mr. schroeder. whoever else is ready come forward. >> my name is tom schroeder and 75 years old and still biking and required because i have danish heritage. i've had two accidents or more and one driver just wasn't paying attention and hit me in the bike lane from behind and the other left me with a seven-hour operation with 10 screws and two hinges in my face. though they did a great job. i just want to say as another option for some bike lanes that we have the reserve lanes like at pole being street and did the same thing in sun set i go on the left side because there's less on regular streets there's busses and people turning right but when i can make lots of eye contact with the people turning off the street and i find that making me safer. i can decide if they're not going to stop or i have to stop and that would help people with the reserve flow. one thing i feel bad about is they don't mark bike lanes in the intersection which is the most dangerous place. in denmark those things g

mr. thompson: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise to recognize july as park and recreation month. it's a fitting time to celebrate our local parks and recreation systems as so many americans will visit them this summer. an avid outdoorsman and spending my life as a recreational therapist, i enjoy our parks and facilities. it provides educational opportunities for individuals and families to enjoy the outdoors. this month recognizes the roles they play in lives of americans and contributions of employees who work every day to maintain public parks across the nation. our parks create opportunities for people to come together and experience a sense of community. they contribute to local economies by attracting businesses and increasing housing values. in the united states, capital spending generates nearly $140 million in economic activity ackually. our national park system receives an estimated 331 million visits every year. 90% of americans agree that they are important government services. this support spans across all people in the country regardless of race, income or political

mr. buck. >> good evening, commissioners. chris buck with san francisco public works. i would add that people write poetry about really large trees. they don't write poetry about really small replacement trees. we've evaluated the subject ficus trees. we've been here in the past, talking about the pourous structure of ficus trees. we were here back in october of last year talking about the removal of these trees. our goal of public works across all departments is to ensure a safe, clean, and green infrastructure for all the reasons that appellant just outlined in great detail. one of the advances that we have for tree maintenance is increased funding. unfortunately, most of the maintenance we're doing is pruning. and we do come across tree that's have a much higher failure rate than other species, so ficus trees are something that we're concerned about. we have more information on our rid pruning, which is strategic and systematic going block by block. that's how these trees came to our a

how things were to be handled and while not being a good fun to do for the mr fun parking but it was a sensitive cargo eskin call it was a sensitive consignment and i reckon that he came to see us maybe once every 2 or 3 months and simply told us how things were to be handled and how not. from digging in other words it was important for us to proceed according to certain regulations is he not showing gauging any illegal transporting or. illegal and transport it's fun to save a sickly he or the b. and they decided what was on and what wasn't good good exactly. this is how the system worked coleman maintained contact with the belugas shipping company for the b.m.d. when the company planned an arms transport it asshole man whether he saw a problem if he didn't stolberg gave the go ahead and the ship sailed for example a vessel was supposed to take a consignment of tanks rockets and ammunition to the congo the plan was to load the arms in the secret ukrainian port of october ask. the arms cargo was coordinated by the shipping companies chartering director he wrote to neil stolberg saying

and service members performed at the lincoln memorial where military hardware have been parked. mr. trump is the first president to deliver remarks at the national mall on independence day in nearly 70 years. >> i think it's monumental, and i think it's historical. and i think if he's going to say stuff to bring us together, so be it. that's what we're here for. >> reporter: critics say the president is playing politics on a holiday that typically brings americans together. protesters came armed with a balloon depicting him as an angry baby. and a talking robot. >> no collusion. a witch hunt. >> reporter: jeff stratern from frederick, maryland, made this homemade contraption to protest the show. >> when he said he was going to take over what is a national holiday and turn it into a political campaign rally, i just thought that that's not what 44 presidents before him have done. and that we should take it back for the people. >> reporter: white house officials say president trump's remarks are patriotic, not political, but v.i.p. tickets went to the republican national committee and

or at the park? mr. pegues: back then, a lot times we held drugs on us because the police were not as prevalent as they are today. they were not around. ironically, there is like 50,000 police officers in new york city back then, but there's only 36,000 now, but they were not as react to. but we would just put it in a tire well, stick it in the tree. you keep some on you so you would not have to keep running to the stash. obviously you cannot carry 200. i would have a package of 300 vials for the shift. we just lay them down somewhere. brian: other any team members that are still around that you know? mr. pegues: yes. brian: in this book, there are so many names. how many of those are the actual names of the people? mr. pegues: only two. brian: those two are? mr. pegues: supreme and prince. and who was prince? either way, when we saw you in that video, who was the other person in the video with you? mr. pegues: smooth. he went on to become a high-ranking official in law enforcement also. people don't kno

mr. eastwood has not been working with us in terms of trying to negotiate our parking solution. he has actually asked for more rather than less, and made it difficult for us to work together. i am concerned about the privacy , i'm concerned about the light, they are removing western light -- >> thank you. your time is up. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. i am the owner of number 20 on the street. i happened to be one of the lucky few that will not be affected. my property is sitting at a much higher street elevation and far enough from the obstruction, but three homes will suffer greatly the consequences of these propositions. jennifer, who just spoke, stands to lose the most. the project will cause lots of loss of light and complete obliteration of her views. we are hoping this commission will be able to try and see to it that the damages to the views and the emotional distress can be kept at a minimum. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> i may permit consultants. i want to thank everyone for the attempt to work it out. that wa

it was just crack all over the park. brian: who was buying? mr. pegues: everybody was buying. when crack hit, it decimated that community. i was one of the people who was supplying that poison. but everybody was buying. you had friends, family members. i had family members on drugs. everybody. they came from all walks of life. people who do not have money. people who were affluent. a middle-class neighborhood for the most part. you had some people, nice houses, they were buying. you had white people coming to predominantly black communities. just driving in to buy crack. brian: talk about vials. how much did each of those cost? mr. pegues: we had two vials, a small and a big one, the jumbo. that will go for $10 or five dollars. five dollars for the little one, $10 for the big one or $20 for the big one. brian: how much should you make a day? mr. pegues: i worked two different places. i was a freelancer, that was with the supreme team. but i was working on my own, what i would make $1000 a day. when i worked for the supreme team, they made upwards of $2000 -- $200,000 a week. b

what we mustn't do is pretend this is a walk in the park. mr. johnson: there is no dissent about that. everybody agrees we need to prepare. but we need to make sure we are ready by october 31 to come out and must get ready. we were ready on march 29. everybody was braced to do it and were then stood down and it was a catastrophe. and everybody's preparations were allowed to sag. if we are going to have a deadline of october 31, we must stick to it. the more we prepare and better we prepare, the less risk of destruction for people like you and everybody else. when we prepare and convincing in our preparations, the e.u. will understand and will give us the deal that we need. [applause] >> we are staying with brexit. go to karen tracy who would like more details of the dangers of the no-deal brexit. >> the leaves may be changing but fundamentally nothing else has. parliament will not function a no-deal brexit. isn't a general election inevitable? mr. hunt: you have summed up why i have not wanted to talk about the 31st of october as a do or die dea

we want to congratulate mr. president the city winning rec and park. [applause] >> high-five, high-five. okay, let's grab a picture. you're the picture man. you hold the trophy. [laughter] >> all right, give it up for recs and parks. [applause] >> and one final acknowledgment, if you visit our park any time this summer, you're likely to see some of our most important and budding employees working in a variety of roles, whether it's as office help. we're going to have an estimated 430 youth workers working and learning in our parks. they range from age from 14 to 17 and they all live or go to school in our city. we have 196 work staff which were recruited and hired by us. they went through a job interview process. we have 80 youth work workers, and enterprise for high school students, 40 mayor youth employment workers, 24 green agers, and 10 students working at megacamp. they celebrate their 58th year this summer and many former youth workers have gone on to have very long and distinguished careers here at rec and park, including ben and our h.r. analys

mrs. johnson was instrumental in establishing the 1960 five hwy beautification act that sought to limit roadside advertisements and green of the interstate highway system across america. it also encouraged funding local efforts to clean up and landscaped green spaces on the sides and medians of oadways. more than 300 conservation laws were passed and over 45 national parks established during the johnson administration, having a large and lasting impact on green spaces throughout america. soon after, she established the wildfire center, and she encouraged an amendment to a 1987 transportation bill that mandated that some federally funded landscaping projects include planting of wildfires, which began the highway at meditations wildflower plans. ady bird johnson's unification focus not just on the nation by d.c. as well, and she worked to get more flowers on the capitol grounds and all around d.c. the first division monument and presidential park south, west of the white house and south of t

mr. scott cameron who is the principal deputy assistant secretary of policy, management and budget at the department of interior. we welcome you. ms. lenise lago is the associate chief at the forest service. welcome to the committee. liz archuleta is the supervisor for coconino county in arizona on the board of supervisors. we thank you for making the trip back. mr. dan puskar is the president and ceo of the public lands alliance. thank you for what you do. and ms. jessica wahle is the executive director for the outdoor recreation roundtable. we welcome each of you. we'd ask that you try to keep your comments this morning to about five minutes. your full statements will be incorporated as part of the record. once you have each given your statement, we'll have an opportunity to pose our questions and engage in some back and forth. mr. cameron, if you'd like to lead off. >> chairman murkowski, ranking member manchin, members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to discuss the dep

mrs. johnson was instrumental in establishing the 1960 five hwy beautification act that sought to limit roadside advertisements and green of the interstate highway system across america. funding localaged efforts to clean up and landscaped green spaces on the sides and medians of roadways. than 300 conservation laws were passed and over 45 national parks established during the johnson administration, having a large and lasting impact on green spaces throughout america. soon after, she established the wildfire center, and she encouraged an amendment to a 1987 transportation bill that mandated that some federally funded landscaping projects include planting of wildfires, which began the highway at meditations wildflower plans. lady bird johnson's unification focus not just on the nation by d.c. as well, and she worked to get more flowers on the capitol grounds and all around d.c. division monument and presidential park south, west of the white house and south of the eisenhower executive offi

mr. chabot of ohio, amendment 11 by mr. kennedy of massachusetts. the chair will reduce to two minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote in this series. the unfinished business is request for a recorded vote on amendment number 7 prisonned in house report 116-154 by the gentleman from ohio, mr. chabot, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 7 printed in part b of house report 116. the chair: those in support of a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s

-- college park, maryland. mr. aldrin: it is very interesting to note that when i , there is no atmosphere here. they seem to leave and most of them have the same angle of departure and velocity. from where i stand, a large impact at ahem will distant -- to the south. [indiscernible] upon thependent traditional trajectory upwards from where already the particles are. >> roger, buzz. columbia, this is houston. request on the delta. on the delta over. >> just a zygote in just -- just as i go in, there is a reflection off my face onto the visor, makes visibility very poor just the transition. sunlight into the shadow. i have so much glare coming onto my visor. the helmet actually get the shadow and then it takes a short adapt to my eyes to the conditions. >> visibility, as we've said before, is not too great. [indiscernible] mr. aldrin: after being out in he sun -- >> we can see you on the cable. >> ok. buzz fish your toe is still hope in it. mr. armstrong: that one? mr. aldrin: yes. ok, you are clear now. mr. arm

similarly, an electrical storm in falls church, virginia and college park, maryland. mr. aldrin: it is very interesting to note that when i kick my foot, there is no atmosphere here. they seem to leave and most of them have the same angle of departure and velocity. from where i stand, a large portion of them will impact at a distant -- to the south. [indiscernible] highly dependent upon the traditional trajectory upwards from where already the particles are. >> roger, buzz. columbia, this is houston. request omni delta. omni delta. over. >> just as i go in, there is a reflection off my face onto the visor, makes visibility very poor just the transition. sunlight into the shadow. i have so much glare coming onto my visor. the helmet actually get the shadow and then it takes a short while for my eyes to adapt to the conditions. visibility, as we've said before, is not too great. but both visors up, we can certainly -- [indiscernible] mr. aldrin: after being out in the sun -- >> we can see you on the cable. >> ok. mr. aldrin: your toe is still hooked in it. mr. armstrong: th

next mr. bears real estate details the challenges they faced removing the ship from the river in mississippi. he explained the art i facts they discovered on the vevle. he is the authors of hard luck iron clad, the sinking and salvage of cairo. this was part of a day long seminar cohosted by longwood university in virginia and and appear mattic historical park. >> all right. well mr. bearss certainly don't need an brouks but i'll give a bereave one for those of you who might not know he is a legend in civil war historiography, battlefield preservation. grew up as your program says near harden, montana and high school -- after high school joined the marines, served in world war ii and was seriously wounded in world war ii. spent more than two years in hospital. and after the war received a b.s. from georgetown be, an m.a. in history of indiana, university and best known for his work both his books and also work at the national park service. he was park historian at

i want to just comment on mr. ginsburg's comment about how we've become a great area for dog parks and that we lead, you know, in that area. so as a member of the friends of upper douglass dog park, we want to make compromise. we understand our neighbors, and we really think to allow people, not dog walkers, nothing against you, but for people who live in the city, they need to be able to walk their dogs before they go to work and after they get home. so i think that the 7:00 a.m. is really a good time that cat anderson suggested. i'm concerned about the ending hour, because people typically don't get home till 6:00, 6:30, to be able to go and get to the park and exercise, so we are not in favor of the current hours being proposed. we'd like to have them extended a bit more. i thank you all. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is linda blondis, and as an amateur paleoanthropologist, homo sapiens would not be homo sapiens had he not domesticated the dog. dog is critical to our being human, and if

thank you, mr. speaker, i rise in support of the restore our parks act and i want to thank mr. bishop for his leadership and partnership on this bill. i was lucky enough to grow up near one of the crown jewels of our national park service, the olympic national park, right in my backyard in the pacific northwest. i have seen firsthand how our public lands have captivated both visitors and residents alike, and served as key economic drivers for our local communities. and i think there's little doubt that our national parks are some of america's greatest natural and cultural treasures. i am proud that my home state boasts not only olympic national park but also mount rainier and north cascade national parks, true gems of the national park service. now, unfortunately, these crown jewels are getting rusty and they require our attention to return them to glory. if you visited one of our parks lately, you'll no doubt have noticed that they are facing a good problem. in 2017, washington state had a record 8.45 million park visitors, including families and campers and adventurers who ca

well mr. bearss certainly don't need an brouks but i'll give a bereave one for those of you who might not know he is a legend in civil war historiography, battlefield preservation. grew up as your program says near harden, montana and high school -- after high school joined the marines, served in world war ii and was seriously wounded in world war ii. spent more than two years in hospital. and after the war received a b.s. from georgetown be, an m.a. in history of indiana, university and best known for his work both his books and also work at the national park service. he was park historian at vicksburg and chief historian of the national park service until his retirement in 1995. has published many books primarily related to the western fear of war and his three volume campaign history of vicksburg which is viewed as a classic. in 2015 legislation was introduced to award him a congressional gold medal for his contributions to civil war preservation and history. so his talk today is recovering

you could do really well just parking outside home depot. mr. fix it. - seriously. - yep. you dated stefanie powers. - you dated rona barret? - mm-hmm. - beverly sassoon. - mm-hmm. - susan sullivan. - mm-hmm. so, you made your way around hollywood. - mm-hmm. - ( harvey laughs ) so, you made your way around hollywood. all right brad, once again i have revolutionized the songwriting process. oh, here we go. i know i can't play an instrument, but this... this is my forte. obviously, for auto insurance, we've got the wheel route. obviously. retirement, we're going with a long-term play. makes sense. pet insurance, wait, let me guess... flea flicker. yes! how'd you know? studying my playbook? yeah, actually. so, i noticed in the house you have a lot of art. - mm-hmm. - and there's one piece that's special. the muskox. which manages to combine my love of art with my favorite animal. because when threatened by wolves, they form a circle and all of the calves are inside the circle, fully protected. that's probably why i love the muskox so much. i see myself as a protector of my fa

and you, mr walker? park in sheffield. it was a magical moment for everyone involved. it is day three of wimbledon, and carol is there with the weather. not quite looking so lovely this morning. the weather, i mean. carol, you looked great on monday and tuesday, but average today. do you know what? i just tuesday, but average today. do you know what? ijust said to our cameraman, i know what? ijust said to our cameraman, lam know what? ijust said to our cameraman, i am not sure about this address. carol, no! i did not mean that. i think you look great, carol. louise, you are right off my christmas list. it is a lovely day here. the sun is beating down, we are standing in the shade at the moment and you can see the view straight ahead. if you look between those trees, that is caught 14 where the duchess of cambridge came to watch them play briefly yesterday before heading to the royal box. more or less empty apart from a few workers who are tidying it up ready for play later on. at 10:30am there will be throngs of people coming. all these beautiful flowers, and we have t

they put forward the name of mr. irvin williams. he had been a gardener at the national park service and he was in charge of dangerfield island, candlewick gardens. misses mellon came one day and they had a marvelous visit. from that point on was involved with this is mellon. i got to know mr. williams during the reagan years. i did not work in the gardens but i saw mr. williams pretty much on a daily basis with her. i was often in his offices which are located under the north portico in this dugout area. a sparsely furnished room for a gardener. they started driving around looking for trees and they found some. then they had to have them brought over to the white house and it was a process. they were taken to the greenhouse is first. mr. williams and i, he taught me a lot about the history of the gardens in a horticultural design and historical context. and explaining to me the magnolia trees and the grass and the plan and the design. he always said that the gardens where the work of misses paul mellon and misses mellon for short.

service is diverting $2 million intended for park repairs.rt for his mr. trump tweeted, "the cost of our great salute to america tomorr will be very little, compared to what it is worth." for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang. >> woodruff: our white house correspondent yamiche alcindor is on the national mall, and joins me now. híllo,çó í0iw presidentko prominent role on the fourth of july and to make sure that the er&itarv is front andenter? on this day we think about our history? >> well, the president is -- it's really unprecedented for the president to holhd a fou of july address along military equipment and leaders. te president says he wan honor america and celebrate all this military equeipment h's excited is being made. in the oval office he says tankn are being madehio and he wants us to see them. politics are at play.e publican national committee were giving out v.i.p. tickets to republican donors. people close to the president will have good seats here. the president is excited about all this, but there's a lot of criticism about the presiden

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they put forward the name of mr. herbert -- irvin williams. he had been a gardener at the national park service and he was in charge of dangerfield island, candlewick gardens. misses mellon came one day and they had a marvelous visit. from that point on was involved with this is mellon. i got to know mr. williams during the reagan years. i did not work in the gardens but i saw mr. williams pretty much on a daily basis with her. i was often in his offices which are located under the north portico in this dugout area. a sparsely furnished room for a gardener. they started driving around looking for trees and they found some. then they had to have them brought over to the white house and it was a process. they were taken to the greenhouse is first. mr. williams and i, he taught me a lot about the history of the horticultural design and historical context. and explaining to me the magnolia trees and the grass and the plan and the design. gardenss said that the where the work of misses paul mellon and misses mellon for short. we never talked, we ne

mr. trump is now the first sitting u.s. president to venture into the north. he crossed the demilitarized zone that divides the koreas with north korean leader kim jong un at this side, they spent about a minute in the north, and then walked back to the south. after that, the two men went indoors and spoke close to an hour.>> stepping across that line was a great honor, a lot of progress has been made. a lot of friendships have been made, this in particular is a great friendship. >> according to the president, they agreed to resume nuclear talks in the coming weeks. he also said that he invited kim to visit the white house. >>> still ahead, after months of repairs, the trans bay transit center is finally set to reopen tomorrow. only one important thing will be missing, wait until you hear.>>> and a very special birthday, for the oldest living bird in the state. >>> plus some changes ahead as we get into the work week. we've got the weather forecast coming up. that's all after the break. it's time for our lowest prices of the season on the sleep number 360 smar

environmental review parkings on fourth street associated with the central subway project. >> mr. toronto do you want to talk about 10.3? >> this item should be regular agenda item. it makes a lot of changes to the corridor around the caltrain station. it has to do with the central subway. however, we ask to filling out exemption for taxis like we have now going north at fourth, at town send making a left to go west on town send. we need to keep that. that is an important turn at times. we lose that, we lose service abilities. >> going southbound at fourth at king. we need that for the baseball games. that is the easiest way to get to the third street cabstands. we have a cabstands on second and third street. there is no easy access to the third street stand. if we make a right turn to third starting from the seventh inning on the traffic is at tortious. it takes up to 10 minutes to get one block where pete's tavern is for us to get to the third street stand we eliminate the ability to use it or go to berry and come up third street. that is five more minutes to get there. at least

similarly, an electrical storm in falls church, virginia and college park, maryland. getting the picture, either. mr. aldrin: it is very interesting to note that when i kick my foot, there is no atmosphere here. they seem to leave and most of them have the same angle of departure and velocity. from where i stand, a large portion of them will impact at a certain distance south. the percentage that will impact different regions south. highly dependent upon the initial trajectory upwards from where most already the particles are. >> roger, buzz. columbia, this is houston. when you track out, must request omni delta. omni delta. over. timesoticed several flying from the sunlight into the shadows. just as i go in, there is a lamp, alongff the with the reflection off my face onto the visor, makes visibility very poor just at the transition. sunlight into the shadow. i have so much glare coming onto my visor. the helmet actually gets the shadow and then it takes a short while for my eyes to adapt to the conditions. visibility, as we've said before, is not too great. [indisce

. >> thank you, mr. beck area this is a very important aspect. the frontline here, the management of these parks, open space, we have talked about that. the suggestion would be even before we go is for us to see the draft of that code, engaging our own and discussion first and those kind of discussion you also highlight the suggestion for the management, based on this assessment that we saw when we went outside of san francisco. we would like to see that. let's get the draft of everything, and for discussion, in september. before he can go out there, we might need another month or whatever, discussion going back and forth. at that point, we would be able to share that information with folks. that we want to solicit their ideas. that is what i would suggest you >> any other comments or questions? mr. beck, i have a question. who is taking the lead for doing the operations and maintenance budgeting for the open base? >> right now we are working with martin wiggins and with support from the mg and mgm managed on of the cost figures >> i just want to

mr. speaker, i rise to recognize ms. deal for his dedication to her country, her community, and her own education. a native of the first congressional district of georgia, ms. deal is currently serving in afghanistan as part of the georgia national guard. however, while at home, she works as a police officer with the savannah police department. through all of her hours spent keeping the savannah area a safe place to live as well as her time dedicated to serving the united states armed forces, ms. deal has been studying in the last seven months to earn a degree in the criminal justice system from columbia college. in late june, her fellow soldiers and police colleagues took part in something truly unique, a graduation ceremony in afghanistan. congratulations on your graduation, mrs. deal. you are an inspiration to all of us and i wish you the best of luck with your career. mr. speaker, i rise today to remember the life of dr. raymond allen cook who passed away on june 29 at the age of 99. dedicated his life to students al