President of the National Press club the former general manager of cbs Radio Networks and executive producer of the report published broadcasting series moderated by todays virtual headliner guest journalist marvin kalb. We are free to accept questions from those tuning in today and i will ask as many as time permits. To submit a question please email headliners at press. Org. For 27 years now ive had the privilege and pleasure of working with and introducing this gentleman for 101 programs here the National Press club. The introduction is always the same. Ladies and gentlemen please welcome the last correspondent personally hired to at cbs news by edward r. Moreau and the Gold Standard broadcast journalism my friend and colleague marvin kalb. Thank you mike. Thats the kindest intro. Please do it again and again. For 17th book just published by the Brookings Press marvin present the second installment of his autobiography entitled assignment russia becoming a Foreign Correspondent in t
social-service organizations. we will invest $62 million in affordable housing, $20 million to support transit improvements, and $30 million to improve pedestrian and never the safety. i also want to emphasize our dedication and commitment to the success of our st. luke s campus, where we will be investing $275 million, which you have not heard about, to build a new hospital, a larger emergency room, and we made a commitment to operate the hospital for 20 years after it opens. this plan will ensure continued and improve health care access in the mission district in the southern sections of the city. at davies, we will continue our pioneering research in the new medical building. at the site at the former cathedral hill hotel, we will build a new hospital that will provide in-patient medical and surgical care, women s and children s services, and specialized programs such as cardiology and newborn intensive care. it will provide an emergency room centrally located on major tra
this morning. i look forward to your comments and to moving this important project forward. now i would like to introduce an obstetrician at our st. luke s campus. good morning. thank you for having us. i want to thank everybody for coming. we have been too many hearings and meetings over time, and we were reminded that director from director garcia that the blue ribbon panel was actually in 2008. that is when we made the span from closure threat at st. luke s to the plan to build a new hospital, 80-bed hospital on ñzs while we re operating, which is important so we can maintain a medical home for our patients and keep our providers and networks in tact intact. we hear that st. luke s is a safety net hospitals. while that is true, we take care of underinsured, low-income, needy patients in our neighborhood. we also provide care to private insurance patients with a wide variety of services, including obstetrics, orthopedics, pain management, cardiology, and more. we loo