We are going to hold now until we can get this resolved. Thank you for your patience. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday july 18, 2014, in room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchair and other persons with mobility devices. Access at the polk street carlton b. Assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is open captioned and sign language interpreted. Our agendas are also available in large print and braille. Please ask staff for any extra assistance. To prevent interference and for everyone to focus, please silence all mobile phones. Your cooperation is appreciated. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment. You may complete a speakers card in the front of the room or call our bridge line. 415. 554. 9632. Where a staff member will handle request to speak at the appropriate time. The Mayors Disability Council meetings are held on the third friday of the month. Our next regul
What the Auto Industry means for you. Are im David Shuster and this is real money. This is real money and you are the most important part of the show so join our live conversation aj realmoney. Politicians in both parties have been claiming that your odds of moving up the economic ladder are worse. The politicians are wrong, economic mobility is not getting worse, although its not Getting Better either. The economic study was published by economists of cal berkeley and harvard. 30yearolds across the country. While the big picture is stagnant the data shows there are big differences in income ability based on geography. From a child to rise from a lowincome household to highincome how hold, san jose, california, at 12. 9 , has some up wardly mobile, and compared to denmark, a country with highest mobility in the world. Charlotte, along with atlanta, milwaukee, dayton, ohio and indianapolis, have the lower mobility compared to some developing countries in the world. When you hear broad c
Returning to the shores of normandy where 70 years ago today, they took part in the largest amphibious invasion in history. It was a turning point in the war that helped the allies eventually defeat hitlers third reich. Where soldiers paid the ultimate price. June 6, 1944, nearly 160,000 allied troops embarked on the biggest am figurous military seattle ever. They crossed the English Channel to storm five beaches in northern france. 5,000 soldiers died on that fate fall day. It became the catalyst for topping the the nazi regime and changed the course of history. Today marks the 70t 70th anniversary of dday, 17 heads of state, including president obama are in france to pay tribute to the soldiers who died that day and to honor those who survived. We come to remember why america and our allies gave so much for the survival of liberty at this moment of maximum peril. We come to tell the story of the men and women who did it, so that it remains seared into the memory of a future world. Mi
John no more than 2 million understand gerri hello, everybody. Im gerri willis. Our video games are video games to blame for gun violence in this country . Vicepresident continuing his weekon meetings at the white house seeking ways to reduce gun violence in this country following last months massacre in newtown, conn. Today it was the videogame industrys turn. In those talks were publishers of some of the most violent games out there including electronic arts, Activision Blizzard his violent game, call of duty, one of the biggest moneymakers ever. This is what it is like to play one of these games which brings him back to the question i started this show with. Are video games really to blame . For joining me now, a psychiatrist to things video games are responsible for gun violence. A gaming blogger with sentinel who says theyre not to blame. Travis, you say your video game player. You say they are not to blame. How so . I have been playing video games for around 17 years. At plated n
Challenge. We begin with breaking news out of of grand afghanistan where there is an attack on abdullah and a roadside bomb struck his car and body guards and killed four people and abdullah was not injured in the attack we understand but lets get more from kabul with more details emerging. We are getting some update in this attack and the interior ministry confirmed four people and among the killed is afghan traffic policeman and his body guard and two supporters and at least 16 people injured. What we know so far is when dr. Abdullah finished the Campaign Rally he sat in the car and as soon as he sat in the car a suicide bomber driving a vehicle near the convoy detonated himself and killed four people and injured 16. This vehicle, the suicide bomber vehicle, also had a picture of the campaign so everyone thought he was a part of the campaign and also what we are hearing about the second explosion that its unknown until now that it was an ied or it was another Suicide Attacker. And an