Live from the kgotv broadcast center, this is abc news. It is unanimous. Berkeley city Council Passed an urgency ordinance aimed at improving the safety of balconies in the city after last months deadly collapse. Good evening. Im ama daetz. Dan ashley is off. The collapse at an apartment complex killed six students and severely injured seven nearly a month ago. Abc7 News Reporter katie is live at Berkeley City Hall with the late breaking developments. Katie . Ama an attorney representing ashley donahos family says they called for balcony inspections every year. You can see the line of people posed to speak. A series of proposals to improve the safety of balconies from the frequency of inspections and the type of materials used to balcony design. The Council Approved the urgency ordinance and it goes into affect immediately. Local building amendments have to be approved by the state. Council decided to call for inspections every three years. The donaho attorney called for every year. Th
Together, were building a better california. Live from the kgotv broadcast center, this is abc news. It is unanimous. Berkeley city Council Passed an urgency ordinance aimed at improving the safety of balconies in the city after last months deadly collapse. Good evening. Im ama daetz. Dan ashley is off. The collapse at an apartment complex killed six students and severely injured seven nearly a month ago. Abc7 News Reporter katie is live at Berkeley City Hall with the late breaking developments. Katie . Ama an attorney representing ashley donahos family says they called for balcony inspections every year. You can see the line of people posed to speak. A series of proposals to improve the safety of balconies from the frequency of inspections and the type of materials used to balcony design. The Council Approved the urgency ordinance and it goes into affect immediately. Local building amendments have to be approved by the state. Council decided to call for inspections every three years.
Of inspections and the type of materials used to balcony design. The Council Approved the urgency ordinance and it goes into affect immediately. Local building amendments have to b approved by the state. Council decided to call for inspections every three years. The donaho attorney called for every year. There may be other buildings with this same design issue and problem out there. Why do i say that . We know these same contractors have had similar issues with other buildings that were built at the same time in other locations. Building organizations represents also spoke and they would like to form a task force to make sure changes made to the Building Code dont have uninend ited consequences. Unintended consequences. They asked them to pause after looking into the collapse. There were code amendments that make sense for the bay area for berkeleys nd. The city plans to hire certified professionals to do the additional inspection. At this point there is no word on how much it will cos
Chris froome is trying to keep the jersey. And which place will you eat the most chocolate . We will discuss in the press review. For the first time turkey strikes jihadists inside syria. Early this morning, three turkish fighter jets bombed positions at the Islamic State group and the government has decided to crack down on militants. The country is also discussing whether to let the United States have access to a here to a key airbase close to the syrian border. Turkish Prime Minister davutoglu has given a press conference. That conference what important points to the Prime Minister make . On the airstrikes against isis targets in north syria this morning, he said the turkish fighterbombers have completely destroyed three ias targets. Foreign guided missiles from turkish airspace. He stressed that they did not actually enter syrian territory. That shows that he wants to show that turkey is sticking by the rules of engagement set up for conflict along the syrian border. It does not wa
You knew all about it. The ridge of High Pressure is beginning to move in from the western side killing of some showers and underneath the clearing skies we end up with a quite cool night, especially in east anglia. After an early dip temperatures pick up underneath the cloud. Eventually the trailing front brings rain and cloud into Central England and wales and falling on behind the blustery day with lots of showers and the odd rumble of thunder. The rate taking its time to really get them to east anglia and hanging on to the brightness there. More for you in and about half an hour. See you then. Hello. This is bbc news. The headlines Hurricane Irma is battering cuba with heavy rain and winds of more than 150 Miles Per Hour hitting the north of the country after already devastating several caribbean islands and killing at least 20 people. Meanwhile officials in southern florida have told 6. 3 Million People a quarter of the states population to evacuate their homes before the storm ar