It means we have persuaded much of the world to share our ideals. And thats not a cause for concern. Its a cause for hope. We americans are a strong and confident people. We know that in open competition our ideals, our ingenuity, and our courage ensure our success. Isolationism and protectionism are a fools errand. We should build no walls in a futile attempt to keep the world at bay. Walls are for cowards, not for us. [applause] we are the worlds only superpower. We must accept the responsibilities along with the blessings that come with that distinction. And if america is to lead, then americas leader must be prepared for that challenge. The most solemn responsibility given the president is the role of commanderinchief. When it comes time to make the decision to send our young men and women into harms way, that decision should be made by a leader who knows that such decisions have profound consequences. There comes a time when our nations leader can no longer rely on briefing books
In a string of similar crimes in the bay area. The burglars and techniques may not be sophisticated, but so far is proving to be effective. Grant lodes is here to show us what is happening more and more often grant all of these robberies in the past, may have may it was the apple store in berkeley when Police Arrived a suspect or suspects had fled. In november it was a chanel boutique of union square. Tens of thousands of dollars worth of handbags vanished with of the seats. In january patagonias store near Fishermans Wharf was literally hit. A you all back into the store. The suspects ran in and grabbed merchandise from the store. Just nine days later crashed and grabbed the bus went for the gold. Crashing a stolen as you beat into the Wells Fargo History Museum in the heart of San Franciscos financial district. The mask the east held a Security Guard at gunpoint while they stole about 10,000 worth of budget of gold. Five days ago it was the highend audio store in west portal. And the
Sheriffs office utilizes to take care of that facility. So they were doing work, hit a pipe carrying natural gas. Im sure you know about the fire and explosion we had in san bruno a couple years ago. Much has been made about the pg e shutoff valve. From a firefighters perspective, pete, can you tell us, was it shut off quickly . Did it take a while . Tell us about that. The last report, it was still going to take approximately two hours for them to shut it down. Yeah, obviously we know about san bruno. Luckily for us, this was an area isolated from any homes. The fire was still going with the tractor nearby working in the area, which caught on fire as well. That fire started a grass fire. So at this point, weve surrounded the grass fire, contained it to the area that burned and now were letting the gas line burn until officials can shut down the line. Just to be clear, the gas is still flowing right now . As of last report, yes, it is still flowing, but they are working diligently to g
Dram itally and to work costeffectively to stay onbudget and deliver the project. So this is the context of where were looking at. Its right on the lines of new central subway. There will be a moscone stop. We have three separate buildings, south opened 32 years and north opened 20 years and moscone west opened a little over ten years ago. For the study looked at that whole area and looked at the three moscone sites and the two garages, 5th and missing the and the moscone garage between folsom and howard. One of the problems with Moscone Center it was built basically when the neighborhood was not what it is today. And it was built kind of in independent, isolated area to almost a suburbantype building in what has been a very urban area. We market San Francisco as a pedestrianfriendly city and pedestrians are not allowed to walk around the Moscone Center in some areas. So we need to improve how it functions, but how it looks in the neighborhood. Currently below ground, below grade there
At adding three buildings above moscone north and south lobby and at the corner of 3rd and howard. Well add up to another 100,000 square feet of meeting space on top of the existing buildings. What this will allow us to do is two things. It allows us to add the meeting space, but expand the space because we want to on top of these buildings is expand the garden experience. Expand the public experience that you can do. The public will be able to use the space and it will be programmable space for convention use also. So really expand that whole urban park plaza field of the yerba area. Well narrow that down to be more urban feel and pedestrian and people active and you will see a lot more dynamics going on and make that much more active with the neighborhood. Here is a view looking east on howard street. How will it connect the two buildings, north and south and bring it much more into a tight feel. Totally right now we have about 540,000 square feet of existing space and well go up an