Vice chair Rafael Mandelman and today joined by Hillary Ronen. I would like to thank sfgtv for blasting this meeting. Do you have any announcements . Thank you madam chair. The board of supervisors and meetings are doing hybrid for attendance and providing access by telephone. Public comment will be taken on each item on the agenda. Those in person will be allowed to speak first and then those on the telephone line. For watching go to the our website and to the number on the screen and you will hear the discussion and in listening mode only. When Public Comment is called those should line up to speak and those on the telephone pressing star three to be added to the speaker line. Theres turn down the tv and devises youre using and each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak and you may submit Public Comments to the clerk of budget and finance committee at our website as cited on the agenda. If you submit Public Comment by email it will be forwarded to the supervisors and part of the fo
Todays rules americas the first Public Meeting of the board since the sad nows that senator Diane Feinstein passed. Elect in the 1969 Diane Feinstein served on this board from 1970 to 78 when a shocking tragedy aassassinations of the supervisor and harvey milk. She was first woman to serve as board president in San Francisco history and mayor in San Francisco history. The first woman to win dem crediteck nomination for good afternoonor in california history in 1990 the year i met her. She lost this year but i worked for the Political Consulting team 2 years later part of her senate bid and the first women elected to the u. S. Senate in california history. There will be more ponent in the coming days everything this she meant to our city and state and our nation. As an expression condolences i ask we observe a moment of remembrance. Thank you. Mr. Clerk. Board and committee allow in person attorneys and Public Comment and prosecute voiding Remote Access and Public Comment via phone. Tho
To me personally, he remains the father, mentor, comrade in arms and my leader. We must to say thank you to them and trust that our history will grant him his proper place and a chord him his deserved distinction as one of the Founding Fathers and leaders of our nation. Let me also recognise in a very, very special way, the present in our midst of senior statesman of our region and the continent. Led by the president ial candidate of zambia, he remains the only living member of the foundational front line stage party which is anonymous with the decolonisation process in our region. Synonymous. We honour him as indeed we remember all his collea g u es as indeed we remember all his colleagues now departed. The statesman who are with us today show a story of success. May i repeat that. Show a story of succession which speaks well of our continent. It isa which speaks well of our continent. It is a narrative that must to get bolder and bolder. As generations hand over to succeed than once.
Help us understand the facts and figures through Data Journalism . Join us at 7 45pm he had on bbc news. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. It is one of the deadliest attacks in moderate egyptian history, at least 235 people have been killed and more than 100 injured, many critically, after gunmen detonated a bomb and stormed a packed mosque at the end of friday prayers. It happened in a remote town in educs north sinai region. The egyptian president has promised to respond with brutal force. The egyptian president has promised to respond with brutalforce. There are distressing images in this report. These were some of the chaotic scenes after the attack, as hundreds of wounded people were rushed to nearby hospitals. Survivors of one of the most deadly attacks on civilians in egypt. Witnesses said the militants stormed the mosque in northern sinai and exploded a bomb inside. They said around a0 gunmen then fired on worshippers as they tried to flee. They came here to kneel in prayer
Will have more later. And tomasz has got the winter weather. That is a big car certainly not mine. It is in the north where it is really cold, even some icy stretches overnight tonight. Thank you very much. Also coming up. It never left me, i cannot stay away from it. Look whos back. Tom baker, the longest serving doctor, films new footage to complete an episode abandoned because of a strike at the bbc. Good afternoon. More than 180 people have been killed in a militant attack on a crowded mosque in egypt. The countrys president is holding an Emergency Security meeting. It happened in the northern sinai region when armed men stormed the building and detonated a bomb during friday prayers. One report says the target of the attack appeared to be supporters of the Security Forces who were attending prayers. Its the deadliest attack yet in the three year insurgency in sinai. We will be live at our correspondent in cairo very shortly. Zimbabwe has a new president. Emmerson mnangagwa was swo