Remarkable places and events like this are really remarkable opportunities we have. I always like to start with these events especially on nights when we are inviting remarkable writers into our midst to talk a little bit about the shop. First i want to talk about richard bell tonight who is a scholar and writer, beautiful writer. This particular book really jumps in with this incredibly human picture of a young boy and from that moment i knew i was in short creative hands as well as scholarly hands. He is educated at cambridge and harvard and beloved professor at the university of maryland. One of the Major University system of maryland awards. I think if there is a round of applause as well its for people educating the next generation of people to have a sense of our history and a sense of what it means as human beings in the world but also particularly americans and someone from elsewhere dedicated to helping us mind history. He is a 2017 public scholar after the National Endowment
[applause] the hon. London breed and let me say, today is about networking, today is about coming together, but we all have to remember is we still have challenges in this country. And part of what were challenged today is to take our knowledge, to take what we learned, to take this excitement and spread this all over the city and all over the board rooms, positions as c. E. O. S of fortune 500 companies. So the goal here is to sink in all this advanced knowledge and think about ways that we can put our best selves forward, but also, we always have to remember to reach back and pull up one another. Thats what today is all about, because ill tell you, had it not been for some of the most incredib incredible women in my community, the amazing mentors who looked out for me, i dont know where id be. Ill just tell you a quick story. My first job at age 14 was working as a place called the Family School. Now, i showed up the first day. Maybe i wasnt necessarily dressed like i am in my mayora
Id like to start your time now i got to switch my strategy because you switched the goddamn topic. Would you like to start Public Comment . Nonresident, you got a lot of nerve talking about nonresident. You got 3,000 strike that you got 320,000 undocumented people that not residents in the city and county of goddamned San Francisco. And theyre not homeless. Is that clear . You got illegal immigration, getting brand new apartments, paying 2, 3 a month. Paying 3 a month for the past several years and he said he had increase in his rent and his rent has been increased to 80 a month for a brand new studio apartment. Is that fair . Then you got citizens, understand me, paying 3,000 a month for the same type of apartment. You have the audacity to talk about nonresidents paying fees. How come you dont talk about noncitizens . You have controversy over one area of the city for tourists to pay and you chance to charge yourself rent, you only charge yourself a 1 a month. Turns out its a 1 a year
Policy issue you want to discuss this morning. If you cannot get through on phone lines, try social media. Twitter cs[apanwj. Facebook. Com . . Cspan and you can send an email. Heres the front page of the Chattanooga Times free press. Nightmare for our city is what they say about the shooting by mohammed abulazeez. The Washington Times leads with that story. Down lower on the front page is a story about congress and what they did. Congress guts no child left behind system. Both chambers of congress have voted to scrap much of the bush Era Education plan, meaning the government will continue to shift billions of dollars to states but well cut her loose and many of the Strings Attached to funding that is a little bit about what happened in congress this week. And the president was in oklahoma, and heres the article in the wall street journal. Rivals team up for justice revamped. One president obama praise conservatives charles and david koch for their efforts laughter rippled through the
About 0. 6 hang seng down almost as much. The shanghai turned in a positive day up by 0. 1 and in europe, in the early trading, at least at this hour, you will see that the markets are weaker as well the cac is the big loser down about 1. 4 . You can see declines of over 0. 7 for the dax, similar decline for the ftse alltime low on the fix yesterd vix yesterday. We kept saying complacency we cant go down suddenly the nasdaq is up. Midday reversal. Everybody told us yesterday that for some reason the vix wasnt the indicator it used to be for volatility or for complacency. If its an alltime low, dont you think people are not worried about anything doesnt that usually set things up for a rise in volatility. My god these things can move around vix up 6 yesterday. We want to get to washington we have breaking news overnight. That could add a bit to the vix. Senate republicans failing to repeal obamacare in a dramatic latenight vote on capitol hill. Kayla tausche has more reporter it was a l