Clerk mr. President , all members are present. President yee all right. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee thank you. On behalf of the board, i wish to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. I just want to make sure that i captured supervisor stefani or did i miss you, supervisor . Supervisor stefani madam clerk, i believe that you did, and i am present. Thank you. Clerk i believe that, and i apologize to you, and yes, mr. President. All members are present, just to make sure. President yee mmhmm. Clerk and yes, i do have a communication. The minutes will reflect that during the covid19 health emergency, members of the board participated in this meeting remotely through Video Conference to the staple extent as though physicall
[gavel]. President yee good afternoon and welcome to our september 29, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, would you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk mr. President , all members are present. President yee all right. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee thank you. On behalf of the board, i wish to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. I just want to make sure that i captured supervisor stefani or did i miss you, supervisor . Supervisor stefani madam clerk, i believe that you did, and i am present. Thank you. Clerk i believe that, and i apologize to you, and yes, mr. President. All members are present, just to make sure. President yee mmhmm. Clerk and
Virtually unusable, and also crew members were asked, why did they think the ship tilted over as it did and began to sink so quickly. They said it was a stabilization issue, they believe, without going into farther specifics. All of that will be further investigated here. Thanks, will ripley, reporting from south korea. Lets go to ukraine right now. A new pledge from the Vice President of the United States, joe biden, while meeting with ukrainian leaders in kiev, he offered another 20 million in security aid, offered this rebuke for russia. No nation should threaten its neighbor by amassing troops along the border. We call on russia to pull back these forces. Should sow instaby in its neighbors country. We call on russia to stop supporting men, hiding behind masks in unmarked uniforms sowing unrest in Eastern Ukraine. Vice President Biden is referring to reports and those pictures we all saw yesterday involving Russian Troops in generic uniforms. Lets turn to our arwa damon. Shes joini
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. The Supreme Court ruled today that voters may ban racial preferences in deciding who gets into a State College and who doesnt. Affirmative action, as it is known, is still constitutional, but this decision gives voters in each state the final say in whether to allow it. It wasnt close 62, the six being justices roberts, kennedy, scalia, thomas, alito and breyer. Ginsberg and sotomayor dissented. Justice kagan had worked on the case before she joined the court. She didnt vote today. Heres chief Legal Correspondent jan crawford. Reporter for a generation, the battle over affirmative action has been fought here at the Supreme Court, but today, the justices said voters, not judges, could decide the ultimate fate of racial preferences. Upholding michigans ban on affirmative action, Justice Anthony kennedy, writing the main opinion, said the case is not about how the debate about racial preferen
Cnn is learning about a new agreement in the works right now to set critical guidelines in the search for flight 370. Standby for exclusive new information. Also this hour, the air search is expected to resume after being disrupted by a tropical cyclone. And the bluefin21 is now on its tenth dive. Its almost finished scanning the current under water search area. Cnn has a major presence in perth, australia, the base of the operations for the search, and we have our team of experts here in the situation room to break down all the new developments. Lets bring in our justice correspondent pamela brown with the latest information. Pamela . Thats right. Were learning malaysian and australian officials are working together to come up with a longterm game plan if nothing turns occu s up in this targeteh area. The bluefin21 is almost done searching here. The underwater sixmile radius zone considered the most likely area where the plane went down. If they were thinking, if you remember, this wa