Than a million pounds. Borisjohnson is expected to head to brussels in the next few days, in a last ditch effort to break the deadlock over a brexit trade deal. Talks between the uk and the European Union have again failed to produce a breakthrough. Ajoint Statement Issued by the Prime Minister, borisjohnson, and the European Commission president , ursula von der leyen, says. We agreed that the conditions for finalising an agreement are not there due to the remaining significant differences on three Critical Issues level playing field, governance and fisheries. We asked our chief negotiators and their teams to prepare an overview of the remaining differences to be discussed in a physical meeting in brussels in the coming days. Lets speak to our political correspondentjessica parker. Shejoins us now she joins us now from westminster. Do we know when because of course there is a Council Leaders meeting on thursday, presumably before that . Yeah, i mean, ithink people on thursday, presuma
Ed. Thank you, mr. Chairman, and Ranking Member for holding this important hearing. I would like to yield all my time to congresswoman gonzalez. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I yield back. The chair recognizes representative gonzalezcolon. Thank you, i want to thank representative rad way began fog her time. He is entitled to his opinion but he does not li in puerto rico, he does not represent the island. No one voted for him. The only ones voted for is the governor and me. Hes a democrat and im a republican, and voters many times rejected him. What were supporting here is what the people of the island voted for, statehood. Thats democracy. Again, anybody can have their own opinion. But coming here the problem is established. We are not treated as equal under the law. The u. S. Congress can do whatever they want with territories. They can do whatever they want with the issue of puerto rico. And yet, we are skill facing a lot of the needs like the state os louisiana, new jersey, florida, tex
And then a mentioned before, the National Research Council Published a document entitled Sea Level Rise from the coast of california, oregon and washington past, present and future which provides the Science Behind some of those guidelines. In addition, as you can see by this list on the screen, there are at least a dozen other efforts underway by different city agencies to address Sea Level Rise and flooding in the city. And these are just a small portion of a myriad of other efforts that are underway [speaker not understood] to address Sea Level Rise. What is the port doing about it . We actually are ahead in some areas. We have taken the steps to assess Sea Level Rise and build understanding of the issue. The report submitted to you last year, stephens has talked to you about the seawall seismic evaluation and the scoping thats underway for the seawall retrofits. In addition, we are seeking assistance from the army core of engineers for flood [speaker not understood] projects. ~ we
And if we want to look at 2100 what the maximum projection is, we have problems. So, this goes to show what some of the challenges are taking projects forward right now with the Sea Level Rise guidance. And if were looking at individual projects were only looking at small pieces of the puzzle. This is one small piece of the puzzle of the creek. Its a park. It looks like its good till 20 65. We can make it good till 20 5. People can enjoy it through then ~. It is currently not being used for Public Open Space at all. So, it seems like its a good use of funds. Were not building a building out there or anything thats highly critical infrastructure. So, it work. But there is an overall plan that needs to happen for the creek moving forward as well as many other areas. The waterfront, youll hear about that next. And, so, to finish up, in summary, port staff recommend that the port authorize the award of construction contract no. 27 58 r bayview gateway park project, environmental landscape
Mr. Trump was clinging to tenth place in the national polls. And Carly Fiorina was on the wrong side of the cutoff. She was coming in at roughly 11th place before now. But in a new nbc poll out today Carly Fiorina has sent donald trump to the kids table at least in this one new national poll. Carly fiorina now stands in. Tenth place in National Polling with a whopping 2 of republicans supporting her. And donald trump has 1 , so hes fired. This is just one poll. Theres no way to tell if this is going to hold but these are your current top ten republican contenders according to the nbc wall street poll thats out today. We have here one surgeon, three firstterm senators, we have one arguably failed and definitely fired executive of a really Big Tech Company in california, and we also have five people who are current or former governors of u. S. States. So if youre looking for what type of candidate is really dominating the republican race right now its the governors. Former Florida Govern