And now in keeping of the theme of the great people who have contributed to this bridge ill introduce my great friend chair of the California Transportation Commission clapping . Thank you amy as chairman of the Transportation Commission its a real honor to be here today. Ill to take this moment to recognize and honor all my fellow commissioner who are present today starting with bob bob bobby. Commissioner lucy and fran, commissioner joe clapping id like to honor two of our past commissioners x commissioner jerry, and excommissioner phil. clapping . Id like to acknowledge our current and past directors and their staff in keeping this project moving forward. The ct c has plated a big role as established be by the legislature in july 2005. Weve been roeptd by four of our executive directors. My colleague on the podium and john whos in the audience. I specifically want to recognize my colleague for this important transportation department. Shes represented here by her husband vernon. cla
The last name you saw on the screen was the single fatality that day in loma. Im honored to introduce you to someone who helped rescue that young mans brother from that vehicle. Hes retired since. Doug can you stand and be recognized . Right there clapping . I now have the pleasure to introduce my chairperson so prepare for another truly set of remarks. Amy become chair a little bit over a year ago and this was prebolts and im sure figured there might be more of a Straight Line but shes held up like a trooper and been a great leader through a difficult time in this project. Loophole join me in welcoming my chair amy worth clapping thank you, very much. Steve im honored to be here to welcome i all and to say what a great a day and congratulations to everyone. It really is a glorious day. Being around the eastern span one of the things you may have noticed it that construction is not an Old Boys Club anymore. Its something that video news man mark john noticed when he was documenting the
Soviet army from afghanistan. Im in iraq looking at how afghans remember that occupation. Welcome to Al Jazeera America, im Morgan Radford live from new york city. Autoworkers in tennessee say no to unionizing dealing a blow to organised labour. It was two years in the making and pro and antiUnion Leaders tried to persuade workers. 712 voted against allowing the united organizers to organise the plant. 626 voted for it. Its a stinging plough to the union and organised labour. After three days of secret balloting, employees at volkswagens chattanooga plant voted no. We are thankful it turned out the way it did. Volkswagen invested a million in the plant, which started building the distance. The company was lured by 777 million. Some viewed it as a set back that would benefit the uaw. Its a problem that the uaw has a need for our money. They dont care about the guys, they dont. The campaign was seen as organised labours best chance to expand in the south. The idea brought more reaction f
Now the musician is back with his 500yearold descrad anniversary yus. He stradivarius. He joins us tonight. Lego art. What incredible art one man is creating from these little plastic boxes. A lot to get to tonight. Breaking news out of tennessee. The historic vote whether or not to unions the volkswagen plant in chattanooga. Jonathan what can you tell us . John i can tell you the uaw is disappointed and pretty surprised. All week we talked with uaw officials, we have a solid number of workers who want a union at the plant. Obviously at the plant the totals dont reflect that. 53 of the workers voted against union representation. The uaw has lost influence, sheer numbers. They were hoping to finally finally get a foothold at a foreign auto maker in the south after so many years of being unsuccessful. They seemingly had a good shot at doing it. They had an unlikely ally, which was volkswagen. Volkswagen was allowing them to come into the plant, talk to the workers, and volkswagen wasnt o
Stumble and switch out of their hightech suits while a trio of funloving americans make history sweeping the first ever slopestyle event. Good morning, everybody. Remember a couple of weeks ago when the groundhog said we had six more weeks of winter, he was right, but i believe he was insufficiently specific. He failed to mention that the rest of this winter would be relentlessly and unacceptably snowy and brutal. It has been brutal. Airports across the country virtually at a standstill with so many couples trying to get away for a valentines weekend. There are some people making the best of it. One romantic couple in virginia made this snow heart for valentines day. And look at this shot. A snowbank against new yorks famous skyline and, of course, theres central park glistening as well. It looks so beautiful in the pictures. Pictures. When youre out there yeah, hopping over slush to get there is less amusing. This guy is snowboarding down the street. That looks like a dont try that at