Oh im toma cry in doha. These are the top stories on al jazeera and scotland. People have been paying the last respects to Queen Elizabeth. The 2nd members of the public have been filing past the light. Monex coffin isnt charles cathedral, and inbred it will lay at risk there until tuesday. Before traveling to london, earlier in the day, the queens 4 children escorted the coffin from the official residence in edinburgh. Crowds crammed the streets to watch the historic event, rob matheson reports. The people of edinburgh are the 1st members of the public to pay their respects personally to Queen Elizabeth. The 2nd long lines would be moving past her coffin as it lies inside the 14th century, said giles cathedral in edinburgh as old time, some in silence. Some open morning, all my life, ive never known. Another more have to pay my respects sons. I come from glasgow to diesel. Were witnessing history to day. Its kind of remarkable. You hear maxim, americans can remarkable that i have the
Total of this project but making progress again and every step of the way all along ill say whoever we were appealing to our hopes are riding on the third street rail and our hopes on the street subway for all to be a model to the country of Economic Development while we improve the quality of life and sflrs customers and create good paying jobs thats today is a sad day because of the loss of Robin Williams i was oncoming over mayor we were together in 2012 with another phase we are that altogether with ray la hood the secretary of transportation and while we were listening to each others speeches we were on our i preponderance watching the last of the games to dorm who would be in the playoffs and while we were celebrating the; correct construction we were cheering the victory of the giants that day to go on to the world series and Robin Williams was a great giant fan my daughter christine rightminded me in after 2001 that was by and large the first time God Bless America took place s
Stand here and demonstrate to sfro San Francisco and say to the country our progress. This project is critically important to the future of transportation therefore the future of our economy and city and making great progress weve completed the tuning 255 Million Contract the project got done ahead of schedule and created jobs behind us the mucus station which will connect to the muscone Conference Center that will be expanding but most critically making the corrections this central subway for the light rail the first phase in completed in 2007 that resorted San Francisco after a 50 year hiatus the central subway will be 50 blocks south of here connecting southeast of the city to the most illegally populated neighborhoods in the United States the day the subway opens for obispo that will be a busy day with the right planning and the right leadership what we can make investments that help our cities and our economy but in the meantime, were going to put people to work that will inspire
Transportation benefits in the longterm were pleased to be able to demonstrate to the country what we can do in investing in our infrastructure and connecting communities. So i want to thank all the folks that have joined us i have the great honor to bring you are forward a woman who has been a force in creating things in San Francisco the central subway is subject to by america laws that all resourcing comes from the United States we have our own versus through sf made that is devoted to supporting and protecting local murrays and local production were lucky to have this organization this is lead by someone that is building and breathing and figuring out how to get more production into our economy and get more people working im happy to welcome up our director of sf made clapping. good morning. So i want to talk about San Francisco as a National Model for a maker city i thought about standing here talking about manufacturing and building is really all Kindred Spirit claiming the poten
Income neighborhoods where theres a reasonable mix of affordable goods as well as a range of goods that meet peoples needs especially, if they cant leave the neighborhoods theres a lot of concerns about long Time Vacancies we recognize that longterm vacancies are not only problematic for the neighborhood but for the block and the corridor we do a lot of work around Grocery Stores we also work in neighborhoods that are underserved in terms of groceries the last two points i think that are really important from the investment neighborhoods oewd is in the so entrepreneurship opportunities for people to grow and grow bigger whether its formula retail or an independent retailer those are jobs and theyre a keying priority for the office. On behalf of the oewd we recognize a very, very complicated issue and you can find something in the proposal that not everybody will like but we think that raising the threshold in 12 to 20 removes a barrier for the homegrown businesses even going up to 50 t