For sending those containers of off the cargo ship and into the water. Jackie ward with the story. Its an unusual sight to see, hundreds of crates and a trail of debris on the shore of acre beach. This is the first time ive seen Something Like this happen. Sometimes its small it small things coming to the beach but not this bunch of stuff. This stuff is containers from and sent in santa ana. Creek cleanup crews were on the beach this morning, it was partially open to the public with limited access. You can tell the cleanup efforts darted yesterday, you pan over to the water and you can see what appears to be an even bigger container getting washed a along shore. That shipping company that was moving the containers hired environmental contract your to clean everything up. The coast guard said 11 other large containers are believed to be out in snack out to see, its unclear that they sank or still floating. We do see more on the beach and we want people to be aware let us know if they sa
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Competitiveness of the bidding environment we need to get three or four bidders. You get one or two bids there is a margin of 10, 20, 30 above what the package should cost. I will note that the biggest contract here is the temporary facilities and there was only one bidder i believe and that recommended award is less than the estimate. Yeah. This is a timing materials contract. Director sartipi. If the highest risk is the number of bidders what do when we interview the contractors that picked up the package what is their responses to why theyre not bidding . Is it not value . Is it difficult . Is it complex . Or theyre busy someplace else . Theyre saying theyre busy someplace else but let me bring in webcore. They directly talk to the contractors. I could use a life line here. So mostly it is the fact they have other opportunities in the market place elsewhere that they find more attractive. For example, the metal stairs we had nine prequalified bidders and the first time we only had o
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Well take it. The live look now at your exclusive ballpark cam. The giants back in town. The field has just been uncovered with the exception of the pitchers mound, of course. The grass still damp from todays showers. Heres a look at what it looked like a little earlier. The tarp was still on. Game time will still start at 7 15. Even with the issuing the with the drought. Reporter its going to impact all of us. The governor is asking us to do less lawn watering and wash our cars less. Hes asking restaurants to serve us less water. Fastmoving clouds carried a gift. Rain, forcing many to dust off their umbrellas, but with so little rain this season we are expected to recover from the drought at a snails pace. I think people look at the rain and think were in a better situation than we are, but we are definitely in an extraordinary drought situation in most of california. And the rainfall in san jose, even with this rain is much less than half of normal. Reporter with the states snowpack