Today my destination is like the former east german city where the peaceful revolution began in the autumn of 1990. 8 all started here on august the scots with a socalled monday demonstration. This sculpture the democracy belt is a reminder of those events. Chance of thousands took to the streets the fall of the berlin wall followed and communist east germany was history. The city of lights took its future into its own hands extensive renovation work building projects and large investments followed. 30 years after the peaceful revolution lights it has become a pretty exciting city everything seems possible here so its just the right time for a trip into the cities past and present. We visit one of the creative hotspots of like. We take a walk through a possibility with your at least. And we sure wave your video with holiday greetings from japan. St Nicholas Church is the symbol of the peaceful revolution of 1989. A church that has always been closer to the people but to those who were
Supervisor president london breed supervisor campos supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim not present supervisor mar supervisor peskin supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee madam president we have quorum. Thank you 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. Ms. Short madam clerk any communication. I have none to report colleagues, any changes to the september 6th Board Meeting minutes sienna. Madam president thats the minutes of the september 15th and august 8th and thats july 15th. And 2016 and august 8, 2016, is there a motion seconded by supervisor peskin colleagues without objection, without objection those Meeting Minutes will pass after Public Comment. All right. Madam clerk can you please call the next item. You. The policy decide between mayor ed lee and the board of supervisors the mayor any provide comments up to 5
Of the most powerful storms our region has seen in quite sometime. Were on stormwatch as we get ready for the bay area to get pounded by heavy rains and strong wind. Im tori campbell. We have Team Coverage on the preparations already underway. But we begin with mark. By this time tomorrow, well have some intense downpours, very intense downpours pushing in across the north bay, approaching the central portion of the bay. Thats for tomorrow. Right now the storm is inching closer to the bay area. Theres that very welldefined cold front, the heavy rain up towards humboldt county, up towards mendocino and eureka. A few scattered showers approaching the north bay. Later on today especially at 5 00 or 6 00, the rain chances go up in the north bay but the real significant rain moves in overnight. A lot of advisories. A surf advisory kicks in. Waves could top 20 feet. Wind advisories will be a key component. Could gust to 60 miles an hour. You could get on Power Outages and a Flash Flood Watch
Issued or the fbi issued a report of an anarchist threat because on top of the building there was some graffiti near, i guess, where some of the delegates were and a brick. And so taken alone and even though there were very few protesters there, they issued a report, the media carried it, and it continues to perpetuate negative stereotypes about individuals who are merely, in cases, exercising their First Amendment rights but are being deemed because they question the status quo and corporate or government policies, theyre now called anarchists. But the labeling is very real because, as you know, that can be used to stigmatize, alienate groups and even in the case of Animal Rights activists create federal legislation. The animal enterprise terrorism act that in many cases punishes what we traditionally called civil disobedience and other forms of protests such as leafletting or chalking a sidewalk. They imbue those with sort of evil connotations and higher fines and higher penalties. S
A controversy in this country. You not say that the diversion of that resource to china, japan, korea, etc. , wouldnt that solve the problem of keeping the russians and the chinese from getting together too much . The short answer there is no. Deal isese russian oil further along, because oil is not priced globally. You can fix the price for oil. In fact the russians just tripled their perspective supplies. Those are large volumes, it will be about one Million Barrels per day going into china. The Keystone Pipeline has gone into a lot of environmental opposition. It has had plenty of opposition going towards British Columbia as well. This idea that the alberta tar sands can automatically go to china does not work quite that way. His oil. Oil is a fungible market. China can buy oil, that is not a problem. Host we appreciate you joining us to talk about your story today. That will do it for todays washington journal. We are taking you live now to the American Enterprise institute for a t