Okay. Great. Are we captioning . Great. Okay. Good. Welcome everybody to the first meeting of 2015 for the Mayors Disability Council. We will begin with our introduction. Thank you councilmember supanich happy new year and welcome to the council this friday in room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheel chairs and other devices and wheelchair access is provided at the grove and access and provided via wheel chair lift. Assisted listening devices are available and our meeting is open captions and sign language interpreted. Our agendas are also available in large print and braille. Please ask staff for my additional assistance. To prevent electronic interference with the rooms sound system and to focus on the presentations, please silence all mobile phones and pdas. Your cooperation is appreciated. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment. You may complete a speakers card located in the front of the room or call our bridge line wh
Captioning . Great. Okay. Good. Welcome everybody to the first meeting of 2015 for the Mayors Disability Council. We will begin with our introduction. Thank you councilmember supanich happy new year and welcome to the council this friday in room 400 of San Francisco city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheel chairs and other devices and wheelchair access is provided at the grove and access and provided via wheel chair lift. Assisted listening devices are available and our meeting is open captions and sign language interpreted. Our agendas are also available in large print and braille. Please ask staff for my additional assistance. To prevent electronic interference with the rooms sound system and to focus on the presentations, please silence all mobile phones and pdas. Your cooperation is appreciated. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment. You may complete a speakers card located in the front of the room or call our bridge line where a staff person w
High grounds those are not areas that are filled we have the existing seawall and the ocean beach we have a high wall and the highway and the other side. Commissioner moore kind of touched on that the perfect storm the worse Case Scenario you add the delta levys and the breakage how does that come into play thats a concern its in front of us today maybe 50 year seawall rise. Im not pretending to be an environment what happens in the delta and other parts of bay will not likely have effects on San Francisco because the ocean is enumeration so water awnings the floods areas of the innuendo the delta levies would not effect in my i think measurable way the sea level that we say experience on our coast in San Francisco. Any another questions . Okay. Thank you very much commissioners that places you on general Public Comment i i have no speaker cards. Any general Public Comment seeing none, i want to close this meeting and thank you commissioner president wu shes done a fantastic job clappi
Defense secretary ash carter laid the takeover blame securely on iraqi forces saying they had no will to fight. It will not only talk about the statement made but will also ask you in the first 45 minutes to talk about iraq and what the u. S. Should be doing their whether they need more u. S. Forces, doing the same or less. You might have a lot of opinions and you can give us your thoughts. 202 7488000 four democrats. 202 7488001 four republicans. 202 7488002 for independents. Join the conversation on facebook. Send us an email. The Washington Post picked up the statements of ash carter talking about ramadi and the state of Iraqi Security forces. For the full interview, here is a bit of it. [video clip] the iraqi forces showed no will to fight. They were not outnumbered. They vastly outnumbered the opposing forced and yet they failed to fight. They withdrew from the site. That says to me and most of us that we have on young issue an issue with the will of iraqis to fight isil and defen
Excited to have me here. I responded. Was that you . Good to see you in the world. Just to tread lightly and question the status quo partly for me what i feel is a visible position i am a private person, and i use twitter more for professional services, so you will see me tweeting things like we issued our transparency report. That is the kind of thing i want people to know about. I know there are a lot of other people tweeting about seeing their daughters first steps. My daughters first steps were experienced by me in the comfort of my own home and were not disseminated in this way, but that is up to each on their own. Dean lyons i tend to use it professionally as well as well but occasionally i will tweet about my kids, and it sounds authentic to them. I think they respond favorably. Gabriel it is lovely. It is lovely. As a user, some of those moments where i get to see this unvarnished look at people ive never would have had access to i love those experiences. To be able to be expos