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Good afternoon, everyone. A call to order of the meeting of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission for today, tuesday, december 12. Madame secretary, roll, please . [roll call] and we have a quorum. So, before we get started, today is actually a very sad day for the city and county of San Francisco and in honor of our late mayor, ed lee, id like to ask everyone to stand if we can observe a moment of silence in his honor. Thank you. Before we enter Public Comment, i wanted to send my condo...

Of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission for today, tuesday, december 12. Madame secretary, roll, please . [roll call] and we have a quorum. So, before we get started, today is actually a very sad day for the city and county of San Francisco and in honor of our late mayor, ed lee, id like to ask everyone to stand if we can observe a moment of silence in his honor. Thank you. Before we enter Public Comment, i wanted to send my condolences to many of you, especially harlan, i know you were...

Thank you. Before we enter Public Comment, i wanted to send my condolences to many of you, especially harlan, i know you were close with mayor lee. If there is any day to wish for fake news, this was it. I think were all very stunned. So, i want to announce closed session items 25 to 31 will not be heard today. As were going to approve the minutes of november 14. Can i have a motion to approve those minutes . So vote. Second. Any discussion . Any Public Comment related to the minutes of november...

Motion. Moved and seconded. All in favor. Any opposed . Members of the public we thank you for joining us for the first part of the open session of the San Francisco Police Commission meeting. We we are back on the record in open session. You still have a quorum. Please call the next item. Item 10 discussion on item 9 held in closed section. I move not to disclose. President turman second. On the question arent we prohibited from disclosing this no matter if we want to or not. We have to make th...

Come with russia on many peoples minds. The House Committee set to deliver a memo. Richard nixon can use the state of the union to call for an end to the investigation into his white house. Here he is in 1974. I believe the time has come the bring that investigation and the other investigations into this matter to an end. One year of watergate is enough. Some more trivia for you. George w. Bushs address was the first to go live on the internet. Bill clintons it was longest in 2000 and Barack Oba...

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5 contained. Three homes have burned. Hundreds more are evacuated. Its burn not far from clearlake in a rugged area near the community of lower lake. Cate caugiran is there. She tells us the terrain is a big challenge for firefighters. Reporter it certainly has been. I can tell you now as you said, that fire is still burning. Cal fire says within the past hour that fire kicked back up a notch has burned more than 200 acres within that past hour. You can take a look at this damage. Actually i wan...

Starting their weekend early. Speaking of traffic, weekend bart riders the transbay tube will be shut down all day saturday and sunday so crews can make track repairs. Anne makovec is at the embarcadero station in San Francisco with more on why bart is doing this and how you can get around during the closure. The most important part, right . Reporter this is going to be the end of the line. The embarcadero station here during the closure. So we are hoping people got the message. This could lead ...

Just madly out of control. Reporter we got half a tank. Reporter jim came back to his house after he thought it was safe. As we drove back, the flames were still, um, spotty here and there. Within an hour or two after i got to the house i realized i shouldnt be here. Reporter firefighters from all over the bay area and Southern California in the air and engines and on foot furiously fighting the flames but Mother Nature fought back. This fouryear drought dry vegetation made for some serious spot...

The town of lower lake in lake county. Its about 100 miles north of San Francisco burned more than 2800 square miles of pasture land and only 10 contained. They defend residence and digging containment lane around the blaze. 3 homes destroyed during the fire first day. None burned since. Hundreds of people ordered out of the homes. Residents nervous about the advancing flame. It has been very hot. 106 one day. A 108 another day. Today the wind changed and blew the smoke in town. Getting hard to ...