And welcome to august 2, 2016 meeting of the board of supervisors. Mme. Clerk, can you please call the roll . Thank you mme. Pres. Supervisor avalos. Here. Pres. Breed. Present. Supervisor campus. Present. 17 03 56 supervisor cohen. Present. Supervisor farrell. Present. Supervisor kim. Not present. Supervisor mar. Present. Supervisor peskin. Present. Supervisor tang. Tang not present. Supervisor wiener. Here. Supervisor yee. Here. Mme. Pres. , you have a quorum. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, can you please join us for the pledge of allegiance . [pledge of allegiance] members, are there any changes to the Meeting Minutes of june 28, 2016. Seeing none is there a motion to approve . We have a motion to approve by supervisor mar and seconded by supervisor tang. Seeing none is there a motion to approve . Colleagues can we take this without objection, without objection those Meeting Minutes will pass after Public Comment. [gavel] mme. Clerk, can you please read our first item. Read our fi
Get into college. How great is that . This past june, 100 of the graduating senior class was accepted to fouryear colleges and universities. All right, the question we have how do you do that . And what can other schools learn from the new Heights Academy Charter School . Here to discuss their approach to education christina brown, executive director of the school, and milenny then, a latina instructor from the school, teaches italian. Ill hear about that in just a second. Because that is something that it sets the bar high, does it not, for other schools. It does. Is it at the point where youre getting phone calls from administrators and teachers at other schools that hear a statistic like that and say just what i said, how do you do that . Not yet. Not yet . But i bet were working toward it. Youre working towards it. Give me some basic rules or techniques that help you reach that stunning figure. What is it that you and milenny and the staff at the school 85. All 85 kids in this year
Beautiful thing. Speaking of beautiful, look whos back. Toni yates its been a long time. It has. Thank you. Good morning, im rob nelson. Im toni yates in for michelle charlesworth. Amy, lets check in with the weather. Another warm morning out there. A little warm and a little muggy. This, you guys, though, is the better part of the weekend. Outside right now. Some real beautiful shots from our live camera. Temperatures are already in the mid70s. Well start off with, you know, some sunshine, and well skyrocket the temperatures into the low 80s today from brooklyn into lower manhattan, its not many worries. 75 degrees in central park. Temperatures in the mid70s for day, i wouldnt be surprised for 10 to 12 degrees forecasting a high of 87 in new york city. For inland new jersey, we should be able to push the upper 80s as well. As we go throughout the second half of the weekend, a little more humidity so a very soupy air mass getting set up for us. So by tomorrow, these could be heavy at t
Right now, temperatures, for the most part, 70s across the board. Seventy in monticello. Also started. And 75 in montauk. Central park, 77. And 73 in lakehurst. Looking at the vortex satellite and radar, we continue to see showers popping up. Pretty scattered. In a few places, we have seen moderate downpours. Of course, the more significant rain is to the west. It is in Association Association with a cold front this afternoon. The hour by hour forecast looks like this. High temperature today, 84 degrees. We had that around 3 00. With the humidity, the 84 will feel like 89 degrees. Showers and thunderstorms. The hotspot in terms of the timeframe looks to be between about 4 00 p. M. And midnight. They could started little earlier. More coming up in the full forecast. Now to breaking news. Person dead. Police are investigating multiple shootings in a span of a few hours. Magdalena doris joins us from harlem with the latest. 61yearold odessa sims is dead, fatally shot inside of this park l
The kid came to america for a bright future, no be killed. Reporter the medical examiner is working to determine the cause of ashdeep kaurs death. She was found neck ached and bruised inside of her home at 1,112th street. You know the water . It was not water, and she was in the tubment. Reporter the girls father found found her when he returned home, asking the super to he was overcome with grief and fainted at the scene. He was shocked, and they can put him in the ambulance. Reporter ashdeep kaur moved from india to be in the care of her father and stepmother 2 months ago. Little one told me always she sometimes beat her up. Reporter sources say the investigation is now focused on the stepmother, the person who was watching ashdeep kaur at the time of her death. That . Why . Reporter and when police ran into the stepmother, shes were two other children who are now in the custody of acs. The medical examiner is working to determine the cause of ashdeep kaurs death. Magdalena doris, cb