She was president of the San Francisco board of supervisors. She was appointed mayor and brought san franciscans together after the assassinations and the jonestown massacre. She was then elected the citys first female mayor in 1979. And served 2 terms navigating the city through the height of the aids crisis and pushing for the repair of the citys iconic cable cars. Despite losing in 1990, bid for governor, 2 republican pete wilson, feinstein achieved another first when she and barbara boxer. Were elected to the u. S. Senate during 1992 socalled year of the woman making california the first state in the nation to have 2 female u. S. Senators taking on the gun lobby would be a whole marker for 3 decades careers. I am quite familiar with firearms. I became mayor is a product of assassination. Im aware sound my assassinated colleague and put a fingers through a in a 1994. Her assault weapons ban was passed. Senator, i know something about what firearms condition after the ban sunset in 2
Were getting information about this. What we know is that at least several juveniles got onto a bus, we believe in northeast d. C. , within the last hour, assaulted the driver of that metro bus and then took off on the bus. We know there were several minor accidents for the short distance that these people had this bus. At this point we know the driver is safe. He was injured. Hes being treated right now at the intersection of minnesota avenue in northeast d. C. That is where this bus stopped. What we dont know at this point is whether there were any passengers on that bus. We dont know where the suspects are at this point. Either we do know a knife was involved in the jacking of this bus. So at this point i can tell you we have a crew headed to the scene there. Were working with d. C. Police and Metro Transit Police to get more information about this. As soon as we learn more details, well have that for you from the lye desk. All right. Thank you, aaron. Firefighter the seco your comm
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