College. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi, there. My name is hawn. I teach at city college in the english department. I also want to thank the Community Members who have spoken in favor of reparations, and i stand in favor of reparations. And thank you for bringing that forward. So i am a lifelong student educator and Community Member in our Public Education system. And Public Education is the best thing thats ever happened to me and my family. And i want to just affirm that education is our right. I tell my students who come to my classes that they deserve the same opportunities as any stanford student. They just dont have the same resources. They deserve a library thats open till midnight. Their Library Closes at 6 45. And weve cut back on librarians. I want to talk about love. Because in my english 1 class, my freshman composition class, we read bell hooks all about love. We do a semester long investigation in love, on love and what is love. We learn that love is a choice. We
That say, you know, i cant because i want another opportunity to do it. Now you are supposed to do it in this semester and i say i dont have the class. And i dont want to say please i need your support to everybody to culminate together. Thats what i see, working with them. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. Im a 2121 member, chapter president , San Francisco general first. I want to say that the staffing in Public Health needs to be fixed. Its outrageous what we are going through right now, even people in my classification, its terrible. People are calling in sick more, their productivity is going down. We are losing money, because things arent getting done properly because you dont have enough people to fix that problem. But im really here, aside from that, as a black person, who started my early life living up in the projects in ernest point who family got pushed out because my father couldnt get a house in San Francisco. He couldnt get a loan. We ended up in bay leaf city.
Through 70s was a Thriving Black Community known all over the world. It established black businesses. Black people werent allowed to leads outside the fillmore because of racism so we were a self sustaining community. The beautiful thing about the fillmore is that you had white, jewish, you had all people from all over the world coming to shop and spend their money in black businesses. It was really the togetherness that we all strive for. My daughter and my great uncle played jazz on fillmore. But the city, the federal government and the state through redevelopment agency, through the board of supervisors who held the power decided to use imminent domain and bulldoze the fillmore. 40 square blocks was bulldozed. That red dot on the picture, thats where sheafway is. You can see st. Marrys marrysa theydral. Thats the National Distribution center for the newspaper. It was the fillmore heritage center. You can see the highrise building projects. They bulldozed our community and put us in
Train crews worked out there the night and still removing the railcars that jumped the track on tuesday. And theres new information from the amtrak engineer being investigated. To give you the most complete picture, nbc10 has Live Team Coverage gathering new information on those killed and the search for those missing and how this will continue to impact the commuters this morning. Nbc10s matt delucia joins us from the scene there in Port Richmond. Matt, a lot has happened overnight whats the situation . Reporter yeah chris, you see some the police cars moving around and the tow trucks in this area as well. Once again, we see the bright lights shining on the area of the derailment. The investigation has been under way for a day. The ntsb is looking at the contents of the socalled black box. What we know so far the amtrak train was going 106 miles an hour. The emergency brake was then pulled then a crash after it gave around the curve at the frankford junction. The speed limit at that c
There, you might be able to see some of the workers there with a train at one of the railcars involved in the derailment tuesday night. The investigation has been under way for a full day. The ntsb is looking at the socalled black box of the train in an attempt to find out exactly what was going on leading up to the derailment. What we know from the investigation at this point, the amtrak train was going 106 Miles Per Hour according to the ntsb. Then an emergency brake was pulled. And then there was a crash after it came around the curve here at the frankford junction. The speed limit around that curve is 50 Miles Per Hour. The train was going more than twice that speed at the time of the crash. The engineer is 32yearold brandon bostian. Detectives have interviewed him, they took his cell phone, as well as a blood sample. However, the ntsb has said it has not yet done an interview with bostian, but they want to do that sooner rather than later. Also investigators are going to be lookin