Good afternoon, everyone. I am the director of the museum and staff director of the museum of Natural History. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the next pandemic. Hopefully its not the next pandemic right here. You might think that the Natural History museum is not the best placed at the meeting like this. This museum is the largest Natural Museum and has 145 million objects. I say that objects, whatever, but the reality is collecting the Natural World for the last frontiers in preserving preserving those objects in museums, and this is the place where we have what we know about planet earth, so the records have collect and over the years 300 years preserved at acceptable by research scientists. Last year over 400 species were described by scientists working the building. At the same time we welcome 6 million visitors. Most of those visitors are tourists which means the next years a different 6 million, the world plus largest collection, visit by the Worlds Largest is the audience,
This is Aljazeera America. Good morning. Live from new york city, im randall pinkston. Tropical storm erika is dumping five inches of rain on puerto rico, as it continues its path through the caribbean. Four were killed as erika dumped 15 inches of rain on that small island nation. Twenty people are missing there. Fastflowing rivers swept up cars, landslides blocked roads, power and Water Supplies knocked out. The storm now heading towards florida. Kevin joins us with details. This storm has been inconsistent and hasnt gotten its act together. Since yesterday, taking a look at the satellite and radar, you can see the rain showers in puerto rico. The radar ends here, but the satellite as you can see, the Actual Center of the storm is not here, its here towards the west. We do think that as randall said, puerto rico will be getting up to about five inches of rain over the next several hours, but my concern as we go through the rest of the morning into the afternoon is the Dominican Repub
The market than 1 . The dax down three quarters of 1 . In asia overnight, lower across the board. The hang seng index down better than 1 . Japan really fun on the session. A doubledecker bus crashes in london. The vehicle is limited through storefront during rush hour. Six people injured. Well have the latest coming out. Controversy at the va. Abc hospital fired for poor leadership put back on the payroll. Earnings to focus once again, we will hear from kohls, macys and nordstroms. Keeping an eye on snap as well. The watch service. Plus, from weight watchers, opera teams up with craft times to bring healthy dishes to your dinner table. All the stories coming out. Fox Business Network dagen mcdowell. Iraq and afghanistan here and the wall street journal Telecom Reporter jane does. Great to see you. Good morning. Maria were you surprised the provocations or north korea . This is what she did when you appease the regime prior to this one. They responded to the way weve react to them. Who
City, we arent that large that we dont really have [inaudible] of San Francisco. And clearly a number of steps have been taken, but they do appear to take an awful long time to get there. Even if we ignore the fact that this is a 2015 report because we did get an update on the current priorities and in 2016, were hoping to hear better information, but the fact that after all the discussion, that saint lukes is just an example. It has taken almost three years in order to bring about one additional bilingual staff member. And was apparently some question that there is community input. So i believe that from at least the health standpoint, we certainly are on point with most of the agreement. I do think that im somewhat concerned from director dods first comment that we didnt have the fee assessment within time, but we had agreed to have an assessment and i would ask staff that those points that are in compliance or within the compliance, but clearly if were behind in that, then the issue
Name for the record. I like to take roll for the planning commission. Commissioner hillis here. Commission vice richards here. Commission he will koppel. Here. Melgar we expect johnson and moore and we do expect commissioner fong to be absent. Commissioner chow for haemth commission. Health commission. Here loyce here. We have an announcement about the director of health. Good morning, im colien, im the Deputy Director of the department of Public Health and dr. Garcia cant be here. She has the flu that seems to be going around, so ill sit in for her today. Commissions, we have one item on your special calendar for case number 2012043. W the Medical Center annual compliance statement. This is informational presentation. Good morning, president chow and hillis, commissioners, im elizabeth pearl, Planning Department staff. The item before you today is an informational presentation on california pacific Medical Center compliance with the Development Agreement for the 2015 recording period.