Good afternoon, and welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors. For today, november 30, 2020, the last day of november. I am aaron peskin, chair of the committee. Joined by supervisor safai and Committee Member preston. Our clerk is ms. Major. Do you have any announcements . Thank you. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency to protect Board Members and City Employees the legislativladies and gentlemene. Committee members will attend through video and will participate as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. Depending on use provider they are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. Comments to speak are available via phone by calling 4156550001. The meeting id is 14665730274. Press pound pound. When connected you will hear the discussions but be on mute and in his senning mode only. When your item of interest comes up dial star three to b
For a u. S. District court judge in ohio. It is also the first opportunity for members to speak on the floor sense election day. Watch live Senate Coverage on cspan2 and the house on cspan. Amtrak president and ceo William Flynn was on capitol hill to testify on how the coronavirus affects the Passenger Rail system and what amtrak is doing in response. The Senate Commerce of science and Transportation Committee also heard from representatives of the freight Rail Industry and about the challenges they are facing as a result of the pandemic. This hearing is just over two and half hours. Order. Thank you all for being here, good morning. Today the committee can means to discuss the status of the National Rail network in the country is 140,000 miles of freight rail in class one railroads over 600 freight railroads and thousands of Companies Using braille to ship products and raw materials, we also have an intercity passenger real service amtrak operating on 22000 miles of the same network
Sends police teams to senegal to tackle criminal gangs behind an upsurge in illegal migration prodemocracy activists. Joshua wang could be facing more jail time after plea pleading guilty at a trial in hong kong. Hes accused along with fellow activists, activists, child, ivan lamb, of his involvement in a protest there Police Headquarters last year. It was part of demonstrations against a controversial extradition bill. Im a prayer for the fin chance of walking free this case would troll the world attention to the arbitrary power of the criminal justice system. Impartially is the man to play by paging crackdown and justice to make the filings in pray that the, you know, this is to be upon this following of and some to cause in hong kong. At the moment the prosecutor is laying out the evidence against joshua long and the other 2. Theyre playing footage of that night on june 21st of the protesters around the Police Headquarters blockading those building. They say joshua war and the other
A Coronavirus Vaccine by mid december Top Health Officials in the u. S. Look to fast track their immunization program. So israeli media is reporting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made a secret visit to saudi arabia. According to these reports, netanyahu met the crown Prince Mohammed bin solomon, and the u. S. Secretary might pay 0. Who himself was in israel in the last week. As follows. Recent washington brokered normalization deals between israel. The u. A. E. And bahrain are a force thats following this one from ramallah today in the occupied west bank. Any confirmation olten or denial, either way, harry no denial and no official confirmation, but the lack of denial is pretty telling, especially given the fact that this isnt just one report. It has been pretty widely sourced by a number of israeli political journalists. And indeed, the Prime Ministers own social media comment advisor put out a tweet saying that while netanyahu has a Coalition Partner was playing politics
Being forced from their homes as serious head back to rebuild their lives, to revive a culture. So hong kong prodemocracy activists, joshua wall has pleaded guilty to Unlawful Assembly during last years mass protests. He was joined in court by 2 other activists, agnes chow, and ivan lam. The 3 will be held in custody until sentencing nest next week. Im sorry and could face 5 years in jail. Last years protests outside of hong kongs Police Headquarters were triggered of course, by the introduction of the controversial extradition bill. Well ahead of his appearance in court one promised to continue his fight for freedom. Perhaps apologies. Wish me to stay in prison, but im persuaded that neither person balls the election bias nor any other arbitrary power will stop us from activism. What we are doing now is to explain the well of freedom to the world through our compassion, the home we love. So much that we are willing to sacrifice the freedom of the court now in hong kong. So he says, de