Suicide bomber that killed for in istanbul. More violence at a trump rally as the frontrunners Campaign Manager is accused of getting physical with a protestor, and the syrian refugee crisis through the eyes of the family struggling to survive outside of their homeland right now president obama and his family are of cuba, making president obama the first sitting u. S. President to visit the island nation in 90 years. Hell spend three days in cuba touring old havana and taking in a baseball game and helle confront the irish relations between the two countries that lasted for two decades. Mike viqueira joins us from havana. Good evening to you. How has the president spent his first hours on the island . Well good evening to you. The president going to the u. S. Embassy saying its an historic opportunity. The embassy opened in washington and havana respectively, today, truly an historic visit as you point out, the first since the waning days of calvin koolidge administration. The presiden
We spent i think its over 100 hours, clocked 40 different meetings. Weve been in multiple meetings every single week for the last few months, and its a real testament. And i want to thank them for working so well together. I think we did a great job as a team. Maybe representing different political spectrums here in San Francisco, but the fact that we did it together really speaks volumes. As we mentioned in the press conference earlier today, i think it speaks a lot about how we can Work Together as a board of supervisors Going Forward. Im excited for that. I do want to also thank as we mentioned earlier today the mayors team in particular ken rich for his extremely valuable involvement. It wouldnt have gotten done without ken, the cpmc, to their managers, especially dr. Brown, mike cohill and in particular, hopefully well find a time to honor him more appropriately, lou girard owe who was officially our mediator but really was the glue that kept everything together. ~ without him thi
Need to give credit to moving us to where we are today, starting first and foremost with the Tremendous Community coalition that has been working for many years across so many different policy and community areas. I, of course, also want to start by thanking our mediator lou jirardo who was tremendous and this project would not be where it is today without his leadership. Clearly there was also tremendous leadership within the city. We need to single out ken rich for the millions of hours that he spent working on this as well as with Many Department heads and, of course, our mayor. And then i want to take a moment and just thank supervisors campos and farrell. I know that campos, farrell, chiu are three supervisorial names not discussed together in a sentence but each of our colleagues plate a critical and equal role in the success we saw here today and it was an absolute pleasure to spend all the time that we did getting this done. To continue to add to some of the details of the deal
Chiu are three supervisorial names not discussed together in a sentence but each of our colleagues plate a critical and equal role in the success we saw here today and it was an absolute pleasure to spend all the time that we did getting this done. To continue to add to some of the details of the deal, in addition to the basic structure of a st. Lukes that is 50 larger and the Cathedral Hill that is half the originally proposed size, there are Significant Community benefits. So, in addition in the area of health care to the health karin ovation fund that supervisor campos has spoken about, and other measures that have been discussed, we have a commitment from cpmc to continue a baseline level of taking care of charity care in San Francisco. This is a need, we know were going to have to continue regardless of what happens with obamacare. The new term sheet continues that commitment, as well as continues to ensure that additional medical [speaker not understood] patient lives will be pro
Lou jirado, this won be done, this could not be possible without his unique set of skills. And, you know, i think it was president chiu who earlier said that and i think supervisor farrell as well that this is the most that each one of us have ictionvly has spent on any project since we were elected to the board of supervisors. And i think it underscores the importance of this issue. And thank you again to the Mayors Office, to mayor lee for his words today, and for the tremendous work that ken rich did to make this possible, and to cpmc. The reality is that many of us who have been looking at this project for quite sometime over the years have had issues and concerns. And i think that a lot of credit goes to cpmc and Sutter Health for coming to the table and negotiating in good faith. We thank dr. Browner and i especially want to thank mike cohill as well who played a very key role. I want to talk about a couple of key components of this project. ~ of this agreement, this tentative ag