Security flash points. And how robots are helping stroke patients on a slow rode road to recovery. Hello, hundreds of more migrants have been asked rescued from the Mediterranean Sea. At least ten bodies have been recovered from the water. Almost 1800 people have died crossing the mediterranean an amazing 14,000 have made the journey since january. Libya is the main Transit Route for smugglers. They made that they make 90,000 per boat load. We go to italy where migrants have been rescued. 126 children were also on board. Further north Authorities Say 40 newborn babies and a number of pregnant women were among the 700 migrants brought to shore. Well Stephanie Dekker witnessed the arrival at the port. They approached the port in silence. Silhouettes in the dark sky. The boat has just docked and its quite a powerful moment as many stand silently as the boat comes to shore. They risked a lot to get here. Many wont know where theyre going from here, but certainly this is one of the first ti
Well tell you why this is the center of one of the worlds biggest security flash points. How robots and Computer Games are helping stroke patients on their road to recovery. In breaking news, the Israeli Foreign minister liner man has resigned. The two term top diplomatic said he will not be part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus incoming government. He will join the opposition. The latest now with mike hanna in jerusalem. Whats happened here, mike, why has this turn of events come about, do you think . Significant developments, in deed. I understand from sources president at the Coalition Talks between lieberman and Benjamin Netanyahu said lieberman insisted not only on retaining his portfolio of foreign minister but being responsible for relations with the United States something that had been carried out by the former justice minister. The significance of this is that netanyahu had been relying very strongly on liebermans participation and the success in election to get a Strong
It also makes it really complicated because you have in any one grant year, 50, 60 different organizations receiving grants but thats the way we do it and i think that kind of patch quilt is a good thing in San Francisco and that covers a whole lot of work in housing for example, there is tenant counseling, theres first time Home Ownership, its done a lot to support the housing programs, the hope sf x the envisioning program, we have Small Business assistance, we have child care services, so its supporting a lot of different organize sashes doing different work and i hear some of the previous speakers, its hard to know whats doing what but i would argue it gets there better when you do it through this model of a dissevered decentralized funding rather than when you put it into centralized agencies. My second point is on the role of the citizens committee, i think a lot of us would see us as more a policy body, were setting Economic Development policy for this city. Its not really a pod
Are bigger yet the federal Government Cut 16 of cdbg this year and 20 of our [inaudible] fund, we had to deal with that fact because some people are not going the get their grants. What we did this last month was to take a compelling argument to the mayor and it will come to you hopefully too to backfill that lost funding, its essential to Keep Community development stable because the other option is to cut those critical grants to the ground. I would say that its a critical time to do that because were seeing widening disparities in wealth and it is a time when the federal government is giving back, we have to add more and this is a critical time to do that. We crafted a letter and it was framed around that, supervisor avalos, in a time of prosperity, the last thing we can do is start cutting critical Community Development grants, so unfortunately in so many ways, it falls to local government. That is whats happening at the federal and state level, its a retrenchment that is dishearte
Turned down. Theyre socially and economically disadvantaged organizations and i would like the see more work witching the nonprofit environment as opposed to working with the Small Business community, theres some private and Nonprofit Organizations, they collect this money under the mckinney veto act and provide transitional housing but theyre only obligated to provide it for 12 years and then they can go private and turn it into a condominium so theyre telling their president s to get on the Public Housing waiting list because they want to convert. Then you have some thats just trying to say they want to get out of the contract before 12 years so they say all the residents are not paying rent so they can get out of the contract before 12 years and its not helping with the homeless crisis. I know a lot of people, ive even been in a shelt e my sons father chasers vase me, i was a property manager, he harassed me simply because he wanted his girlfriend wanted my position as manager or so