Beautiful day outside. I think we have some great things to talk about. I will start by discussing the Federal Reserve. As you know it just happened minutes ago but it makes me very happy. I want to congratulate the Federal Reserve for starters they have lowered the fed rate from what it was, which was one to 1. 25. It has been lowered down to zero 0. 25. Zero to 0. 25. The Federal Reserve will be purchasing 500 billion dollars of treasuries and 200 billion of mortgagebacked securities. That number can increase but they will start with that. That is really good news. That is great for our country. That is something we are very happy. I am very happy. They did it in one step. They did not do it in four steps over a long time. I think that people and the markets will be thrilled. That brings us we are the strongest country in the world by far financially and every other way. That brings us in line with where other countries are. Actually have negative rates. We got it down to potentially
We have a lot of cloud cover and we will see we can get some rain out of that. After this system the highs today are still above average. And it got busy and better but now about normal. We have some slowing and we put up the map of the broad area of north bay and east bay and the commute looks okay, and driving in from santa rosa to petaluma some slowing but nothing to write, about. 80 westbound at vallejo looks good but slow at 680, concord and monochromatic. We take a look at Silicon Valley when we come back in a few minutes. Lets get back to the desk the police and San Francisco are trying to find three people that tried to carjack three different victims in rapid succession overnight between 2 30 and 3 00 this morning at third and harrison, ninth and harrison and then at mission street. One of the three suspects was armed with a gun and each attack appears to be random and the police have not made any arrests. New this morning, rough Early Morning start on two freeways in the sout
If you dont have an environment thats attracting that, i dont know how you define it as sustainable. And so we have, mccs leveraged, i think, 5. 6 billion in private sector dollars into our projects over the course of our history, weve been in 37 countries with about 29 contracts, about 14 billion of development assistance, benefiting about 200 million beneficiaries. And the private sectors a huge piece of that. For example, in malawi, the state utility just entered a 20year power purchasing agreement with jcm capital to develop a commercialscale solar power plant, which is a great thing because 95 theres a lot of sun. Theres a lot of sun, and 95 of malawis power is hydro, and that has its own issues. Yeah, you can have a drought. Yeah. And then in terms of water, we signed an agreement with bechtel to do a National Master infrastructure plan. And so here were going to have a plan that prioritizes infrastructure projects, its going to have the stamp of priewfl of the government, and th
Chopper was over the scene. This is happening at a large condo complex white there. Police cars, lighting the closed down streets. This is at auzerais avenue and race street in the burbank neighborhood. Across the street from oconnor park, its just south of san carlos street. Details are still coming in, but this is what we know people he said he responded to a family disturbance around 8 00 this morning. When they got to the scene, shots were fired from inside the home, hitting one officer. That officer has been taken to the hospital, and the roads nearby are still shut down. Police are asking people to avoid the area. We have technical negotiators, our s. W. A. T. Team, crisis intervention team, and several other units that are special operations, as well as the majority of our Investigation Team as well to make sure we put everything together. That officer was taken to valley medical center. We are still waiting to hear how they are doing. Our Katie Nielsen is on the scene it will h
Times. There will be increased security zones, though, in the embarcadero. Musk muskogee center, the waterfront hill. So if you work or live in a restricted area, keep in mind you could have your bags or packages checked delivery trucks leaving the roger the have to be cleared at pier 27th. And well hear right now from the chief of police. He talks about how it stay vigilant and patient during this time. If and when protesters show up, we will be deployed to handle that. We have extra officers that we will be able to handle that type of event if it occurs. So the message is this the one i just want to reiterate this criminal activity will not be tolerated. Officials advise people to take Public Transportation that week due to increased traffic sfmta rather says for security purposes the yerba buena station and forth and brandon stations of the central subway will be closed entire week. Trains, though they will be rerouted and there will be shuttles to help people through that time. Bar