Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Arie g this morning, floodwaters are slowly receding in Southeast Texas following days of rain brought by the remnants of Tropical Storm imelda. Some areas have seen upwards of four feet of rain over three days. The storm killed at least two people including a 19yearold who drowned and was electrocuted. More rain could be on the way for the area. Laura podestas here in new york. How are storm victims coping . Reporter annemarie, this is an unfortunate case of deja vu for a lot of these victims who just finished recovering from Hurricane Harvey in 2017. They say this storm when it comes to rainfall may be even worse than that disaster. Longtime residents of Southeast Texas are devastated by what imelda brought. The fact that theres cars stranded and people are getting high water rescue, thats never happened in our time that weve lived here. Reporter from houston to beaumont, people say th
University buildings, are all over the campus, the bell tower, and of course foothill dorms where students just moved in last week to start the fall semester. Many of these buildings are listed by the uc system as safe but under a new engineering assessment recently completed they are all classified as poor or very poor. When it comes to withstanding an earthquake. We have learned more about what earthquake ground motion close to faults can be like, and you know, were now incorporating that new knowledge into the assessment of these buildings, and as that new knowledge comes into play, many buildings that were deemed safe in the past now have some open questions. Is there concern by some faculty that enough hasnt been done yet here . There is some concern. I personally have concerns about that. Reporter now this is all part of a reassessment of all buildings on the university of california campuses statewide, some nine campuses and it does not mean the buildings have gotten worse as th
Of the panelists here would be against you on that, mr. Mayor, i want to give you a forum to make your case. Why do we need to tax the hell out of the rich . Thank you for that. Thanks for the opportunity to be with you. I want everybody to look at the details of the plan at tax the hell. Com. It is a website. It is provocative on purpose. For 40 years, the people in this country, middle class people, working class people, have been either stuck economically or going backwards. Thats the larger truth to what we experienced. I go to iowa, many states, people are talking about their frustration and concern the next generation is going to do worse than they did. Part of what we need to address is the reality is small number of people have gotten richer and richer, paying less and less in taxes. David thats in dollar terms not in percent, because the top 1 pay about 37 of all income taxes. So this gets to the essence of my point. Youre comparing recent years. Im comparing American History
That bill is in the Transportation Committee this afternoon. I will be racing staff back to the committee to be there to help make sure that that bill moves. It looks to be in very good shape so we expect that bill to move on. In addition, with regard to the state budget, overall the transportation budget was very, very boring, both houses simply were adopted with what the governor proposed in the number of different categories. There was very little in conference committee. But it i will just point out that with respect to. Chairman brinkman , resources, 2 billion was provided for state and local road maintenance, so that was maintained. Caltrain was fully funded, and most significantly, even though it is not a huge amount of money , he was 85 million, was devoted to project initiation documents for the coming years. It is the first step in getting a project off of a long lead time planning list into motion and will potentially be deliverable in the next five to six years. The housing
We have a quorum. Thank you. Colleagues, a couple of pieces of the house cleaning. One is that commissioner stefani his not with us today, so can we have a motion to excuse her . Made by commissioner mandelman, seconded by commissioner brown. We will take that by without objection. At 11 00 a. M. Were going to have to recess for a press conference on the steps of this building and we will reconvene when that press conference is done. With that, please call you next item. Item citizen advisory report. Good morning. Good morning commissioners. I am john larson, chair of the Citizens Advisory Committee and im here to report on the june 26th meeting of the,. Beginning with items five and six and the Fund Exchange, milliondollar Fund Exchange to effectuate that project, we recommended approval of the Fund Exchange and inquired about certain aspects of better Market Street. One continuing concern voiced is the current design of the ventilation grates and bicyclists getting their tires caught