serious and rigorous analytical work and research to get us to where we are today and i want to thank the parks community and parks advocates generally. i see rachel norton here from the parks and lands and for pushing us to be the best parks department i think we can be so let s talk a little bit about this lens, and how we hope to apply it. it starts with the actual charter language which we have which asks us to develop a set of equity metrics to establish a baseline of existing services and resources in low income neighborhoods and disadvantaged communities compared to those resources available to the city as a whole and literally maybe the day after the proposition passed we began thinking how we were going to do this so we have been at this sort of internally from an analytical standpoint for quite some time. i want to emphasize this is an evolvingity riffive conversation. there is no perfect answer. you don t immediately land on the perfect formula and metric. demograp
news 4 midday starts right now. wisconsin congressman, paul ryan, will soon be taking the reigns as speaker of the house. in just a moment, he was just actually elected. you are looking at live pictures from capitol hill where that vote wrapped up minutes ago. john boehner just stepped down from the post before he was hired tomorrow. he said just moments ago, he has a couple of regrets or few regrets as he leaves the office he has held for five years. anything can happen if you are willing to make the necessary sacrifices in life. if you falter, and you will, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and do it again. hope always springs eternal. in just a moment, minority house leader, nancy pelosi will present speaker elect reason and he will be addressing the house here and then later take that oath of office. she is starting right now. let s listen in. today, as every day, we come to this floor strengthened and inspired by the support of our colleagues, the trust of ou
have prevented the protesters from taking over interstate 580 because the crowd was just too large, even if he had gotten mutual aid early. he also said that the late response, if i may, the late response to the looting was because his officers were everywhere. they were spread thin and they just couldn t be at this particular location. but the chief said he was pleased with the strategy last night, because the demonstration was mostly peaceful. the rally in front of city hall was loud, boisterous and peaceful. when protesters began marching, a few smashed windows and sprayed graffiti on buildings. some marchers stopped others from vandalizing. their numbers grew as they got closer to interstate 580. they blocked intersections. suddenly, they rushed on to an on-ramp to the highway. protesters stopped traffic for hours in both directions before police in riot gear forced them off. once on the street, a phalanx of police ordered the crowd to disper disperse. protesters stood th