Okay, we are back in business, the low Agency Formation commission, john avalos and our commissions have been introduced, jennifer low, madam clerk, can you call our next item, please. Item number 2 is approval of lafco minutes from january 25, 2013 regular mooting. There are amendments that need to be made to the minutes, on item number 3, commissioner schmeltzer was absent and item number 6, same thing. Okay. So, we could take those amendments after we open up for Public Comment. Public comments on the minutes, and seeing no one come forward, well close public minutes, can we change those things on the minutes. Seconded by commissioner breed, well take that without objection. Thank you, madam clerk, if you can call your next item. Item number 3, Community Choice aggregation activities report, a, status update on clean power sf program, b, status update on proceedings at the California Public utilities commission. Thank you very much and we have presentations from barbara hale of the
From nbc World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening and happy independence day. Im kate snow in for brian tonight. For a lot of americans, it was a wet and windy one, thanks to hurricane arthur. The storm caused many towns along the east coast to cancel holiday plays, parades and fireworks. When it made landfall overnight, arthur was a category two storm, the first of this hurricane season. And take a look at this view from space. North carolina has never seen a hurricane hit so early in the season. The good news, no deaths are reported, but the storm did do some damage. Tropical storm warnings are still in effect this evening in massachusetts, with watches farther to the north. We have Team Coverage for you tonight. We begin with nbcs Kerry Sanders in kill devil hills, North Carolina. Kerry . Reporter well, kate, this was a deceptive hurricane, packing a serious punch. The region escaped widespread devastation. There are no reports of se
The right person to be president of the United States. Hes going to give a wideranging speech, heavy on law and order, talking about everything from the recent violence in america to other issues, illegal immigration, and education. His daughter ivanka trump will be center stage and shell introduce her dad with a speech he left completely up to her. She said the moment is, quote, terrifying. We are covering this historic night from every angle and we begin with jim acosta and, jim, it call comes down to tonight for donald trump. Safe to say it truly is the most important night of his life thus far. Thats right, erin, and at times this week it has felt like a trump rally broke out of the Republican Convention and donald trump has an opportunity to put some of the problems this week behind him with the speech delivered by his wife melania to ted cruzs refusal to endorse him. Trump has the opportunity to hit the reset button and if there is one overarching theme from what we can tell from
Reporter the legislation passed in the house. Eliminates the tax penalty for americans who choose not to buy insurance. Replaces the subsidy offered under obamacare with tax credit and rolls back Medicaid Expansion starting in 2020. It increases the limit on what insurers can charge older enr l enrolle enrollees. They can charge more for preexisting conditions. Among those who lost the most, those with preexisting conditions and elderly and lowincome americans. The healthy and middle and upper class stand to benefit. Hey, hey democrat s taunting republicans after the vote. Soof you have said they fix it in the senate. You have every provision of this bill tattooed on your forehead. You will glow in the dark on this one. Reporter senator Lindsey Graham says it should be viewed with caution because it was rushed through the house without cost estimate. We should have had a cbo. I dont always agree with cbo. Frequently i disagree. We should still have assessment from them. Reporter some H
Powerful conservatives including republican senator ted cruz of texas who has argued once on the bench he will disappoint the right. So our big question this hour, in a Selection Process that is growing more contentious by the day, whose advice will President Trump take on his Supreme Court pick . Msnbcs garrett headacaake is i great falls, montana. Pete williams is the justice correspondent for nbc news. Robert costa a political reporter for the Washington Post and at nbc news and msnbc political analyst and Caitlin Hueyburns is a political report for real clear politics. Thanks to everybody for being here. Garrett, start with you, that list of three, what do we know about it and do we know if there is a pecking order within the list of three, a favorite and more of a long shot . Its always impossible to tell with this sort of thing, steve, because its so much depends on the president s viewpoint at the moment and the person lobbying him most directly at the time. I can tell you we ex