Dee cellyman. Come on up. Good morning, supervisors, thank you. I want to my name is dee cellyman, i want to congratulate supervisor farrell and the committee on improving the draft. And i have one piece of text that i feel should be submitted. Changing page 12, line 3. I believe it should be changed as follows i will explain why, rec and parks guidelines for new open space and renovations shall be reviewed and adopted by the rec and Department Park commission. The reason i believe this, that the environmental and Design Guidelines are currently entirely in the hands of rec and park. There is no required review by the rec and park commission, who are in fact the ones tasked with representing the publics viewpoint. This is a very important point, design assumes policies. Let me say that one more time, and let you think about it. Any design assumes policies. What happens if recs and park calls for more grass lands in open spaces and the nonnative trees that they feel less desirable. Shou
To the plane. Back to you. Okay, thank you very much, tony. This comes months after a south bay teenager hid in a wheel well of the plane at San Jose National airport. You remember this story, Officials Say the boy jumped a fence at the airport, then hitched a ride on a flight bound to hawaii, this is all back in april. The 15 year old survived subzero temperatures during a fivehour flight. At this point, the teen is not facing any charges. A rare sighting in the bay area today. Were talking about rain. It has been raining on and off in some areas. Nbc bay area chief meteorologist jeff ranieri is measuring every droplet falling from the sky. Anything significant . It is certainly significant here for august standards. Its all sparked off by this area of low pressure, also spiraling in some humidity. Lets get right to the rainfall totals. The top rainfall total we had today was martinez coming in at a whopping, for august, again,. 11 of an inch, concord. 09, walnut creek, petaluma,. 04,
This is after he left the hawthorne lane home he had broken into, the morning of april 17th the homeowner was away for two hours when she was away she saw a window pane was broken. The homeowner returned from shopping and was met with an unknown caucasian male wearing dark clothing and an unknown baseball cap. The burglar told her to come in inside and be quiet the female was able to retreat from the front door and call 911 and seek shelter from a neighbors house. Others watched as the robber left the house pulling a blue suitcase containing jewelry, money and electronics from the house he took the septa station and rode it to the stop prior to the terminal. Police say there were not resenproblems and they hope that the bold burglar gets caught. There were car breakins but not house breakins in this area. Its a stay at home type of neighborhood. There is always someone around and i feel like have you to be really bold if you want to break in around here during the day. Reporter now the
So, who are the redhot soccer stars about to hit the field at the biggest show on earth . Were live from rio, only on gma. Cant go wrong when you start with a little ricky martin. Am i right . This is the official ball for the world cup. And, props, youre not getting it back. Lets look at the stadium where everything is going to start. We have a lot of news to get to, beginning with the growing war in iraq. Mounting threats to our homeland. The government there asking for the u. S. Military to come back. They want american against al qaeda militants, marching towards baghdad right now. Terry moran is in Northern Iraq with all of the latest. Good morning, terry. Reporter iraq right now is gripped by desperation and fear. And the iraqi government, which three years ago, told u. S. Forces to get out of this country, is now asking for american help again. They want air power, bombing of the radical islamists who are now taking town after town across iraq. Like a fierce desert wind, the jih
The words of one guardsmen who spoke to politico who first reported thousands of National Guardsmen told to vacate the capital grounds by us capitol police, you see them in these pictures, one group which had been resting in a Senate Office building telling politico they were forced to relocate to a nearby parking garage with only bathroom and two stalls for 5000 troops. Not to mention temperature is really falling. It is much colder, below the low 40s and stephen Inauguration Day. This is drawn bipartisan outrage from lawmakers, democrat senator from connecticut chris murphy tweeting this. Unacceptable. Numerous senators moving to fix this as we speak. Just got off the phone with the acting Capital Police chief who insists there is no general request for the guard to vacate the building but whatever happened we must fix the problem now. The problem has been fixed. Troops at this hour have been let back into the capital but it is unclear how this could have happened. We reached out to