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Submitted to the clerk, items acted upon today will be appear on the supervisor agenda unless otherwise stated. Er can we get a motion the excuse supervisor mar from todays meeting. Motion from supervisor cohen, without objection. Call item 1. Item 1 is a a motion confirming the mayoral appointment of Eleni Kounalakis to the Port Commission term ending may 1, 2016. And i believe she is here today. Thank you very much. Members of the rules committee, supervisors tang and cohen, im very honored to be here today and to have been nominated by mayor lee to serve as the San Francisco Port Commission...

Agents. With reduction of overall numbers. Do you anticipate a need to reexamine and restructure how the Border Patrolmans bases and Forward Operating bases . I share very much the concern we discussed on this hiring issue. For the Border Patrol to be in a downward spiral, which means were not able to hire as fast as attrition is very concerning. I have talked with your staff also about the number of programs that we put in place, particularly to speed up the process. So in these new hiring hubs we can get people through in 160 days until at times, well over a year. That is important. The clos...

Sort of timing which has become standard in modern confirmation process. Indeed, in american history, only one attempt to push through september or october confirmation was the failed campaign to approve fortiss no president , 1968. Mr. I cannot believe anyone would want to repeat that experience in todays climate. Moreover, of the five justices confirmed in the summer of an election year, all five were nominated for vacancies that had a reason before the summer had began. August justice griers confirmation was for a vacancy in the court that was more than two years old. As was the july confir...

Its something of a command performance. They are going to visit their boss. The pope will be meeting with the bishops at st. Matthews tomorrow. Hes been stern at times with his priests and bishops. He has. His christmas message at the vatican curate he talked about the different ills that affected the bishops and cardinals, clericalism, what he called spiritual alzheimers. People are expecting the u. S. Congress message to be strongest, but i imagine the message to the bishops will be the most blunt. I want to go to pierre thomas. Extraordinary security precautions being taken. Reporter yes. S...

The morning commute should be fine will be hearing a lot more from ashley in just a moment youll notice some low clouds that she has just a little bit of moisture on the windshield coming in not enough to leave the roads wet i didnt even turn on the windshield wipers but every once in awhile so just a little bit of moisture kind of on the windshield and you may find a little bit of that yourself. Visibility is not too bad forty seven degrees right now north winds of twelve mph as we take you through the day these mild temperatures will continue to warm i think were looking at mid fifties offic...