Trembling earth and were so excited to have her with us today. So before i turn it over to her just a quick note we have sent out an email to everyone this morning that had just a great list of resources like a bibliography that megan had put together so you all should have received that by now. If not that link is posted in the chat. So that please join me in welcoming megan kate nelson. Hi everyone. Thank you so much. Thank you nicole for that lovely introduction and to the Smithsonian Associates for the invitation to be with you tonight. I would also like to thank harmony and ellen and steve and anna and liz for running this show and to helping me get all the the tech straight. I cannot think of a better place for me to talk about saving yellowstone then at the smithsonian as you will learn tonight, the institution played a really Important Role in both the exploration and the preservation of this Iconic National landscape. So, thank you all for being with me tonight as nicole noted
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Information. So names, affiliations, titles, could be council on foreign relations. When you query the data to see if anything comes up. You can actually query this database which the fbi has comingled with traditional fisa and there no record kept of this. Under to the right of the people, which is understood as the political entity of u. S. Citizens, not nonu. S. Citizens. So the right of the people to be cure, their persons, papers and effects, against unreasonable search and seizure shall not be violated. Right . We have this right, yet person identifiers are being used to query this database. Now the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court offered reasons saying why there was not a warrant required for the collection of the information in the first place. They were good reasons. That when the purpose of the surveillance is not garden variety law enforcement. When the oj÷igovernments inter is particularly intense. And where there is a high degree of probability that if you were to
Economic Development Committee im scott wiener the chairman of the committee to my left is Supervisor Malia Cohen and our vice chair is supervisor kim will be joining us momentary. Our clerk is andrea and i want to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting todays hearing. Madam clerk, any announcements . Yes please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, implemented copies the documents should be submitted 90 to the clerk and it will be on the august agenda. Thank you. I want to not something before we start that also meeting today starting at 2 oclock and cohen and i each have a items and if land use if this Committee Hearing is still going when those items supervisor cohens item gets called we will take a brief recess and resume when theyre done i dont think either item will take long. Madam clerk call number one its a resolution of the president to permit the issuance the qualified Revenue Bonds for the presidio avenue. Okay. And supervisor breed is the author of this item and unders
His testimony to congress on the economy. They are seeking clues as to when the fed will taper its bondbuying program thats been stimulating the economy. Stocks sink ahead of the fed testimony. The dow lost 32 points, the nasdaq 8, and the s p dropped 7. Gold edged up 8 and oil slid 35 cents. Yahoo is sending out a mixed message. The tech Company Earned a nickel more than anticipated, but the revenue and the outlook came in shy. Csx chugs along profits were up 4 as freight volumes rise. Larry shover of sfg alternatives gets the ball rolling for us this morning. Larry, what is the market telling us about that testimony on capitol hill by fed chair ben bernanke . Its funny you mention that. I think the next two days were just going to be on hold. People are so worried about the disconnect between gdp thats being revised downward and the jobs report, so people just dont know what to do with this. Perhaps some people thinking that tapering will happen in september, some thinking in decembe