The white house nomination. Democratic and republican parties are frantic ahead of the New Hampshire primary vote tomorrow. Lets take you first to the turkey syria border where tens of thousands of syrians are still gathered hoping to make it across. A have fled the bombing and fighting that has intensified in recent days. Turkey has taken in million refugees. France 24 correspondent have been reporting from the border for us. Us 60 kilometers inside the turkish territory. Can you tell us if the border is still closed . The border remains closed. There is no indication as to when the border will open. The turkish president has said that they would welcome this new wave of refugees if the situation gets worse. Turkey is in a very delicate situation and position. On the one hand, it has welcomed, as you said, more than 2. 5 million syrian refugees. It has had an open door policy all those years. It has been under great pressure to increase control and stem the flow of refugees coming to
To a maximum of 500. Weve found the warning procedure itself just getting the word out to employers we dont see any evidence youre in compliance you will be subject to citations that is if you have to get their attention and as we move down the thirty day increments employers who have not in the past in compliance almost all of them come into compliance just by getting the warnings move into compliance i if the record could reflect having the letters is an effective way to get people to listen to us. So that describes what we have in place and where we stand with it. Id like to introduce dave ambitious to describe how the Region Program operates and how we fit into it. Good evening and thank you, thank you for the opportunity to be here and thrill about what were doing now with the new program at the regional scale. By way of introduction im with the bay area quality mettle district were responsibility for air quality throughout the 9 counties bay area we have a board of directors the
You care about and also about jobs and a good and cleaner environment that speaks to all of that i cant say enough about it about where this could be and how we can position this department. To speak to the city about its importance for its growth as a city and everybodys moving to those places how do we Work Together to be sustainable because weve got to do it if . The pattern of immigration for the whole country. Thanks commissioner. Colleagues the only thing i want to offer it it may not be necessary would it be helpful until you said the head of the sustainability to d. C. From the post office i was going to offer up the colleagues maybe a letter from us i heard about whats happening but its not necessary. I think thats an outstanding idea if i could go a step further invite them to come before you and give us an update on how were doing. Maybe if its the will of the people on behalf of the commission we want a just want on the status of them and invite them to come back in septemb
You you understand what i mean and so as i was getting briefed on this i realized the program is at a crossroads but time to come before you and let you know what a goes on youre going to hear there was changed at the state a law passed at the state that engaged the air district that influenced our program it complicated and i thought it was youre aware of that it is going to change our program. Bob. Its a pleasure to be here im joined by dave bickering with the air quality district ill have him join me weve spoken before about the San Franciscos commuter benefits weve given you yugd our representative is not here were joined if we have questions sue at t synson will answer those. But i wanted to give you a quick recap of the San Francisco ordinance how it works as director raphael said theres a new program that applies to businesses throughout the bay area. It was actually modeled after our City Ordinance it overlays our program so i wanted to give you a quick recap of where we are an