I want to make sure that we have the opportunity to recognize them this morning. Yes. Ms. Bordallo would you kindly stand up, please . Chairman wittman i knew it. [laughter] chairman wittman i knew it, i knew it. Fantastic. She always does, she only does. Good morning. I want to think all of you for being here for the readiness hearing on the 2017 budget requests and readiness posture. This is the first of four hearings, and in december and january the services testified on increase readiness risks. Heg how the air force budget request enables a readiness Recovery Plan and where we continue to take risk. Welcome all of our experts. This morning we have with this general david goldfein, within a general john raymond, then a general Lieutenant General john cooper. Thank you all for testifying today. We look forward to your thoughts and insights on these important issues. The purpose of this hearing for the committee to receive clarification on air force choices for its budget request. Fu
People dead in tunisia on tuesday. And pope francis arrives in kenya as his first visit to africa as head of the catholic church. Well have all your sport, including all a look ahead at the Champions League. Turkey gave us no warning. The words of the navigator of a russian jet shot down by turkey on monday. He was talking to media near the Russian Air Base in latakia. The navigator said it was impossible that he and his pilot, who is thought to be killed were inside turkish air space when they were fired upon. That contradicts the turkish governments position. It said that the jet was given at least ten warnings before being shot down and turkey has released audio recordings it says are of the incident in which a voice can be heard saying change your heading. Russias governments position Sergei Lavrov said that the incident was a planned provocation by turkey. We have more from rory challands. Murderers, they chanted. Many russians are angry with turkey, and protests have occurred in
Proxy forces, misdirection plays, propaganda, a different way of exerting power . Sec. Carter exactly right. And we need to counter that, too. And we need to fortify our european allies to counter that. So weve got a lot to do, and thats just another way of saying that we need to continue to be innovative. We innovated a lot when it was came for iraq and afghanistan. They were new kinds of one of the things im really proud of in our Defense Department is a long history of innovation. It goes back you know, i started my career in science and technology. As you said, we were doing stealth at that time. We were doing a whole lot of stuff in space. Missile defenses, all those were new capabilities. And those of you who are in High Technology industry know im trying to reach out to our industry, building those bridges. Mr. Seib i wanted to ask you about that, as a final thought before we take questions. But but you have spent a lot of time in silicon valley, which is not a normal place for
That in the 19 century, to conclude, my point, just to come back around to what i was saying in the beginning in the 19th century San Francisco had a very kos poll tan approach and after the earthquake they become dumbed down to be explained to tourist magazines and that is how we end up with a few dishes representing all of San Francisco and so in the 60s, as the city gets beyond that simple story and starts to find new ways of selling the city with california cuisine and the mission, and the fillmore district and many other parts of the city get brought out for that i cuisine instead of just . Oo stoo id like to thank sfgovtv members jim smith and john and maam today clerk, do we have any announcements. Please be sure to silence all cell phones and electronic announcements. Speakers cards and documents to be included as part of the file should be given to the clerk. Items presented today will appear on the november 18th. Item 1 is the hearing to receive an update from the City Servic
. Oo stoo id like to thank sfgovtv members jim smith and john and maam today clerk, do we have any announcements. Please be sure to silence all cell phones and electronic announcements. Speakers cards and documents to be included as part of the file should be given to the clerk. Items presented today will appear on the november 18th. Item 1 is the hearing to receive an update from the City Services auditor on the status of audit recommendations. So we have the city controllers ofrs presenting on this item. Good morning, chair breed and supervisors tang, my name is tanya let us shoe and im with the city Controllers Office. Today with me is cat scogg ribs from the office and im here to highlight our recommendations from the last two quarters that we have issued. I also have today with me representatives from the buyer department, from the Police Department and from the department of Human Resources. And the reason for that is you had several questions regarding some outstanding recommend