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Welcome to the mornings on at nine. It is good to be back in the good actually have some cooler temperatures out there playing a role in the firefighter there in the county. Really some good news for a change when it comes to the contained fire which fire crews are making significant progress the fires go just one square mile overnight to 120 square miles the real positive news is that containment has doubled from 15, to 30 now while severe wind gusts remain a concern high wind advisor was cance...

Rallies took place over the weekend. Israeli air strikes in gaza in retaliation for rocket attacks have killed two palestinians. And now Israeli Military says it was targetinging hamas making facilities and palestinian president is saying he will not meet with Mike Pence Visit next week. There were major protests outside rome over president decision and some of americas closest allies are upset over unnecessary conflict in a volatile region. President trump on hand in opening of Civil Rights Mus...

Statue of liberty. It is often told as a very uplifting and romantic story where immigrants become americans, but not many of us know the history of immigration through angel island. This is the immigration station in San Francisco, and it is an important site not only for what happened back then in the early 20th century but also because it is so timely today. It is timely because when we pick up any newspaper we see headlines like this. This is just from last week. Reps slam obamas immigration...

Immigrants in over 250 facilities across the country. So 429,000 people, immigrants were detained in 2011. That translates into about 33,400 beds a day. Advocates argue that the majority of detentions are not actually necessary. So, remember that detentions in ellis island were about one to two days. Angel island, as hard as they were, averaged in the two to three weeks. Today incarceration periods range from 37 days to 10 months. So we have 300,000 immigrants who were detained in angel island o...

Commissioner johns move to approve. Move to continue. Sorry. On that motion to continue. Commissioner antonini. Commissioner hillis. Commissioner johnson. Commissioner moore. Commissioner sugaya. Commissioner fong and commissioner president wu. So moved, commissioners, that motion passes 7 to zero and places you under your consent calendar calendar, are considered to be routine and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items...

Does not permit outbursts of any kind minutes and and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Id like to take roll commissioner president wu. Commissioner fong. Commissioner antonini. Commissioner hillis. Commissioner johnson. Commissioner moore. Commissioner sugaya. Commissioners first on your calendar are items proposed for continuance at 9 west portal Affordable Housing discretionary review authorization to augu august 7, 2014, there are no spea...

Speaker cards any comments on the items proposed for continuance seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner johns move to approve. Move to continue. Sorry. On that motion to continue. Commissioner antonini. Commissioner hillis. Commissioner johnson. Commissioner moore. Commissioner sugaya. Commissioner fong and commissioner president wu. So moved, commissioners, that motion passes 7 to zero and places you under your consent calendar calendar, are considered to be routine and may be acte...

None, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner johns move to approve. Move to continue. Sorry. On that motion to continue. Commissioner antonini. Commissioner hillis. Commissioner johnson. Commissioner moore. Commissioner sugaya. Commissioner fong and commissioner president wu. So moved, commissioners, that motion passes 7 to zero and places you under your consent calendar calendar, are considered to be routine and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. There will be no se...

Tom was part of a particularly shimmering moment in my own life. This is in miami in the early 1980s and it was centered around the miami herald, and particularly the sunday magazine, tropic magazine where thomas one of the principal editors. This was a moment, and i know we all succumb to the temptation, the older we get the better we were, but this was truly a moment. There was tom, dave, karl, madeline, with assist from the likes of paul levine and elmore leonard. It was a moment of creativit...