It states Hurricane Helene was just upgraded. A powerful category three storm. Its already wreaking havoc on bridges and roadways such as this one youre looking at in Southwest Florida for those in the Big Bend, thats where the Florida Panhandle meets the peninsula. The storms Outer Bands all already have brought extensive flooding. And were told that works is yet to come. Listen to what federal and state officials are saying right now, it looks like its dead on hit to tallahassee. This is an unusually dangerous storm that threatens to bring Heavy Rain and potentially catastrophic flooding. This will be a statewide event. We expect strong winds throughout date with hurricaneforce Winds Wind Gust up to 8,200 miles an hour you just heard from the North Carolina Governor and the Georgia Governor we are standing by to hear from florida governor Ron Desantis in the next hour. And as you heard, it is not just florida in helenes pam, georgia, south carolina, North Carolina, are all all facing
Clerk on a motion to not disclose the closed session deliberations [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Chair mar thank you, mr. Clerk. Is there any further business . Clerk that concludes our business for today. Chair mar great. We are adjourned. Take care. Good morning. The meeting will come to order. The december 3rd meeting. I am joined by Committee Member peskin. Committee member haney will be joining us. I would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this. Do you have announcements. In order to protect the public and City Employees during the Health Emergency the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. This is taken pursuant to local state and federal orders and directives. Committee members will attend through video and participate to the same extent as if physically present. Public comment is available for each item on the agenda. Both cable channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the call in number on your screen. Your opportunity to spea
Rally has fed into crude. Propelled thates price. People look beyond the covid to a look beyond to a returned to normal. Gold pretty much stable appeared bitcoin at record highs. Up about two thirds of 1 . We have a u. S. Dollar index unchanged. Lets have a look at the copper price. Copper advancing. The highest price and a more than six years. It is under president elect joe bidens formal transition. The hope is there will be a move toward a Lower Carbon Energy future. That britain the outlook for its demand. As has what is going on in china up. Joining in all of that. Lets have a look at the transition in more detail as we get over to new york and join Karina Mitchell for the first word news. Introduced biden has his foreignpolicy and Security Experts as he seeks to calm relations with International Friends and foes. The president elect is promising a multilateral approach, reversing the America First tragedy of the Trump Administration. He will prioritize ending damaging executive o
The chair recognizes the gentleman from kansas, mr. Marshall, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Speaker. In response to successful precise United States air strike against iranian terrorists, general soleimani, a strike that was carefully thought out, that was vetted, there was carefully planned by our president , the secretary of state, white house leadership, and the pentagon my democrat colleagues are threatening to force a vote to restrict our president s ability to exercise his constitutional powers as commander in chief. And thus place more american lives at risk. Listen, i dont want a war. The president doesnt want a war. Many, many kansans i talked to, they dont want any more american lives lost in another endless war in the middle east. But what kansans do want is a president to draws a redline and actually means it. If you harm an american or any american interests, we will respond swiftly, decisively, and, yes, disproportionately. For kansans, its pure and simple common sense
Fellow members who have been asked to come back and pinchhit for our 100 and 12th president , allison kojak, who is getting welldeserved rest leading Investigative Unit having just unit at the Associated Press, having just Left National public radio. Thinking the members as always for putting their trust in me to has have served as the 110th president in 2017. We welcome our headliner, congressman elijah cummings, democrat from the state of maryland, chairman of the House Committee of oversight and government reform. Before i get into the formal introduction, we will introduce the head table. A couple of housekeeping rules. The latter first. If you do have a question for the chairman, those of you in the ballroom, you have your cards on the table. Please write them down and pass them up front. We will try to ask as many of them as time permits and so forth. Also if you have a mobile device and you have slipped in there in the past few minutes and didnt hear my earlier warnings, before