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Let me just tell you that its a great pleasure to be invited here and part of this event. It is a distinct pleasure to be surrounded by so many hoovers. Ive never seen so many hoover s in one place. It looks like we are complete. We start this segment in the summer of 1921 and in that summer, soviet russia is the scene of a catastrophic famine, as george nash mentioned earlier, and millions are threatened with starvation and disease, most of them, as you will see any moment ill have a map up, situated in and beyond the vulgar river valley. The soviet government is unable to cope with the disaster on its own, so it is forced to allow an appeal to go out for and assistance and in that day, there is only one man on the planet in a position to answer that call, and that is the man that you see year, Herbert Hoover. As chairman of the American Relief administration, the ara. As george nash told us, the ara is a private relief organization, Relief Agency but i would say for this part of the
Outside world across china movie premieres ballets exhibitions all counsel for now. Turkeys military is retaliating against Syrian Army Positions after 29. 00 of its soldiers were killed in an attack the airstrike happened in syrias didley province where in the last few weeks Turkish Forces have killed or captured more than 1700. 00 soldiers with ties to the Syrian Government has president had threatened more attacks against the russian backed regime if any more soldiers were harmed meanwhile and chris says it will no longer be able to stop syrian migrants trying to enter europe according to the Reuters News Agency Turkish Police coastguard and Border Security have all been ordered to allow any syrian migrants to cross into europe either by land or sea the latest round of fighting is only worse in the humanitarian crisis with more than a 1000000 syrians displaced at the border in the last few weeks. Has more now from hunting in turkey near the border with syria. The death toll among th
I just want to say thank you to rick bruce, retired commander bruce. He could be doing many other things in his retirement years, but he is committed to this program for life and really really has made a difference in keeping it going and taking it to the next level. Thank you rick. Thank you. Any other items, chief . Yes, sir. I will quickly go through the crime trends for this week and we had two other reports. For crime this week, we are we had a fairly quiet week. We had no shooting incidents, no homicides in the past week. We are still at 29 homicides for the year compared to 37 this time last year so were down 22 . Overall were down 8 in part 1 crime. Our Violent Crime is down 10 a 22 decrease in homicides. Also, we have had a 22 decrease in our shooting victims. We have a total of 101 victims of gun violence this year so were 22 down im sorry, 84 this year compared to 101 this time last year. Our property crime, we are 7 down and continue to show a decrease in auto burglaries co
Commissioner taylor you had asked for Additional Information on a sexual assault. So we plan to add that to the Commission Next week. Well follow up on that next week. We have two additional reports. Next is the safe streets report. Commander dan poreia. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening president , Vice President , commissioners, director, chief members of the audience. Im dan poreia. And i am the commander of the m. T. A. My presentation is about our efforts for the Second Quarter of 2019 in regards to Traffic Safety. So i wanted to talk a little bit first about our efforts and our enforcement. Our strategy is to prioritize deployment in the highinjury network corridors that have been identified by data from traffic collisions throughout the city to increase enforcement and to educate members of the public especially the driving public about our strategies. Part of our enforcement include s lidar radar operations where were looking for people who are violating the basic speed