In parts of Central America. The u. S. Says its pulling out additional troops from afghanistan and iraq by mid january. Thatll leave around 2 and a half 1000 soldiers in each country just before president the office. But senior figures in the military and the trunks, Republican Party, say its a mistake and a risky move. Aljazeera has an official reports from the white house. Donald Trump Campaigned in 2016 on ending americas wars abroad. In the final days of his presidency, hes acting to cut numbers in both iraq and afghanistan. From 4500 in afghanistan, the number will drop to 2500. 00. It will be the same number in iraq, but it will come clean more than 3000. 00 times. So now this is consistent with our established plans and strategic objectives supported by the American People and does not equate to a change in u. S. Policy or objectives. In the stern is the us is longest war. Its lasted 1000 years, more than 2300. 00 soldiers have died. Its cost more than 193000000000. 00. Earlier
[roll call] clerk madam president , all members of the commission are present. Item number 2 is the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] clerk clrk item number 3 is the approval of minutes for the august 25, 2020 special meeting. So moved. Second. President brandon all in favor, roll call vote. [roll call] president brandon motion passes unanimously. The motion of august 25, 2020 [inaudible]. Clerk item number 4 is announcements. Please be vised that a member of the public has up to three advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Court Commission adopts a shorter period on any tight. Please note that during the Public Comment period, the moderator will instruct dialin participants to such a tonetone phone to register their desire for Public Comment. Audio prompts will signal to dinein participants when their audio input has been enabled for commenting. Please dial in when the item you wish to com
In indonesia, the number of daily new cases has recently exceeded 3,5,500. Authorities in the capital of jakarta have tightened restrictions that had bebeen ead since june. They require companies to raise the number of teleworking employees to three quarters for most industries. Gatherings of five or more people are also banned. In israel where new daily infections have surpassed 5,000 and nationwide lockdown will be imposed again beginning friday afternoon. In brazils largest city of sao paulo, 18 of children have brn been infected with the virus. Local authorities had been planning to reopen Public Schools next month for the First Time Since mid may, now that has been pushed back to november or later. A former member of the White House Coronavirus task force has acaccused u. S. President drum o placing priority on his reelection rather than containing the outbreak. Olivia troy was an adviser to mike pence untilil this summer. She made the accusation on thursday. Towards the middle of
Heidel stre zb. Okay. This is the meeting of the San Francisco Port Commission on september 8, 2020. The meeting was called to order at 3 15. [roll call] clerk madam president , all members of the commission are present. Item number 2 is the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] clerk clrk item number 3 is the approval of minutes for the august 25, 2020 special meeting. So moved. Second. President brandon all in favor, roll call vote. [roll call] president brandon motion passes unanimously. The motion of august 25, 2020 [inaudible]. Clerk item number 4 is announcements. Please be vised that a member of the public has up to three advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Court Commission adopts a shorter period on any tight. Please note that during the Public Comment period, the moderator will instruct dialin participants to such a tonetone phone to register their desire for Public Comment. Audio p
This week is cool, cool, cool. We are looking for a lot of low clouds and fog and drizzle will pick up over the next couple of days. 50s on the temperatures and 60 in san jose. If you enjoyed yesterday, it will probably be better today because it wont be as windy. It will be breezy but we were rolling on that wind yesterday. Napa and concord and oakland and santa rosa in between 510 miles per hour. It will be sunny and breezy with thunderstorms erupting over the sierra but we are all below average on the temperatures present cisco and oakland and especially in the areas. Over to sell now. The area there is the slowest traffic. Lets go right to and show the the macarthur maze leading to the bay bridge and you will see that traffic is okay at the maze. But when you get to the bay bridge, there is a backup for 1015 minutes. This is normal and it should start going away after 7 30 am and by 8 am it should be completely gone. This is interstate 880 n. And south moving well. No slow traffic