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Your new initiatives. We have several new initiatives. The most important is employment first. Many initiatives across Government Agencies we like to think were talking the lead on to really make sure that people with disabilities under the mayors administration really have that pathway to the middle class, like anybody else in the city. So employment first is a big effort to make sure people with disabilities are included in the Workforce Development system. Take us back to 1991 when the facility was closed because of conditions there and because of the programs the lack of programs. There. Tell us what happened. The city was sued in the 1970s, actually on the conditions of the institution for people with intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. That lawsuit finally concluded with an order to close that institution. The condition in that institution, like many all over the country, was really inadequate. The services were poor the conditions people lived in were poor. It really wa
Blame for failing to stop isil as the Group Threatens to expand its reach. This is Aljazeera America. Good morning live from new york city im randall pinkston. The waters are start to go recede in tax but the aftermath of the deadly flooding in decades is just beginning to sink in. There are 17 people confirmed dead in texas and oklahoma and 11 still missing including eight from two families whose Vacation Home was swept away in a raging river. We have the latest. A mess does not begin to describe what Mother Nature left behind muddy water as far as the eye can see in texas, 400 homes badly damaged some knocked off their foundations. In houston, 2500 abandoned cars and trucking litter the roads. It was bare and our cars floating. We helped them get their cars out and when i looked over, i said our cars are fleeting. It was wild. For some, the loss was bigger. Michaels father died trying to help a driver whos car was filling with water. My dad was a hero, he was helping himself get out
Board of supervisors to share in what are the technologies and what theyre doing in San Francisco and what the latest discoveries are that we can possibly use to help improve our city. Finally, as someone you know, i celebrated my 60th birthday last week. [applause] and my staff gave me an ipad, and is looking at it i might have to go and join your classes to be able to appreciate all the applications that we have there. So do not be surprised if the guy next to you has a mustache. When i leave here this morning, i will be going to rosa parks Senior Center. We just spent 2 million of federal monies to redo that whole Senior Center and allow that to be one of the sites that will post the Technology Advances you are experimenting with today. Our own residents at every location of our Senior Centers are going to enjoy the Technology Advances that we have as a society. This is why we work in a great city like San Francisco. We want everybody connected. We want to make sure the San Francisc