Left is supervisor Julie Christensen and we will have the arrival of our supervisor david campos. Our clerk is erica major and televised by sfgtv and thank you so much to them for televising us. Please give the announcements. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speakers cards and documents be parted of the file should be submitted the clerk. Items will be on the december 1 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Thank you supervisor campos for being here as well. Please call the first item. Item 1 is a resolution designating Edgewood Center for evaluation and Treatment Facility pursuant to california welfare and institutions code for sections 5150, 5585. 50, and 5585. 5 for the youth ages 5 to 17 and authorizing the director of Behavioral Health services to enter into a designation agreement with said facility. Thank you and we have a presentation from our Public Health department. This is ken epstein from the Public Health department represen
Fortunately. His invalid mother has been hospitalized for weeks. Firefighters heard at least one working Smoke Detector in the house. The 24th fire fatality for the year. Last year at this time we had 24, so that means we had the same number. Including everyone that participated in keep the fire fatalitieses down. In the mitt midst of the smoke they tried to rip them out of the front window. The air conditioner was popping and basically popped in our face. And me and the other neighbor tried to kick the door in to no avail. Riveras relatives are trying to cope with his tragic loss. He is a good kid. Always there for his son, always there for his mom. He always helped them out. Again, no word tonight from the fire marshal. There is a lot of economic despair in the 2700 block of helen street. Live in port richmond, vernon odom channel 6 action news. Thank you, vernon. A 24 year old man fighting home run his life after he and mother man were shot in west philadelphia. The scene where the
Conditioned on this question the incoming secretary needs to have the courage to speak truth to power to congress, yes but also to his commander in chief. Half. Mr. Durbin mr. President . Speaking in morning business, i rise to express my support for the president s nominee dr. Ashton carter to serve as our nations 25th secretary of defense. A few words of thanks first for chuck hagel our former colleague in the senate who served as secretary of defense. Hes a friend. Hes had a long career in public service. Hes a veteran from vietnam and the people of nebraska rewarded him by asking him to represent them in the United States senate. As our nations first person 6 enlisted rank he had a unique ground level view on matters of war and peace and a strong, strong commitment to our troops. I thank chuck hagel for his service. Dr. Ashton carter has an impressive distinguished record of service as well in government. An advisor scholar. He has what it takes to be a great secretary of defense.
This is going to be an afghan fight. Weve got to take this on. So theres a balance there i think but they absolutely do understand the sacrifices we provided and theres a difference between of his leadership we have today and a Senior Leadership in afghanistan and we were just a couple of months ago. You talked about the efforts of president ghani to reach out to the taliban and to try and begin some sort of negotiations. Can you give us any insights into how far along that is the . I would rather discuss that in a classified setting. And to what extent are the taliban and do we see signs that theyre being influenced by whats happening with isil in other parts of the middle east and the new reports that isil has begun to infiltrate taliban . The taliban and isil are like this. Have different ideologies. They want to fight each other so you do have some taliban that feel disenfranchised from the taliban because they see isis or daish as ugly to gain resources, another way to gain media
Highlight had the need for a conditionsbased approach. Like our National Military strategy written in 2012 president obamas calendarbased troop drawdown plan for afghanistan no longer accurately reflects the facts and conditions on the ground. Like the president s policy against isil, the president s afghanistan policy lacks of strategic disconnect, providing a list of goals or preferences but precluding the means necessary to achieve them. Perhaps it is time for the president to exercise strategic patience, as our witnesses yesterday unanimously agreed. Former u. S. Ambassador to afghanistan, james cunningham, having just served in kabul and left in december, said, quote, i think that under the circumstances, the timeline is probably too short and the rate of withdrawal is too steep. Former ambassador to both iraq and afghanistan, ryan crocker, said, i hope we will take the right decisions on force levels Going Forward based on conditions, not on calendars. Former commander of special