Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg, who was expelled from kabul by the homage karzai government muster karzai government last week. The Afghanistan Government attributed the expulsion to an article mr. Rosenberg had written reporting that highlevel Government Officials were discussing forming an interim government as a possible solution treaty government to the countries current electoral crisis, an action that would effectively map amount to accrue. Mr. Rosenberg will discuss his own situation and the outlook for afghanistan based on his many years of reporting from the country. He has been covering afghanistan since 2008, first as the south asia correspondent for the wall and then forl, the New York Times, which he joined in november 2011. He did a stint in afghanistan in 2002 when he was a reporter for the Associated Press based in nairobi. The National Press club released a Statement Last week criticizing his expulsion by the karzai government and welcoming the statements by the pres
But we have hope in the form of vaccines. Rollout has been slow. A troubling example in arizona. Were learning four out of five doses that arrived in the state by early this week had not been used. Thats because there arent enough people qualified to administer the shots. We have reporters covering all angles of the pandemic. Ron allen, steve powerson in los angeles, and mike memoli covering the biden transition from delaware as the president elect prepares to take over the federal response to the virus in only 19 days. To all of you, happy new year as we kick off this year and kick off our coverage starting with ron. First, we surpassed 20 million confirmed cases here. Give us a pulse of where we stand as a country right now as people wake up optimistic about what this new year will bring. 20 million cases. Numbers that are still rising. And there are these bottle necks, the problems getting the vaccine out. The concern, of course, is that after the holidays end, now, certainly, as we
Basically, the same thing is endorsed. And i was thinking more fire house number 9 and they and there is a particular initiative or some ballot measure that is endorsed by these candidates already. And then you list that or those candidates who have endorsed this particular initiative to the fire house number nine and that will fall within this as well. Yes. It gets tricky in the range before an election, anything that contains the candidates names kind of becomes election material and therefore will be regulated differently. And i think that a good example and i hope that i, construct this correctly there was a prop f about fire houses. Before it came into existence, there was a campaign to get the board not to put it on the ballot and not to create a ballot measure and so the spin on this was to put up i think billboards and send out mailings to tell the public and the board of supervisors that we dont want, the funding cuts and then it looks like it was coming any way and a ballot m
Your collectables in place is small and compared. If you have taken care of your structure, then there is a lot of stuff that you can do in your house that is nonstructural and your chimney and water tank. Lets talk about what the structural things might be. And he is exactly right. You dont want to make the deck chairs safe on the titanic, it is going down, you are going down, you have to make sure that your house is safe. There are basic things that you need to do including bracing the water heater, not just because of fire hazard but because of the water source and the damage, but basic things are installing anchor bolts, and adding plywood and strapping your beams to column and posts to footings and foundations are really easy things to do and most contractors can do the Building Department is set up to approve this work, and these are things that every home owner should do, and it is a little harder because you have to get a Building Permit and hire a contractor. But you want to b
Allimportant different tags. So, lawrence, do you want to talk a little about the tags . Sure. People want to know what do these tags mean. Is my building safe or unsafe. These are the city owe initial tags. Staying in your home doesnt require that you get a tag. It just means that you use common sense and maybe get help from people who might be around who can help you evaluate whether its a safe place to stay. You might want to know because regular City Services are disrupted, you might want to know when trash pick up is, if you need to get clean water, et cetera. Also in the neighborhood support center, that kind of information would be available and weve got a little of that up here. Trash pick up resumes regular schedule on wednesday. Thats right. Please mark your human waste. Thats right. So, this is kind of an information center, communication center, also a center that hopefully will show people how to relate to their neighboring communities, what else is happening citywide. And