The situation in syria is becoming more complex and tense, with turkeys advance into Northern Syria showing no sign of easing today. The Syrian Military accompanied by Russian Troops has assumed control of the kurdish held town of manbij, Turkish Military forces ammassing nearby and turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan says taking manbij is a priority. But seizing the town would now mean clashing directly with syrian troops and possibly even russia. Another particular flash point has been the kurdish held town of ras al in where there has been more street to street clashes today. This footage from the Turkish Anadolu Agency shows just how intense the fighting has been, as Turkish Backed fighters try to displace the kurdish forces. Middle east correspondent martin patience is there. Well, the syrians are behind me, and throughout this morning, we have seen heavy turkish shelling. That seems to be their response to the american sanction. The turkish president , for his part, says he wi
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12, 15, its our obligation to put that together and get it to them. They are worried about the incident in their jurisdiction which they have to correct. Its our responsibility to reach bond those borders as their extension to bring in the reserves that they need to maintain that kaupblt newt of operation and then where we function through the state Utility Operations Center and the state Operations Center to make sure that we have that kind of access and that kind of assistance. We need caltrans, were going to need chp, were going to need cal fire, we need dwr, they are invested in restoring their Critical Infrastructure and its our responsibility to reach across those lines to get that kind of access to keep that kind of restoration underway. Thank you. Mr. Brig. In terms of establishing standards for resill yepbs, absolutely, we have done that. Again as i mentioned earlier, to get our customers to fund all these Capital Projects we did up a contract with them. This is what youre get
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Need cal fire, we need dwr, they are invested in restoring their Critical Infrastructure and its our responsibility to reach across those lines to get that kind of access to keep that kind of restoration underway. Thank you. Mr. Brig. In terms of establishing standards for resill yepbs, absolutely, we have done that. Again as i mentioned earlier, to get our customers to fund all these Capital Projects we did up a contract with them. This is what youre getting and this is what youre going to pay for. That had to be well defined as engineers need to know what to do and what to design for. Establishing those standards, what we call levels of service, theres levels of service for threats of terrorism and also the seismic one, which is essentially an 8. 0 event on the san andreas fault. Were working with other city departments so they know what to expect from us. Its been an education process. As we started down the road i think there was an expectation all water and sewer was going to be i