thank you, are there any other members of the public for general public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed and we are adjourned. [gavel] good afternoon everyone and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, april 25, 2017. mdm. clerk please call roll call thank you read present, cohen, present, farrell, present, fewer present, kim, present, paskin-jordan present, ronen present, safai present, genji present, tang present, yee present. mme. pres. all members are present. thank you ladies and gentlemen please join us for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] b thank you everyone. mme. clerk any communications? i have none to report colleagues any changes to the march 14, 2017 meeting minutes? seeing none, is there a motion to approve those minutes? moved by supervisor farrell. seconded by supervisor tran view. colleagues can we take that without objection? without objection those meeting minutes will be passed a
further south and west the temperatures will not be far away from 20. similar temperatures into next week, west is best, little or no rain around and some sunshine at times. hello, this is bbc news. our latest headlines. theresa may says she is taking nothing for granted after the tories‘ success in the local elections. campaigning in the west midlands, she urged voters to give her a strong mandate to negotiate brexit. jeremy corbyn who s been visiting the east midlands says his party faces a huge challenge to win the general election. but he insisted the gap between labour and the tories isn t as great as the pundits have been saying. the liberal democrats say they would put a penny in the pound on income tax to go towards the nhs and social care. party leader tim farron said politicians needed to be honest about financing the health service. the ukip leader paul nuttall urges his supporters to stay on the pitch despite suffering heavy losses on thursday. he said vot
the move to sack fbi chief james comey has caused huge controversy. donald trump claims he s lost confidence in mr comey, and the bureau needs new leadership. but opposition politicians say it s an attempt to block the fbi s investigation into the possible links between the trump campaign and russia. here s what mr trump had to say when questioned at the white house. why did you fire directed comey? because he wasn t doing a good job, very simply. he was not doing a good job. did it affect your meetings with the russians today? excuse me? will the new fbi director be in charge of the russian investigation? laura bickerjoins me from washington. it s been more than 2a hours since james comey was dismissed. what more do we know about why he was removed? the question everyone has been asking is, why now? why remove the fbi director, the man in charge of the investigation into whether or not russia colluded with the trump campaign during the presidential election? that has been a
the move to sack fbi chief james comey has caused huge controversy. donald trump claims he s lost confidence in mr comey and the bureau needs new leadership. but opposition politicians say it s an attempt to block the fbi s investigation into the possible links between the trump campaign and russia. here s our north america editorjon sopel this is a fox news alert. fbi directorjames comey has been fired by the president of the united states. the term breaking news is bandied around with abandon. last night, it was justified. because, at fbi offices, the first they knew that their director had been fired was when it flashed up on their tv screens. and james comey, who was in los angeles addressing staff, knew nothing about it either until an aide handed him a note and the letter sent by president trump was brutal. at least they left him the governmentjet to fly back to the east coast, a private citizen, a turbulent career cut short. and today the president was unrepentant. rep
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, we ll 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 silent not to disturb the preceding and secondly, if you re a member of the public and want to make public comment do so when i call you and public comment speaker cards to fill out beforehand and to the staff and finally thank you to sfgovtv and media serves for airing this meeting live to the public every time we meet now go ahead with the roll call. commissioner perez commissioner thomas commissioner caminong commissioner joseph commissioner lee commissioner frost president tan. everyone is here. would you a full house.