Many of you came to testify to provide mental support over 14 approved hearings in the past 9 months. A huge thanks to each of you. I want to thank and give a shout out on the addition and the local architects of record. Our project manager greg johnson and a thank for the location to richard hill. Now bear with me i have to identify people. There have long been numerous folks that need to be thanked. Ill ask i all to stand up at once. calling names Current Trustees calling names past trustees tom peters and martha ma listens calling names past directors calling names william moreen, our current director david and others and our consultants. Those are all portfolio to our project. I want to ask those people to stand so we can thank them all clapping thank you very much. In addition i have a very special thanks to the 11 members of the board of supervisors who unanimously approved the museum and their represented by kim and cowen and mary and avalos and campos. Thank you without your un
San franciscans who proudly celebrate one of the most important assets. The Mexican Museums new home is a culture site that is made of various privileges that together represent one of the most complexities in this country. Today mexicans all over the world proudly celebrate the independence of mexico which also marks the or begins of california. Mexico and california Work Together and mexican california started the contrast of a very important relationship two hundred years ago. A few minutes ago the office of mayor lee the officials and diminished members of our community met with a longstanding transmission of friendship with the Mexican Community to raise the mexican flag on the Mayors Office to join the celebrations. Therefore clapping therefore its a of a special significance that on this day we celebrate the new home of the Mexican Museum as consult its been an you honor to support this cure all project. We will continue to work with all of you with the composition e consolidati
Wonderful work of the 10 architects and id like to see all of you the incredible supporters be part of watching in come to being with all of us. And first and foremost i give my great, great honor to thank the entire community of San Francisco. The entire board of supervisors and every one of them voted in favor of this. Im very proud to say that amongst all those mayors that continued this 20year effort to do so im proud to say that one of the bridges of this was former mayor willie yeah. laughter clapping of course, a special thanks to ma limb partners to supervisor jane kim but each and every supervisor im proud to have worked with them and theres more reasons to unit this city especially, when it comes to celebrating our city and thank you, Council General for attending this celebration clapping the way weve done this and bring people together and personally under note theres a reason why i taught both my children to learn spanish as well as mandrin we celebrate our diversity its p
Measles outbreaks in the u. S. Despite the fact that measles was considered wiped out here in the u. S. 14 years ago, were seeing a resurgence of this highly contagious but preventable disease across the country and at an alarming rate. So whats happening . Joining me dr. Kevin campbell of the university of north carolina. Dr. Kevin, thanks for joining us. Just how dangerous is this . Measles can be a very dangerous disease. Measles can actually cause pneumonia. It can cause an infection in the brain, actually in 15 of the cases can be deadly. The problem is very, very pretentable if youre vaccinated begins disease. Gerri weve seen a lot of parents who opted not to inoculate their children . Why is that happening and is this an important part of what is going on . It a very important part what is going on, particularly places like l. A. And new york where you have very International Population and you have travelers coming from all over the world that may carry measles virus. If you ha
[applause] mr. President. Its good to see you. Hi everybody. So mr. President , women as you have pointed out in your book do not fare very well in most religions around the world and at best they are second class citizens and at worst they have been imprisoned and enslaved, tortured, raped, beaten, murdered. I have had a lot of women say to me over the past years that ive done on faith, how could god let this happen . Does god hate women . How could you answer that question . The abuse of women was in a past tents. Its still going on around the world and in the United States as well. I would say that god does not hate women. I happen to be a christian and it would be a fruitless search to look through the scriptures and find one single instance where jesus did not treat women either equally or superior to men. Unfortunately though the entire concept of the bible 36,000 or so versus, if you are a male and you want to consider yourself superior and the eyes of god you can find a verse h