Of the public to come and generally on matter within the commissions per have you and suggests future consideration items. Is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak to comment on anything not on todays agenda seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Mr. President , id like to make a recommendation we call items three and four together as their presentations are enter seconded and over laptop a presentation and discussion on mayor ed lees shop and dine in the 49 that presentation by Mary Ann Thomas of the Economic Workforce Development and then well also have a presentation and discussion on the Small Business saturday presentations by lynn of women impacting the Public Policy and the saturdays coalition. Okay sound good okay. We do work i guess im short. Good afternoon, commissioners regina thank you for having us here on behalf of myself were here to present shop and dine in the 49. So here we go perfect so just by ggsd as many of you may know you know last year in november w
Where the illnesses found. Of course, the gravity of the situation as has been described by panelists leaves no doubt about the vital need for the International Community to undertake urgent action in order to reverse the current trend. As you said, mr. President , at present the time has come for specific actions. We need to act quickly. Not only to suppress the spread of the disease, not only to save human lives while theres still time, but also and especially in order to maintain stability and the gains of the last few years. As part of peace building and social peace. It is essential for unmeer, the u. N. Mission, to be deployed as quickly as possible so that it can respond effectively to the most pressing needs of the affected countries. In our opinion, this mission should also help build local health capacities, as was said, through making available mobile hospitals, helicopters, protected vehicles and qualified medical workers and older to take care of sick people. Therefore, le
Consensus among the speakers that future Business Needs to be done on a different basis. And and that part of this introspection process is looking ahead with that in mind. Could we get a little more particular around, a little more concrete into what actually would you see as the essential changes in practices, in coordinating mechanisms, in planning and creating incentives . Julie. One thing i think we would all agree on is that companies crave predictability. So we would like to have the i confidence that if we start something, we can move it to completion. We would like to have the confidence that, for example, if we have a government partnership, that partnership is good for the duration of whatever does were trying to do and that something is going going to go away with the next election or the next sequestration of the next challenging circumstances in anybodys government. I think thats one aspect of it is come under the confidence that if were going to make an investment in the
Number three share some future looking ideas on how we can be better prepared in the future to handle situations like these and then i would be happy to discuss these will pocket into the qanda part. The phase one trial which has been completed and published satisfactory we also have the enrolled in cities in the uk, switzerland and then molly. I say this with precision because our perspective is that we need to define what is the best storage to use in phase two. We also are planning on starting to trials in africa when including almost 3,000 subjects and the other involving about 800 in the middle of january and then the phase three where we have a commitment with the nih to purchase a piece participate in the trial and see the leone. That is what we have planned and we also have tuesday and we can only have a good vaccine that can protect in the short term but have a sustained longrange by providing the booster vaccine by combining the vaccines that we are developing. So quite a com
To clear the scene of a train crash in new york city that derailed on its way to manhattan. At least four people are dead, 63 more hurt of those, at least 11 are in Critical Condition tonight. Al jazeera kimberly dukehardt has the latest from the bronx. Fire fighters, police and the ntsb could not working through the night, checking the tracks, the actual train cars, mechanical equipment, communication equipment, to try to figure out what went horrible wrong. The Holiday Weekend ended in tragedy and chaos for those on board this suburban commuter train in Northern New York city. The crash happened early sunday morning. Incidentally, we have reco recovered the event recorder and downloaded the data off of the locomotive. We havent had a chance to analyze it or verify it at this point. Officials say the train was carrying about 150 passengers and heading to new yorks granted central terminal. There was screaming and people trying out to god and asking for their families. It was pretty gr