Meeting. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll . Thank you mr. President. Chan, present. Dorsey, present. Engardio, present. Mandelman, present. Melgar, present. Peskin, present. Preston, present. Ronan, present. Safai, present. Stefani, present. Walton, present. Mr. President , all members are present. Thank you madam clerk. The San Francisco board of supervisors we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming th
the gunmen took off. jonathan siri is alive in the lancet with the very latest. hi arthel hampton is in henry county a spokesperson for the county confirmed to associated press that four people have died in what authorities are describing as an active shooter incident. authorities say the shooting began around 10:45 a.m. this morning and dogwood lakes which is a subdivision in hampton again hampton a small city of about 8000 people located about 30 miles to the south of atlanta. as late as mid afternoon police were saying the suspect was still at large were urging the general public to avoid the area. we do expect police to release more details once the news conference gets underway. originally scheduled for 3:00 p.m. eastern this afternoon parade then pushed back to 4:00 p.m. and as you can see we are still awaiting authorities to arrive at the podium. but we expected to begin at any moment spirit in the meantime please have yet to say what led up to the shooting. however
Sheffield. Indian Authorities Say a signal problem was likely responsible for the countrys worst train crash in decades. 275 people were killed in the accident and another 1200 were injured when a passenger train hit a stationary Freight Train before derailing and striking a second passenger train. Prime minister Narendra Modi has vowed to punish anyone found responsible for the immigration minister has told gb news its wrong for migrants to demand better Hotel Accommodation while waiting for their asylum claims to be processed east. Its after a protest was sparked in london by migrants being asked to sleep four to a room. Speaking to camilla tominey, Robert Jenrick said the government will never put their interests above the british public. He also said sharing hotel rooms is necessary to get value for taxpayers money. Members whether these are migrants who have said they are destitute, theyve said that they have absolutely nowhere to stay, no friends, no family, no money, and the tax
Phonte elijah holly is an Award Winning journalist and author of an american the shakers and nation. They created. His writing has appeared in the atlantic, the guardian, new republic, the washington post, l. A. Times and elsewhere. He lives in los angeles. Please join here and giving him a huge round of applause while he comes out and and then talks about his book. Thanks, ali. Thanks for coming out of retirement for this event. And thank you things are coming out of retirement thank you for being here and having me i moved here a year ago which is the first chapter and the part that i wrote for this book the scene that sets the stage for the rest of the book. Im going to read a short excerpt from that and that im going to talk about the book itself, the themes behindoo the book and how i came to write and why i wanted to write it. Then i will read another short excerpt, i promise theyre very short. And then we will have audience q a the name of the book is American Family and the nat
Operations to Small Business loans. This is a problem with maga extremism. Its not serious about governing chaos is the only word in their playbook. Conflict seems to be the natural state of being and some of them seem to exalt in shutting down the government. And if maga republicans get their way, the danger for this country will be great. Extremism will be dominant. The ultra rich will be empowered. Working families here on cspan2 we are going to break away now for live coverage of the u. S. Senate. Deg to shut down the federal government. The fringe element of extremist House Republicans has pushed congress to the brink of another costly, wasteful shutdown. The Government Shutdown of any duration would harm hardworking americans and our economy. Shutdowns cost taxpayers billions of dollars per week. They cause businesses money. They could even cause a downgrade to the nations credit rating. And they force an unnecessary disruption of many vital services. Federal workers in all 50 st