And i dont know who it was, but i thank him so much. The flames are also turning dollywood. One of the areas biggest tourist attractions. Into an orange armageddon as smoke and ash fill the streets. Luckily. There are no reports of damage. The fires were fueled overnight by powerful wind gusts of up to 60miles an hour. And the worst drought in the southeast in a decade. This just ina huge explosion in k this happened just north of Kansas City International aiport. The fire lit up the sky from miles away. Fire Officials Say a gas pipeline in the area ruptured. So far flights and traffic around the airport are not affected. Gas in the area has been shut down so the fire can burn itself out. 305311 weve got a death trap here. Weve got a death trap. Warn your neighbors. Warn everybody that you can got a 13 action news. After a terrible accident. And tonight. Were working to make sure. The area is a little safer. A Construction Superintendent and an attorney. Were on the phone with us. Firs
This morning, a somber reflection on all the heartbreak and horror of 15 years ago today . Nat ringing of bells the impact of the september 11th terror attacks . Still piercing . Through the haunting recollections . Sot memories as we crawled in deeper, squeezing through tiny openings, and into a smoke filled environment. Came to the understanding that we were going to die in that pile. And lingering effects. 127 new york city firefighters who stayed at ground zero in the days, and weeks that followed the attacks . Searching, heroicly through the smoldering, toxic debris . Have since died of respiratory and other ailments . Http abc7ny. Com news fdnyrem 00786 sot nagging problems worsened, chronic became acute and the number of those lost to the terrorist attack of september 11 began to grow, 17 new names added to the fdnys Memorial Wall this year . While again the other names . Etched into history show reflecting pool names are read aloud. Nats from here below the resilient reflection
Serve, there are brighter days ahead. There is an important economic convergence going on in South Carolina today. On one side we have a growing economy with more of our people working than ever before. With unemployment down to rate wes havent seen in many years. With people moving from welfare to work by the tens of thousands and with new Companies Moving in or starting up all the time, it is indeed a great day in South Carolina. [ applause ] but how did get there . There are several factors including our business regulatory approach our right to work laws and our Strong Economic Development and recruitment efforts but also no question our tax system plays an important part in our economy too. Our economic competitiveness as a state is in really good shape. But the nature of competition is that just when you think you are doing well, your competitors are gaining on you. In order to continue our states remarkable progress, we must take further steps to improve our standing. We are com
Always to end genocide. The horrors of auschwitz are incomprehensible and indescribable. The numbers are grim and even ghoul issue. Over ghoulish. Over one million people, men women and children, lost their lives at auschwitz. 90 were jews, hundreds of thousands were children and the largest of any of the death camps. Auschwitz was created as an internment camp. It was first created as an internment camp for polish dissidents for hundreds of thousands of poles who were not jewish but were murdered alongside the jews of auschwitz. In occupied poland, a nazi governor named hans frank proclaimed that poles will be foreverren sliefd by the third reich, but auschwitz went far beyond the poles because the German Authorities brought in people from throughout europe. Who were the people that came . They were teachers, they were politicians, they were professors, they were artists. They were even Catholic Priests. They were executed they were executed or barely survived. These are the authors o
Item 7c, update permit tracking system. Good morning, commissioners. Vivian day, special assistant for technology. And im pleased to announce that were still currently on track with permit tracking system. In fact, were a little bit ahead of the game. Weve completed as per your agenda package, weve completed all of the prioritization of the change orders requested beyond the initial configuration stage for the actual system. We will they were very minimal in nature. Weve also completed all the initial requirements for the fellow citizens access, which is the very basic requirements from just what the first screen will look like on what the citizens will see when they access our website, and it will match the citys websiteses since this is a citywide software program. We already renewed all the initial Historical Data conversion requirements with the vendor. Weve got a list of items that were working on to be able to transfer the nice data migration completely transferred over, more or