edwin m. lee international terminal departures hall. thank you very, very much. i have gone to a lot of you for support, and we loved ed, and thank you. naomi, i have to say, reading through all of his accomplishments, i have to think all of you that worked with ed and for ed. we are on the outside, and we don t know how much work it is, but seeing all that was done, and so many of us are involved with so many pieces of it, and that s why ed was as good a mayor he was because of all of you, so thank you. [applause] thank you. so, i don t think mayor brown made it here this evening, i don t see him, but he did love mayor lee, he was very instrumental working with steve kavanaugh and our former governor, our governor and former mayor gavin newsom. jason elliott just had a heart attack right there. [laughter] but in having and become the interim mayor when mayor newsom went on to run for lieutenant governor, so he has had wonderful things, and was a wonderful advisor, and a
all right. hello, sunny day. [cheers.] so, so excited to be here with each and every one of you. i am sorry for those we don t have chairs for. we didn t expect a big crowd, but when you talk about the city budget, i guess everyone shows up. i am so glad to see the residents here. thank you to everyone who joined us on the tours earlier of the unit. today we, of course, through the tours saw the challenging conditions that people are living right in this neighborhood, just a few miles from our thriving downtown, and yet a world apart. as someone who grew up in public housing, i have lived these conditions. i know these conditions. i don t expect everyone to understand the challenges of public housing the way that i do or the way the residents of sunny dale do, but i do expect everyone to put in the time to understand. i wanted department heading and elected officials to come see for yourselves the hard work that we have to do. thank you to everyone who joined me today, espe
to always say that mindy was from uptown and i was from across town, but we worked together, we had the understanding of working with disadvantaged communities, people from the projects, women who had a real difficult time getting into the trades, and ex offenders in and out of prison so we had a special population that we worked with, and we didn t leave a rock unturned for them to get to where they were trying to go. we always had an expression that we would say with each other, everybody deserves the right to work who want to work, and san francisco being the unique cosmetology and cosmopolitan place it is, there s a vast array of people, but yet there was pockets of poverty, and pockets of people who were being denied, so mindy being the kind of fighter she was, and me being the kind of fighter that i was, we made a perfect team. even though she is not with us physically, she is here with us spiritually. i appreciate everybody being able to acknowledge her, city build,
being built that weren t but not a lot of access for community members to be a part of building in their own neighborhood, and so the fight started in the western edition, and lead us to what i think has been one of the most successful programs in creating an opportunity for people to basically participate in building the city that they were born and raised in. that is why i m excited to be here today. i m excited because we have the graduates of the future, the ones who are going to continue to build the housing, to build the public safety buildings, to build the parks, to participate in making a difference in your city. just imagine growing up and playing at haworth playground, and all of a sudden, you are the one who is installing the new swingset and other things that future generations are going to be able to play on for years to come. that is what this program represents. it represents an opportunity, yes for a career, yes, to help to make sure that you have a good pa
under a year and the mother of all caverns. rolling stones officials will tell you which song has been moved, i battle with the woke mob. you are watching fox and friends first . we start as the white house goes into overdrive to protect the president from being the grinch who stole christmas. jillian: mark meredith in washington as the administration claims to be handling the supply crisis leaving some store shelves empty. the white house admits there are problems with america s supply chains and those disruptions are impacting shoppers, businesses and everybody in between so to get goods moving first the president says the government has reached an agreement that will keep the port of los angeles open 24/7 and also urging american businesses to do more to prevent these backlogs. president biden: of the private sector doesn t step up we will call them out and ask them to act because our goal is not only to get through the immediate bottleneck but to address the lo