Go green in the aloha state. You can call it the big chill part two on the heels of a major cold front that socked large parts of the nation last week, another one has arrived and it may be worse, packing some of the coldest temperatures this country has felt in more than 20 years. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America, im stephanie sy. A widespread arctic blast known as the polar vortex will bring freezing winds impacting 140 Million People across 45 states and exposure to this dangerous weather could result in lifethreatening frost bite and hypothermia and some people could be 40 degrees below normaler and the plains and upper midwest are bracing for cold that could dip down to minus 60 degrees and bringing chicago to a stand still and the city is expecting temperatures of minus 20 degrees but the wind chill will feel like minus 50 a temperatures in the windy city is colder than the south pole where it was minus 9 degrees sunday night and joining us from icy cold chicago is
It emergency funding for the influx of unaccompanied minors across the southern border. Its recessress delay to address the southern border if it cant get the legislation passed and agreed to in both chambers this week . Border state residents. You can join the conversation on social media. Us. Can also email we will get your thoughts. Joining us is warrant a. She is with politico. Its own bill in the senate has a version as well. House take up the legislation . You can see it happening this week. Of contention in that Republican Caucus about this bill. Is there enough for Border Security . Youre going to see john boehner reallyin mccarthy working their conference this week before they schedule a vote to ensure that if they put it up they have the ability to pass it. Democrats will not be joining in their efforts. Host democrats will not vote. Why is that . There are some reasons. Antipelosi is opposed to changing that 2008 antitrafficking law in conjunction. As as fine doing it proces
To continue to work with the public and the cac and other stakeholders around the program at the facility, and the state legislation that was just introduced by Assembly Member king would move through this legislative year. Thank you. I want to thank the commissioners and there are more that chimed in and asking very good questions thus far and i realize this is informal only. Its early stage so its important not to get too much into it and pass judgment at this time. As some of you know i had a Long Association with San Franciscos waterfront and Fishermans Wharf in particular and i am happy to hear that Fishermans Wharf will not be duplicated. Fishermans wharf as you know is the number two destination next to disneyland in california and we seem to do a good job at making the people happy and generating tax dollars and the arena will bring in new tax dollars from a new sector of San Francisco and entertaining folks of San Francisco. In regard to the cruise ship i assume theyre celebra
Are used to thinking about like the one that just opened. More of a berkt that is that for use when the others are full so its a tertiary or fourth berth and a port of call, and not a full home port but we are taking that into consideration which has some effects on the overall site plan. The bottom line is we expect to have a higher level of design thats associated with the next site plan so you will begin to see more detail, more architectural detail. We will certainly have a physical model and have many more perspectives from different parts of the site as well as into the site from various locations. All of that will occur at the end of april is our target for rolling out that next iteration of the site plan as well as a higher level of design and were hoping to be back actually at this commission in april along with being at the Port Commission and the cac. Thank you. And i wanted to ask a series of transportation questions and i dont know who that is best for. So we got this diag
Ballpark. Yeah. Jessie blat again commissioner. The parking obviously is its a lot less than the warriors have at oracle and i wanted to make one point on that that we did do a survey of parking use during the season and we found that the highest point of the use of the oracle parking lot was 5,000 cars and when you think about oracle those that know the site pretty much capture every car that comes to a game or event and there is no where else to park there and its interesting to think about that compared to our site you have more than bart. You have cal train and the walkablity of the site and muni and walking. As it relates to our parking the 630 spaces that we are currently proposing serves a mix of players, personnel thats necessary for both the warriors operation as well as the arena operation as well as some Ticket Holders for the events. Certainly the design i mean how that works with the retail and open space does a great job in minimizing the impact of the parking. Just on th