This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. Shia fetterers assembling near ramadi. Theyre prepared to launch a huge new offensive to take the city from isil. Ramadi is west of baghdad and isil controls much of the city looking Anbar Province the u. S. Is pledging to do all it can to help. God willing we will achieve victory soon, and we will never accept rather than triumph. It will be a real backbone for security forces. We will support the legitimacy in iraq, represent government and parliament. The iranian backed groups have fought isil back from iraq. We have more from baghdad. Isil is in control of ramadi city after a threeday complex and sophisticated assault. They managed to push Government Forces out of the provincial capital of anbar. They asked the help of shia led militias to recapture the city. What we understand is that these militias the different brigades are now preparing gearing up for a counter offensive against isil. This is a very controvers
Public has asked for, tmg, agreed to two events a year two could be scheduled in advance the others would be 30 days of the planned event, when there is no other conflicting event planned for this space, it would be added with no cost to the fee so they would have to pay for security, Janitorial Services etc. And the groups would have to get all the necessary permits but were pleased that tmg has made this into a public space. We have been port staff and tmg, and premier structures their joint venture partner, have been communicating, with the commission today today, you are asked to make an on the burden act, the port has gone to the state commission and ask them to issue a letter, finding a project consistent with the public trust. Exhibit d, to your staff report, includes, trust analysis in consultantation with tmg, and land state commission and that further the purpose of the trust or land time use that will be available for water taxi Public Access on the north apron the spraunt u
We may on may 20th with mps staff, provided response to our business term sheet we initiated a frank and aimable discussion with regards to the next steps we ask them to reconsider the length of term more term makes for more uncertainty. They think they will rethink the term of their concession contract, the length of which will increase the prooichlt investment in the project we also asked them to look into other projects. The port service will prepare cost estimates for the bulkhead portions of the site the goal is to finalize these cost estimates by midsummer, then agree to when these improvements have to be made over the term and then who pays. Once these elements are worked out we need to form a better sense of a fair compensation to the port with regards to rent structure while were making progress the staff feels we need to continue to negotiate agree over the summer that would be beneficial to the port and park service. In conclusion want to reiterate, port staff really wants t
Them to issue a letter, finding a project consistent with the public trust. Exhibit d, to your staff report, includes, trust analysis in consultantation with tmg, and land state commission and that further the purpose of the trust or land time use that will be available for water taxi Public Access on the north apron the spraunt use, and now the event use, the publicly oriented event use in parcel c. In closing, the port staff recommended rationale for lease approval includes the following the project meets, the rfp goals of bulkhead restoration rehabilitation use and services and ongoing port revenue today, we believe it balances, appropriately risk and award, this is an old facility there are conditions, risks our partner is making a substantial investment we think there a good balance for both the port and tm g. Through a long term lease like this we will reduce part harbor Fund Obligation with capital backlog, insurance claims, we believe we have come up with interesting, financial
Halted b. A. R. T. Trains and frustrated commuters. B. A. R. T. Encountered a system wide problem that prevented trains from running. The agency was able to get trains rolling out. This was the scene several hours ago. Take a look at the conditions right now. Conditions appear to bism proving improve conditions appear to be improving. Good afternoon. Im tori campbell. Brian flores joins us from oakland. Reporter b. A. R. T. Says this was a comur glitch caused by an upgrade. Whether its a computer glitch or a glitch to the tentative agreement, the passengers are frustrated. Were not running any service at this time. Reporter the words b. A. R. T. Commuters did not want to hear this morning as the system failed and inconvenienced many. If its not one thing, its another. Its more convenient for me to take b. A. R. T. , especially on friday. Reporter the glitch, according to b. A. R. T. , is pinpointed to an upgrade to a network server. According to b. A. R. T. , the glitch occurred someti