Melanie louis . I have worked for the city and Health Department the last 30 years, last 18 years in the emergency department. I want to ask all of you to do the right thing. We, who benefit from our pension, dont want our pension money invested in evil. Fossil fuel is evil. Its hurting its hurting what will be left of our planet for our grandchildren and i encourage all of you to vote to divest all of our money from fossil fuels. C. Landry and Carol Brownson after that. I decline to speak. Ruth magony. I worked in the library for the city for 40 years, worked hard for my retirement. Over the last four years, ive been doing research on fossil fuels and investments and though Nelson Mandela said, well, everything that you gave up in the best things from south africa, somebody else picked up, it was still powerful enough a message to south africa and the world that there were disinvestments. My studies have shown that the nonfossil fuel investments have been going up steadily. The social
Would have on pension performance and costs. We appreciate and understand the desire to divest from fossil fuels from different entities, but we must understand the implications of such a decision before its made. Sorry. Time. Thank you very much. Again, everyone has 1 minute. Were going to announce loudly when you are at your 1minute mark. Understand the constraints we have. Sara greenwald, are you present . Seeing shes not here. I will set her speaker card aside. Phil casky, followed by margaret pierce. Phil casky, retired from the Water Department. I think i want to say briefly the Water Department is an incredibly wonderful system. Its one of the most protected systems in the world. And we didnt get that way by being unprotective of the environment. So burning fossil fuels is not protective of the environment. And i would like to keep the water system the way it is and i think that San Francisco can be a leader in many, many ways and by divesting is one way to do it. Thank you. Tha
Flowers and candles for a tv station after a murder on the air. A former coworker pulling the trigger, even recording the killings with his cellphone. As we learn more about him, we hear from devastated journalists inside the station reporting on their own taj tragic story. Good evening, everyone, im maurice dubois. And we begin in roanoke virginia where the two victims were employed. Reporter it played out jarringly and suddenly on thousands of tv screens this morning tuned to morning tv in roanoke virginia, and it was a devastating and jarring impact, especially for the people in the control room. Tonight the killer is dead, but the damage is done. Candles burn among the memorial tribltds in own oak at the tv station. Former tv reporter Vester Lee Flanagan fumed and brooded over his professional misfortunes and took them out on two young journalists during a live report for the station that fired him two years ago. Were pausing the video, but the shots continue. A, lison parker and a
In the new president . And love is all around. Tributes pouring in for Mary Tyler Moore. Who can turn the world down with her smile the legendary actress blazed a trail and inspired generations of women. A look back at her career and its undeniable impact. Its january 26th, 2017. Announcer from nbc, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on thursday morning. Natalie is here once again while savannah remains on maternity leave. We all had a shared experience yesterday. We heard Mary Tyler Moore passed away. The first i think you think is wow. Then you start to go back and play the moments she made in the movies. Listen to it this morning. This morning, they are paying tribute the world over. Look at the hollywood walk of fame and her star. People paying their respects. Leaving behind flowers and lit candles and her statue in minneapolis. As Mary Richards, her character there, also getting a l
Across the state of delaware. With the loss of one of our brave correctional officers. A 20 hour hostage situation at a delaware prison has earneded in tragedy. It is thursday afternoon. We are following breaking details about the dramatic end to a standoff after the james t. Vaughn correctional facility in delaware. Katherine scott has more on the investigation but first gray hall joins us to break down how the situation unfolded. Reporter well, its been very intense and dangerous situation in delaware for the last few hours or sox this came to an end earlier this morning as you mentioned sadly one prison employee will not make it home to his family. The over 15 hour standoff came to an end when they believed the c center where the standoff took place. Its with great sad nness i stand before you, we lost one of our family members and it pains my heart to make these statements. Offices were atemmed to free the last two hostages, one a doc employee was rescued and take and to the hospit