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There were no fire exam administrations, so there were acting assignments that people werent allowed to take. They were given assignments based on sinority. Theyre challenging that process and thats their right and we respect that right. We feel like weve done a fair process and if someone disagrees and if we believe we havent, well change it. Its a fluid process and were always looking for new tools and i challenge my team to do a National Search and look were doing how many people are on this team . On our Public Safety team . John. Five. Are they Public Safety experts. Examination experts. ...

And other cases, were not allowed to look at race and gender, which we all know and the the Fire Department has done well when it comes to gender and i want to applaud the chief and the management time. Were interested to has happen to go firefighters of color. Theres a both a reality and perception of issues and i want to look at the date that were talking about and chief officer rank, when you have 48 percent of the work force thats caucasian and you have 77 percent that are caucasian and in the paramedic, 76 caucasian. Just pointing out the numbers. But let me just make a comment about perc...

Cant knees and spanish and thats the largest population and those stations needs those folks that have the ability to communicate with that population. Thats a natural need in the city. We can certainly include a statement to the effect that we encourage people various Language Skills to apply rather than identifying particular languages which would be a concern. Thank you. Im hearing a number of things from what youre saying from your presentation. You started off by saying because of prop 209 and other cases, were not allowed to look at race and gender, which we all know and the the Fire Dep...

Today, friday, july 26th, 2013. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie with al roker and Natalie Morales who now introduces herself as natalie. I like the sound of that. Ill stick with it. Were happy to have you here. Good to have you here. I was thinking when was the last time we were all together . You tracked it down, june 28th. We wanted you to feel at home. There you go. Thats how most people remember you over the last several weeks....

From all walks of life. The Technology Behind the governments coronavirus tracing app for england is to be switched in whats being seen as a major u turn. An easing of lockdown in scotland the first minister says some shops can reopen from the 29thjune. The foreign secretary has been criticised for suggesting that the act of taking the knee was a symbol of subjugation, originating in the tv drama, game of thrones. Cheers. Up the villa. And, the inventiveness of football fans, having to adapt to a new way of watching the premier league. Hello. Tributes have been pouring in to Dame Vera Lynn, th...