I am maria bartiromo, it is thursday october 12, breaking news 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. In israel 22 americans have been killed by Hamas Terrorists. 17 others are still missing in the white house fears the numbers may rise. Overall dead 1200 and israel, not the 1200 and gaza as the president of israel weary and battled promises to fight on and root out the tears from his country. Secretary blinken in israel this morning. We are following all the latest developments this morning. Stay with us on the breaking news out of israel. We are looking at a market meanwhile trading higher ahead of the Consumer Price index will market moving data coming up this morning, dow industrial up 118, the nasdaq at 58 and s p 500 up 16 and a quarter. Take a look at European Industries where we are also seeing a firmer tone, at the p100 up 60 points, cat chronic 37 and dax higher by 98, oil prices on the move, asian markets higher overnight as you can see the best performer overnight was japan and hong
Up the project and run with it. Great. Please, yes. Give her the mike. Please stand up so they can see you to give you the mike. Im the executive director of the u. S. Afghans council at georgetown university. We are so grateful you are here and id like to publicly thank you for staying up in the middle of the night. Very quietly, i dont think people know this. And you have been sending us support and at times when you dont have the staff to do it. Were so grateful for reaching out to us here in washington, d. C. Id like to ask specifically if you could talk further about one of the myths that you brought up. The myth of the afghan male, the afghan man as being uncivilized. Part of why i the about that, in my work, what i found is with all of these successful, beautiful, talented afghan women that you talk about, there is always usually a strong and supportive and feminist and wonderful father, husband, brother, cousin, uncle. That i think we dont always hear about. So if you could tal
We are grateful for the Transit Center projects. We were awarded a nine proint 2 Million Contract and hoist for the project and we pursued this project and built with other veterans at the outreach events of the tjpa. As an entrepreneur and veteran i cant tell you how important to get a meaningful opportunity for this project of this caliber. We grew from 10 employees to 50 now and we have other competitive contracts that we experienced here in the city and county of San Francisco meeting with other contractors large and small who are becoming our teammates and clients and i want to mention Webcor Obayashi and Turner Construction have been incredible mentors to our firm. Working with this program has help us overcome the challenge of working on large and complex projects and we were able to hire additional veterans to work in office of economic and Workforce Development and on the trances bay project. So i want to know the tjpa is making a difference to real people to veterans looking
Only 20 was weighted on cost and 80 on more fermorral things and technical merit things. I find that interesting just to get an idea how staff is weighing these things before they say heres the award and i think that would be a good policy for us to have when we have the evaluation and everything lets see the scores because that will tell us the weighting and give us an idea how staff is thinking when they do have competitive bids. Okay. We can include that. Director reiskin. Just one question on the temporary facilities which doesnt seem like its necessarily that unique of scope of work. Why do we think we only had one bidder . Its actually about three reasons that we thought we would have more. We did have 100 f. T. E. On it so that was one component. Also the fact thattan vil was on site already. The fact they were there and a known entity to other bidders. The temporary facilities which is a wide range because you can imagine its logistical. With a very hot market a lot of the Smal
Ht tran and work with anvil builders and a minority owned business in the Bay View District i want to thank you for the opportunities you made available to my company and for me a disabled veteran of the iraqi war. I want to stress how important it is to engage veterans and business owners. We are grateful for the Transit Center projects. We were awarded a nine proint 2 Million Contract and hoist for the project and we pursued this project and built with other veterans at the outreach events of the tjpa. As an entrepreneur and veteran i cant tell you how important to get a meaningful opportunity for this project of this caliber. We grew from 10 employees to 50 now and we have other competitive contracts that we experienced here in the city and county of San Francisco meeting with other contractors large and small who are becoming our teammates and clients and i want to mention Webcor Obayashi and Turner Construction have been incredible mentors to our firm. Working with this program ha