subcommittee examines how sheldon whitehouse shares the hearing which runs just under two hours. let us call this hearing to order. senator whitehouse: i am very grateful to my friend, senator kennedy of the louisiana for acting as ranking member on this committee. i look forward to lively proceedings in this committee during this congress. we have some terrific witnesses and i will introduce them briefly before we present our opening statements. we have the president of the board miss graves previously served as deputy assistant attorney general and the clinton administration where i also served. the deputy chief for the u.s. court and as chief counsel for nominations on this senate judiciary committee for chairman the 80 leahy. serving as a familiar presence to us in this room. we will then hear from it professor of law at harvard law school who writes objectively about constitutional law, voting and the supreme court, our topic for today. ben is a civil rights
Its kind. Sitting on the dock of the bay captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Reporting tonight from southern california. Brush on the 101 this afternoon, and for stretches, shut down one of the busiest freeways in america. The worst of it, as we saw, in faria beach. You really get a sense of the intensity of the winds up in the air. And keep in mind whsht gusts really move through, they can pick up embers from one fire and start a new one. Those embers can be carried for miles. The thomas fire is one of six major fires. The latest in san diego spread quickly. Rich macklin is with the Ventura County fire department. Anyone anytime we have erratic winds like this, were never out of danger. Were not letting our guard down. Firefighters are still down the street here working on structure protection. Glor the challenge for firefighters is getting a handle on the steep, dry terrain, acting as fuel. What you see behind me right now are starting fires. The
Its kind. Sitting on the dock of the bay captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Reporting tonight from southern california. Glor and good evening, were in the shadow hills neighborhood of l. A. , the scene of one of six major wildfires burning tonight in southern california. And the first death has been reported. The burned body of a woman was found next to her flipped over car in Ventura County. The fire is drifn by powerful santa ana expwindz has burned more than 116,000 acers and there appears to be no end in sight. More than 100 homes have been destroyed or damaged. At least 330,000 people have been evacuated. Southern california remains under siege. Throughout the night, firefighters in Ventura County battled enormous walls of flames. Those flames consumed trees and brush on the 101 this afternoon, and for stretches, shut down one of the busiest freeways in america. The worst of it, as we saw, in faria beach. You really get a sense of the intensit
Good morning today is july 19, 20s 15. Welcome to had rules committee of San Francisco board of supervisors mptd my name is john avalos the chair. Joined by vice chair katy tang and cohen. The clerk is alisa samary and todays meeting is broadcasts by sfgtv staff please silence all cell phone squz electronic devices. [inaudible] submit today the clerk. [inaudible] will appear on the july 21, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Item 1 is hearing to consider the quarter ly report of the celter Monitoring Committee would like to welcome members of the shelter Monitoring Committee to give us the report nick the chair of the [inaudible] shelter Monitoring Committee. In front of us is the Quarterly Report. This is back from july of 2014 so it is a fairly far behind time. [inaudible] the reason is behind we didnt have a lot of Committee Members at the time, we couldnt voted to approve the Quarterly Report so that is why it is far behind. We are now catching up. In termoffs the
On the july 21, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Item 1 is hearing to consider the quarter ly report of the celter Monitoring Committee would like to welcome members of the shelter Monitoring Committee to give us the report nick the chair of the [inaudible] shelter Monitoring Committee. In front of us is the Quarterly Report. This is back from july of 2014 so it is a fairly far behind time. [inaudible] the reason is behind we didnt have a lot of Committee Members at the time, we couldnt voted to approve the Quarterly Report so that is why it is far behind. We are now catching up. In termoffs the numbers on page 4 and as it ilsfraits in the summary we were far behind at that time where we performed 58 percent of the site visits. However, at this time since we now have a pretty much a full committee accept for 2 seats and have 2 staff we caught up and we are pretty much over 100 percent for the Current Quarter so we are on track to be fulfilling our duties in respect