Brian loftus. Michelle Mortensen and im Michelle Mortensen in for kirsten. The second part of the riv went down shortly after 230 this morning. And the dust is just starting to settle. 8 news now reporter Michael Stevens is live near las vegas boulevard. And Convention Center with a recap. Good morning michael . Michael Stevens its hard to believe its all gone. As you can see theres really just a lot of debris. And dust left from the Riviera Hotel and casino. Years. It was something to see the landmark go down. Decades of history gone in about 20 seconds. It was around 2 30 this morning when the last part of the riv went down. It was followed by a huge dust cloud that filled the air. A lot of history went down with those towers dixie dooley its kinda bittersweet ya know . Vegas moves forward all Different Things are happening. And so its bound to happen, but its a sad thing to see all the memories go. Michael Stevens and speaking of memories. The riviera was featured in the rat pack or
Pmi partner, the leader of the democratic side of the committee, nick, great friend, great ally, a lot of stories with nick, my staff told me not to tell the one i really wanted to tell. I will get rolling here, you never know what will come out but through the when we sat down for the first time to talk about how to Work Together, nick said it is about communication. Let me know where you are and where i am, we worked hard on that, there were times we would negotiate with the senate and we agreed to be on the same page and there are times to get together to figure out what would happen in the room and he would come wait to get a chance to talk that he truly was a great counterpuncher. When barbara would come up with something we disagreed with i didnt have to, he was able to counterpunch and help prevail on the issue. Again, it is a great honor to work with you and got a lot of stuff done. There was one really interesting story, the most important word is where it passed but there was
Buzziest corridors in San Francisco. Its in the planning phase and looking at alternatives for the project. The draft environmental document is expected in 2013. The project has a dedicated Citizen Advisory Committee and give advice on project issues. This Committee Meets quarterly, has 11 members with seats for representation of key neighborhoods along the corridor as well as at large representation. Currently we have one vacancy on the committee. We would like to fill that shortly. We have given notice in the quarter about the vacancy in september and october and including notices on buss and bus stops and translated languages and into english, spanish and chinese as well as annoucements on the project website, and email distribution to our email distribution list, and finally we had a Media Advisory as part of the notification pros. The deadline was october 24. At that time we had eight applications and theyre all in your packet. There is a summary matrix that is included on page 23