A warm welcome back to countdown. I am anna edwards. Lets tell you what is coming up later this morning on the pulse we will be joined by the former tesco boss. He will discuss one of his newest ventures and share his thoughts on u. K. Business. Before all that, lets get back to our top story. What has been taking place in turkey. Prime minister erdogan has declared victory in local elections. Lets get to istanbul where we are joined by Elliott Gotkine. A huge victory for Prime Minister erdogan. Alongside thening mayoral candidate for a stengel where he won for istanbul where he once ruled the roost. His party was very much in play here. Questions, wasd he going to win more of the vote, would they hold off, would they hold onto istanbul . The answer to all of those questions, yes. He has scored the political equivalent of a hat trick. He felt emboldened yesterday when he came onto the dock any outside his headquarters in the turkish capital to greet thousands of cheering supporters. He
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Broken parts in the seismic joint. Caltran says an inspection on may 15 uncovered the problem on the newer part of the bridge. Seismic joints absorbed movement, and had been under scrutiny, when crews first noticed a clanking sound on the northern joint from an offcenter pin. They discovered parts of the northern joint were cracked, and off center. One of the joints 90 pivot pins is damaged, and has slipped off its bearing. Also a plastic stirrup is cracked. Crews installed temporary wood pieces to stabilize the joint. A Spokesman Says there is no safety risk for drivers. Two other bay area bridges have similar problems. There is a similar design on the martinez bridge. Reporter those bridges have shown no problems, but they will be monitored closely. Caltran hopes the repairs will be done soon, and they will be done right. They had one of the other roads blocked off. I just hope they do it properly. You know, it gets kind of frustrating when you hear that tax dollars are going to pay
Thank you, scott sanchez, planning department. I will be brief and wanted to note we reviewed the most community revised plans were submitted to the board of appeals on january 10, 2013. The date on the revision set is january 7th,2013 and these comply with the planning code and im available. Im sorry they do comply . They do comply. That is correct. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment . Seeing none, commissioners, the matter is submitted. Commissioner i reviewed the drawings and they reflect what i remember of the proposed changes at that point in time and im prepared to move to uphold the permit and condition it on the documentation that has been provided to reflect the changes. Is that the appropriate it sounds like what you want to do is grant the appeal and uphold the permit on the condition that it is revised, to reflect the changes. And i would ask just that plan set be noted by date. Submitted to the board, which is january 10, 2013. Okay. So moved. Im inclined to move in th
Whatever union it was, im not privy to that agreement. Right now, unless its a prevailing wage job and we are obligated by the dir to monitor them, we wouldnt normally do that. Excuse me, mr. Goldman. I dont mean to interrupt, but [speaker not understood]. So, we wouldnt monitor it with their contractor . So, we wouldnt do any monitoring, i think this is what the gentlemen are asking. Do we do monitoring . And are you are we keeping track of it . And, so, i guess im just asking for the process. If we do monitor it, how do we monitor it . And are we making a commitment to monitor it . If it is not our practice to monitor it, then i think we need to state so, that is not our practice. What i would say under the current security contract with securitas, we are not monitoring their, their wage payment to their employees. If there was a grievance, we would investigate it. So, youre telling me that in order to monitor this or for it to be it needs to be red flagged first by a complaint from