Avalos present. President breed . Here. Breed present. Campos present. Supervisor cohen. Present. Cohen present. Supervisor farrell not present. Supervisor kim . Kim present. Supervisor mar. Here. Mar present, supervisor peskin present. Tang present. Supervisor wiener . Wiener present. Supervisor yee . Yee present, madam president you have a quorum. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, please join us for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Yes, madam president. From supervisor farrell, dated march 8th, requesting that he be excused from todays meet colleagues, is there a motion to excuse supervisor faler . Motion by supervisor avalos, seconded by supervisor cohen, colleagues can we take this without objection . Without objection, supervisor farrell is excused. [ gavel ] all
Madam clerk, please call the roll. Thank you, madam president. Supervisor avalos. Supervisor avalos . Avalos present. President breed . Here. Breed present. Campos present. Supervisor cohen. Present. Cohen present. Supervisor farrell not present. Supervisor kim . Kim present. Supervisor mar. Here. Mar present, supervisor peskin present. Tang present. Supervisor wiener . Wiener present. Supervisor yee . Yee present, madam president you have a quorum. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, please join us for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Yes, madam president. From supervisor farrell, dated march 8th, requesting that he be excused from todays meet colleagues, is there a motion to excuse supervisor faler . Motion by supervisor avalos, seconded by supervisor cohen, colleague
Tomorrow im about to hear both when you say here us, is that the commission and the Business Community . My suggestion, first of all, added to this i would appreciate getting the signature support of all the businesses in the corridor. That is crucial. 2nd, i think the sfmta is silence to nights. I think it would be best for the process to get their view of things. And asked them to postpone their voting, the vote on this issue and allow the process kind of a democratic process is the president suggested maybe to take place in this for him to come and present their side and tell us why all of what has been submitted to date has not been taken into account. Its concerning when we face an issue literally with a 24hour deadline and theres been no presentation by anybody at this meeting before this point. So, i think it certainly is a rational request that we go another cycle, a month, where we can put on the agenda presentation by the sfmta an additional presentation by the Citizen Group
The republican response was forceful unfortunately, the president s record has often fallen short of his soaring words. I see what you see and many of your frustrations are my frustrations. A frustration with a government that has grown day after day, year after year, yet doesnt serve us any better good evening. This is al Jazeera Americas extended live coverage of tonights state of the Union Address. The president mapped out the year to come while laying out what he saw as the accomplishments of the last seven years. The president of the United States. [ applause ] reporter in a speech seven years in the making the president took to the chamber to deliver his final state of the Union Address mr speaker, mr Vice President , members of congress, my fellow americans. Reporter the white house had promised a forward looking and optimistic message and the president delivered i just dont want to talk about next year. I want to focus on the next five years, the next 10 years and beyond. Repor
Will be out in a half hour, a much has been made about the dependence on ecommerce. They still have a lot to do on improving the experience. Julie hyman has more on this. Part of the problem is a lot like what we do in the stores we are browsing online. Except we do it at a higher rate. Forrester research put out a report looking he looking at the name reason why people abandon their ecart. They say shipping and handling is too high. Theyre just not ready to purchase for whatever reason. I spoke to a Retail Consulting group yesterday, and there are a lot of reasons your online, cries,ne rings, the baby whatever it may be, and you do not get back to it. Also, 22 wanted to compare prices. Saysee something, and you maybe i can get it cheaper somewhere else. Piecee of that shipping we have seen an increase in the number of transactions that offer free shipping. Amazon has been aggressive on that front and set the standard. Other ecommerce sites have followed suit. In terms of why people ar