Sincerely, i think you can see it pretty easily how blessed we are to have russ and hjose ad frankly every board member and b donor associated with this. We wouldnt be here without you. Were coming to the end of the speaking program. I give you the chance to re lla but also to secelebrate a littl bit. We now were going to do somethi something i dont know how were going to do this, but i do want to offer a few closing thanks and instructions. Flawl first of all , can we jut give our staff that work every day delivering food [ applause ]. Answering the phones, i just dont think none of us who dont do this work think about what it means to walk up buil buildings and six flights of stairs with food in our your hand and buildings with he wieor s that dont work and getting in and out of a car. We have pretsocial worker s goi trying to help people who literally have nothing and people who have challenges and so forth and we have a staff that back them up thats unparalleled. Again, my deep ees
Always telling me this and its not something that im very comfortable talking about, but that the sthian Francisco Human Rights Commission was created because there were people that were trying to buy cars that werent allowed to buy them in this city, and those people were black people. Sometimes as we do this work, i would say africanamerican afri s and peopblack ipeople in San Francisco felt like we were continuing to forget about them and continuing to repeat bwhy Te Commission was created in the first place. So as we secelebrate the 55th anniversary of the Human Rights Commission, as we remember the 5 55th anniversary of the civil rights act, i was challenged and really encouraged to revisit why the Human Rights Commission was created and to pause during this time. Somebody says, who selcelebrats5 years . I guess we do. [ applause ]. It is an off year, but im going into my third year at the Human Rights Commission and i felt like this was a good tooim to pause and recognize the int
Released. One team is taking an apparent stand against the name of another. A good friday morning. We begin with the new york fight night, otherwise known as the democratic debate, sparks were flying as the candidates delivered their sharpest attacks yet. Yeah, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders laid out their differences in debate number nine for them. It was a contentious faceoff marked by a string of fiery exchanges on everything from gun control to big money donations. Our coverage begins now with abcs marci gonzalez. Reporter a democratic debate battle in the big apple. Senator sanders did call me unqualified. Ive been called a lot of things in my life. That was a first. Reporter increasingly heated rhetoric between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders coming to a boil here in brooklyn. Does secretary clinton have the experience and the intelligence to be a president , of course, she does. But i do question but i do question her judgment. President obama trusted my judgment enough t
The burning fire. There were flames on his back the i hope he is all right. The man suffers seconddegree burns and taken to the hospital at secretary to 80 people live in the apartment complex. No word on when everyone is allowed back into the apartments. We saw a light turn on in a window so someone is at home right now. There is water damage to several of the apartments so we will see how many are allowed back in the apartment complex. Matt, thank you. An 84yearold man is held at San Mateo County jail on attempted murder after police say he opened fire inside a medical building in daly city forcing a neighbor lockdown. Amy hollyfield is at southgate avenue. News of the arrest will make it easier to people to return to work this morning. Last night, they went to bed thinking he was at large but police say they arrested 84yearold Raymond Iwase at his home. They believe he was responsible for the scary situation that paralyzed the neighborhood in daly city. Yesterday afternoon at 1 30 a
We begin with a big change in the works for people who use and make electronic cigarettes. The fda is taking a bold move and cracking down on every step of their manufacture, marketing and consumption. Abcs Tahman Bradley joins us, now, from washington, with more. Good morning, tahman. Reporter good morning, diana and john. This is something the federal government has been working on for years. Theres virtually no federal oversight of electronic cigarettes, which more and more people have been using for a quick high. Theyve been called a safer alternative to cigarettes. And theyre wildly popular. Ecigarettes, those batterypowered devices that give users a nicotine high from a vapor. We think the harm is less than with a traditional cigarette. Reporter maybe. Ecigarettes dont have tobacco tar found in traditional cigarettes. But its not clear whats in them. Thats because since they burst in the u. S. Back in 2006, theyve gone unregulated. The federal government wants to change that. Rig