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We will go ahead and get started. I am scott madison, the executive director of the National Governors association. Feel free to take your seats. Welcome. This is the 108th summer meeting of the National Governors associati association and taking place with the backdrop of a lot of serious issues across the nation and world and of course two major Party Conventions taking place in the next couple weeks. I am happy to introduce the chairman of the National Governors association from utah, governo...

Kristen sze will be here later today. 4,000 plus acres, 34 contained. The loma fire continues to burn in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The big concern today . The wind. Our report is in san jose with more on the developing story the matt . You may wonder why i am standing here in san jose rather than the Santa Cruz Mountains. Evacuation weighs have to go where they can. This man is staying here although he would rather be home. The loma fire is not out. Firefighters are not stopping. Hundred on the ...

Told us they have no information to share at this time. Milwaukee Police Continue to investigate a crash that killed two people. It happened just after one yesterday morning, at 32nd and atkinson. A man was driving his suv when he lost control and hit a utility pole, killing two women inside. A third passenger and the driver went to the hospital, in serious condition. A Fire Investigation underway this afternoon in milwaukee after a business catches fire on the Northwest Side early this morning....

This xxx morning. Jake cat. Jake his morning people are talking about the first dedecratic president ial l bate of the campaign season. Hillary clinton. Bernie sanders. And Martin Omalley scored the biggest points of the night. C b s news correspodnent vegas nevada. sot the American People are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails. Sanders the most searched candidate duriri the debate according to googlgl scored major points for steering the discussion away controversy. And back to th...

Currently because of a family matter, hopefully just temporarily retired and however, i am still an officer, and i am first vice chair of the San Francisco Mayors Committee on the employment with persons with disability and i also have a special connection with San Francisco and with your rule 115 program. And in 1981 or 82, i was working for the Human Resources designing and implementing a grant funded special hiring program for people with disabilities and we had gotten a grant from the state ...

Disabilities that too often the people who are seen as being dumb or stup pid or slow and really are kind of embarrassed to talk about it or reluctant to speak to someone about it, and the wealth of resources and the person with the learning disability who is working very well with the community, that is just speaks really widely to just the efforts that are done, and not just through rule 115 and also the opening hiring process. My questions are, first off, after the actual process of identifyi...

Passthrough entity and so the president and the argument is that the americans gave the benefits. Well, if we didnt get any of the benefits, i think that we should be confident about that. And its important to know that this is not the first time had this discussion in front of us and it was defeated 33 to 65 and we have many of our democratic colleagues join with all the republicans to reject a statutory ban on exports. And this amendment that is pending, a they will see the same thing. And i s...

Those are some of the things that the Contingency Fund is about. It is a fund we have submitted for because we want to make sure there is a block that the funding will not be used only as needed, but we want to plan for things we cant exactly predict right now. Youve asked for some money for fda for vaccines. Would you speed it up, bring more people into the process, are there steps in an emergency situation like this that there is a way to go through them more quickly or go around them to get t...

Has the pg e. And as far as it being a model as far as replicating for the city level, you know, as far as the way that it incorporated and the way that increased the employment and do you feel that is a good model to go off of . I think that it is a great model to go off of and it is an entry point and you you know the people we talked about the fear that hesitantcy about employing the people with disabilities because a lot of people dont have the experience of working with the people with disa...

Moving on for to item number 7, information item,san Francisco Public Library and its successful implementation of Civil Service rule 115. Presentation by marti goddard, Access Services manager, san Francisco Public Library. The staff hired the rule, reflect the local communities of the users who are deaf and blind and those who have learning disabilities and the works are one or two part time positions for people with the Developmental Disability and presentation by marti, goddard, Access Servi...