This is Aljazeera America. Good morning, live from new york city, im randall pinkston. Schools and collegion are closed in South Carolina today. Thousands are without power around the state, seven are dead. Officials rescued hundreds from cars caught in flash floods. Robert ray is live for us in charleston, South Carolina. Was there any warning . Thats a great question. The answer is yes and no. They expect really intense rain and heavy amounts in the South Carolina area. The mayor here of charleston, whos been here for 40 years at mayor said he has never seen anything like it, including 1989s hurricane hugo which really caused havoc in this area. People are trying to figure out exactly what to do in the coming days and assess when this rain is over, which should be over today, later today. Charlestons been hit hard, the capitol, columbia very, very much completely pummeled. There have been swift water rescues and chopper rescues yesterday. Roads have collapsed. Dams have crashed in. T
Clear up there with the level few clouds. As for temperatures San Francisco and 61. 56 in santa rosa. It would do little better job clearing up to date. Were still talking about temperatures below the seasonal average. Erica oakland looking for highest 67. Youll notice there are note 90s. Well continue with afternoon sunshine. Bobwhitmore details on that parr forecast. Erica quality napa roads we have not mind answering in the hot spots. At the san mateo bridge to drive times are steady and there are no problems getting to the bridge. You may see a little drizzled coming out of the north bay. The driver is 25 minutes out of the bottle into San Francisco. James isis is not on the official agenda for this weeks nato summit in wales, but leaders are expected to discuss the ongoing crisis in iraq and syria. James Andrew Spencer reports the United States role remains to be seen. Reporter the killing of another american journalist brings more attention. he was traveling to one of the most da
Grace were white. In the sure on the Ukrainian Government both at home and abroad is continuing to mount thousands of protesters in central kiev repeating their demands and reinforcing the batter. Its all but the us and the European Parliament are considering sanctions against the country and russian president Vladimir Putin who is called for the country. This all the political impasse without violence. The protesters in kiev have turned down all that the government saying the seizure of new elections will. The tensions remain high in Independence Square in kiev. Security forces have withdrawn from the area they demonstrate is a winner. Many have reinforced the barricades to prevent assaults people he didnt trust the government of feeling ukrainian Opposition Leaders restraint again on thursday. On the one hand the president says he wants to sit at the negotiating table spots on the other hand he sends the police to discuss the people. It is concrete all proposals on the monsters known
Item. Item 7a, executive directors report. Good afternoon, Port Commissioners. Ment members of the public, members of the port staff, welcome here today. I just have a couple of very quick and happy items to report on, starting with milestone update on our pier 431 2 project. You may recall that that is part of the bay trail and lays atop the seawall in Fishermans Wharf between where blue and gold sweet calls and the san friscan restaurant. Constructing a new waterfront concrete promenade from powell street to the franciscan restaurant. Our contractor there is vortex marine. They have been working rather diligently including saturdays most of the last month and will continue to work saturdays through thanksgiving with the goal of completing the project to substantial completion by thanksgiving. So far, 92 twofoot wide diameter concrete piles each of which are 100 feet in length, support the new wharf deck and that deck will go along the promenade there and come around behind the franci
Customers in future budget years. Its really a safety valve to make sure that our compliance doesnt push costs up unreasonably. President torres, you alluded to the timeline. Let me put it up on the screen here so that you can see more specifically where were at. Right, thats good for the public to see that. Yes. My other question is in terms of the rps eligible, the renewables, what percentage are we looking at in terms of renewables . We have solar, wind right. So, now our resource mix is our biogas, our hydro and solar. Okay. And because we have this separate section of the rps law, we dont have to procure beyond those resources except very infrequently. And we are proposing that that procurement be from Renewable Energy credits. So, the way theyre titled would be appropriate . They would be. They would be qualified resources under state law. If we had if we had them, yes. And we have no geo thermal here . Correct. We have purchased it in the part, but we do not have any in our port