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Present. Chair mandelman. Present. Voice chair melgar. Present. Commissioner supervisor peskin. Present. Preston present. Why commissioner ronen. Present commissioner safai. Absent. Commissioner stefani. Present. Why commissioner walton. Present we have quorum. Thank you. I think you have a Public Comment announcement. Yes, thank you. For members interested in participating in this Board Meeting we welcome your attendance in person in the chamber room 250 in city all or watch channel 26 or 99. O...

Aye. The minutes are approves. Call the Consent Agenda items 59. Item 59 the Consent Agenda. Staff is in the planning on to present on these but available for questions. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve the Consent Agenda. Moved by melgar and seconded by walton we can take that same house same call without objection the motion passes. Madam clerk, item 10. Item 10 San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency fleet electrification update report this is an information item. And we have bon...

Good morning, welcome to the october 24 meeting of the San Francisco county Transportation Authority im Rafael Mandelman i am chair our vice chair is melgar. Thank sfgovtv and our clerk is angela, will you call the roll . Yes, chair. Commissioner chan. Present. Commissioner dorsey. Present. Why commissioner engardio. Present. Chair mandelman. Present. Voice chair melgar. Present. Commissioner supervisor peskin. Present. Preston present. Why commissioner ronen. Present commissioner safai. Absent....

South africas president jay cab zuma appoints a third finance minister in less than a week. More signs of trouble for brazil embattled president and thousands call for her to step down. First we have some breaking news from north around iraq and within the last ten minutes or so we heard turkish troops close to the city of mosul have now been withdrawn. Their deployment led to a diplomatic spat between baghdad and ankara and we will go to our correspondent who is in irbill and how many turkish t...

And you can send an email. The phone lines are open. You can start dialing in. Lets begin with the Foreign Relations Committee Hearing yesterday where secretary of the john kerry was asked about his reaction to the gop letter. [video clip] my reaction to the letter was utter disbelief. During my 29 years here in the senate, i never heard of nor even heard of it being proposed, anything comparable to this. If i had, i can guarantee you that no matter what the issue and no matter who was president...

Is chasing the drug demand in the United States, doing it with the currency of the United States and weaponry largely produced in the United States. One of the things we could do to help the Mexican Government is to help drive up the demand for Illegal Drugs by recognizing the demand that drives much of the controversy is within the United States. The second thing we could do to help secure the border is to recognize that when people are less desperate they dont crash borders. They use lawful pr...

At the last debate he said congress was too dysfunctional to do anything then focus on border security. Is Worker Visa Program antiquated and leaving out a solution to do with the 11 or 12 million illegal workers. All of them are connected. What he does not appear to know is all the illegal immigration in this country is a result of people overstaying the visa program. You cannot deal with the situation by focusing as he wants to on the border only. Also what he has to understand or should under...

And president bush doesnt believe the report on climate change. How can that be . And Government Agencies being waged by the men and women who lead them. But first, heres my take. There is a fair amount of nostalgia for the establish meblt that bush was a prominent member. There is a heated debate about that establishment whose membership was determined largely by blood lines and connections. You had to be a white anglosaxon protestant to ascend to any power of position in america. Sure think is...

Countrys political elite. Im phil gayle welcome to the program right wing groups are expected to take to the streets of the eastern german city of candids today to stage fresh demonstrations around twenty people were injured this week when seven thousand protesters many of them far right nationalists a clash with left wing demonstrators after a fatal stabbing heres a look at life in cabinets a city where finance and hatred of foreigners has dominated recent headlines a snapshot of daily life in ...

If so, what happens . I have a terrific panel on it all. Also, President Trump says he doesnt believe his own administrations report on climate change. How can that be . Michael lewis tells us about the war on Government Agencies being waged by the men and women who lead them. But first, heres my take. The death of george h. W. Bush has occasioned a fair amount of nostalgia, and also created a debate. You have to be a white anglosaxon prostitant to ascend to almost any position of power in ameri...