[inaudible conversations] good morning everyone. The committee will come to orde order. We are here this morning to review ongoing Recovery Efforts in puerto rico and the Virgin Islands in weeks of Hurricane Irma. We are now over two months removed from when Hurricane Irma devastated st. Thomas and st. John on september 6. Its been nearly 60 days since Hurricane Maria hit st. Croix and puerto rico. This is a little over a week ago that senators cassidys, franken and i, along with senator carper who was just here and senator harris as well as some of our house colleagues visited both st. Thomas and puerto rico. I want to thank both governors, the governor or cello for your hospitality, the time that you gave us during that visit was incredibly important for all of us to see to be on the ground and to be hearing directly from you. I know that some other members of our committee have traveled to puerto rico previously and i thank them for that as well. What i think we observed is that the
And live from studio fourteen head aljazeera headquarters and jane come to the news good ratcheting up the war in yemen. To find a Cruise Missile towards the United Arab Emirates the target they say a Nuclear Power plant while the iraqis are denying the tack even happened the fighting between former allies inside yemen continues for as the day is this a new front in an already devastating war of those developments with our guest also the news good their escape. Only to be trafficked in bangladesh some girls as young as thirteen are being kidnapped and sold a sex slaves now they are an estimated one billion People Living with disabilities around the world and as you can imagine they face many challenges well today its all about empowering them and making their lives have a report from beirut just remove physical and cultural barriers thats the message from the u. N. Chief to tie. The challenges that disabled people face every single day i mean look at some of the people and programs tha
On hold. The judges said the government did not present any evidence that proved anyone from the affected countries had committed a terrorist attack in the United States. This ruling showed the courts believed the hold on the president s ban would not cause, quote, irreparable injury. What they do believe causing harm is the executive order. On page 28 they writ the travel restriction was harming University Employees and students, separated families, and stranded people abroad. Now, President Trump responded to this ruling through twitter just in the last halfhour writing in all capital letters, see you in court. The security of our nation is at stake a leading democrat, chuck schumer, tweeted this. President trump ought to see the writing on the wall, roll up his sleeves and come up with a plan to keep us safe. However, the ban was set to expire in just 90 days and would likely run its course before that happens. The white house could change the order including altering its scope and
Pick up as the day wears on. Right now, its fairly tranquil. 38 in allentown, philadelphia, checking in at 45. Take a look at cape may, not too bad, 48 degrees. Atlantic city at the airport 47. Now, satellite 6 along with action radar are noticing a couple of areas of moisture, if youre heading up to the poconos, there could be wet weather maybe rainy mixed with snow and especially farther to the north, upstate new york and new england there could be rain and snow showers, this coastal low will stay out to sea. Well see a lot of clouds between the two systems but well stay precipitationfree this afternoon. So heres the forecast for today. Were going to call it partly sunny, breezy, and temperatures climbing out of the 40s, slowly and eventually into the 50s. 3 00, 52. By 5 00 back down to 49, forecast in the high of 53. Tomorrow looking good as well. Pattern unsettled next week. With rain and ill have the details when i come back in about ten minutes. Now back to that breaking news, fi
Poundin pound [pounding of the grasm] all right, good morning and welcome to the rules Committee Meeting of april 14th, twf im katy tang of this committee. To my left is malia cohen. Well be joined shortly by supervisor eric mar. Per his request. I with aant to announce first you have that oo hed like us to start with item 3. With that, mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk please silent all cell phones and electronic devices. Any documents part of the file should be commit smipted to clerk. Clerk. Thank you and id like to thank sfgovtv and our clerk derek evans. With that if we could call item three first. Item testimony 3 is a hearing to point wum member to the Shelter Monitoring Committee. There is one seat and one applicant. Is katrina hall here . Would you like to come up and make a quick presentation . Im katrina hall. My qualifications is im a formerly homeless parent with a homeless child under 18. I had been in a homeless shelter two years ago. If elected to the com