Aye. There is no discussion of anticipated litigation in closed session today. Also like to welcome [inaudible] relacing rob [inaudible] the City Attorney. Thank you for being here. Pleasure to be here. Introduction of new business by Board Members. Nope. Seeing none. Iletal 7, director report. Director riscon members of the board qu public and staff. Want to start by asking the director of tax and Accessible Services to come forward. I am so pleased to be mere in honor of joyce furrow. She is the executive assistant in the tax twigez division. I was not the one who nominated her, it was the colleagues. She had positive feedback from everyone in the division and she is outstanded so we are excited to honor her today. She isa mazing contribution to the division and with sth mta for be years and the city for 15. She is the hub of our division and she comes to everyone and if you need help, what do you need, how can i improve and be better. She asked to work the window with the taxi drive
Applause. Congratulations. Very well deserved. [applause] the mta board i thank you. It is a great blessing and honor to work and serve my fellow colleges at mta tax and accessible service. They make my job a piece of cake. [inaudible] is to create a work place that delivers Outstanding Service in the taxi staff promises to do everything we can to help ourselves and each other honor our agreement coninstructively and compassionately. On behalf of our team, [inaudible] genie, alvin, eric, samantha, peter, michael scott, andres [inaudible] i accept the certificate of appreciation and strive to continue to do my best when called upon. I shall shover you with a smile. Together everyone achieves more. Thank you. On behalf of board of directors thank you and congrat ulations for your Outstanding Service number of short items to give you updates on. First, want to let you know last month we launched a program to honor our employees for years of service they provide to the city and mta. Initia
Will Bffs Jennifer lawrence and amy schumer go headtohead . Who will go home golden . Good morning, americica. Here we. Award season is kicking off this morning with the golden globe nominations onhe road to the osrs and, michael, do you have your speech ready for magic mike. Im getting my outf together. Maybe with that mie i dont need an outfit. May be about that. Thahat might guarantee the nomination. Grantee a lot of thing, george, that we really dont want too go into. Okay. Well, well get to that in a little bit. Right nowonald trump still dominating the headlines. We have his rival candidate marco rubio standing by liveve. We begin with the fbis intense search for answers in that terror attack. The head of the agency says the killers were radadicalized before they even met. Noww the feds trying to unlock the secretsts on their phones and computers. Abcs matt gutman srts us off matt. Reporter federal authorities, george, areelling us thaha the terror couple had Tashfeen Malik and s
Being used by isis. Not a gun and its not a bomb. Were talking about Fake Passportsslready being used by the terror group to move people across borders. Authorities in the u. S. Have been told to watch out as abc brian ross reports. American authorities are warning the terror group may have infiltrated followers into this country with authentic looking passports it printed itself, almost impossible to detete. If isis h h been able to acquire legitimate passports or machines that create legitimate passports, this would represent a major Security Risk to the united states. Reporter reporter Authorities Say, as isis swept through major syrian cities last year, it was able to seize government Passport Printing machines of a kind used by major governments around the world. A Homeland Security investigations bulletin sent to Law Enforcement in the last week examples of suspect passports and said isis may have boxes full of blank passports. The bulletin warned that individuals from syria with
Meet with the attorney general to finalize plans on an executive order. Coming up, the reaction hes getting from the 2016 candidates. The weekend flew by and we had a big win at mile high. Lauren whitney can update us on whats happening this morning. All feeling great after that broncos win. Today temperatures are going to be fairly warm as well, 22 at denver right now, 27 in boulder, 16 in fort collins and 22 in burlington. We have 9 in Grand Junction and 0 in meeker right now. We have a few clouds out there this morning and we are looking to have a few more clouds as we temperatures will be pretty warm today, looking at mid40s, 43 by 2 00 and in the 30s again by 5 00 tonight. Well have a chance for snow later this week. Joel, how is the drive . The morning commute, getting back to work after having some time off, looks like the roads will treat you well this morning. Nice conditions, still have the road work but nothing to slow you down across the denver metro area this morning. Litt