sat down with booktv to talk about her book, food politics, about the power and influence of the Food Industry in the u. S. This 30minute interview, recorded in new york city, as part of booktvs college series. The book is called food politics how the Food Industry influences nutrition and health. The author, marian nestle, who is a professor of Public Health at new York University. Professor nestle, how big is the ...