You have a quorum. Please join us for the pledge of allegiance. 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. President breen thank you, madam clerk, any communications. Clerk none to report. President breen colleagues, a motion to approve the minutes of november 14th and november 28, 2017, moved by supervisor kim, seconded by supervisor farrell. Can we take that without objection, approved after Public Comment. All right, madam clerk, call the first item. Clerk special order 2 00 p. M. , is the appearance by the acting mayor, london breed. No questions submitted by the supervisors of the odd district, the mayor may address the board up to five minutes. All right. Happy new year, everyone. Good afternoon. I would like to welcome acting mayor breed to the chamber, now time for question time. Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. I appreciate the opportunity to
Iraqi forces. A bridge was blown up near the town of prayers the size exchanged mortar and rocket fire the kurds took up positions on the road between bell and kirkuk on thursday three days after they pulled out of the city Stephanie Decker has more from the erbil kirkuk highway. We have seen smoke in the distance and just looking at the road really tells you a story immense military reinforcements being sent by the peshmerga Counterterrorism Forces also a lot of trucks with ammunition a new checkpoint has been set up further behind us where there wasnt one before further towards appeal so of course they are defending their positions their concern of course is that the iraqi forces pushed further up along this road towards the city of now just to explain just rough job graphy there is still the main checkpoint into and just a couple of kilometers down the road from Office Around a kilometer from that is where the fighting is going on theres also been ambulance a lot of ambulance activi
Right now. The owner, well known and wellliked in this neighborhood would normally be working, but last night a robber ended his life. The 911 call came in at so 52 from jims liquor mart on south white and quimby roads in san jose, a man shot and killed inside. My son woke me up at midnight and said my brother been shot. Reporter ly arrived at the scene with several other family members. This is 57 hugh ly, better known as charlie ly, a husband and foreof four sons, a long time san jose resident and today hes also san joses most recent homicide victim. Charlie and his wife were working the store together last night and his brother talked with us about what happened. My brother felt tired and laid on the floor inside the counter, and his wife stand there and the guy come over, put the mask on and asked for her to open the cash. Reporter charlie has owned jims liquor mart and has been known for long hours. Hes been robbed before. Last night the armed masked man pulled the trigger. He sta
[meeting adjourned] im about to introduce the folks who can really dance. Ladies and gentlemen, San Francisco Afterschool Program presentsyou guys ready . Are you ready . Body booths. [applause] [music][applause] [music] [applause] ladies and gentlemen are the deeds. [applause] if anybody for those of usi know you are out there who are with them challengedif theres anybody that can infuse us with rhythm it is body beads. Thank you, you guys. You are awesome. [applause] good morning. As we set out this ribbon were going to cut my name is Phil Ginsburg five the great honor of serving as the general manager of your event recreation and park department. I only got one word for you. Thats not true but im going to start with one word and it is wow. Wow. Look at this place could look at this place. Come on. Look at this place. [applause] i just i am overcome with joy and excitement and enthusiasm importance and meaning because his place is off the whole. This is one of the best parks in San F
Our countrys markets. [inaudible] industries us real estate market, the california real estate market, is one of the hottest fields by chinese invested lots of jobs. Lots of Job Opportunities are also created because of the investments. In 2015 chinese buyers surpassed canadian buyers as the biggest buyers of us homes. The report of the Chinese Investment in us real estate published by asia society and the Rosen Consulting Group just last may showed that over us 110 billion were invested by chinese into the us real estate between 2010 and 2015. More than one third went into california. A lot of it went into San Francisco so mayor sleight again, congratulations. [applause] it is wellknown that San Francisco is a city of [inaudible] hotspot of investment in a new center of renovation. Its name in chinese means [foreign language] old gold mountain. Which is derived from the gold rush and with good hope of fortune creation. Today we are here to witness groundbreaking of the ocean wide cent