Really happy to have you all here the other great thing about to brag about in San Francisco we have a great mayor, i is that in part as a resident i live here my family is here i work here but also in particularly as the transportation director we have a mayor that understands the infrastructure understands transportation and design understands how these things are important to the quality of life we have here in the city and to the economy of the city he understands us number one in part because of is the public works sdooshg which is a great pedigree my own bias i was one, too i was the city administrator amongst among the architect of the capital plan that is institutionalized in the city a process we combifrpt and investing in the city critical assets thats a Successful Program and it was really does mayors sense then city administers of the importance of the infrastructure the bones of the city and the design of the city that has gotten the plan in place and successful as its bee
A way of life in San Francisco. When the next major quake hits, the city hopes a new law requiring seismic upgrades to five story buildings will help keep more residents safe and sound. Tell me a little about the soft Story Program. What is it . Its a program the mayor signed into law about a year and a half ago and the whole idea behind it was to help homeowners strengthen buildings so that they would not collapse. Did you the soft Story Program apply to all buildings or building that were built in a certain time frame . It only applies to buildings built in the time frame of 1978 and earlier. Its aimed at wood framed buildings that are three or more stories and five or more units. But the openings at the garage level and the street level arent supported in many buildings. And without the support during a major earthquake, they are expected to pancake and flatten ~. Many of the buildings in this program are under rent control so its to everybodys advantage to do the work and make sure
Submitted to the clerk sxit ems acted upon will be on the november 4th, board of supervisors agenda, always otherwise state. Could you call item one . Item one is,resolution retroactively authorizing the Public Defenders Office to accept and expend a grant in the amount of 75,889 from the board of state and Community Corrections for the purposes of implementing local juvenile justice Accountability Measures through the juvenile accountability block grant, for the term of july 1, 2014, through june 30, 2015. Thank you, we have the Public Defenders Office to speak. Thank you for having us on the agenda and especially thank you. Would you speak. Number one. I am patricia lee, managing attorney of the office and, juvenile unit and i have been working on this grant for over a decade and this may be the very last fund that the fcc will extend to us and so we are fortunate to even have this amount and it has funded partially funded one of our attorney positions who have dealt with reentry of
Nashville plane was temporarily quarantined due to a sick passenger. At lax emergency vehicles and hazmat teams surrounded a team after a passenger showed ebolalike symptoms on a flight from jfk. And near boston, dozen of patients and hospital workers were quarantined for four hours after a man who recently travelled to liberia was admitted with symptoms similar to ebola. Another false alarm. We are live outside Texas Health Presbyterian hospital. Good morning. How is the nurse doing . Reporter at last update she was in stable condition. She has not been able to identify or pinpoint where the specific breach in safety protocol occurred. Officials are looking closely at a couple of things including how workers were moving their protective gear and the procedures of dieial sis. Those were two procedures done on duncan both voiding bodily fluids. She was part of the group asked to selfmonitor. She immediately put into place the patrol cots set up in a situation like this. Driving herself
Z is here. And is reforming medicaid the next target for republicans, congresswoman Marsha Blackburn is live as we look ahead on new years eve on sunday morning futures. The head of the House Intelligence Committee is blasting the department of justice and the fbi for failing to turn over documents tied to the largely discredited anti trump dossier. Fox news obtaining a letter congressman devon nunes sent to Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein suggesting the fbi and Justice Department should be investigating themselves and demanding all records by this wednesday. Joining me right now is Florida Republican congressman ron desantis a member of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committee happy new years eve so good to see you congressman. Let me ask you about this letter here from representative nunes. Putting that deadline on things how does that change the equation right now . Will they need it . Well i think the letter was great and i applaud chairman nun es for doing that. I think