All right. Good morning, Everyone Welcome to the Transportation Authority plans Programs Committee for tuesday, december 6, 2016, im katie tang chair it is supervisor avalos last Transportation Authority plans Programs Committee thank you for your service and, of course, aaron peskin hopefully joined by commissioner farrell and commissioner breed and thank you from the sfgovtv mr. Clerk. Roll call commissioner avalos commissioner breed is absent commissioner farrell a absent commissioner peskin commissioner tang we have quorum thank you item 2 please. Item 2 Citizens Advisory Committee report this is an informational item we have our cracking chair. Good morning two items to touch on briefing item number 5 the prop k request several questions or comments regarding the alameda Improvement Project to me this was an example to how powerful the Transportation Authority is cosponsoring to the centralizing with sfmta and real estate and with states agencies and caltrain so several members of
5 53 p. M. I want to start off by acknowledging the tragedy in oakland ghost ship fire at the Entertainment Commission we were fortunate to have a body like us to protect and safeguard all over the place look after the folks coming into San Francisco to enjoy the art life anyway want to acknowledge and accepted our love and respect to the families and victims of this fire i know there is a lot work were leaders in open about night life and how to keep it assessable and how to keep a thriving underground, too, and so thats work i think well be looking forward to doing and so i encourage everyone out there in tv land and the public to really support our commission but also the work in continuing the underground community of artist and musicians here in the bay area and San Francisco with that, well start roll call and go ahead with our meeting. Want to do a couple of announcements. Oh, yeah, he forgot before a roll call a few announcements please turn off cell phones and keep them on sil
Sure its preseason game week but we will take it. Former broncos wide receiver Brandon Stokely joining plea how are you man. Im doing great. Youre a bit of a jet setter you got back from ohio recently. Well talk about your trip to canton football hall of fame. Lets talk about thursday night obviously Training Camp underway. What have been your takeaways from the 9, 10 practices weve seen in the broncos. Defense is going to be great as i think everybody a quarterback. The quarterback play has been i would say mediocre. Mediocre just nothing great there every day has been a good day. Need one of those two whether it can mark sanchez or Trevor Simeon to step up and take the job and neither one of them is really doing that right now. Thats really the main thing right that everybody is looking at is because thats the biggest position on the field. Theres no question about that. Why hasnt mark sanchez been able to kinds of assert Training Camp that was what everybody thought mark sanchez was
David cameron shares his last Cabinet Meeting before turning it over to theresa may. We begin with breaking news out of italy, where least 10 people are dead and dozens have been injured. Italian news reports that two passenger chains trains collided headon. We they were traveling from carotid. Fire trucks have reached the scene. An International Tribunal has ruled against claims to in the South China Sea. To accept thes ruling. They said there was no evidence that china had control over the waters or resources. Lets listen to what beijing had to say earlier. We dont recognize it and we will not accept it. To do withe nothing this illegal Arbitration Court case. Not accept any document they provide, whatever they may be. The Chinese Government has said they reject the position. What else have they been saying . They are rejecting it and calling it illegal, invalid, saying they will not accept it in any way, shape, or form. Thus far, and are going to continue their condemnation and reje
Ga, after brexit is it the end of the eu . Im joined by three excellent panelists. The editor of the opinion page el, in berlin, and he says brexit could be good for europe. Also, derek scully of the irish times who argues brexit is a failure of the european class. And, welcome to hannah cleaver, who joins us straight from the dw news desk. It is difficult to tell who will be the biggest loser from brexit , britain or the eu. I would like to begin with you, martin, because you are the optimist in our ranks today. You say that brexit could be good for the eu. Please explain how. I would love to. Theres just one aspect im optimistic about. The aspect i am optimistic about is what happened in the u. K. Vote. The brexit some people predicted a recession. So people in all of europe, continental europope, now see wt brexit, but going out means. So the alternative, you have europe. It is now as clear as it ever was before. You are now prosperous and not a sovereign as you could be, or you are