Its friday 27th october. Im vicki young. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, has called on senators to approve direct rule over catalonia, amid an escalating crisis over the regions push for independence. The Catalan Parliament could respond by declaring independence. Lets cross over live now to my colleague in barcelona. You join me live outside the Catalan Parliament, where after weeks of turmoil, demonstrations and chaos and anger, this Catalan Crisis finally looks to be coming to a head. In the last few minutes, ca rles head. In the last few minutes, Carles Puigdemont, the catalan president , arrived here at parliament. We understand one of the motions he put to a vote today is a declaration of independence, a declaration of independence, a declaration that catalonia will be a sovereign state, independent, they will notify the eu, and any think madrid two sides will be irrelevant because it will be outside catalan law. That flies in the face of
Been buried alive with the dirt. Were you sleeping at the time it came in . I was sleeping. Reporter these people are going through a lot. Some of them are staying at overnight shelters but those are at local high schools and with school back in session monday they will have to pack up their belongings and move. City leaders are looking for a new place for them tuesday. There are also working on trying to find an estimate of the damage here caused by the flood, and once they get the estimate they will get state and federal dollars to help the victims, because they say that they are going to help them get back on their feet. Live in san jose, maria medina, kpix 5. A major route leading to the Golden Gate Bridge will be off limits for a few more weeks. A mudslide shut down alexander avenue this week. Officials say the road will remain closed through march 4. 6 01. Lets see if weve got friday like traffic or the normal bay area traffic. Thank you. So much for our quiet morning. I told you
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Questions, colleagues . Thank you, we havent heard from the budget analyst yet but im looking to make an amendment based on the input from miss delrosario so we have a report from our budget analyst. Yes, mr. Chairman, supervisor avalos, on page 27 of our report we state the Soma Community Stablization Fund currently has an available balance of 10. 3 Million Dollars as shown in table 4 and the available balance will be reduced to 9,805,576 if the board of supervisors does approve the proposed allocation totaling 500,000 to united players and west bay philipino Multi Service corporation. Then on page 20 of our report, the mohcd has advised us the city has no liability for the loan between united players and john hammond and we state because the city through the soma stablization is providing the down payment for the purchase of 1038 Howard Street by united players, mohd will require that united players will replace the value as part of the agreement between the Mayors Office of housing
Reduced to 9,805,576 if the board of supervisors does approve the proposed allocation totaling 500,000 to united players and west bay philipino Multi Service corporation. Then on page 20 of our report, the mohcd has advised us the city has no liability for the loan between united players and john hammond and we state because the city through the soma stablization is providing the down payment for the purchase of 1038 Howard Street by united players, mohd will require that united players will replace the value as part of the agreement between the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development and united players if the 1038 Howard Street property is sold. So our recommendations at the bottom of page 29, we recommend you amend the resolution to state the city has no liability on the loan between united players and mr. John hommond and they will be required to reimburse the city plus a proportional share in the value of 1038 Howard Street from the proceeds of any sale of property inclu