Geotechnical consultants was established in 1964 here in San Francisco. Theyre a local business enterprise, geotechnical and geology firm. They have notable projects for the sfpuc for the port, and for bart. They are highly qualified. The lbe subconsultant goal for this project was 25 . The team exceeds that by coming in at 25. 9 . They have highly qualified teams of consultants including land economic consultants, structural engineers, solar consultants for cost estimating, global and [speaker not understood] firm in the bay area, [speaker not understood] Civil Engineering firm in the bay area, esa esa, an environmental firm, and [speaker not understood] geotechnical. The next steps will hopefully be to authorize the awards today. Otherwise, to proceed november 24th. Preliminary results would then come in may of next year. Final results in september of next year. The Contract Value as mentioned before is at 425,000, so, its a oneyear duration. Its not a lot of money for all we want to
The ice bucket challenge bringing in 94 million for the als foundation. Tonight, a closer look at the fundraising and how that money will be spent. Tonight, at least three americans are still held captive in syria and iraq by the Islamic State group. One of them is a journalist named steven satla. His mother made a desperate plea to get him back. Roxanna suberry reports. In this emotional please, she address did the leader of the Islamic State group asking him to let her son come home. The kalif can grant amnesty. I ask you to please release my child. In this video released to news organizations, she calls her son an honorable man who always tried to help the weak. Steven is a journalist who travels to the miss easts to cover the suffering of muslims at the hands of turkrants. They kept his capty secret even from close friends. A source close to the family told al jazeera they thought if they publicized his case, those in the Islamic State group would kill him. They showed the executio
More people at risk, especially young families. Reporter a parent who was here at holly park on saturday says he does not what he saw. A parking rec. Worker driving a pickup truck on a path with lots of people and pets nearby. He says city leaders are not doing enough to make sure another deadly accident doesnt happen here. Its kind of hard to wrerecre when youre looking around wondering if theres a truck thats going to roll over your family. Reporter he doesnt feel safe at holly park with his family. Nearly a year after a worker drove over and killed christi while she relaxed in the grass with her baby girl. He says the safety improvements are lacking. I dont think it makes sense to have large trucks in the park unless theyre properly staffed. Reporter someone took pictures of a worker driving on the path at holly park saturday and sent them to officials wondering why the driver did not walk the route and warn park goers he was driving through. They said according to the records, he f
There ever sense in the last 3 years ive called 311 for g parking people that park their cars and get on airports and kaebz and went to the airport with the letter g and also businesses who have allowed their employees to get gs just to go to work they dont live in San Francisco and have letter g. I do losses of preservation for Northern California i see the letter g. S all the way to sacramento they live in sacramento and have a letter g. For San Francisco thats not right. I go to the Baptist Church been there since i was a baby they need to check the parking slips and because it is not helping causing neighbor against neighbor friends against friends we dont need thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon. Im cheri im one of the many people who are opposed to r vp in the area when i first harder about the proposal i thought i was in the minority but i have found the vast majority of people oppose that especially the way the some is set up on the creative side tha
Passengers shivering for days. A look inside the carolands estate. All that and more straight ahead on a second look. Hello everyone im Frank Somerville and welcome to a second look. Sp trains crossed the country and came to dominate development in the golden west over the next century. In 2001, George Watson took a look at southern pacific and how it changed the bay area. Oakland incorporated as a city in 1864 but would remain a sleepy city until 1869 when the train came. The side of sps western terminus. The Steam Locomotive would forever alter the concept of time and distance. Now the power of steel and steam forcing over track late across endless prairie through seemingly impossible would altar the course of a nation. Here in california, especially in the bay area, by the beginning of the 20th century, the Southern Pacific Railroad was at the top of the pyramid. The rest of america came here on steel rails of the sp. It was said at the time in the 1890s and early 1900s that the cap