Can i ask you to be conscious were at a time of losing our own air. speaking foreign language. but as i mentioned we have to be conscious of our own air without air we dont have life. speaking foreign language. but what can be worse than having death and without having life then humans are effected but it. speaking foreign language. ladies and gentlemen, i thank you for your time its been a pleasure to be with you and thank you clapping. yes. Yes. Please. Good afternoon, commissioners good evening. Im oscar first, i applaud our leadership in the Grassroots Efforts like in the adequate restraining order in the cultural district in go making that connection on the environment as peoples that have suffered through thick and thin we define the environment where we live and play and in the 24th street and districts thats our environment our trees and mountains our floor so thank you for taking leadership on it i appreciate youre bringing up the study the mit thank you was recorded on the lo
Ahold of language other plants to be added to the document they could use it to help their causes of cutting down trees like the trees on Mount Davison with the clierment being as bad we cant putdown a slippery slope we need to aggressively plant trees this is one of the worse citys ive ever seen for tree canopy it is terrible to allow scrub and brush to be considered part of trees is not going to serve the purpose of an urban landscape of defending our city from the climate warming so thank you thank you. Next speaker. My name is jake im with the formal Ad Hoc Group Meeting over the years we deal with problems of natural areas in the city your probably wondering what this has to do with trees we are very definitely in favor of street trees and increasing the numbers in the city but the draft plan here goes far beyond that it involves many things we sent you a letter yesterday, i hope youve had time to read it but chances are you havent there are subsequential inconsistent sisters and
We are very definitely in favor of street trees and increasing the numbers in the city but the draft plan here goes far beyond that it involves many things we sent you a letter yesterday, i hope youve had time to read it but chances are you havent there are subsequential inconsistent sisters and problems we would like to see look at professor barking from the San Francisco State University sent you a letter to consider those so i would beg you to not adapt this for forward this to the general plan its not ready for the general plan thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi my name is anastasia and i want to concur with several other is speakers like why was this goal set originally to increase the economy to 25 increased i mean moved away it is well, yeah but i mean just the plan it will make protection for park trees under attack i dont know how many have been removed since this monster problem happened years ago mesopeople are calling themselves environmentalists yet they cut the trees
We are very definitely in favor of street trees and increasing the numbers in the city but the draft plan here goes far beyond that it involves many things we sent you a letter yesterday, i hope youve had time to read it but chances are you havent there are subsequential inconsistent sisters and problems we would like to see look at professor barking from the San Francisco State University sent you a letter to consider those so i would beg you to not adapt this for forward this to the general plan its not ready for the general plan thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi my name is anastasia and i want to concur with several other is speakers like why was this goal set originally to increase the economy to 25 increased i mean moved away it is well, yeah but i mean just the plan it will make protection for park trees under attack i dont know how many have been removed since this monster problem happened years ago mesopeople are calling themselves environmentalists yet they cut the trees
Chris pabst spoke to the man filing that suit. Chris is live at the metro headquarters in northwest washington. Chris, as you reported yesterday, these claims could cost metro millions of dollars. Well absolutely. These lawsuits are soon to start piling up. Today, we learned that the first lawsuit will officially be filed tomorrow. And then just a minutes ago, abc 7 learned that six more of those passengers have already signed on with that same law firm with the man who is filing tomorrow. Now, speaking of that man he said today that he thought that he was going to die on that train when it started filling with smoke. So much in fact that he wrote a text to his mother and to his two kids saying goodbye. I just didnt see any way that we were going to get out of there because the smoke was encapsulating and all you could see out the window is darkness. At about 3 30 monday afternoon, while stuck inside a smokefilled metro train near the Lenfant Plaza station, malbert rich thought his lif