In just a few hours, construction crews will make history on the outer banks. Theyll start work on the new bonner bridge. This after years of red tape and fighting with environmental groups. The bonner bridge is the only land route residents on Hatteras Island have to the rest of the outer banks. Rico bush is live in the newsroom with more on whats expected to happen today. Rico. After decades of delays on a bridge replacement in the outer banks, today marks a major milestone for North Carolina. Crews plan move forward with construction on a new bonner bridge, stretching across the oregon inlet. For years, 10 on your side has covered the story on the current bridge. Crews built it in the 1960s and the bridge was designed to last only last 30 years. You about emergency shutdowns for repairs to keep the aging bridge up and running. The constant battle and legal issues with environmental groups, residents and transportation officials prevented North Carolina from building a new bridge. Th
Dramatic rise in the use of heroin, which belongs to the same class as painkillers, opiods. In fact, four in five heroin users, new heroin users, started out by misusing Prescription Drugs. Then they switched to heroin, so, this really is a gateway drug, the Prescription Drugs, become a gateway to heroin. Between 2002 and 2013, the number of heroin related deaths in america nearly quadrupled, although the number of heroin overdoses is still far exceeded by the number of legal Prescription Drug overdoses. So, this crisis is taking lives. Its destroying families. Its shattering communities all across the country. Thats the thing about Substance Abuse. I doesnt discriminate. It touches everybody. From celebrities to College Students to soccer moms to inner city kids. White, black, hispanic, young, old, rich, poor. Urban, suburban, men and women. It can happen to a coal miner, a construction worker. A cop, whos taken a painkiller for a work related injury. It could happen to the doctor who
Now, with this first step we have created the time and the space in order to be able to pursue a comprehensive agreement that would finish the work that president obama begain on the very first day in office. And that is to ensure that iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon. President obama worked intensively, and his administration worked intensively before i came in, when i was in the congress, and voted for sanctions. The president worked in order to put in place a significant sanctions regime. Anunprecedented regime. And he worked with countries around the world in order to ensure broad participation and support for the sanctions. That has been essential to the success of these sanctions. And we believe that it is the sanctions that have brought us to this negotiation, and ultimately to the more significant negotiation to follow for a comprehensive agreement. Make no mistakes, and i ask you, dont interpret that the sanctions were annd unto themselves. They werent. The goal of the sa
Supervisor avalos. Supervisor campos. Thank you madam clerk i have a quick item which is a resolution that is being cosponsored by supervisor avalos and supervisor wiener in the spirit of San Francisco pride month well celebrate and with the upcoming lgbt pride paired as well as the Ongoing Movement to achieve equality for the Lgbt Community. We want to now turn our attention to whats happening in other parts of the world specifically today, im introducing a resolution that calls upon the newly elected government of the el sal for the rights and protections for our lgbt brothers in sisters in that country although el salvador people in that country experience vushltd and discretions because of their gender expression for example, incidents of violence begin the Lgbt Community they go uninvestigated by the state officials and unrecorded by victims themselves because of the fears if they report the incident they will be reilly their sexual gender and that will be worse so today here in S
Youve developed and offered a wide variety of the services youre the coach and the sounding board and the inspector 14 our nurse the Award Winning passed try chief our the teacher and i have two final points to read the future whereas its a privilege to be a City Employee and from time to time being a City Employee what about very challenging for all of us in different ways but youve made our work life easier and proven our connections are the most available connections in City Government the public can trust us to get the job done and youve met their various exceptions youve been a true colleague that many of us feel touched by and fortunate to have had the opportunity to work by your side and were sad to say they dont make them like you 0 anymore but weve had you as a model and expected to follow in your shoes on behalf of the office of the clerk of the board i know theyre mostly on that side of the room ill congratulate you for fulfilling the publics highest trust as the evaluated c