Bay 2019. We have an exciting announcement. I am so glad you are here to join us on this Beautiful Day overlooking the lovely bridge. I am frank finn. I am here for the golden state warriors. It is a lot of years on that side and of course time on this side. You know i have done a lot of events for both mayors in the city. It is an honor to be here. I am a bay area guy born and raised here. We are bringing two cities together to do something positive and to make things happen in the bay area. We have the biggest champions from the neighborhoods and cities here for battle of the bay. We want to acknowledge the lovely mayor mayor london breed and from oakland to my right. It is a competition, folks. It is friendly. The smiles are great. You know we are rolling our sleeves in a few moments. Lets acknowledge from both sides. It wouldnt be a battle without or mascots. From the San Francisco giants lucille. From your oakland as give it out for stomper. [cheers. ] of course, we have Community
Transportation authority to conduct a study, bringing back bus service on 3rd street. Bring back the 15 and potentially routing it to connect with exsettlor and the bart rain to station to the south. Chair all right. Noted. With that is there any general Public Comment . A call for the calvary to come. [laughter] to your rescue. Sounded like that. So im asking the supervisors. When we have our projects that do the asphalting, somehow we should keep in mind our children, school children, our youth and our elders when they cross from one side to the other. We kind of have those things the asphalt. And you dont have the crossing lines in place. Three months now. On san bruno. And i have spoken here four times. You know, i have to stand there and see that our kids are safe. I have to ask like a policeman. Why isnt m. T. A. Doing their job . Why isnt m. T. A. Talking to somebody. Do you all have a check list when you do the asphalting, the contractor did this, the work, asphalting, whatever
[music playing] [bell ringing] [music playing] [music playing] with the heart of warriors together were victorious together we are all [drums beating] together we are voirous yeah announcer ladies and gentlemen mayor breed i just figured everybody would be at work and it would be a couple of us today. But i see the cole Valley Community came out. Thank you so much for being here today at wooden, one of the newest establishments right here in the cole Valley Community. This is an amazing neighborhood. So many great places like reverie and the ice cream bar and zazie. This is an incredible place to enjoy the day. Theres wine that you can buy. There is a postal service. There is hardware. Anything that you want is located in this community. Its one of the bestkept secrets in San Francisco. I know that because i come out here and hide a lot. [ laughter ]. Mayor breed but of course the community, they recognize me because i served as a supervisor and one of the things that we know happens s
Into the apis he did say also that they were saying that they noticed certain moves out among protesters that he equated to terrorism and he did also warn against anyone interfering in Domestic Affairs of hong kong as he put it these are his words no foreign country should interfere in hong kongs internal. Urge those Foreign Forces to respect chinas sovereignty and security immediately stop interfering in hong kongs affairs stop interfering in chinas internal affairs so can i being violent offenses. This should not misjudge the situation on goal the wrong parts all the ones they will lift the storm only to drop it on their feet and. The pattern has been established doesnt it its late in the afternoon to the early evening that the protests really get going and whats happening now. Well today actually as far as we know so there are no protests but this is really just gearing up to do weekend with several protests have been scheduled even though authorities here and negated the request to
The Brookings Institution hosted this 90 minute forum. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to brookings. Thank you for making some time for discussions on africa issues. Coming to brookings and coming to brookings on this day right smack in the middle when many people are at the beach. We would like to welcome you. By ae joined as well professor at st. Lawrence university, the university of which we frequently Work Together on africa issues, which also runs an Excellent Program and nairobi that just celebrated its 45th anniversary. Matt was there doing research and bringing some alumni along on a trip. Finally, joining the panel is john from freedom house. Africas with their program and previously worked in the Obama Administrations policy planning staff. I would like to thank john for an article he coauthored in the Current Issue of Foreign Affairs on some of the promising Democratic Movement in africa. We added kenya and tanzania to the list, along with south africa demo cap africa,