Oil this morning. Gain of 1 and a third percent. Prices decline nearly 9 just in the last three trading sessions. In case you missed it last night, the worlds top supermodels hit the cat walk. Wearing the most expensive bra encrusted. Dow chemical and dupont advance talks to merge, a merger can be announced in the next couple of days. Together a cap of some 120 billion. A deal would result in a threeway split. First they merge and then they split it off. Keith mccullough, record and tough deal for the industrial company. You have said in many times its in recession. More than 4 trillion in takeovers over time. Keith thiswhen things slow people have to buy growth and join each other. We cant do this, we didnt do that. Boom, all of a sudden theyre basically agreeing that nelson said and you get a lot of value creation. At least thats what the market is implying. Thats a big move. This is what you to deal daytoday. Everyone is going to agreed to get married at this point. Maria you wonder
Its a whole lot of love and there are a lot of secrets i cant tell you about. Its a southern tradition to eat black eyed peas and Collard Greens on new years day for luck and prosperity. At this soul food restaurant, theyll go through about 50 pounds of peas. We make sure we have plenty of black eyed peas and we dont want to turn away anyones good luck for the new years. The morning of new years is no party at San Franciscos balloon magic. Its all work. My heart is beating really fast. Its very busy today. Managing all the people, all the locations. In two days, about 20 workers will have turned out some 25,000 balloons for clubs, restaurants, and parties. They average about 300 an hour. When it comes to fireworks, this barge provides plenty of bang for your buck. A few tons of explosives will create a 15minute display over the bay. I always like to encourage people to come on out. Its San Francisco, big city, time to celebrate and bring in 2016 with a bang. To keep everyone safe, the
Spectacular. Yeah, celebrations are continuing despite security threats in munich that shut down the train station for what was called an imminent attack. In dubai, fireworks went off just blocks away from a raging fire in a 63story building. And were looking live in brazil here where theyre counting down the final seconds, just a few seconds in rio de janei janeiro. Take a live look in new york city where the ball will drop in just three hours. Happy humanity there. Thank you for joining us. We are counting down the final six hours of 2015 here on the west coast. Conditions are looking good for the festivities in the bay area. We will check in with our meteorologist in just a moment. First, lets go live along the embarcadero in San Francisco. Hey, katie. Reporter hi, kristen. Several people have asked me where they can see the fireworks. I tell them, right here, the embarcadero is a front row seat. San Francisco Police will be along any time to put up the barricades to control the cro
Director nolan director rubke directors please be advised if director ramos burglary not be here please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, planning code are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room Planning Department staff microphone on vibrate cause drurpgs please turn off approval of the draft minutes for the september i. Opposed . Okay. Thank you. Item 5 Communications Directors please be advised that the Steering Wheel la settlement be removed from the agenda and staff requested that changes to the thirty stockton corridor be removed and no discussion of anticipated litigation in closed session today item 6 introduction of new or Unfinished Business by board members. Seeing none. Dwoshgz report. Good afternoon director reiskin i actually dont have a report ill address you under item 12 viewing giving us an update. Thank you very much ms. Bloomer i think we have a street going to the Advisory Committee r
Pg e and preventing us from the robust roll out and less funds to do build out this is a direct attack against our cleanpowersf Power Program two resolutions to say ask the California Public Utilities Commission not to approve those increases that is dramatic two increases for the residents i think that is important to talk about some of the things going on behind the scenes thats been going on earlier this year we put on two measures on the ballot the lafco and city put on proposition h that was really about move forward with our cleanpowersf program and have a clear statement about what kind of energy were producing the iuoe under stern have put out their own version of the property g do undermine our effort would be they realized that the city was probable going to prevail on our measure that would not be good for them and their measure would lose and it very well well, did to you make sure theyre not attacking our measure and stern from i b w worked very much to try at one end prom