Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco Transportation Authority personnel committee. My name is supervisor avalos chair of the Transportation Authority and chair of this committee and joined to my left by commissioner cohen and we will be joined shortly by commissioner mar. Our sfgtv staff who are broadcasting today are Jessie Larsen and john. Thank you for your work today and other committees at the board of supervisors. Madam clerk would you call the first item. Item number one roll call. Commissioner avalos. Present. Commissioner cohen. Present. Commissioner mar. Absent. We have a quorum. We have a quorum. Great. Lets go to next item. Item two is approval of the november 12, 2013 meetings. This is an action item. Okay. We have the minutes. Any questions . Okay. Lets open the minute for public comment. Any member that would like to comment please come forward and seeing none we will close public comment. [gavel] motion to approve the minutes. Move it. Second. I will take a vot
This is bbc world news today. Im Lewis Vaughan jones. Our top story. The queen says prince harry and meghan will no longer use their royal titles as they step down as working royals. The couple will pay back more than 2. 4 Million Pounds of public money spent on refurbishing their residence Frogmore Cottage in windsor. They will also stop receivng public funding for royal duties, and harry will resign from his official military appointments. Hello and welcome to world news today. Prince harry and meghan will no longer use their royal titles, and will no longer recieve public funds to carry out royal duties. This has been confirmed by Buckingham Palace. In a statement her majesty the queen said. Harry, meghan and archie will always be much loved members of my family. Our royal correspondent Daniela Relph has more from Buckingham Palace. Hugely significant. It is taking the past week or so to really drill down how this is going to work and there have been various meetings going on at the
We begin in tianjin, china, where the grim numbers are rising. Is 12 112 people are now dead in last weeks devastating chemical explosion. Government officials fear the numbers will go up. They are combing the debris for any survivors. Miraculously, a 56yearold man was rescued earlier. He was found barely conscious and rushed to the hospital, reported in critical condition. Our will ripley is live for us in tianjin. Weve seen the aerial shots of this of the scope for this. You are up close and right there in the thick of things. Whats the latest . Reporter thats right, natalie. You can look at all of the destruction but behind a lot of this devastation are thousands of people who are going through a very difficult time right now. One of them is this man who i met just a short time ago and he gave me a tour of his building, it was a condo. He and his wife and her parents and his parents have been saving up for years so that they could have a home together. This newlywed couple and you s
Advisors getting chatty coming out in front of cameras. Jason miller, the Senior Communications officer saying no there is no knife fight inside the trump transition team. And even Newt Gingrich saying no no no were not going to be filling these positions right away. We have time. Were not going to do it on the medias timetable. One interesting question has not been resolved yet. And that is this issue of whether or not Jared Kushner, Donald Trumps soninlaw, the husband of ivanka trump will be receiving the security clearance necessary to receive the president ial Daily Briefing. Kellyanne conway, was asked this earlier today. She said she didnt know the answer. But when she was asked whether that is appropriate she said yes it is. Because if you are going to get the president ial Daily Briefing you need that kind of access. That kind of talk has prompted the top democrat on the House Oversight committee to fire off a letter to mike pence saying that is not appropriate, sonsinlaw do no
A deal done on healthcare. The senate showdown. Reporter they cleared the first turtle opening the debate, that wasnt easy with mike pence casting the tiebreaker, two republican senators voting against it. It would not have been possible without the heroic return of john mccain as donald trump acknowledged in last nights rally. This was a big step. I want to thank senator john mccain, very brave man. He made a tough trip to get here and vote so we want to thank john mccain and all the republicans. We passed it without one democrat vote. Reporter now the hard work starts passing a bill that replaces obamacare is proving more difficult, the senate blocking 5743 and amendment favored by Mitch Mcconnell that included language from senator ted cruz with cutrate policies adding 100 billion to compensate for medicaid cuts, democrats continued to oppose the effort, john mccain rising to the occasion suggesting it is time to reach across the isle. Return to regular order. We have been spinning