Next item, please. Approval of the minutes for october 27, 2015. A motion to approve the minutes. Second. Questions or comments on the minutes all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . That motion carries that motion carries next item. General Public Comment items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. With respect to agenda items,. Any Public Comment general Public Comment at this time i have one from blaine p come up please. Hi i want to make sure im speaking at the right time for the sewer failures cross the city but the neighborhood full name on the agenda i want to make sure im speaking. Its not on the agenda this is a fine time. Thank you very much. My name is a blaine i live in Mission Terrace my husband and i put our life savings into buying a home in San Francisco 3 medias later flooded with raw sewage the same situation across our neighborhoods and across the city. This disagrees situation my residents find a r
Professor i call this transit powerses Authority Meeting to order november 12th. Would you take roll please. Director kim . Present. Kim present. Director lee. Here. Lee present. Reiskin. Here. Harper. Present. Mr. tkhaeurpl ubgs you do have a quorum. Thank you very much. The first item on the agenda as usual. Indications. And i meant to acknowledge the San Francisco government tv staff for being ready for our broadcast and anyone else . Any other items on communications . Okay. Seeing none, item four director nuru, order of business. I just have a bit of new business. And that is that under my powers as chair, i am appointing as an advisory group, i guess, advice to the board, myself and director reiskin to be part of the negotiations with the city and county and mtc concerning additional financing. And thats it. Thats my new and old. Anyone else . Okay. Next item, please. Item five is the executive directors board. Good morning everyone. We start off with our jobs map. So every so of
Democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Could puerto rico become americas greece . Thats a question many are asking as the island is facing a devastating financial crisis and a rapidly crumbling health care system. Puerto rico owes 72 billion in debt. 355 million in debt payments are due on december 1 but it increasingly looks like the u. S. Territory could default on at least some of the debt. Congress has so far failed to act on an Obama Administration proposal that includes extending bankruptcy protection to puerto rico, more equitable medicaid and medicare funding for the island. Meanwhile, leaders are passive planning for a massive day to spur congressional action. Major address a by Juan Gonzalez. He is a longtime columnist for the new york daily news. 2015, at New York University, he spoke. He was inducted into the journalism hall of fame along with charlie rose, lesley stahl of 60 minutes, and max frankel of the New York Times. Juan is the au
Speaking of weapons of mass destruction lets address the elephant in the room at the top of the show frflt the moment we learned last night that north korea may have detonated a Hydrogen Bomb or claimed they did you knew today was going to be a difficult session. Markets like the people that trade them have always had a hard time factoring in potential nuclear catastrophes. It didnt feet great to rush in and take the other side of the trade. The combination of the unknown and inherently irrational north korean government and thermonuclear weaponry is reassuring as it gets. The stock market in korea seemed to take the whole thing in stride dropping about a percent on the news or at least the tremors before ultimately it rallied hard and finished almost unchanged. Theres no universe where we could be down more than south korea on these moves. At least no more worried than you were yesterday. Remember the North Koreans have had Nuclear Missiles for years now. They conducted the First Succ
Did you knew today was going to be a difficult session. Markets like the people that trade them have always had a hard time factoring in potential nuclear catastrophes. It didnt feet great to rush in and take the other side of the trade. The combination of the unknown and inherently irrational north korean government and thermonuclear weaponry is reassuring as it gets. The stock market in korea seemed to take the whole thing in stride dropping about a percent on the news or at least the tremors before ultimately rallying. It rallied hard and finished almost unchanged. Could be down more than south korea on these moves. At least no more worried than you were yesterday. Remember the North Koreans have had Nuclear Missiles for years now. They conducted the First Successful test in 2006. All they have done here is go from having nukes like in 1945 to be able to build more powerful nukes like 1952. The North Koreans are never going to use those weapons because even their Supreme Leader does