this is cnn news central. defense secretary lloyds atin, and secretary of state tony blinken is on capitol hill right now, and the goal and the mission for them today is to make the case to lawmakers for president biden s $106 billion ask for an aid package that he wants in order to support both ukraine and israel, two nations at war, two allies of the united states. but what has happened is protests. blinken interrupted multiple times by people protesting, angry over israel s action in ga gaza. cease-fire now! cease-fire now! cease-fire now. sasha bertrand is tracking hearing for us and joining us again, and they have essentially been able to make the opening statements and to the questions from the senators, and what is the case they are making for the aid package? well, kate, one of the big themes that we are hearing from secretary blinken and acetin is that the wars that ukraine and israel are fighting is inextricably linked and you can t divorce the two in a
Esteemed board of supervisors for the prestigious honor, something i feel i have not earned or deserve, with all due respect, though i would say this honor is something i would accept on behalf of my fellow artists in the city and wherever they are working hard behind the scenes to follow their visions and dreams of making the world a more beautiful place with their art. Im also sincerely grateful to the friends and folks here today for the support you have all shown the artists in your life. Transcends ethnic labels and for me a more universal identity. Always be grateful to the city i love to be part of the fabric of life here and follow my dreams to become an artist. San francisco has always been a magical place from my childhood, although i was not born here, my two sons were. Im a kid of the 1960s, and those were for me formative years in art school, i give thanks to richard stevens, the director of the original academy of art for the working scholarship. He always encouraged me t
To represent poland to represent team u. S. A. , that was a great experience because i got to compete against skaters from other countries. And nationals, i pushed myself to try to land the triple axel. And that has really been a huge goal for me. And just looking up to nathan chen, hes top skater right now, and competing at the olympics. That has inspired me. Sometimes i lack motivation and i watch the top skaters and that helps me a lot, one of my favorites is nathan chen. I try to be like him, but in my own way, so that really pushes me to attempt quads. And try to improve. And yeah, right now, my hope is to make it to the olympics and hopefully 2020. 2022 olympics. And yeah, i would like to thank everyone for coming. [applause] congratulations, again, well watch you on tv at the olympics. Congratulations. Next up, we have supervisor fewer. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Today, it is my honor Kate Williams yam and william and his family come up . President breed come on, you
The chamber, congratulations again and thank you for making San Francisco a beautiful place for everyone to enjoy. Thank you. Well, colleagues, that concludes our commendations for the day. Thank you to all the honorees and the people who join them in recognizing some amazing folks who not only take care of San Francisco, but make San Francisco a more beautiful place. Looking forward to next week commendations where we will im sure have some more amazing people. Thank you all so much for being here today. All right. With that, madam clerk, well go to our first 3 00 p. M. Special order. Please read the item. Items 2427, comprise the public hearing of persons interested in the determination of exemption from Environmental Review, under the California Environmental quality act or approved on november 30th, proposed project at 1526 wallace avenue to process and sell small lifestock in a pdrtwo processing distribution and zoning repair district. Item 25 is the motion to affirm that it is ex
And i just want to thank you, at such a young age, for being such a role model for all of us here. Thank you, thank you. [applause] hi, everyone, thank you for coming. Im din tran, im 16. I go to high school. Ive been skating for 12 years. Im a national and international competitor. And i would hike to take you through my journey of figure skating. So i started when i was 4. My mom took me to the rink. And i skated with my friends and my mom, she kept taking me and i just really enjoyed it and had lots of fun and smiled and right then she knew that i loved figure skating. I continued to train and she worked out time schedule with my coach. And ive been training with him for ten years. And then i switched coaches to jeffrey. And ive been working with him for two years. And ive been really pushing myself to try to get to the top. And sometimes its hard, but the thing that pushes me and tells me not to give up is that i have to understand that figure skating is hard. And that nothing is e