It is an honor to have jackie here today but i first met her 1988 working for her father House Speaker Newt Gingrich and she has always been a part of her Fathers Campaign so we will talk about how long ago 1988 was she graduated presbytery college in South Carolina and mda from george stay in atlanta as a financial analyst designation campaigning twice and lost before her father won the first congressional race she understands to convey the importance of dreaming big and working hard to failure. As founder of learning makes a Difference Foundation to test innovative learning programs to help struggling students learn that they can learn the importance of fighting every day to help read genesis into a new life a homeless shelter for newborn babies and families in a 5 milliondollar Capital Campaign she has learned the value of giving to others. Jackie is passionate about improving the world, her two children will inherit and to inspire others to learn and love and live their lives succe
Them, wishing them the quickest recovery possible. This mad mans actions devastated our city, but i rise today to tell you that that sense of devastation is being replaced by a renewed sense of community, a renewed sense of family, of unity, of faith, and a renewed sense of strength. Ive had the honor of experiencing it firsthand in the eyes and voices of those who survived and those who chose to stay in harms way to help each other when they could have fled to safety. Ive seen and heard this renewed sense of community, strength in the faces of our First Responders, none of whom have ever encountered anything as horrific as the carnage of october 1 but went into danger to save lives. Because . Because thats what they do. I had the privilege of meeting a Las Vegas Police officer, Sergeant Jonathan riddle who was stationed a block from the shooting scene doing traffic work. When he first heard the popping noises, like most of the concert goers, he thought it was fireworks. But the second
And he continues to speak at length for the First Time Since this started. Nbc continues the coverage and he opened himself up to the press and also some candid comments that he made. He certainly did. We just spoke with him in the locker room just a few minutes ago. He said that he is trying to give a voice to minorities. This is how he is doing that. He remained seated during the national anthem. He said that he cannot show pride for a country that apresses minorities. Its to bring awareness and there are a lot of things that are unjust and people not being held accountable. These are things that need to change. Akepernick says that he respects those to the country but it does not some even wurning his jersey and others have tweeted support on social kble media and saying that they believe in what he is doing. Players are encouraginged to stand but not required to do so. We will hear what he had to say in the stand is being disrespectful to the men and woman in the military. Those co
Out of Los Angeles International airport where chaos erupted after reports of an active shooter in one of the terminals. Several videos show the chaos, people running down the hallways and some gathering on the tarmac. An investigation at the airport found no evidence of a shooting. The situation did cause mass panic and flight delays. People barricaded themselves in restaurants and bathrooms. People were taken outside on the tarmacs. One man heading to san jose spoke about the panic. I just heard screaming and saw hundreds of people running like a black friday stampede but screaming, dropping, falling, everybody cleared out of the seats and ran to the back of the terminal and a lot of us tried to remain calm and make sure we didnt trample babies. The tsa started running everybody get out of the terminal. Lester holt had just arrived at the airport himself. This is video from him. He was coming from sacramento with his wife. They were headed into the terminal when they were warned to s
Turn your phones off if there is no seats well open up a room in a little bit thank you. So. speaking foreign language. thank you. speaking foreign language. thank you very much good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the San Francisco full board of supervisors of tuesday, october 20, 2015, madam clerk can you please call the roll. Thank you madam president commissioner avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee madam president all members are present. Were joined by mayor ed lee and ladies and gentlemen, can you please join us in the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all thank you colleagues are there any changes for the september 8th percent or september 15th regular board minutes seeing none, motion by supervisor cohen and seconded by the supervisor farrell