Rise. On the hunt for ebola sierra leone begins to search house to house for hidden cases pakistans Prime Minister has vowed to end terrorism. After the Taliban Attack on an armyrun school. Prayer vigils and funerals have been held as the country marks three days of mourning. At least 142 were killed in the taliban massacre on tuesday almost all children and students. We have this report. Reporter pain and agony. One after another, 130 children have been laid to rest in peshawar. As more succumb to their injuries, strong men struggle to cover their emotions. That man buried a teenage relative. From inside, i was not ready to believe. Reporter grief is giving way to anger. If they cant protect the children. If they cant make the army to stand in front of the schools, there should be no army. There should be no army. There should be no security of any type. They should be like us. Reporter the military and Political Leadership jolted into action. Permit removed the ban on Death Penalty f
I have a lot of people to thank. I would like to thank rosemary. I would like to thank mark and his wife were driving alice and myself down here. I would like to thank [applause] a serious mistake. I i would like to thank the letter carrier. When. When i was a little boy my parents gave me a book called they carried the mail. I only remember one sentence neither neither snow, nor sleet, nor rain, nor dark of night shall save these careers from the swift completion of their appointed routes which i believe were words sponsored by the king of babylonia i dont no how many hundreds of thousands of words we speak, but we should all be aware of the struggle of the letter carriers. Facilities are being closed down. That seems to be the same in youngstown, ohio. This summer they are closing the Distribution Center so that henceforth when you mail a letter in youngstown lets say to the the super max prison a 20 minute drive from our home that letter will henceforth go to cleveland and then come
Person was killed usually from violence but when family members or parents ask me what we can do to end this type of violence. In the most recent homicide in the south of market our office began conversations with several of our Youth Programs about what we can do even in cases where a young person was able to get a job able to get housing and able to get his his or her life on track, to lose their life to violence is incredibly distressing and often the answer we come to is we need less guns on our streets. This start the anniversary of sandy hook there there will be a gun buyback. Many of the clients were medical Marijuana Club clients who wanted to give back to the community. After many conversations and learning of the work that happened, i was impressed that a small group of local Small Businesses would take it upon themselves to demonstrate a commitment to solutions to inner city violence to that end united players has worked with green door and grass roots all located in distric
And again give residents and Business Owners more options. This legislation is carefully crafted to provide people with options. Homeowners, businesses and residents will have more say in how they use their property and in the process we can activate ground floor spaces and restore green spaces and yards. My second item today is a hearing request. 2 weeks ago the Controllers Office through the great work of peg steven son released its annual citywide measurements report if if you havent read it and you have 16 or 17 hours of free time especially over our break, i highly encourage you to at least skim through it. Every department using a variety of performance metrics and many of which are unique to what the department does so you can use the percentage of 311 calls answered within 60 seconds or the total number of training hours the department of Human Resources delivered last year the report shows the early impacts of the federal Affordable Care act. We also see a dramatic increase in
Rosa lost her fight against cancer this week but i remind everyone that she left very specific instructions that no one is to wear black at her funeral because she wants to be remembered for for for for for for her vibrant cy and wearing of color color. Speaking spanish. Rooufrjs. Speaking in spanish. If its okay with my colleagues id like the family to say a brief couple of words. Without objection colleagues, the floor is yours. Speaking in spanish. Good afternoon. To the president and board of supervisors i want to say thank you for the time you have given us today especially supervisor campos. Id also like to thank you for the hard work you do here. My mother was a good woman to her family. Also she was very political. She used to go around and talk to people about political campaigns in the city and also she was a member of the union for the elders in sf, u. S. W and a lot of meetings and a lot of trips going to sacramento and fighting for the benefits of the elderly. So my mother