Chair m chair mar good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, march 5 meeting of the government audit and Oversight Committee. Im supervisor gordon mar, the chair of this committee, and im joined by supervisor matt haney, and supervisor aaron peskin will be joining us shortly, as well as supervisor sandra lee fewer. Thank you to this committees clerk, john carroll, and id like to thank sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copies of any documents should be provided to the clerk. Items acted on today will appear on the march 10 board of supervisors agenda. [agenda item read]. Chair mar supervisor fewer, thank you for joining us this morning as the sponsor of this hearing. The floor is yours. Supervisor fewer thank you, committee. I call this hearing today after discussions with ifpte local 21 because i am concerned about the use of Civil Service exclusi
A pipeline that will deliver russian gas from siberia to cities across china. Thank you very much for joining us Security Forces have stopped an angry crowd from marching towards a u. N. Base in the east of the democratic republic of congo they were heading to the peacekeeping compound near the airport in beni one of 2 bases in that city at least 2 people have been killed demonstrators have been targeting u. N. Peacekeepers there for more than a week now saying they offer to protect civilians from attacks by rebel groups there speak to aljazeera producer. Who is in beni and joins us on the lie i understand the Congolese Army has just held a News Conference what have they said. To. Rule them in. That. Was. Exactly what happened. I dont were going to leave it there because were having a hard time understanding you the phone line unfortunately is not very good with many. There are produced conny updating us on the situation in beni where protesters tried to storm a u. N. Compound in that
Security forces stopped an angry crowd from marching towards a u. N. Base in the east of the democratic republic of congo they were heading to the peacekeeping compound near the airport in beni one of 2 bases in that city at least 2 people have been killed demonstrators have been targeting u. N. Peacekeepers there for more than a week now saying theyre failing to protect civilians from attacks by rebel groups that speak to their as producer. Who is in beni for as he is on the line understand that there was a press or a press conference with the Congolese Army a short while ago tell us about what they have been saying. Yes. 4 folks. Who are trying to justify their actual no doubt need to be. Good most. People probably the group that did not commission which group but he said he would be more tough because. A he said. You know what it is not to get him in. The forces even to please. The people trying to. Unify to do the. Talking about. Good again. Whats going on to put this situation is
A powerful typhoon slams into the philippines. And im leah harding and doha with all of your sports argentina and barcelona superstar lionel messi wins his 6th ballon dor title it equals the number one by his great rival christiane arnaldo. Police in the democratic republic of congo say 4 people were killed on monday during protests in the eastern town of banning 3 protesters and one policeman gunfire was heard as civilians marched on a Un Peacekeeping base in the area the call of these army has been deployed to block them from getting close the locals are protesting against what they feel is a lack of protection from the un after a recent spate of attacks by on dreadful groups at least 100. 00 people were killed in november and beyond the Democratic Forces militia has been blamed for much of the violence well the army has issued an appeal for locals to avoid protesting as its preventing the soldiers from carrying out security operations. It. We are calling on our populations and all o
Is going to increase that fire behavior to levels we saw when the fire initially began. Lets pull up the map of the areas affected by the kincade fire. The red portion at the top of the screen is where the fire is burning. The purple area shows where there are mandatory evacuation orders in place. The blue area indicates places where people were told they can now return to their homes. However, they have been told there is still and evacuation warning in effect, and they should be ready to evacuate again quickly if necessary. 30,000 people in western Sonoma County are back at home this morning. They went back after getting the allclear to do it. Allie rasmus is at the fairgrounds with fewer people today. Reporter yes, overall the kincade fire has led to an unprecedented number of evacuations, as we know, about 250,000 people across northern california. Here at the Sonoma County fairgrounds, this is one of 16 shelters according to the red cross thats open and serving evacuees of the kin