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Afternoon in the stabbing death of a shopper at a target store on Christmas Eve. Two brothers arrested, now their family says it was a case of selfdefense after an argument over loud music. Henry lee was in court today for todays proceedings and joins us now with more. Reporter it was an emotional seen in the courtroom today as both suspects brothers, both brothers formally charged with murder. The victims wife stood up and used an expletive, the suspects father tells me the suns were provoked. Cameras werent allowed in court as families of the victim and the suspects waited for the case to be...

[gavel] i will call the summer meeting of the Public Utilities commission to order. Please take roll call Duran Kwon Caen and vietor are excited charlie a quorum is present. Commissioners, item 3 the approval of minutes for november 8 to any additions or corrections we i will move the approval moved and seconded. All those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes] opposed . The minutes are approved. We are on to item for this is opportunity for general comments from the public for items under our jurisdiction that dont happen to be on calendar today. I have two speaker requested [calling Public Comm...

Franciscoi took a trip to [inaudible] to stand by the sioux tribe the dakota sioux tribe and to witness really held the protectors of the water are really respecting mother earth. Over there, they want to build a pipeline and if they decide to put the pipeline under the missouri river, which is a very wide river, it could pollute millions and millions of gallons of water. I want to connect it with the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Recently, its been over a week we get some foul smell in our Drinking Water. When you report it to the communication people, they say thats just a tempo...

All those are spelled in the document. I think it was a credibility issue and not just for the sfpu c it is who they are sharing information with. Im disaponted with mr. Sharpentears comments. For the two plus years i have met with City Council Members to explain the issue and drafted the calloges memo that put the issue of transferring water to east pal o alto and feel stabbed in the back by his comments but i dont blame him because he gets information from sfpu c staff. It is very interesting the last week turlock irrigation district has been dumping a lot of water to lower tuwallmy. Last ye...

I also hear what you say about the numbers should not drive the entire conversation but i do think it is important to understand where there is flexibility in the numbers. I do know how well we have done with conservation. I know we have our contractual agreements, but i would like to have a better understanding of what numbers we could do better on and to try and approach this very critical question of the health of the river and meeting our supply needs from a perspective of what we can do being the San Francisco we are, being the Technology Center we are, having the public support expertise...