The sugary industry doesnt think this will be effective if this would not be effective why would the california nursed association and our local society and the hospital of Northern California and the dental society and the dental hi gifts and over and over those are the people responsible for the health of our community and their outline enthusiastically supporting this. This is a growing coalition in thirty in community and San Francisco has been at the cuttingedge to improving the health of our city and colleagues, i look forward to the continuing discussion around this important topic today. Thank you supervisor wiener. Supervisor cowen thank you very much. Good afternoon, everyone thank you for joining us in the Peoples Chamber in city hall this is the beginning of a very thoughtful yearlong conversation thats absolutely critical we need to have. This is not only critical for the health and vitality of the city and county of San Francisco but specifically those who are living in t
Members might attend this meeting 32 thank you chair we have a number of speakers and Public Comment we have a very thick list of cards and if theres anyone else who wants to speak after the rep from the beverage departments ill read everyones names we have christen from the Public Health department and the director of food systems from the department of Public Health paula jones and we have dr. Len in a in the Unified School District food and fitness committee. And we have bob one of our superintendents in our rec and Park Department so let me introduce christen and also paula jones im not sure if shes here good afternoon supervisors. I believe my presentation is loaded here it might not be so my name is christen im the Senior Health planner in the department of Public Health. And im here today to talk to you about the impacts of sugary drinks. Excuse me. While i get this up sorry about that. Here it is. So were waiting for the imagination there it is. So weve been working on the issu
That tobacco was causing problems we didnt sit back and said oh, welling well, we cant do anything this country took aggressive steps by using tobacco tax and tobacco tax money to fund the education and as a result over time fewer and fewer people are smoking and were healthier as a result we know this type of public intervention works and we need to do it here. This tax is very straightforward two pennies per ounce. We have a very, very wellthoughtout systems in terms of the district paying the tax i think the Beverage Companies are making people feel guilty about the tax but the distributor is remarkable for the tax i want to thank the City Attorney and other for this wellthoughtout proposal. I want to say, you know, well be the first in the country to pass this kind of tax. No where in the u. S. Has the tax been designed to reduce the sugary beverages the Company Comes in and has unlimited resources and spends and spends and pendz its not passed anywhere else we wont be the first, b
Use. Montgomery couy executive, isaiah legget. Any place we can make certain we have appropriate care, make certain the community is really in a good position and feeling safe about having someone in a hospital nih is that location. R we asked people in bethesda what they think having an ebola patient treated here. Its pretty crazy. To be honest, everybody is talking about it. Im kind of freaking out. Never thought it hit so close to home. Im not really scared unless someone that ebola is five feet away from me and coughing and im not in a protective suit or whatever, then im scared. But if theyre just in the same building and im somewhere else, i dont really care. Reporter local leaders feel confident the community is safe. I understand that folks are still a little nervous about this. Let me just tell you, one of the best places you could have a patient like this would be at nih, the place that continues to work with this virus for many years before an outbreak and knows the proper h
Report, fair, balanced and unafraid. Greta goes on the record right now. Tomorrow the israeli ambassador to the u. S. Right here on special report. This is a fox news alert. Multiple capitol hill sources confirming that the vote tomorrow to allow john boehner to sue president obama. Republicans accusing president obama of abusing his executive power with unilateral decision to delay the obamacare employer mandate. While the planned lawsuit is limited to the president s action on obama care. Republican is outraged about the threats using pen and phone to bypass congress to take action on his own. Only hours away from the vote. House republicans getting ready to take action. Karl rove joins us. Good evening, karl. Good evening. Karl, is this something you would advise the House Republicans to vote for . Yes this is not the end all be all. Constitutional way to try to get clarity on what many feel is improper use of executive power. President obama has unilaterally decided not to impose t