After the black Health Care Worker was killed in our home by police. The white house approves a disaster declaration for oregon where several wildfires are burning out of control. And scientists want to keep the antarctic glass here is a breaking free threatening a large scale rise in sea levels. The United Arab Emirates and baccarin have both signed u. S. Brokered deals to normalize ties with israel its been described as a betrayal by the palestinians but donald trump says it represents the dawn of a new middle east and predicted more countries will follow the move White House Correspondent Kimberly Hauck of reports. Its not the. Peace deal of the century between israelis and palestinians still u. S. President donald trump hailed the signing of the Abraham Accords at the white house as an historic day after decades of division and conflict we marked the dawn of a new middle east. The agreement signed between israel the United Arab Emirates and bahrain formalizes relationships already
The weather is great, the sun is shining and i think its going to be a great day for Mike Bloomberg. Let me, i am the pleasure of introducing mike. I want to acknowledge again, i was commissioner, give it up again. To mayor garcia. I want to thank you for allowing me to be new york mayor. The me just say to you, what is important for a mayor, is getting things done. Because what is important to you is what happens at your home, or your street and in your community and in new york city and Mike Bloomberg was the mayor of new york city for 12 years and then, you can talk a good game but at the end of the day with people want people want results. They want things to happen that is positive and impacts them in their lives. They want to make sure when it comes to infrastructure, we are making those things take place. When job creations, and when i look at what Mike Bloomberg did in new york for 12 years, the creation of nearly 500 jobs, 500,000 jobs, 500,000 jobs thats a long ways from 500.
And leadership with the commission and it is very special this is your first meeting. Copal housekeeping items before we begin. Cell phone silenced please. Invited speakers will be given 3 minutes to provide testimony. Members the public receive 2 minutes. There will be a bell that will sound ot30 seconds on the count down to zero and when your time is up there will be a double bell so ask you to please work within the parameter oz thf timelines. We are excited we have wonderful attendance this afternoon. We have a lot of good information and testimony to get through and want to be fair across dh board with everybody. At this point, will the clerk call the roll . Fuentes, present. Chair quenelley, here. Commissioner kong. Commissioner maldanado, here. Vice chair pause, here. Commissioner romanenko, here. Commissioner roy, here. Commissioner wang is excused and commissioner wong, here. The commission has a quorum. Thank you, clerk. Our first item of business is approval of the minutes f