Here. Lloyd. Here. Metcalf. Here. Kim. Here. You do a quar um. Thank you. Are there any communications today . That i am aware of board of directors in more old business . Seeing none we can move to the executive directors report. Good morning directors and members of the public and just a few announcements before we move on for our construction update for today. It is now displayed to the public at the academy of science and that will run for a number of months. So we would like to thank the California Academy for putting on display the mammoth tooth. And we will be looking for a new home in 2013. And finally on october 17th we had number one of our regularly Schedule Committee meetings to provide a construction update to our neighbors. So everything that moving along well. Now to give our construction update with steve turner. Good morning, directors. Steve, ru, with turner construction, construction oversight. I dont know. Is that up . There it is. Another good month, of work or alm
Over 17 people die in flash floods. Plus new images of the gunman who attacked the head officers of a newspaper and a bank. And find out the winner of the 2013 International Word of the year. Welcome to al jazeera, we begin our coverage in lebanon. At least 23 people have been killed after two suicide bombs exploded in the lebanese capital of beirut. A group linked to alqaeda says it carried out the attacks. There has been conflicting reports about the condition of irans coupletural attache, one suggesting he was killed another that he was seriously injured. This is where the bombs were designated. The area is known to be a hezbollah strong hold. Zanea bring us up to date on what happened today. Like you mentioned two suicide bombers, and really that is a dangerous development, because we have seen bombings over recent months but this is suicide bombers, and it is very hard to prevent such attacks. We have talked to a number of people who witnessed the explosions. They were close buy.
Amount of progress and let me just characterize what you are going to see this morning as conceptual design in nature. We really have not quite started the full fledged design process. That is waiting for obvious reasons for various approvals. But we have engaged in an extraordinary successful collar collaboration with the San Francisco Planning Department staff and so the design that you are going to be seeing i would characterize as the result of a very, very healthy collaboration with staff and we are quite proud of it. So i just need this here. And this is an image, several images that you are going to be familiar with. It simply puts the towering context and this is clearly one of the most important building complexes and we do see the Transit Center and the tower. And with the center with the roof, top, park and with all of its services and amendies, adjacent to it, is the large tower. The tower of course is a key participant in the financial district of San Francisco and we thin
Update for today. It is now displayed to the public at the academy of science and that will run for a number of months. So we would like to thank the California Academy for putting on display the mammoth tooth. And we will be looking for a new home in 2013. And finally on october 17th we had number one of our regularly Schedule Committee meetings to provide a construction update to our neighbors. So everything that moving along well. Now to give our construction update with steve turner. Good morning, directors. Steve, ru, with turner construction, construction oversight. I dont know. Is that up . There it is. Another good month, of work or almost a month and a half since we filled you in on the last period. There were no recordable incidents. We did have one near miss. But, brought to light some issues with the excavation process of sight lines and so that has been dealt with successfully. And allowing the excavator to work while the folks down below were able to position themselves a
Good morning, directors. Steve, ru, with turner construction, construction oversight. I dont know. Is that up . There it is. Another good month, of work or almost a month and a half since we filled you in on the last period. There were no recordable incidents. We did have one near miss. But, brought to light some issues with the excavation process of sight lines and so that has been dealt with successfully. And allowing the excavator to work while the folks down below were able to position themselves appropriately so they are not in the way of it. We have 550,000 craft hours now, about 60,000 since the last update. 157, chefs, and i will show you the chart for that in a little bit and the excavation continues into zone three, and 1, 2, 3. Some of the other activities, have been awarded and submitals have begun. And the final utility, relocation package 4. 2, the aux silry package is under way and we will work through the holidays on Mission Street and will continue on early into 2013 a