My life beginning the battle of his professional life trying to convince republican senators to consider his nomination to the Supreme Court. Good morning and welcome to your world this morning he is the chief judge of the Dc Federal Appeals Court is meeting with democrats who back his nomination. Republican, even those who admit he is qualified, says garland is not going to get a hearing john, garland speaking on the phone with Mitch Mcconnell, so would who will he be meeting today . Reporter thats right. I think he was being polite. He said im speaking because i dont want to appear remote and completely removed, but there will be no confirmation hearing. Its not something that we wish to happen. Today the judge does, indeed, go up to cap toll hill. Meeting two democrats. They appear to be dug in on this rather comblesively on message and that is that they reject in nomination. Fog personal with him but nothing personal with him but they dont want this nomination. They say there will
Of warming relations the u. N. Special envoy to syria is due to meet government representatives in geneva where a third day of talks are getting underway. The latest meeting may have a different tone. Staffan de mistura says he has proposals from the government and main opposition outlining their ideas for a political transition. All of this as russia pulls another batch of jets out of syria reporter the man charged with negotiating, Staffan De Mistura, said he didnt believe that the timing of the russian announcement as his talks were restarting was a coincidence. Weve considered this a significant, i repeat, a significant development, and now we hope and we shall be expecting and hoping that this will be happening, that we will be seeing this decision bringing some positive influence on the actual progress of the talks. Reporter mr Staffan De Mistura had a meeting with the main opposition block, the High Negotiations Committee on this the fifth anniversary of the start of the war. Th
In a big game tonight. The president of france was at the game. He had been evacuated from the stadium and is at the interior ministry which runs the French Version of the fbi. Else apparently meeting with all of his Emergency Response heads there at the interior ministry as we unroll this video for you various skeins in th scenes in l part of paris. This is the 10th and 11th for those familiar with the city of paris, that would be north of the river seine and to the east. Weve been told theres gunfire at a third location. Casualty numbers at this early hours will all be wrong but French Police are reporting that many people have been killed likely somewhere over a dozen. We want to emphasize that we do not know what the casualty numbers could be. All of this has been unfolding over the last hour or so in the french capitol. We have our cbs News Reporter elaine cobb on the phone with us from paris. Elaine, what are you hearing . Scott, as you said, this is all unfolding and is very con
Coming from San Francisco over time as the result of the funding constraint and sort of the lack of clarity of go solar s. F. I really am appreciative of the supervisor chiu for calling it and supervisor breed for holding the hearing so that we can talk about how do we get funding to enable this program to continue. To your questions about csi and the california Solar Mission may i have a couple more minutes seconds . Why dont we ask you a question. Could you answer supervisor tangs question around csi . Yes. Californias Solar Initiative had been had the desire to drive down the cost of solar. It did not have a Work Force Development component and it had a 10 lowincome component. When go solar s. F. Was started, go solar s. F. And if you see the chart, if you refer back to the chart that amy hale showed about how the money has been sent and how weve driven solar in San Francisco, weve really driven solar in terms of job creation and in terms of lowincome installations and in terms of n
Little office on 4,000 irving which is three blocks from my home to now 13 20 potrero. We have hired a number of asian neighborhood design students. We support the program. When we invest in the training of individuals, when the young men and women who are here today invest in themselves in a 14week Training Program where they show up every day and work really hard, we should have opportunities for them when they graduate. The opportunity is created when installations are going in, and that requires budgetary certainty and that requires the commitment by the city to enable us to be able to offer opportunities and jobs for folks. I have commitments to people that we already employ. We employ 23 people in San Francisco, 23 families live off the revenue that lumina generates. Less of that revenue has been coming from San Francisco over time as the result of the funding constraint and sort of the lack of clarity of go solar s. F. I really am appreciative of the supervisor chiu for calling