Nobody has turned in a speaker card. Seeing none, well close Public Comment. Is there a motion to approve these items a motion. Second. Item five, communications, i have none for you today. Item six. Board members, new or unfinished business. Wow, a remarkably silent group. Ill volunteer one thing. I put myself out there on that one. I first of all want to direct director tomlin and all of the staff on the excellent workshop last tuesday. It was really rich and substantive. And you came to a lot of new conclusions. And i wanted to share ive had several colleagues reach out to me to share stories of their commute. Ive had them express faster traveling times, and remark about the aspect they did not anticipate, which is how quiet it is on Market Street, and they could even hear birds churping on their walks. I just wanted to share that. Im sure all of you are hearing positive feedback as well. But i think it is a great success, and it is clearly have an immediate impact. Wonderful, thank
Against each of them. In quick summary, our Human Resources director, kimberly acreman, has been leading that effort, along with donte king, and virginia harmon. They have been busy creating some standards that did not exist, about treating all employees fairly. It includes written recruitment policies that make the process more transparent. Integrating diversity into all of our h. R. Initiatives. Providing better training opportunities to managers and supervisors, as well as frontline employees, in partnership with the department of Human Resources. Reviving the e. O. Process to make it more easily understandable, and improving communication and transparency throughout. We are also, as you saw last week in our budget exercise, we have a significant ask around creating a new division for race and equity within the department, as well as a significant ask of increasing staffing at the department of resources in order to meet all of these goals. I believi think were making god progress,
And our focus today is supporting the victims and their families. Reporter today we are hearing from county officials and learning more now from survivors of the deadly attack. The thought of were going to go, were next, and were going to die right now was so terrifying to all of us. Reporter the fbi will also update its investigation here later today after agents carried out a weekend raid at the home of syed farooks childhood friend enrique marquez. Not considered a suspect but years ago reportedly bought the assault rifles used by his wife and Tashfeen Malik in the attack. Isil does not speak for islam. Reporter sunday night from the oval Office President obama outlined his plan to combat what he calls an evolving terror threat, a plan that includes stepped up air strikes, strengthening the coalitions targeting the Terror Organization and continuing to train and arm syrian rebels. Stronger gun laws, a key he says to saving lives, as the nation continues to mourn the 14 lost in South
It will be wendy and mild for much of the day. In the late afternoon, a little bit of spotty rain, but the gusty storms and Severe Weather threat should hold off until after sunset and ramp up after 9 00. Temperatures this morning, we are talking spring but it deals more winterlike. 36 cozart to downtown. 27 currently in harrison. We have clouds rolling in. Mostly clear overnight. The wind out of the south will drive up our temperatures. This storm system across the center of the country is split into two. Blizzard conditions into iowa with heavy snow in northern wisconsin. On the southern end, it will be all about springlike thunderstorms. That is what we will see into the evening hours. It will be worse into southern we are on the northern fringes, so gusting thunderstorms are possible after 9 00. A chilly start with clouds rolling in. We will make it into the middle 60 s this afternoon. Spotty showers are possible for the evening commute, but storms get going after 9 00 p. M. Let s
Hampshire this morning. Sounding the alarm. Public Health Emergency of international concern. This zika outbreak being declared a global crisis. The pentagon set to evacuate u. S. Military families from hot zones. The number of infected growing by the day, while a vaccine is said to be years away. A storm dumping snow from kansas to michigan. Another 31 million bracing for severe storms in the south. Al is tracking both systems. Well get the longerrange forecast live from Punxsutawney Phil today on groundhogs day, tuesday, february 2nd, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a tuesday we got out of dodge in time. Sioux city, iowa. The snow came in after the caucuses ended last night. We had a wonderful time out in people there. As you can see, theyre dealing with a big snowstorm. Al is going to tell us more about that in a second. The political results didnt