General Public Comment item no. 3. Please come on up. I have one card in front of me. Mr. John furlan okay thank you, president cohen. First off, im disturbed about the trend of moving closed session to the front of the agenda and having members of the public have to wait for an hourandahalf and two hours to wait for you to get through the investment calendar. And i would respectfully request that you move the investment calendar back to the agenda, so members of the public dont have to cool their heels while you are dealing with that. Okay. If necessary if you could move it to a special meeting each month, rather than jampack your agenda, so you are not out of here before 5 00 or 6 00 or 7 00; that would be even better. I would like to correct the record last month, ke walker inappropriately and inaccurately quoted that the program for the dalt investment would yield 9. 4 . She misread bob shaws analysis. She was quoting percentage for the loans that have already been repaid, and i be
Driverless cars. Welcome to your world, im stephanie sy im del walters. Calm on the streets of baltimore. Small groups demanded justice after a judge declared a mistrial in the case against a Police Officer. William porter was the first of six officers to go on trial. Jurors were deadlocked and could not reach a verdict. John terrett is live in baltimore, it appeared protesters heeded the calls for calm, didnt they . Seemed to have done. It looked as if the city got off lightly. There was a serious but small scuffle outside the courthouse when news of a mistrial came through yesterday. The protest continued around the city hall area, and then the protesters moved up to west baltimore, and there was a large rally close to the c. B. S. Which was burnt out. Driving around the city, walking here, we have been up early, and there are police men everywhere. Thats the difference, the Police Service got a jump on this, rather than being caught on the hop which happened since last april. They w
His lead widens on the field. Hill Hillary Clinton weighting in with comments last night on late night with seth myers. I have to say, seth, i no longer think he is funny. Yeah i carted stash. Maria well have latest developments in San Bernardino, california. Fbi focusing on a lake near the terrorist attack. Divers looking for missing exciter hard drive. In sports, Arizona Cardinals clinch ad trip to the playoffs. They beat the Minnesota Vikings 2320. Back to our top story right now. Islamic state militants stolen up to one billion dollars from bank vaults in syria and iraq. They made another half a Million Dollars in black market sales of oil. This according to a top u. S. Treasury official. What is more, syria and president Bashar Alassads government are merging in millions and millions of dollars in oil trade with isis, despite being at war with one another. Want to bring in congressman lee zelden, good morning to you. Good morning, maria. Maria what is the take on relationship betw
Disaster prepairdedness committee thmpt cochair which is myself. The ddpc had 2 meetings and i did have notes from september and november because of time constraints ill review the november notes. Hold on, please. Mayor Disabilities Council subcommittee on disaster prepareardsness met november 6, 2015 and focused on el 9o. The meeting was well attended and included memberoffs city deerment pas, public helt, emergency management, human sunchss as well as Community Organizations in home support services, public support, sf card, aging and disability, friendly sf. The first part the meeting including a presentation from roger [inaudible] from National Weather service in monterey who shared the updates on the el 9ee information. We cant be concern certain on the mass of storms expected from late december and up to manch. For San Francisco some of the implications can include lands slide power outage due to fallen trees or flooding, city aijss pg e and Public Utilities are hard at work prep
To a rap of mostly economic data. The strongest pace of productivity growth in a year and a half. Along with a drop in labor costs. The private adp survey of job growth was steady and that also helped a bit. Add to that the feds view that the economy is growing and you had a recipe for a stock bounce. By the close, the Dow Jones Industrial average rose 293 points. To 16,351. The nasdaq rose 113, and the s p 500 add 35. Bob delves a little deeper into the rally. Reporter the markets started up and stayed up. Why was there a rally . China was relatively quiet. Then oil rallied in the middle of the day which was a surprise. The weekly inventory report showed another bill. The oil rally helped oil names like exxonmobil. The icing on the cake came in the last halfhour when the dow rallied an additional 100 points. Unlike some days in the last couple weeks, there were no orders to sell stocks at the close. In the middle of the day, the fed released the beige book report and the tone was very