Please, send your proposal requests to people who are capable of doing the work well. We will now hear from josh klipp. Can you hear me. Does commissioner swig have a question . You are on mute. Let me unmute you. I think id like to interrupt the process, please. That was a very important point. I need to ask a question to mr. Buck about pruning. Yes, we have heard redundantly that its a low cost bid process. Mr. Buck. And i never built a bridge before would i get award the bid, probably not. Its the same level of Due Diligence on contractors doing or pruning throughou throughout. This is chris buck. We absolutely have those requirements, they have a contract license and they possess a certified or borrist credential so we have not have anyone bid on contracts. They can bid on them but if we were not satisfied with their qualifications they would be disqualified. Is we have customers that have been maintaining their own trees for decades and we have to have contractors who can prune th
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More new cases outside of ina where it originated then inside the country. On wednesday trump held a news conference. He appointed Vice President en mikece to direct efforts to contain the spread and downplayed the risk to americans. San francisco is on high alert. There are new cases in the city. The mayor called a state of emergencto mobilize resources there apto be a utbaraks. Second person in the United States who contracted the virus through unknown origins. Th are from the bay area. Joining me, doctor charles chu. And Infectious Disease expert. Thank yofor ing with us. There is fear in the community. How much concern should people have. What lev is appropriate. We ould be worried. We should be concerned. We are seeing cases of the virus circulating in the community. Cases of infection where we dont know where came from. We dont know how this one individual became infected. We also did not know how the second case in Santa Clara County became infected as well. We should be wary. A
Largest economy in europe for 2019. There are more concerns about the global trade deals than there was yesterday. You can see european stocks pretty much flat. The dollar pretty much a steady. We are getting some data out of germany shortly. We also speak to the dallas fed president , Robert Kaplan at 3 30 p. M. London time. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Now, u. S. Story for tariffs on china staying put. The Trump Administration is likely to keep them in place until after the president ial election. Any relief is also contingent on compliance. Steven mnuchin and says tariffs wont be removed until the next stage of a trade deal. These tariffs will stay in place until there is a phase two. If the president gets a phase two quickly, he will consider relieving tariffs as part of a phase two. It has nothing to do with the election or anything else. Today, the u. S. And china are scheduled to sign their phase one trade deal. 1 billion is the figure by which jp morgans
The around the world. Iraqs president has rejected the nominee for Prime Minister he says hed rather quit someone rejected by testers for demanding an independent candidate so whats the way forward for iraq this is inside story of. My. Hello and welcome to the program im daddy in obligato for months now iraqis have been voicing their anger and demanding a change in their Political Leadership they say they are fed up with corruption unemployment and a lack of basic services hundreds of people have been killed the Prime Minister resigned in november and now many are rejecting the nominee to replace him they say. Will only help iran extend its influence in iraq and president but he says he will resign rather than appointed i done e but the main Political Blog about picked i done is refusing to back down will bring in our panel in just a moment but 1st this update from in baghdad. A political maneuver with potentially far reaching consequences iraqs president has sent his Resignation Lette