Pledge. Present member brookter is late. Vice president carrion. Present. Member nguyen. Present. Member palmer. Present. Member hsu. Present. President week ter. Present. Congratulations to member palmer on his reappointment. Said recognized that since our last meeting i remember afuhaamango and carrion for another 4 year term. And we are moving agenda item 4 to come after agenda item 9. Can you call the first item. One, general Public Comment. Public is welcome to address the board for items not on the agendaful comments or opportunity to speak are available for members ever public present in person by approaching president podium. Those yoining remote call the next which is on the screen 4155540001. And entering access code 2599 300 5252. When Public Comment is announced follow the prompts to be added to the queue. When you hear, good upon afternoon, you have 2 minute this is is your opportunity to make Public Commentful you have 2 minutes to provide your upon comments once they ven
before you get the burgers on the grill. let s take a look at some of the week s top stories. desantis has officially entered the 2024 white house race. as we said, the livestream event on twitter got off to a rocky start, crashing several times with the announcement delayed by the more than 20 minutes due to a series of technical glitches. sorry about that, we ve got so many people here, i think we are kind of melting the servers. let s see, so yeah. just to simplify. let s see. crashing, huh? i think we re back online here. great. all right. well, it s certainly an incredible honor to have governor desantis make this stark announcement. oh, the technical troubles drew mockery on social media. president joe biden posted a link to his donation page, writing simply, this link works. and former president donald trump had a series of posts on truth social, calling the announcement fatal and a disaster. he also had one strange post where he wrote, quote, rob, my
sorry about that. we ve got so many people here, that i think we are kind of melting the servers. answering messages begin coming in over the station s teletype. ron desanctimonious needs a personally transplant, and those are not yet available. killed at $14 million, the station emboies the last word in radio transmission. let s see. crashing, huh? wow. ah. okay, you have to give a hat tip to dan and the gang for putting that together. good job. well. that was awkward. welcome to morning joe. that was our producers putting together their view of his failure to launch, ron desantis. on twitter. we can obviously talk about this an awful lot. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 25th. willie, the thing is, we re in the age of twitter. we re in the age of social media. everybody is going to freak out at that exact moment, and they certainly did. there was a meltdown over the meltdown. it was bad. i mean, it was bad on so
ian s death toll in florida is rising today. can we get some help down here? more supplies are coming in. there were four boats that just arrived moments ago. this community has never ever seen this high of flooding before. now we re going into day four without having electricity. that s when you get to that life-threatening range. we have no power, no phone service, nothing. the buildings are ripped off of their foundation and swept backwards. should there have been a mandatory evacuation that came sooner. i wouldn t have changed anything. this storm was unpredictable. there s a degree of personal responsibility here. i think people got complacent. lyman was completely liberated. it s likely to have a roll-on effect to russian positions further towards the russian border in the days ahead. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. the death toll from hurricane ian jumps again in florida. 74 people now confirmed killed by th
is the one who called on the a.g. to investigate this and just moments he s going to join us live and has an update for us. you have all these cartels that basically run this border. selling people and drugs across, big money. unless this situation changes and we take back control from the cartels for the trafficking coming across our border, it will only get worse. sandra: residents in border towns have been warning for months these cartels are now in control of their areas, and this gruesome cartel-style execution is leaving a california town in complete shock and might just be proving their case. sandra smith in new york. john, hello to you. john: middle of the week. at least six people were killed in what police describe an early morning massacre, all the earmarks of a mexican drug cartel attack, due to the brutality and the sophistication of the murders. victims, a teenage mother and 10-month-old baby chased down by a gunman as they ran for their lives from the h