Item two, approval of the minutes of the september 23, 2014, action. Any comments . Any member of the public that would like to comment. Seeing none, we will close. Avalos . Aye. Breed. Aye. Campos. Aye. Chiu. Aye. Cohen . Absent. Ferrill. Aye. Kim. Aye. Mar. Aye. Tang. Aye. Weiner. Absent. Yee. Aye. Item passes. Okay. Lets go to the next item. Item three, three chairs report, this is an information item. Colleagues, in what has become a ritual i begin high report with the sad news that four pedestrians were hit by cars in the past couple of days, one of whom, 87yearold, mr. Louis van belson died of his injuries after being hit, and as he tried to catch a bus. And this is truly an acceptable and, we must act to make the streets safe and her to ask our drivers to slow down i appreciate the work of the sfmta the Police Department and the department of Public Health and other agencies supporting the citys vision zero team, around town reminding everyone that every intersection is a potent
That we must continue to invest in the infrastructure in earthquake preparedness and resilientcy planning and this will take levels of eninvestment and coordination and public involvement and i am pleased by several key initiatives that they are already under way, and including the transit core, capacity study, freeway, Core Management strategy and the neighborhood, transportation, Improvement Program and on the issue of capacity, i want to add my support to many other colleagues, and including commissioner kim, cohen and weiner, who are calling for cal train to purchase, compatible electric vehicles with future Blended Service with california high speed rail. This is a very important Investment Decision that will determine the capacity and Operational Flexibility of the system for years to come. With that, colleagues, icon include my remarks. Public comment is open if any member of the public, seeing none, we will close Public Comment and go on to the next item. Item four. Directors r
The Potomac Institute brought together former Defense Department and fbi officials to discuss the growing strength of the terrorist group isis. Groupsmine the evolution and discuss why the International Community did not detect them earlier. You can see the discussion today at 10 30 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Now, New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg on afghanistan. He was expelled from kabul recently after the publication of his story on the formation of an interim government. The two candidates now vying to be providence president s say they welcome the reporter back to the country. This is 50 minutes. I am the president of the National Press club and host for todays newsmakers news conference. First, as we always do, here are the guidelines. After this biggest presentation, open the floor for q a. When you are recognized, please identified yourself and your organization before asking your question. No speeches please. Just a question. Our guest today is Matthew Rosenberg who was e
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Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg, who was expelled from kabul by the homage karzai government muster karzai government last week. The Afghanistan Government attributed the expulsion to an article mr. Rosenberg had written reporting that highlevel Government Officials were discussing forming an interim government as a possible solution treaty government to the countries current electoral crisis, an action that would effectively map amount to accrue. Mr. Rosenberg will discuss his own situation and the outlook for afghanistan based on his many years of reporting from the country. He has been covering afghanistan since 2008, first as the south asia correspondent for the wall and then forl, the New York Times, which he joined in november 2011. He did a stint in afghanistan in 2002 when he was a reporter for the Associated Press based in nairobi. The National Press club released a Statement Last week criticizing his expulsion by the karzai government and welcoming the statements by the pres