Good afternoon. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors. Role call, please. role call mr. President , all mr. President , all members are present. Well say the pledge of allegiance. Would you like to join me . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, everybody. On pa behalf of the board i woud like to acknowledge the staff at sfg tv and making it available to the public. Colleagues, i want to do a Little Something different before we get on with the show. I would like to have you join me in starting our meeting today with a moment of silence. Sorry. For george floyd and his family, friends and community. George floyds tragic death at the hands of four Police Officers in minneapolis last week. This is a reflection of the systematic oppression, racism and injustice that the black community ha has endured. Our city mourns minneapolis and
Mr. President , all members are present. Well say the pledge of allegiance. Would you like to join me . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, everybody. On pa behalf of the board i woud like to acknowledge the staff at sfg tv and making it available to the public. Colleagues, i want to do a Little Something different before we get on with the show. I would like to have you join me in starting our meeting today with a moment of silence. Sorry. For george floyd and his family, friends and community. George floyds tragic death at the hands of four Police Officers in minneapolis last week. This is a reflection of the systematic oppression, racism and injustice that the black community ha has endured. Our city mourns minneapolis and the people across the country. The officers responsible for George Floyds death must be held accountable and that i
Continue. At least for me, ive heard the arguments that people have presented, and i think this is valid on both sides of this, and i personally, not knowing whats going to happen in the next two days, i personally would vote on the side of supporting it. But if, in the next two days, we find that the situation has calmed itself radically, i would say theres no need for the emergency. So thats how im looking at it. Supervisor haney, were you going to Say Something . I wasnt sure. Supervisor haney no, that was the point. President yee oh, okay. Supervisor haney i think that we need a unanimous vote ahead of it, to accept it or reject it. Otherwise, it stays in place until saturday. President yee right. So i made a motion. Its seconded, and we can vote on this. Clerk mr. President , we would take Public Comment first. Supervisor walton president yee, i had questions. I hate to ask twice ahead of your motion. I had a clarifying question. I dont want to vote no on your motion without a lit
Major averages are moving higher we have a panel of experts coming up here shortly. Dont forget about earnings we have a bunch coming our way after the bell, including disney well have an exclusive interview with ceo bob iger. Looking forward to that. First, though, theres also some news out of washington at this hour lets get down to aeamon javers with remarks from the president. Reporter it came about the dangers of the ms13 gang. The president talking about immigration saying he ultimately might want to shut the government down if he cant get a deal on immigration this week. Heres what he said. Id love to see a shutdown if we dont get this stuff taken care of. If we have to shut is it down because the democrats dont want safety and unrelated but still related, they dont want to take care of our military, then shut it down. Well go with another shutdown reporter the president there seeming to embrace the idea of another Government Shutdown on february 8th, later on this week thats th
This is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. This was an act of terror. People are killed in new york after a truck plows into the best friends and cyclists. Minister returns home from belgium the chance of try to protesters plus the fight against hepatitis doctors gather to eliminate the disease which kills one point three Million People every year. Papua new guineas immigration minister tells al jazeera the countrys police have no plans to clear out a formal straining and run prison camp six hundred refugees have barricaded themselves inside and all refusing to leave a man asylum site was decommissioned on tuesday straight ian stafford left the facility despite a last minute called have location to block it closure. Well Andrew Thomas is following this story from sydney for us and andrew we know they removed electricity generators this morning where does that leave not only conditions but their ability to communicate those conditions to the outside world. Well thats right becaus