But what about human rights . We are finding more about the cuban president s visit to paris, the first by a cuban leader in two decades, and some say important issues are not being raised. Catherine you could say that the race to the white house officially starts today. In just a few hours time, voters in the state of iowa will get the chance to say who they want as candidates in this years president ial election. We go to the capital of iowa, des moines. , dressed in frantic campaigning, but lets talk about the likely outcomes. What are the predictions from the polls . There are all sorts of polls out there and they are slightly contradictory, which makes it difficult for us and other experts to predict what will happen. Oll from viable p the des moines register, that puts donald trump a head ted cruz on the republican side, meaning we are looking at the real possibility of donald trump winning his first election contest here in the United States. On the democratic side, that first p
Im back, chad Transportation Authority item number seven. Really quick powerpoint. Shorter than quick. No, i mean speak slowly. I need you to slow it down. I item begins on page 71 of the memo. The allocation request, begin on page 78 if youre interested. Three projects, 9th street i mentioned include six blocks of paving work and it includes construction of approximately 45 pell grants. Epw is paving work will be coordinated with pedestrian enhancement at the intersection of 9th street and folsom. The enhancements includes the construction of pedestrian in the installations. The pedestrian improvement will be funded with prop b funds. Construction of the over all project begin in june 2013 and is anticipated to be open for use by february of 2014. Next is 28th avenue pavement. This includes ten blocks of paving work and construction of approximately 55 curb ramps. Construction is scheduled to begin in april 2013 and anticipated to be open by december 2013. Last project, this project w
Be ready for the streets until january of 2014. The problem is the Department Needs them right now. Live from san jose, len ramirez, cbs 5. Were learning more tonight about how two people ended up bound and gagged and dumped in the middle of the San Francisco street. Cbs 5 reporter joe vazquez is at the murder scene with information on the aliases some of the suspects went by. Reporter were in the 3700 block of san bruno and in this home here behind me, this is where two of the women who were arrested happen to live. Its also the place where two men ganged up on the male victim and two women ganged up on the female victim, beat them and gagged them and left them for dead. According to court documents, the two male suspects one carrying a gun went inside this home at 3733 san bruno avenue assaulted the male victim, 26 yearold steve reed and tied his hands behind his back. Then prosecutors say suspects beat the female victim 19year old audrey prado, hogtied her arms to her ankles and gag
Applications for obag funds. Page 9 and 11 of your enclosure shows all the projects we receive and the description of those projects and the amounts requested. On page 11ing youll see a map of the same project. We are at the december 2012 budget point here. This is adopting the initial obag project list. Just wanted to go through what we did to do some the screening and prioritization for this process. We created a scoring system based on the board adopted criteria. If you go to page 13 of your packet, we went through every project and scored each criteria. In there youll see how we assign points for each criteria. We attended field visits. We went out and reviewed on sight all the projects. We met with project sponsors both before and after the applications. We discussed what we were looking for in the application and after received them, we had discussions with them and members of the advocacy community. I wont go into too much depth into all the details im happy to answer any questi
Development will be focus of prop k strategic plan. We plan to start in early 2013. We also continue to work with the sfmta to identify additional funding for pet projects since since including the none eir improvement. The condition we included the action, priority for receiving any additional prop double a funds in the transit reliability category in the current five year period and also First Priority for programming in the transit category in the next prop double a strategic update. You can find more information on all of these projects in the enclosure that i mentioned. Final i want to note we made several small revisions to the policies and prioritization criteria. These are attachments three and four. The more substantial change consist clarifying consequences that requires project implementation to occur within 12 months. We added language stating a project doesnt start within 12 months but the sponsor can request a new project deadline. The sponsor request the Authority Board