Part of the operation took part in the discussion. Florida International University hosted this 45minute event. [applause] thank you so much. Before i begin, i would like to ask if there are any pedro panists in the room. A special thank you for coming. I want to acknowledge pedro pan is not strictly or even primarily a topic for academic analysis and that you are the experts in this history. It is with that recognition that i will share a few thoughts with you today, but i do so with humility and appreciation for the opportunity to be with you today. Between the fall of 1960 and october of 1962, the parents of more than 14,000 cuban children made the heartbreaking decision to send their children alone to the United States where they were cared for by friends, relatives, foster parents, as well as in camps and orphanages. The reasons why parents did this were varied. Many feared for the spiritual wellbeing of their catholic children after an increasingly radicalized cuban revolution be
Smoky house fire turned deadly in bucks county. Happening today, expansion plans at Philadelphia International airport take a step closer to actually getting off the ground. Accuweather is tracking a chilly start the potential for gusty afternoon storms and then another big drop in temperatures. Thats a lot going on david for you to tell us about and matt pelman is in foredone take a look at traffic. Good morning. Everything but the kitchen sink today. All right. This morning were looking at a couple of light sprinkles and showers mainly up north. Allentown might catch a little bit of that. Less chance of seeing that in philadelphia and points south this morning but later today were on the lookout for some of the shower activity to the west to begin to build through and during the afternoon we could even have a line of spotty thunderstorms come through. Where those hit they could give us some problems with strong gusty winds. The National Weather service is warning for gusty storms tod
Doing the maintenance 10 and that was taken care of if you had been there. Thanks. I think my fellow commissioners have said a lot. I want to thank lewis for a great presentation and we had a conversation earlier today so we he were informed. The best thing i think want to thank the staff as well for making sure that as we get down to putting together of what our final negotiation proposals with the operator of labor that we thought through this carefully and today is another chapter to make sure we have the right input. We feel fortunate what we heard today is validating the Business Model that were on is a good one. Its good for the city and good for the port and good for labor, good for our passenger cruise cruise passengers, so we have to be thoughtful because we have time to put it together right so i hope thats the purpose of why were spending time on this and i think were on the right track. We have a few wrinkles here and there but well iron those out and i want to thank you ev
Not competing against these ports but its information that i think is important in terms of what people could charge and it has nothing to do, i think, because youre going to see with the name of the destination like were talking about whether bars lone in a, dover, thats not a strong destination, just a port and they can charge more because they have the facilities, they have the demand and therefore supply and demand, they engage that. So in a world like perspective, youre very close to the median. In a competitive spear, youre 5 cheaper one way and more expensive the other. So theres room there for improving your port paris. Then the other charges. We did the similar type of thing. We were able to collect youll bills from the cruise line pay for these services throughout the country from different sources and in a graphic in a non graphic way, i can show you, these are the cost per passenger and you see los angeles at 9, San Francisco if you have the late day charge, without the lat
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