Another war ravaged former colony the Central African republic. Well have that plus much more. In the world this week. The study are there in the newsroom and say hello once again to not be a sharpie planning and pasta hes on the ninth and sound european leaders that are great thanks to a landmark summit ended in bitter disappointment. Ukraine has chosen most. Brussels is its Main Business of mass the Peaceful Protesters in thailand and on the headquarters of the ministry to support that a couple missing in action watch. Changing the way from prostitution to make and if they can build upon each custom as a mother and son sweatpants. And auntie demonstrations take to the streets. The thinking what to post things. One week its the eu against my shirt it was quick to see who was on the amazing and its right yippee me to struggle to put a positive spin on russia to be in a landmark summit even before participants arrived in duties for the two day gathering in the ukraine chairs and most of
Divided country. I have the sport including this. South africa in shock after the captain is shot dead during a robbery. Kurdish fighters in kobani have overnight offensive by i. S. I. L. And some of the heaviest fighting the Syrian Border has seen to date and trying to take this in turkey to the north of the town and i. S. I. L. Cutoff reenforcement and kurdish fighters say they desperately need and helped i. S. I. L. And gain new ground and lets go to our correspondent and we are near ckobani and how is it goin on there . Reporter it has picked up and hearing consistent artillery fire and gunfire and a lull in the last few seconds but its going on pretty intensively and that is after sunday night, last night where kurds in kobani with the heaviest fighting so far and they are determined it seems to try and take a Border Crossing in an area that its in the control of kurds and it could be used as an access point for reenforcements to come and may be iraqi persmerga or reenforcements f
Of San Francisco are clearly in favor of transparency and open government. Its a basic tenant of the legal of women voters to make sure that our democracy is open to all our citizens and that all of our dealings with the government as citizens is transparent. Our candidate, allison wash burn is extremely well qualified. She, like myself, is a past president of the league of women voters and shes worked tirelessly for voter rights and advocacy for over 25 years. Shes also been on this task force, this would be her third term and the task force is in dire need of experience in this area. I commend our nominee, allison wash burn to the committee, and we look forward to you forwarding her name, our nomination to the full board of supervisors. Thank you. Thank you. So for the applicants, would you like to speak, come up and state your name since im calling you up by the order of the agenda. Bow [inaudible], supervisor tang and campos. [inaudible]. [foreign language] my name is chris highlan
And was homeless. As he says now he said i tried to kill myself for 30 years slowly. He said it got so bad that people were throwing change at my feet in the streets. Finally door and decided turn his life around. He wrote down a list of 21 things he wanted to accomplish things like opening a bank account, cooking in his own kitchen. He moved from detroits two saint paul minnesota and once he got there he walked across town to a local nonprofit that he knew could help him and with their help and the help of the minnesota assistant counsel for veterans he got into housing and of Substance Abuse treatment program. Today doran has checked off all 21 items on that list. [applause] [applause] a little cooking in the kitchen paying his own rent and hugged his daughter who he had been separated from for 25 years. Like so many veterans doran continues to give back. He is working fulltime as a caseworker to help other veterans find and sustain housing of their own. He is dedicating his life to
Historic levels and since 2008 the program has brought more than 73,000 veterans out of homelessness. [applause] [applause] and im no mathematician but somebody did the numbers for me. [laughter] that means in the last few years more than 40 times as many veterans have been helped and during most of the programs entire history. The other Program Chris mentioned, the Supportive Services for veterans families the ssp have is a new program started by this administration three years ago to prevent lowincome veteran families from falling into homelessness and last year alone it served more than 60,000 veterans and their family members in next year we expect that number to grow to over 100,000. [applause] and as we all know these programs are making a significant difference even during difficult economic times. Veteran homelessness in america has dropped by 24 in just three years. So we are beginning to make some real important progress on this issue. But we know that we are nowhere near fin