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New york yankees pitcher Michael Pineda is tossed from the game when umpires determine hes using a banned substance smeared on his neck. Captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for thursday, april 24th, 2014. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. President obama is in tokyo this morning, the first stop on a fournation tour of asia, and while discussing critical Security Issues with japanese leaders, the crisis in ukraine was also on the agenda. Mr. Obama says russi...

Extraordinary achievement. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by ive been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. The ones getting involved, staying engaged. They are not afraid to question the path theyre on. Because the one question they never want to ask is, how did i end up here . I started schwab with those people. People who want to take ownership of their i...

They were shot and killed by the Afghan Security guard that was hired to protect them. Absolute tragedy here. New sweeping regulations for ecigarette rules would ban sales to minors and disclose ingredients. And the u. S. Is now considering more punishment for russia. We have been preparing for sanctions, those are teed up. Gun laws allow weapons in more places than ever before. Critics are calling this one of the most frightening laws in america. And metal debris that washed ashore in america d...

Thank you supervisor campos thank you, mr. President its been a very informative discussion but i want to sort of look at it from a different prospective. I certainly agree there is a need that nonprofits have and im inclined to support the item but i want to step back with context. As i see it were talking about the impact that the tax break the midmarket tax break is having in the neighborhood but the impact in other neighborhoods. I can tell you its not just midmarket thats impacted clearly a...

Need to look at the entire corridor. We may be looking at opportunities for second floor space and putting people in building to combine the social service organizations. To let you know were looking every single opportunity. Were coming before the whole board because were comfortable presenting it to the board as a whole we need all our support in order to make this a successful effort. Thank you supervisor kim supervisor wiener thank you first of all, i want to thank supervisor yee for the ame...

Whole job. And i know you will. But this is a measurement and its an essential measurement of how you are doing the job for those that dont have choices. And its essential that you take care of the people that have choices too. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Steve wu. Good afternoon, directors, steve wu from chinatown. The policy you have before you represents a lot of hard work from your staff and Community Membe members. We are happy to support the approval of this policy framework. Your s...

Contingency required to cover the additional risk. I just want to make sure you heard you correctly you said only covering 65 percent with our current budgeted these are things that may happen or may not happen so we run an analysis to get the probability of how much of the list budget we think might need to be used. So you dont think well have enough money . Thats not what im saying. So actually were 65 percent confident that the remaining contingency will cover the remaining construction risk ...

Risk profile has diminished and 65 percent would be an appropriate level for where we stand today. Certainly it is a policy call and so as the policy component of our organization if you would like us to revisit that 65 percent we would certainly be willing to do that but this is what we believe to be the best but if theres concern over 65 percent and a desire to go with a higher contingency profile certainly we would do that. I think i want to add i want to thank commissioner torres i think the...

65 percent would be an appropriate level for where we stand today. Certainly it is a policy call and so as the policy component of our organization if you would like us to revisit that 65 percent we would certainly be willing to do that but this is what we believe to be the best but if theres concern over 65 percent and a desire to go with a higher contingency profile certainly we would do that. I think i want to add i want to thank commissioner torres i think the conversation is valuable and th...

[laughter]. And you also dont want to tell your contractor that just in case you have another hundred thousand tucked away in in a corner. So to cover a hundred percent of it we think would be inappropriate but we also think 50 percent is too low, 65 seems appropriate. Before you start again so the will of the body is we want a short memorandum and once we receive that memorandum well discuss whether we want to revisit or change or delete or leave it as is is that our will . I dont think its a C...