Important relationship between the United States and the philippine. We have seen an extraordinary outpouring of generosity from americans across the country, especially from the fill peeb philippines i dids a practitioner. Ive had the pleasure of participating in community efforts. The way they mobilize to provide help in the hour of need is heartening. And it just underscores the humanity we all share. The United States has a deep commitment. We will stay with the people and the government of the pill finds in to the recovery and the reconstruction era. Were already seeing the camera start to fade away in this becoming yesterdays story. The kind of hearing like were having today, the continued equipment we, the United States have to the philippines will be absolutely vital. And i look forward to answering your questions. And i thank you very much for your support and consideration today. Thank you very much for your testimony. Your full testimony will be a part of the record. If you
This morning on the kron4 morning news fire and the delta force is people from kimball island. That there still burning this morning. We have the latest. We began with the latest from the delta. Firefighters are still on scene this morning putting out hotspots from the fire on kim wahl island. The fire started yesterday afternoon around 230 and has burned three homes and over 40 a. This is video from a helicopter partnership with abc seven news. Heavy smoker the fire was seen from nearby antioch. The fire required air and water support from the u. S. Coast guard and cal fire. Crews from five different agencies from the area was called in to help. Witnesses said the fire started at the boat ramp and spread from one end of the island to the other. Officials said all 15 people who live on the island were evacuated safely. The only way to get to the island is by boat and firefighters say that is what made fighting this fire especially difficult. The fire and the delta comes at the same tim
Information in the near future on areas discussed as a va continues to march toward the secretarys 2015 goals. I would like to once again thank our witnesses for being here today. I asked unanimous consent the members have five legislative days to revise and extend any remarks and include any extraneous material. Hearing no objection, so ordered. I th washington journal continu. Host we are back with congressman Randy Neugebauer, a republican from texas. He sits on the house farm Agriculture Committee and a contrary for these negotiations over the fiveyear farm bill. Thes begin with yesterday, principles got together here in washington. The senate is not in session, but they came back to washington to meet with their house counterparts. What did you learn . Fort first of all, thanks having me. I think were getting closer. I talked to chairman lucas. We keep closing in on that. We are working out a framework of where we go from here. I am optimistic that things are moving in the right d
Estate market factors that influence that. Where formula retail is located and releasing factors like rent and vacancy rates from the market and sales volume and sales price in the neighborhood and lack of controls in the neighborhood that will require a lot of legwork but it critically important. We welcome our feedback on those topics and the feedback of the public. I want to reiterate our next step. As was mentioned this is not the sweeping Public Engagement process that maybe we would engage in if we have more time but weve created opportunity for any Public Comment . Whatever we can the next meeting it before you february 27th where well present the completion. So next during the mid point of phase 2 when weve begun the neighborhood case studies we envision being back here no march and in april we emry will be back to present the results of the study. I hope that is helpful if you have any questions, ill be happy to answer them thank you. Lets take any Public Comment . I have a nu
Its difficult to read this on the screen judge under 10 percent are retail and approximately 10 percent of restaurants are retail and over 80 percent of all banks are formula retail. And then the next 3 maps are the collective information. This map is the distribution of all retail throughout the city. This map shows formula retail per square mile. And this map is available in a hardcopy for members of the public and this is the most existing map it is the concentration of total retail. So there are a few surprises there are hot spots near union is square and on black the nc districts are shown where the uc is required. Its better on a map then just the hard numbers. We have limited Employment Data here in the preliminary phase of phase one. While formula retail represents 11 percent of all retail it shouldnt be surprisingly that independent retailers provide for jobs. Bans our initial results the formula retail provide more employment. Again, this is preliminary data that provides foo