Welcome to the meeting of the Transportation Authority board. Im Rafael Mandelman and serve as chair. Vice chair is aaron peskin and clerk is i liegea saunders. We have sfgovtv to thank and mr. Seaneder call the roll. Commissioner chan. Commissioner dorsey. Present. Chair mandelman. Why present. Commissioner mar. Present. Commissioner melgar. Present. Commissioner peskin. Present commissioner preston. Present. Why commissioner ronen. Absent commissioner safai. Absent. Commissioner stefani. Present. Commissioner walton. Present. Chair we have i quorum. Thank you. I think you have a Public Comment announcement. For the members interested in paymented in the meeting we welcome your attention in person in the chamber room 215 stele hull or watch channel 26 or 99 or stream live at sfgov. Org. For those wish to comment remote low dial 4156550001 then access code 2486 332 3637 you will listen in real time when Public Comment is called press star 3 to be added to the queue. Dont press star 3 a
Resource, our forests. But Carbon Pollution is not just an attack on our forests, its also an attack on our farming. Indeed, drought across the u. S. Is a huge and growing throat t to ago cull. In the state of organizer, we e had three of the worst droughts in the klamath basin. 2001, then the worstever drought of 2010, and then the worstever drought of 2013, and now were looking at the possibly of the worse of any drought in 2014. Hopefully well have a lot of precipitation and a lot of snow in the coming weeks and that wont be the case. But if you were looking right now just at the snowpack, it is possibly well have the fourth worstever in a 14year period. This is devastating to our rural farming economy. Absolutely devastating. And so lets take a look at the impact of coming from smaller snowpacks. Snowpacks are a significant piece of this puzzle. And if we were to take and look at the Pacific Northwest and we were to basically draw a circle about like this, what you see are these zo
Controversy at the university of virginia. And on this thanksgiving eve, your siberian traffic and weather together. All in starts right now. Good evening from back here in new york city. Im chris hayes. President obama has a message for protesters in ferguson, missouri, as an announcement of the grand jury im sorry, this is not correct. Hold on one second. Let me get that fixed. We are here tonight as in the wake of protests that have rocked the entire country. In 37 states weve seen protests. Were right now looking at a live shot of ferguson, missouri, which seems to be very, very quiet and very, very calm at this hour. Last night police had closed off some of the main stretches that had been the site of most of the protests. And tonight you see live shot of National Guard who are patrolling. The reports we have from ferguson is its a very quiet night. It was not a quiet night last night in citiesy ies across the country. Marches and protests in places like new york city and los ange