Seats can be chair or vice chair. So in the meantime we will poll the commission to see what desires people have to be alternates or not. I think its important to rotate a lot of the positions so we will come back before january with a sense of that. All right. Perfect and the other thing i wanted to mention that melds into the future agenda items since our last meeting the Supervisor Scott Wiener has introduced legislation that made its way through the board process of asking lafco if would work on a new study to look at open source elections so that is something that the board is asking lafco to look at. I believe its not on our agenda today because when that process was still going through it hadnt passed the board yet when doing our agenda and thats why its not on there but in the future we will get a request to do this new study. What my recommendation is at this point on that is instruct me to do more research. Find out exactly what it is, how much time it would take and come bac
Came from one tiny village a community absolutely in shock and grief this monday. [indiscernible] most of these victims came from one town in upper egypt. They had gone to libya as hundreds of thousands of other egyptians had, to look for work. Egyptians can find much higher wages working in libya pass will rich economy libbys oilrich economy in libyas oil rich economy than they can in egypt. There was a lot of mou rning. They were holding vigils for those who were killed. Despite what happened, many of the locals said they would still go to libya to look for work. It was very shocking that survivors who evaded capture last month they were talking about how these men were specifically targeted for being christians. They spoke about how the militants went from house to house, searching for coptic christian men and leaving the muslims. We saw the statement in the video of the beheadings, where the militants the comments are entirely sectarian in nature. Some shockwaves through the Coptic
The cafe manager and another three hailed for their bravery. First, 141 victims in the latest assault by the taliban. The vast majority of them schoolchildren the youngest just to your soul. Gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed into a school today carrying out the deadliest terrorist attack in the countrys history. This report from islam a bad. The eyewitnesses said that the attackers have been confirmed to be seven. They came in wearing suicide vests with automatic weapons and grenades which they hurled inside classes. They lined up students, Young Students in their early teens and shot them at pointblank range. The way they carried out this it was not just at attack but a assassination of many of these children and the siege went on for six hours. Now about a halfhour ago the military handed the school back to the School Authorities and they are saying the area is now clear. The majority of dead are children between the ages of eight and 16. This unspeakable attack, some people are s
Will be harder. Before we continue, lets bring everyone up to speed with the days agenda. You want to play t pay close attention to what is happening in detroit. The north American Auto show will open its stores. Matt miller is there talking to Industry Leaders like alan mulally and bill ford. He will be a with us in just a bit. 12 40, there will be a speech on the economic outlook. At 2 00, the treasury opens it looks on how the government did in december with Monthly Budget statements. Speaking of budgets, i have my mind on something. Bank budgets or balance sheet. The biggest banks will report earnings. Jpmorgan will kick it off tomorrow morning. Ian, perhaps this is a good place to start the conversation. Things are kind of stuck. The u. S. Economy is picking up speed. That seems to suggest that banks will have a good year in 2014. The curve is beginning to steep in. They can bore short and lend long. I feel better. There is no question. Every ceo i have spoken to says that, despit
Posted by the Progressive Policy Institute looking at the fccs open internet policy. Earlier in they, the fcc voted along party lines to move forward on a proposed rule that would allow content providers like netflix to pay for whats called fast lane service. This discussion in washington set to get underway in a couple of minutes. We will stay here live with one quick note from one programming note about the white house. President obama reportedly today will announce you seeking to keep 9800 troops can use troops in afghanistan after the war formally ends later this year and then will withdraw most of those forces by 2016. According to Senior Administration officials reported by the associated press. Well have the president s statement this afternoon at 2 45 p. M. Live on cspan. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] here on cspan2 we are waiting for the start of the discussion looking at the Ne