Opportunity to build permanent housing in the south of market. This site was listed as Surplus Property under the federal Property Assistance Program in january 2017. Title 5 of the federal act identifies homeless as the top priority. They applied to develop 250 units of the housing was conditionally awarded the site valued at 36 million for 1. The federal program has a hard completion requirement. The project must be operational by november 2021. They issued the r. F. Q. And developed Episcopal Community services. Modular construction is for the residential portion of the project to meet the aggressive schedule and reduce costs. Here is a site map of the project centrally located on a major transit corridor on seventh street. A large parking lot adjacent to the federal court of appeals. The project is five floors over a concrete podium surrounding two courtyards with a Public Open Space accessible oMission Street. There will be 153 units for adults 103 seniors, two resident managers.
Things she does in order to ensure our mediations are successful. The other is the central core of our mediations and those are the skilled and trained mediators and as a matter of fact we have a couple or several of them in the audience tonight. Without the mediators, we could not function. And it was very surprising to me when i came on board a year and a half ago to learn that all of our mediators are volunteers and they come from as far away as sacramento. And a person who comes to the 6 00 a. M. Is usually the person coming from sacramento. They are very dedicated. They are experienced in california. All the mediators have to be trained 40hour Training Course is required. But they are also skilled and very experienced. And when she and i first came on board a year and a half ago we were very new to the mediation process and Mediation Program. I was recruited from the department of justice by Paul Henderson who was my boss when i was a prosecutor at the das office so this is the se
Terrorism with huge loss of life, even when they are 7,000 miles away. There are about 70,000 isis prisoners and their families now being guarded by the kurds, but because of the president s action, it will no longer be guarded. When we went to the white house yesterday and asked the president and his military folks whats the plan to prevent these isis wouldbe terrorists, many of them, from escaping, they didnt have one. They didnt have one, because the kurds have left, and the only people who might guard them are the syrians or the turks, and neither of them have a great interest in stopping isis. In fact, i asked the defense secretary, secretary he is per per secretary esper, is there any intelligence that shows that either the syrians or the turks would do a good job at guarding the isis prisoners and prevent them from escaping . No, there was no intelligence to that effect. And so as a result, isis prisoners are escaping, will continue to escape, and america will pay an awful price
Years ago well ceremonies are taking place at locations across the city throughout the day it was exactly 30 years ago on the night of november 989 that east germanys communist regime surprised the world by lifting all travel restrictions on east german citizens the move allowed ordinary people to cross freely to the west for the 1st time since the wall was built in 1961 it enabled friends and family to reunite after being separated for decades and it paved the way fluent german reunification just a year later. Well the w. Will be covering events throughout the day taking us through this mornings activities r. T. W. Thomas aspira the berlin wall memorial here in the capital and in the studio im joined by john beric great to see you both thomas id like to start with you then because tell us what is in store where you are. We are right here as you said in the wall memorial in the center of. The wall divided this city you can probably see part of the memorial behind me on a such this was
Were going to ask the members of the press to please part the center aisle so members can have access to the witnesses. The committees meeting today to receive testimony on global terrorism threats to the homeland part two. Good morning, the committee, as i indicated, is meeting to hear from four expert witnesses on where we are as of this date with threats to the homeland. This committee was created in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of september 11th, 2001. Since the establishment of the department of Homeland Security, the committee has focused on insuring the department is fulfilling its mission to secure the homeland. I take this responsibility seriously, as has every chairman of this committee. This is why its been the committees practice to hold a hearing to assess Global Threats to the homeland and evaluate the federal governments efforts to confront them. Congress and the American People deserve to hear about the threats we face directly from the official charge with ou