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Commissioners are giving their comments as to whether they should allow the services to expand. There were a whole lot of opinions both supporting and opposing this seemingly controversial situation. In the lead up to todays meeting at the California PublicUtilities Commission hundreds of people converged on the steps of the State Office Building prepared to sound off on the future of selfdriving cars. At issue whether to allow crews to expand the hours of the current Robo Taxi Services in San Francisco and whether to allow waymo to begin its robo taxi pilot service. Two particularly vocal groups today, local unions, and the disabled, seemed split on the issue. Several people who use motoriz ....
Of the fallen officer. We begin with cara liu where a vigil wrapped up about half an hour ago. Reporter a few hundred people showed up for the prayer vigil. They were honoring the fallen officer and saying thank you to all the officers who serve this community. Todays vigil honored Michael Johnson. I honor you as not only a Police Officer but an important part of our community. Reporter hundreds turned out to pay their respects. And i hope you had the opportunity to see what im seeing. Our diverse city coming together tonight to mourn, the slate is wiped clean. As it has been its going to be difficult and especially next thursday. Reporter one Person Holding a flashlight representing johnson. A great heart. Cared about everyone. He had a golden heart. It takes a special person to put on a badge. It makes a difference fo ....
Politics basically falling apart. For years, behindthescenes, he had been giving to candidates. He had several contracts coming huge contracts with the city, one worth 322 million a year. No one really knew who he was until things came to light in 2011 over problems with the current mayor vincent c grays campaign for mayor in 2010. Here, and i do, you see we have one former City Council Member in prison, one who had a plea and did not have to go to prison but had to pay money who was a City Council Member, Michael Brown, the son of ron brown the former head of the committee, and we have marion barry who was in and out of prison and all of that stuff. Is this a more corrupt town than any other . I personally dont think so. I have been covering politics for a long time. I actually covered politics in new jersey be ....
Very serious legal trouble in the span of two years. How did you go about covering Jeffrey Thompson . Well, that began with i the mayor. Er i used to cover the mayors office. Mayoral ered the 2010 campaign. Assigned to ually cover the daytoday, the campaign and that was the at the time. And he was the main opponent of vincent gray who was chairman at the time. So, you know, covered the mall campaign. I was most interested in watching kind of downfalls ecause, you know, everyone saw it coming. And that was my job. Shortly after the after won, iok off, because he eard from Sulaiman Brown would run for mayor. It ended up he had a job in the odd. Istration which was and then the next thing you knew, he was fired and then he do you ing me and said want to talk . And i was like, sure. We knew, he thing described some serious orruption about being paid in the campaign to disparage ....