Thank you all for coming today. Hello, everyone, and good morning. My name is christina coloan. Im with the director of the office. Welcome to the graduating seniors who live in Public Housing. applause its incredible to see so many people here today to honor the hard work of these graduates. This important milestone and accomplishment marks the next chapter in these young peoples lives. Todays ceremony includes representation from the elected and city family, special guests from the professional athletic community, private and Public Sector representation, and most importantly, the friends and family of the graduates who have supported these young people during their journey to this point. We thank everyone here today for showing how important these graduates are, that your participation and attendance. ~ by graduates pay close attention to the stage advice you will hear from todays speakers. All of us older adults were in your shoes at one point, and now it is our turn to help guide
Wow. So, this announcement is really for you and some of your other fellow africanamerican graduates. [speaker not understood] formerlyedth mission k4 foundation. We are based in oakland, california. We just moved there from San Francisco. I actually make the community not really. But nonetheless, in San Francisco, im glad to be here to make the announcement. June 19th were going to recognize africanamerican young men who have graduated high school and are going to college. This is an annual event that we host. We are very proud to be putting it together and recognizing young black men. So, this is a call announcement for all the Young Brothers who are graduating from the college, your friends, family to come out, support these young men. Juan, we have Something Special for you and all other young participants, a 100 gift card just for coming out, participating. applause [speaker not understood]. So, i know how much 100 can carry you when youre hungry at night, pizza, laundry, whatever
I just want to welcome carl landry here. [cheering and applauding] but i also want to say that the most important folks here, while the warriors did very well and we know next year theyre going to do even better. While our giants this year won the world series, today we are celebrating our young giants, our young warriors, the class of 2013edthv this is to you. applause ~ and all of us who are your elected officials, and im glad to be joined by many of my colleagues today, we all know the challenges that you faced. We know the challenges that our Housing Authority has face and had has overcome. We know the challenges that our School District has faced and is overcoming. We know the challenges that our Law Enforcement and our Police Officers have faced and we are all moving forward. I want to echo the mayor in saying that part of why all of us are here for you is we know that at some point in the very near future, those of us who are sitting in front of you, were going to be gone. You a
Elevator attack five months ago. And america remembers. The nation pauses to honor the thousands lost in the worst terrorist attack in this countrys history 13 years ago today, thursday, september 11th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today. With matt lauer and savannah live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today, tom is filling in while savannah is on maternity leave. Homecoming week, happy to have you here on this important day in american history, 13 years ago we sat there for hours of the 9 11 attack. We were talking about that, all my journalistic career, and life for that matter, it was a day i had no idea what was coming next. Everything i knew as a journalist, a father, as a husband, as a citizen, to get through that day. We talked through the day, dont speculate. Tell what we know, and we knew so little. They learned as we did. Even as we were just astonished by the images we saw on the monitor in front of us. Friends and colleagues weve known for a long time, hono
Ready to tear down the current stadium within the next two years to make way for her new coliseum. Absolutely insane to do so. We still owe 110 million to pay off the bonds. Reporter but the coliseum City Planners say they have big backers from dubai ready to pay 3 billion or more needed to swing the deal. A number of Major Projects are in fact being financed by money from outside the country. Reporter in this case it would be the middle east . Yes. We have plenty of options and the city that we worked really hard that the fans want those teams to stay. Reporter but the question is can they do it even with this lease . Its obvious if you are playing baseball in there, you cant tear it down. And thats something that has to be worked out. Phil, what seems to be behind the mayors change of heart here . Reporter a couple of things. One, its an Election Year and she is finishing some facing stiff opposition and this whole delay tactic didnt play well with the public. It didnt go over well w