His country is entering a new era. And after their weekend wedding, hollywood heartthrob George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin prepare to take part in a civil ceremony in venice. Hello. Thousands of prodemocracy protesters have blocked roads in hong kongs Central Business district, forcing the closure of many banks, shops, and schools. When it comes after overnight clashes with riot police who fired tear gas to try to disperse the crowds. When hong kong was handed back from britain in 1997, it became a special Administrative Region with a high degree of autonomy. In 2007, beijing ruled that direct elections for chief executives of hong kong couldnt be held before the year 2017. And anger has been growing since ruling just last month that voters would only be allowed to choose between two or three candidates first approved by china. Overnight, hong kongs chief executive has reassured the public that rumors of the chinese army might intervene are untrue. Laura westbrook brings us up to date.
Wildfire seasons on record. . Midmay as temperatures soared into the 90s a series of wildfires broke out as the hot, dry santa ana winds pushed the heat forward. In all there were 19 individual fires burning within weeks. When the smoke cleared one man was dead. Dozens of homes lay in ruins and more than 21 homes had burned. As of july 1st, crews had responded to more than 2,700 wildfires. Thats about 1,000 more than usual for this time of year. But while flames can quickly consume large areas, as Bob Mackenzie first reported back in 1994, firefighters and homeowners have to protect the land foot by foot, and house by house. This morning, Fire Fightings crews moved in toward the monster rather than waiting for it to come to them. From the way the fire was traveling it was expected to craft some of these firefighters were going on fumes after two days of near constant work. But they were ready to make a stand again this time to save individual farmhouses. The biggest concern we have is
Wildfire seasons on record. In midmay as temperatures soared into the 90s in San Diego County a series of wildfires broke out as the hot dry santa ana winds pushed the fire forward. In all there were 19 fires. One man was dead, thousands of homes lay in ruins and more than 31 homes were destroyed. While flames can quickly consume large areas, as Bob Mackenzie first reported back in 1994, firefighters and homeowners have to protect the land foot by foot and house by house. This morning Fire Fighting crews massed up at the southeast end of the great cotton wood fire moving in toward the monster rather than waiting for it to come to them. It was expected to crest the mountains and head down the dry chaparral with a small city on its way. Some of these firefighters were going on fumes after days of work but they were ready to make a stand this time to save individual farmhouses. The biggest concern we have is winds are picking up. Were getting spotty fire approximately. 25mile in front of
School will be in one the finest middle school in the nation if you have a fifth grader out there you can still enroll but the deadline for first round is january 16th were shooting for an enrollment of 2 hundred students and already close to our 2 hundred students that have summit to the willie brown, jr. School it will have an excellent opportunity for students we courage i to submit an application lyle im to thank the commissioners and staff that worked and walked and spoke and had interactions with our community this saturday thank you very, very much id like to annunciation as our students start the second semester theyll take the assessments there are a lot of communication what the assessments mean one the questions is well, can you choose to not have the district participate in taking the assessments those are assessments required by the state of california for all students so we dont have the choice of saying we president obama out but we know our teachers area administrators
Miss walker already said . Raymond lee is also here, our compliance supervisor and we are not due for another Quarterly Report to the next meeting but he is here to speak on the status of the local contracting subject to the 50 both for contract, subcontract, professional services as well as hiring. Compliance supervisor, for clarification, the programs under lennar or program implemented our subject to the compliance programs both for Small Business contracting as well as local workforce. Of course our Small Business contracting is at 50 and local workforce is at 50 . In terms of contracting overall, lennar has exceeded our contracting requirements in terms of engaging Small Businesses. In the next Quarterly Report i can provide specific details in terms of engagement of the Hunters Point businesses. In terms of local workforce, they are currently at about 46 overall for both shipyard and the Hunters Point area but i want to say over 33 of the workforce hours are currently deployed by