In leicester well be live there after 7 00. Good morning from gateshead where they are launching an exhibition of they are launching an exhibition of the north. 80 days of events running throughout the region over the summer throughout the region over the summerandi throughout the region over the summer and i will be telling you more about it. In sport, britains winter 0lympians return from pyeonchang, with double skeleton champion, Lizzy Yarnold, undecided if shell go for a hat trick of golds at the next games. All of thats coming up later. Good morning. First, our main story. Snow and arctic temperatures are expected across the uk for the rest of the week. The met office has issued both yellow warnings and more serious amber warnings for large parts of Eastern England. Up to 10cm of snow is expected today and as much as 20cm is predicted in some parts of Eastern England, scotland and Northern Ireland by the end of wednesday. Drivers are being warned they could face major disruption.
All right, good morning. Welcome to our rules Committee Meeting of thursday, july 14, 2016. I am kaet tang, chair of the committee, to my right is eric mar and to my left is erica cohen. I want to thank jim submit and jessie larson. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copies of any documents to be included in the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items eye. Please call item 1 . Oo . Item 1 is a motion confirming the mayoral reappointment of darryl honda to the board of appeals for a term ending july 1, 2020. My name is darryl honda, i have been serving on the board of appeals for the past 3 1 2 years. I am a mayoral appointee. Kind of nervous. I do funny, im not on the other side here. I really do enjoy the work that the board does. I am very passionate about what we do. Im sure you are aware, we deal with a variety of cases from food cart to taxi medallions. Were often called the tree stewards of San Francisco. In the time that ive b
Office and the Mayors Office is the right way to try to figure that out. The notion of having commissions over mohcd and oewd are not new ideas, these ideas have been kicking around as long as ive been kicking around this building and maybe its time has not yet time. Maybe we should take the baby step that the mayor is suggesting but why dont we continue that conversation in the days ahead. All right, i would just say in response to that, i mean in an ideal world, having that process play out and again im focusing my comments on oewd, really, great. If it was fast pf paced moving we could have that Commission Oversight and the funding could be doled out in a timely manner, great. But we all know thats probably not going to be happening and i think jeopardizing a lot of Great Community projects that come as a result of that flow through at oewd, im not willing to jeopardize. Supervisor pes pels. I also want to add theres one function within oewd and that is the Development Agreement fun
Offer. All of us have a place in the american story. As long as i am president i will keep working to make sure every single one of us has a chance to succeed. We say you can. Thank you, everybody, and god bless. [applause] president obama leaves sunday night for a fiveday trip to europe and the middle east. Andonday, the netherlands the hague. He will be there for a discussion on keeping Nuclear Material out of the hands of terrorists sent he will attend a Nuclear Security summit on tuesday. The president will travel to brussels tuesday evening and wednesday will take part in the ee youu. S. Summit at the council of the european union. With thelso meet United Nations secretarygeneral anders fogh rasmussen. On thursday the president will meet with the francis at the vatican before wrapping up his trip in saudi arabia. Executives from verizon, comcast, and at t talked about the future of telecommunications and the upcoming spectrum auction. This is part of the free States Foundation the
But said he will ask his partys mps to back the deal to avoid a no deal. This morning, the European Commission president ursula von der leyen and European Council president Charles Michel signed the International Treaty ratifying the post brexit trade deal, due to come into force on january 1st. The agreement is on its way to london, where the Prime Minister borisjohnson will add his signature. Lets speak to our Political Correspondent nick eardley. He is at westminster for us. Just talk us through what is going to happen in the commons this morning. Good morning, it is going to be a busy day here at westminster because suchis busy day here at westminster because such is the length of time left, one day until this trade agreement comes into force, things are going to have to be rushed through the commons and the lords, it is all going to happen in there today. It could be another 20 minutes or so before we hearfrom the Prime Minister, just because parliament has been recalled, they nee