Addition. He loved his community, and he was well loved in return. Speedy got his name because of his outstanding track skills. Speedy was a viet nam war veteran, and during his time in viet nam, he experienced tragedies that profoundly changed him. When he returned to San Francisco, he worked on organizing and strategizing for the betterment of black life. He helped organized a strike at San Francisco state university. This strike aimed to address racist policies and procedures and the pay of faculty on campus. Because of speedys activism, it led to the first pay Equality Program in the country. He also oversaw Community Efforts to develop lowincome housing and preserve black Home Ownership during the time of redevelopment. He guided the development of the 100 owned and operated Victoria Square complex located at sutter and fillmore streets. He also helped save many victorian homes owned by African Americans, and because of this, many of the African Americans were able to stay in thei
Committee. He will be deeply missed by the city and county of San Francisco and the community at large. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor walton. Sorry for sulus passing. Mr. President , seeing no other names on the roster, that concludes the introduction of new business. President yee very good. Lets go to item 25. Clerk at this time, the public may now address the entire board of supervisors for up to two minutes on the items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board, to include the minutes from april 30, 2019, may 7, 2019, and the may 8 special Meeting Minutes of the budget and finance committee. Items 26 through 28 on the adoption without reference to Committee Calendar are also items you may comment on, but no other items on the agenda may be commented on as they have already had their Public Comment satisfied at a committee. Direct your remarks to the board as a whole and not to individual members and not to the audience, please. If youre using interpretati
Of opportunity, better than if you were to leave at 7 00. This is the bay bridge and the traffic is going to be moderate. Slow at the toll plaza but that delay is only ten minutes. 880, you have some slow traffic going northward into downtown. Here at the oracle arena, its good. 6 01, back to the desk. We are following breaking news in the city of oakland. This fire claimed the life of at least one person. This fire started at 4 00, on the fourth floor of an Apartment Building near lake merritt on fairmont avenue. Firefighters were able to keep the fire contained that that apartment unit. One person has died in that fire. This is the 400 block of fairmont. Officials have not given us much information on who that victim is or how this fire started. But, again, we are on this story. This is near lake merritt. Well bring you a live report on this coming up later in this hour. Firefighters in San Francisco rescued man whose house was on fire. They got the call just before 2 00 about a fire
Nieto has declared three days of mourning. 30 children and eight adults remain unaccounted for in a school building. Desperate family members arrived at the school. Earlier, we saw crews trying to get to one the survivors trapped inside. Reporter it was chaos. I arrived just outside of the quake. My kid goes to school on the next street. When i sought school, i pannished and i ran and i ran for my children. The priority at this moment is to keep rescuing people who are still trapped and to give medical attention to the injured people. Earlier today, President Trump called president nieto to offer his condolences. We are also hearing first hand account people who experienced the earth quick. Allie rasmus is live after talking to them, allie . Reporter yes, people who just got the flight described a very scary experience. Jose ferdinand and his family were glad to be back in san jose a day after an earth quick struck central mexico, killing hundreds of people and causing widespread damag
A threeday ordeal is over for now. Butte county officials lifted the Evacuation Order for nearly 200,000 people in the oroville area south of chico. Officials say the damaged main spillway has been stable for four days. They have drained enough of the lake behind the dam so the damaged emergency spillway will not be needed. Were continuing to make significant gains in removing water from the reservoir, which drops the Water Surface elevation as indicated further reducing the risk. People in the area are urged to remain vigilanvigilant. Residents of the areas began heading home as soon as they heard the order was lifted. Laura anthony was with one of the families when they got the word. A lot of these families didnt have good options when they evacuated suddenly on sunday night. We talked with some today that said they had run out of money. They had enough for two nights in a local motel. So for them, the lifting of this order came just in time. Just really want to go home. His name is