Coronavirus death toll after the u. S. And cases are on the rise across all of south america despite this some countries are easing restrictions will get the latest from Rio De Janeiro. And in sports are making a late rush hoping to stay in the bonus league for another season after a 5 star performance against powerball. Im way im good thanks for joining another young black man is dead in the u. S. At the hands of police now Atlanta Georgia police chief has resigned as a result and the mayor has called for the officer involved to be fired area residents have converged on the scene of the incident to protest the friday night shooting death of 27 year old ray shard brooks Atlanta Police say. He was asleep in his car blocking a fast food drive through lane he said to have resisted arrest after failing a sobriety test now security footage then shows brooks running away with the officers stun gun and possibly pointing it back at them when police opened fire and killed him with an estimated
You are watching book tv on cspan 2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Book tv, television for serious readers. [applause] good morning. Im director of the center for learning, literacy and engagement at the library of congress. One of the major programs of this new center at the library is oversight of the National Book festival, whose overall theme this year is change makers. This is why im especially excited to introduce our new panel devoted to change makers. The focus of much of the programming at the library of congress this year. We are currently celebrating change makers at our Thomas Jefferson building, with an exhibition called shall not be denied, women fight for the vote, in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment. And this december, we will mount an exhibit devoted to the life and influence of one of our great civil rights icons, rosa parks. I invite you to visit the library to see these exhibitions. You can also view our
Melgar, present. Peskin, present. Preston, present. Ronan, not present. Safai, present. Stefani, present. Walton, present. Mr. President , you have quorum. Thank you madam clerk. Colleagues, can we have a motion to excuse supervisor ronan . Made by supervisor walton and second by supervisor melgar and we take that without objection. Supervisor ronan is excused. San francisco board of supervisors we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush c
Good morning. Welcome to our august meeting of the transbay joint powers authority. Hope you are having a good summer the best is yet to come grownup and lived and born in San Francisco the best weather is the month of september. Roll call, please. Good morning. Directors. Prior to taking roll i note that director chang is not here but is expected. And director eltawansy and vice chair mandelman are absent. Director chang and are alternates. Il call roll. Director forbes. Here. Director baptiste. Present. Why director lipkin. Why present. Director syed. Present. Director tumlin. Present. Chair gee. Here. Directors we have quorum. Am item 3 is communications. Wield like to note process for the public to comment. Members of the public may comment on the meeting during Public Comment period in person or remotely. The call in line as a courtesy and may be disrupted due to technical difficulties. In person comment will be taken first. Remote comment after. The public call in line is on the
Alvine wu. inaudible come up. I yell at you all the time but i want you to be celebrated today. Who likes to get paid . I know that you all have had some challenges and that things dont always run as smoothly as we like, but these three people make sure that everyone gets placed and goes through the application process. Alvin wu from japanese Youth Council makes sureveryone gets paid alawn with terry jones so with the kinks and frustrations and challenges, you see how many of you are in this space and this is only a portion of the people . These folks here kind of all by themselves with a couple other folks make sure it all happens so they have to answer all your emails and phone calls and process your applications and make sure that there is enough money for you all to get paid so i just wanted to thank them for their hard work and for getting beat up not just by me but all the parents and kids and young folks upset about their checks thank you. Come on up inaudible brought us lunch i