Local:
- Local billionaire Chris Larsen’s SF surveillance network, also known as the SFPD’s Real-Time Investigation Center, got the glossy treatment in the latest issue of New York Magazine. Larson’s $9.4 million network consists of 2,700 private cameras installed throughout the city, as well as 93 drones, which Lurie credits with 800 arrests so far. [New York Mag]
- Three people were injured Wednesday afternoon after a Muni bus collided with a pickup truck at 22nd and Mission streets, and two were transported by ambulance to local hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries. [NBC Bay Area]
- Intuit is eliminating around 3,000 jobs worldwide, including 384 employees in Mountain View, which makes up about 17% of its full-time workforce, as it restructures around artificial intelligence. [Chronicle]
National:
- An Ebola outbreak in Congo is linked to more than 130 deaths in the eastern part of the country. Two American doctors who have contracted the illness were moved to hospitals in Germany and Prague respectively. [Reuters]
- Amin Abdullah, the security guard who was killed in the tragic mass shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, is being hailed a hero for preventing the teenage gunmen from accessing the rest of the mosque where more than 140 kids were located. [Guardian]
- A federal judge ruled that the Presidential Records Act — which requires presidents to preserve official White House documents for public access through the National Archives — is likely constitutional and ordered Trump aides to keep following it despite a Justice Department opinion arguing otherwise. [Politico]
Video of the Day:
- Now that House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi has finally endorsed SF Supervisor Connie Chan, this footage of Chan from a Board of Supervisors meeting from 2022 is bound to make it back into circulation. The benign but awkward clip shows a constituent demanding that Chan, who’s standing in the background staring at her phone, pay attention before he begins his public comment. Ultimately, he runs out of time, and she never acknowledges him.
This is who Connie Chan is.
by u/captaincoaster in sanfrancisco
Image: Leanne Maxwell/SFist
