Host good morning. It is friday, august 11. Consumer prices up 3. 2 compared to one year ago. House gop continues the probes into the biden family and military aid deployed to help with wildfire response. Those are a few top stories this week. What is your top story of the week . You to share your thoughts on our phone lines. Republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. You can text us at 2027488003. Include your first name and city, state. We are on social media, facebook. Com cspan. Welcome to washington journal where we start with the wildfires and tragedy unfolding in hawaii. Here is the Associated Press. Authorities update death toll working to identify bodies. It says that maui county confirmed thursday night the number of deaths increase to 55. Hawaii democratic senator was in hawaii and spoke about the damage done by the fires and is asking for federal assistance. [video clip] this is truly a all hands on deck situation and our people here who have
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What we called a concept validation phase where we would contrast the hok scheme with the work being developed by the architect pelly clark pelly to identify any discreptcies in scope and cost and to reconcile those before we moved into the scheme matic design. And so as we moved into the budget and to revise it there were a number of miles stones that we went through. May of 2008, we awarded the contract pelly clark pelly to be the architect and set forth the design schedule at that point which included the concept validation phase that i discussed which was going to be our first four months of work with the architects. Moving into the schemeatic design and completing the construction documents in 2011. In september of 2008, we completed the concept validation phase. Reconciling the pelly proposal, and the design proposal with the base line budget and. Hok scheme and we were able to incorporate a number of new ideas into the design of the Transit Center. Of course, the signature park
Program ended. That was in 2011. The seven men and two women all have military experience and are seasoned veterans of space. They will fly in tap seouls developed by spacex and boeing, both companies are slated to launch their missions next year. Nasa ended the Shuttle Program after 135 missions. Since it ended, nasa is paying russia about 70 million per seat to carry astronauts to and from the International Space station. [ music playing [ music playing ] we continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by russia to try to weaken and divide the united states. In helsinki, i had a great meeting with putin. As i have said consistently, russia attempted to enter fear with the last election. Now were being hindered by the election hoax. The president is taking Decisive Action to defend our
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Project and the importance of labor in their continued support to our project over many years, thank you very much for acknowledging us and the magazine. And in addition, board members, i did sign out a letter from anvill builders as you may recall. It is a company that we awarded a contract to in november of last year for 9, 250,000, million, and they sent a letter thanking us for all of the work that we are doing regarding minority owned business and i want to thank everyone because we are doing a good job in that area. In addition, i wanted to report that last saturday, there was a very tragic incident that occurred on third street where a bicyclist was killed in a collision with a cement truck. And i know that our chair person kim has been very concerned about traffic and safety for pedestrians and bicyclists which is busy in that area understandable because we have a lot of events and on that particular day was an Appreciation Day and so we have asked the department of parking and