At 63 about say born on january 8th of 2012 as a 343 mayor of the San Francisco Ethics Commission mayor ed lee is a first asianamerican mayor in San Francisco please welcome mayor ed lee. clapping . Thank you alyssa for a timely introduction welcome to San Francisco city hall and want to thank you you alyssa and with our work with the city and all the families i want to say over and over again, the theme of our family unification has been a strong principle of this city and certainly when it comes to our failed immigration policies in the country we have maintained this very strong principle for those that have by future or other circumstances come into our borders i want to say thank you to the entire San Francisco immigrant Legal Defense collaborative a number of members are here today Government Agencies that have also an part of collaborative two years ago we started this conversation with the country was talking about closing hits e its borders and harshness when it comes to re9th
Reflection as parisians mourn the victims. Around the world is an outpouring of solidarity and support for people of the french capitol. Hundreds of people have gathered at the plaza in paris for a candlelight vigil to honor the victims of fridays attacks. We know 129 people were killed and 3352 others injured in the violence. Lets cross to our correspondent, david chader who is in the french capitol. Whats happening where you are, david . Well, we are in the plaz plaza de republic. Close to the attacks we saw on friday the 13th. Around 200 people have gathered around the statue behind me to lay candles and stand in vigil to those who lost their lives and nearly 100 fighting for their lives tes moment and for the 352 families who had members injured in this series of atrocities on friday the 13th. Please have not been encouraging such gathers because they dont know whether there are any more acomplaces here in paris at the moment. Nevertheless, they have tolerated a small number of peo
Message for family with the same name we have not heard back but tonight the fire chief union and mayor are all denouncing the crime and saying the not reflective of the beliefs of the department or of the town. Disappointed in that tone it doesnt speak for the values of weymouth certainly doesnt speak for the commitment and the values of members of the weymouth Fire Department. Many of you probably know that weymouth is really been severely impacted by the whole opiate epidemic that we see here throughout the state in the country. X weymouth fire chief tells me that he has been an employee of the Fire Department since 2004 says is been a good employee in fact in both the fire chief and union call this behavior quote uncharacteristic of him. The chief says he offered no real explanation just that he was incredibly sorry. Still working to turn around for you some more sound from this press conference and coming up in just the next hour about the fire chief thoughts and all of this and s
Average daily volume of 150 million individual transactions. Yes. We compared that to amazon. And amazon has only 27 million transactions. That was the case back on cyber monday in 2012. Now, we understand that much of this i. T. Is at its core cobalt based. The computer language developed in 1959 essentially before color television. And many of the i. T. Managers acknowledged that a cobalt based system works, but they also have indicated that its less efficient, and agile, than more modern computer languages. So what can the agency do to update the technology that it has to have to manage this eyepopping amount of data that youre dealing with every day . Well, i think one of the underlying challenges you just mentioned, theres a tremendous volume of data that we process. We recognize that we have to move away from cobalt to some extent, but not fully, because in some instances its the best language. There is a transition to modernize our systems. One of the challenges will be how quic
So i support your nomination, and i think youve addressed the concerns of the senators here, and im doing it because i think you have the experience. You really had several stints at the agency, so youve seen the changes over time. And i think youll work with us particularly in an area im very interested, make sure were using modern technology. Because i think with 21st century challenges. And then we got things that were in place before, color tv, sort of 20th century technologies, thats why we have to play some catchup. We have to Work Together and we have to move quickly, and we have to do it given the challenge with constrained resources, and i feel youre going to work closely with us, and i intend to support your nomination. With that, with the finance committee, were adjourned. Let me know the committee record will be open for questions until 5 00 p. M. Monday august 4th, and now we are officially adjourned. This weekend on cspan, the Kentucky Senate race, Mitch Mcconnell is seek