Thank you so much, and welcome to the beat. Im ari melber. Tonight washington and the nation are honoring Capitol Hill Police officer brian sicknick. Laid to rest in Arlington National cemetery after dying defending the capital. And many say democracy itself. Lying in the Capitol Rotunda is an honor usually reserved for former officials. He is only the fifth private citizen to be honored this way, joining people like rosa parks. Against the backdrop of these solemn ceremonies is the fallout over the lies and Conspiracy Theories that powered the resurrection. Republicans vowing to sustain pressure and holding a meeting to discuss potential sanctions for Marjorie Taylor greene whose trafficked in hate, lies and antisemitism before she entered congress. The socalled plane that crashed into the pentagon, its odd there is never any evidence shown for a plane in the pentagon. Barack obamas presidency. Okay. Lets keep going. Lets keep talking about whatever happened. Yes, i do believe he is a
And lots to talk about in your Weather Report today. Shell have the latest on that very soon. We want to get right to our top story. That is the president s late night communetation for his late night friend. Stone was just days away from going to prison for his help in the russia investigation. He was found guilty for lying to congress in part prosecutors say to protect the president. In just a moment, we will talk to congressman adam schiff who led the impeachment fight against President Trump, but we want to begin with kelly odonnell. She is at the white house with the latest. Kelly, good morning. Reporter good morning, peter. This is the first time the president has used this absolute authority to benefit a convicted figure from the russia investigation. After years of mocking and underdhauunde undercutting that probe. And part of the rationale is that the president wiped out the prison sentence in order to protect roger stone medically, to keep him from contracting coronavirus if
Maximizing Police Presence from the charter and add it to the posting. Can we hear from the next speaker . Hi, im a resident of district 5. Im calling in like everyone else to support the amendment to remove the minimum staffing requirements for the sfpd. I also support removal of any language requiring maxization of Police Presence in our community. I just wanted to say that im also extremely disturbed by the idea that sfpd management would come up with a proposal ive been calling into the Police Commission meeting for the last couple of weeks and im disgusted and ashamed of the amount of political posturing with no accountability or responsibility. Id like to remind all of my Community Members who are sfpd is one of the racist and Brutal Police forces in the nation and has been investigated by the department of justices at the federal and state level. They have just been netanyahu. Fire department hi, im calling to support inaudible on the stands that the language should be taken off
Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, my name is alex and im a member of the dsa and resident of the district 10. However the 1,000 walking into the charter was at 94 Ballot Initiatives and the San Francisco Republican Party and the violence crimes is down to low levels nation wide, state wide and San Francisco where last year we had a 58 year low in homicides. The charter language is outdat outdated. And in the ballot guides, public defender jeff brown warned the staffing number will quote takeaway general fund money for Critical Services like health, Drug Prevention and youth facilities and that has come true. Thank you president yee for introducing this amendment eliminating that next speaker, please. Hello h. Is sean cochran from district one in San Francisco. Im calling in support of the Charter Amendment to eliminate language that sets us minimum staffing requirements for San Francisco Police Department. This is a minimum step towards defunding and dei
The inland spots as well. That gray start. Well, our temperatures are running mid to upper 50s to low 60s at this hour. And heres what you can expect as we take you through our day. So right around the bay well see partly sunny to mostly cloudy skies and topping out at just 63 in San Francisco and 70 in oakland and 82 in san jose with a little bit more sunshine inland and 86 for concord. So seasonal if not just a little bit below average for this time of year. Well talk about our warmup through the week coming up in just a few minutes. Im anne makovec at the live news desk. And we just got word of a computer hack on the vatican linked to the chinese government. That is according to a u. S. Firm that tracks state backed cyber attacks. It said that this began in may. The vatican and beijing expected to engage in talks this year over the renewal of a deal that stabilized their relations. But this report says those targets included communications between the Hong Kong Diocese and the vatic