And thanks for this terrific space that you have in this exhibition space and thanks for helping San Francisco stay safe. All right. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I want to welcome you back to the regularly scheduled budget and finance committee. My name is malia cohen, the chairman and to my priet is supervisor sandy fewer and to my right is Catherine Stefani and we have a special guest with us today. Supervisor norman yee. Thank you to our friends at s. F. Gov tv for assisting us with todays broadcast. Jim smith as well as michael balthazaar and ms. Linda wong is our clerk helping us with todays meeting. Madame clerk, any announcements . Yes. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices, completed speaker cards to be included as part of the file to be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the february 20th board of supervise source agenda. Could you call item one, please . Resolution retro actively authorizing the department of the environment t
And chance the rapper shows us how the open mike program he started in his hometown of chicago helps change kids lives. But we start this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The u tats of america will soon unveil the toughest and most aggressive round of sanctions on north korea ever. The white house vows new action on north korea. The era of strategic patience is over. If we dont change it, lets have a shutdown. We deal a shutdown. Its worth it for our country. President trump still isnt ruling a shutdown over immigration policy. We had one shutdown. Nobody wants another except maybe him. Steve wynn is stepping down as chairman of wynn resorts amid Sexual Misconduct allegations. A highspeed train suddenly breaking apart on its way to new york. Fortunately no one was hurt. Its very scary. Wall street rebounded from mondays freefall. Its still a bit of a rollercoaster ride. I think this is a day traders are happy to walk out and be done with it. A powerful earthqua
Balthazaar and ms. Linda wong is our clerk helping us with todays meeting. Madame clerk, any announcements . Yes. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices, completed speaker cards to be included as part of the file to be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the february 20th board of supervise source agenda. Could you call item one, please . Resolution retro actively authorizing the department of the environment to accept and expend grant funds from the association of bay area governments in the amount of approximately 500,000 to perform energy efz Si Programme Implementation from the term january 1, 2018 to december 31, 2018. Great. Supervisor yee is a sponsor. Ill let him have a chance to speak. Well hear from peter galota from the department of the environment afterwards. Supervisor yee . All right. Thank you, chair cohen. Ahem. So as an executive board member, im happy to sponsor this accept and expend resolution that will help our department o
Homeland security. As we deal with recovery efforts, she brings a track record in response and in emergency management. Shes also respected for her expertise in cyber security. I hope the senate will take up her nomination without delay. Today the house is acting on two important pieces of legislation. The first is a Disaster Relief on it. People are hurting in these disaster areas whether its victims of the wildfires in california we are seeing on the news today or people rebuilding from hurricanes harvey, irma, maria and nate. This legislation gives needed resources to communities suffering from disasters over the past couple months. Tomorrow i will be traveling to puerto rico to assess the damage and to get a briefing from local and federal officials. We need to stand with people in puerto rico as they rebuild their communities. Today the house is also acting with doctor Chris Kirkpatrick on the protection act. Where i come from, we know their stories well. This bill is named after
Did the team you wanted to wynn at least. Yes. So there is that. On the final play of the game. It sound like a nail biter right until the even. It was a biting of nails. If you have been waiting for warmer temperatures today is beginning of that trend but still cold this morning. Six out of ten with the potential for messy weather later on. Temperatures are anywhere in the four to 16ish degree range so bus stop buddy is just as bundled up as yesterday. These are actual temperatures, five Atlantic City, 15 wilmington, 11 mount pocono. 17 degrees here in philadelphia. We will see snow in western part of the state, we will tell you when that precipitation arrives and what form it will be in in a little bit but there is a Winter Weather advisory for counties far north and west of the city and that includes northwestern parts of the montgomery and bucks county for potential for tricky travel later on in the the day, anytime after sunset lets say. So 17 degrees in the city, sunrise at 7 22.