News. The Israeli Military says they rescued a hostage from Southern Gaza. He was found in an underground tunnel by Israeli Soldiers during a special operation. He was abducted more than ten months ago by hamas in the october 7th terror attack. The 72yearold Security Guard is said to be in Good Condition and already has seen family. The white house saying, quote, we will continue to work tirelessly to finalize the ceasefire and Hostage Release deal through ongoing talks in cairo and doha. Meanwhile after a temporary pause, fighting resumed monday night with targeted strikes between hezbollah forces and israel. The escalation in attacks there has heightened tensions in the entire region. Joining us now, nbcs matt bradley in tel aviv and a former Supreme Allied Commander of nato and nbc chief international analyst. What do we know about the latest on the Hostage Release and the escalation . Well that Hostage Rescue will be a huge source of celebration here in israel. We already heard fro
Your opinion . Let me preface that question by saying my apologies. I am the supervisor who created the legislation that puts this upon you and your agency. There is no wrong answer to your response. Thank you. I know jamie is on the analytical side of the house. A key metric shifting ride from single occupancy vehicle. We saw 40 mode shift in our survey under the pilot program. That was a keynotable shift for us at the agency. Does that mean that that is also a mode shift from muni . We can share the staff report and do evaluation of the pilot. There was some small shift from muni. We saw a much larger trip being taken to and from muni. Fundamentally where we see the value in the program. I will say i dont know where the program will be two years from now, five years from now. Right now the value is that people have been using it instead of taxis which we see transportation benefits there. As we look at our current Transit System and the transportation recovery with the challenges tha
That housing remains a priority, Small Business remains a priority, and that San Francisco really goes back and actually makes due on its promise to include black san franciscans in every part of the Economic Development and the success of the city moving forward. Thank you. Thank you. Can we have the next caller, please. That completes the cue. Chairwoman thank you so much. Thanks for the tremendous amount of really knowledgeable and compelling Public Comment. Supervisor mar . Thank you, chair ronan. I also just wanted to thank all of the Africanamerican Community leaders and activists for sharing your powerful comments. And, of course, thank you to supervisor walton, director davis, and mayor breed for your bold and thoughtful leadership on reparations for the Africanamerican Community and reinvestment and full support and equity for the Africanamerican Community looking ahead. So, yeah, i you know, as so many speakers noted, this is long overdue, but im really excited that, you know
Good afternoon, and welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors. For today, november 30, 2020, the last day of november. I am aaron peskin, chair of the committee. Joined by supervisor safai and Committee Member preston. Our clerk is ms. Major. Do you have any announcements . Thank you. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency to protect Board Members and City Employees the legislativladies and gentlemene. Committee members will attend through video and will participate as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. Depending on use provider they are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. Comments to speak are available via phone by calling 4156550001. The meeting id is 14665730274. Press pound pound. When connected you will hear the discussions but be on mute and in his senning mode only. When your item of interest comes up dial star three to b
It represents commerce, navigation, all of the things that San Francisco is famous for. The wood you see in the board of supervisors chambers is oak and all hand carved on site. Interesting thing about the oak is there isnt anymore in the entire world. The floors in china was cleard and never replanted. If you look up at the seceiling you would believe thats hand kof carved out of wood and it is a cast plaster sealing and the only spanish design in an arts building. There are no records about how many people worked on this building. The workman who worked on this building did not all speak the same language. And what happened was the person working next to the other person respected a skill a skill that was so wonderful that we have this masterpiece to show the world today. [roll call] item number two, pledge of allegiance. Item number three, approval of minutes for the june 9, 2020 Port Commission meeting. So moved. Second. All in favor. Aye. Sorry, roll call vote. [roll call] thank y