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Quorum but we will take the other items okay. Communications. I have two. One is the question is do we want to make the election of chair and vice chair do we want to postpone until supervisor john kim has asked that it be postponed and arguing in favor is that chairs are supposed to serve a year and i was appointed in february. So we could do that, too. I dont care. What is the boards preference . To postpone it . [inaudible] [off mic] we will postpone that for a year. The other thing that is t...

What systems are resisting those actions. But the scope is usually a seismic scope. And in current practice, the peer reviews are generally structured with a chairperson. The chairperson i think is required in this city to be practicing and registered Structural Engineer. There is typically a geotechnical engineer or engineer with seismology background who is skilled in issues related to the Foundation Design. Geotechnical parameters, earthquake ground motion. And then there is generally an acad...

Heaviest rain will try to push north of the area this morning, it will start to lighten up just a bit, later this morning, but this has to work its way through first, so Sussex County getting heaviest rain, kent county, new castle will county, up to i95, Chester County, heaviest rain north of the turnpike and moving into berks county and lehigh valleys west of the northeast extension, but that lighter rain, it is now pushing to the east, and philadelphia there darker shaded green indicating heav...

And rain rolling in the region. A developing story in downtown dc. Nuclear Security Summit underway at the Convention Center and if you are traveling in the area of the Convention Center be aware of traffic problems. Leaders from countries across the globe attend the summit and as a result there are road closures around the Convention Center stretching at least a block in each direction. The office of Personnel Management encourages federal agencies to allow telework to alleviate traffic but peo...

Is damaged. Im reporting from inside Thailands Parliament in bangkok, where a vote has seen the countrys Political Uncertainty extended. We begin the news hour with the refugee crisis. Thousands of people are still waiting to end their desperate journey to escape war, persecution and poverty. This is the worst refugee crisis europe has seen since world war ii. Many refugees are at the border between hungary and austria. They were kept in hungary for days but now are being allowed to go through t...

All our states are hit by the slew of proposed epa rules aimed squarely at the fossil fuel industry and folks that work in that industry. I would like to highlight a letter from the governor of wyoming to the epa administrator on april 28th i ask that letter be entered into the record, madam chairman. In this letter the governor highlights a study by the center for Energy Economics and Public Policy at university of wyoming entitled impact of the coal economy on wyoming published february of thi...

Been given one year, thats a very real problem. But there are real costs being expended by the states and also i believe this administration is not interested whether the rule is finalized so long as the marketplace moves away from them. If coal fired power plants have to be retired quicker than baseline, then theyre going to accomplish the goal, even if this regulation never is upheld in courts. Thank you i want to follow up on this. Ill wait until the second round. Senator markey. Thank you ma...

Guard it. The search will resume at daybreak but theres no hope they say of finding any survivor survivors. The recovery soerpgs expected to last at least a week. The impact of plaep was so great the biggest piece of debris left is only about the size of a car. Jim handly has more with what we learned today. Nbc news is getting new information tonight from the former head of frances bureau of investigation for aviation. Its their version of the ntsb. He says tonight that the plane was flying ver...

And then then he makes his getaway, his getaway on a bicycle. A blue bicycle. A signature move by the man known as the bicycle bandit. As he leanves, he passes the sign thank you for visiting apple federal credit union. Maybe not so much. The bicycle bandit, the fbi believes hes responsible for 12 Bank Robberies in the last 15 months. They say he robs with a cell phone in one hand and a gun in another. And he doesnt run away or drive away. He pedals away. When the fbi got to the scene its almost...

St. Marys Shenandoah Valley, all these counties south including stafford Rappahannock Culpeper until noon. So we could have light icing mainly on the elevated surfaces as the temperatures are below freezing around the metro area. Just in the upper 20s to near 30 degrees how and that radar showing this to continue to advance and moving in. This could affect the morning commute, maybe 66 and coming up from 95 to the south could be a little slippery later this morning. Good warning. Most things dry...