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Thank you. All right everybody, hi. This is the Mayors Disability Council meeting on friday, july 17m, 2015. Welcome to everybody. May i have the introduction read, please by Council Member wong . Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday, july 17th, 2015 in room 400 of the San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs, and other assistive mobility devices. Wheelchair access is provided at via ramps. Wheelchair access at the polk carlton good lett is available with lift. Assistive listening devices are available and our meeting is o...

This is al jazeera america, live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. Tropical storm erika is plowing a deadly path through the caribbean and heading for florida. In fact the governor declared state of emergency just about an hour ago. This church collapsing under the fury of the tropical storm. Officials say they have found 14 bodies and several people are still missing. Erika dumped 15 inches of rain on dominica. Power and Water Supplies have been knocked out completely. Lets bring in kevin corriveau. Kevin when might we expect to see the outer bands of this in florida . Based on what we kno...

This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im randall pinkston. Floridas governor declared a state of emergency as erika heads towards the sunshine state. And the white house says president obama has been briefed on storm preparations. The Tropical Storm has plowed a path of death and destruction through the caribbean. [ screaming ] a church in dominica collapsed under the fury of the wind and rain. The island nation so far the hardest hit. Erika dumped 15 inches of rain on dominica. Landslides blocked roads, power and Water Supplies were knocked out. The storm is right now delivering...

[applause] mayor coleman let me just say one quick thing about thurgood, how important he was to our country, for africanamericans, for those who wanted to go to law school africanamericans who wanted to go to law school, i was a part of that generation who looked up to him, believed in him, who was inspired by him. That i too someday could go to law school and i could someday become a lawyer. There is a whole generation of people just like me who have gone on to do that because of the bravery and the courage of Thurgood Marshall. So tonight, we are here gathered here this evening and i have v...

How important he was to our country, for africanamericans, for those who wanted to go to law school africanamericans who wanted to go to law school, i was a part of that generation who looked up to him, believed in him, who was inspired by him. That i too someday could go to law school and i could someday become a lawyer. There is a whole generation of people just like me who have gone on to do that because of the bravery and the courage of Thurgood Marshall. So tonight, we are here gathered here this evening and i have view this really has the intersection of history and the future. What to i...