The count down is on, in just over an hour, these two apartment buildings will come tumbling down. We are live with why they are being demolished and what it will take to bring them down. The hawk will never die. St. Joes moves on in march madness we will hear from excited fans and the team, about last nights big win in the first round of the ncaa tournament, coming up. And were tracking snow for the first day of spring, when exactly it arrives this weekend and how much you can expect where you live. Today is saturday march 19th, good morning to you im rahel solomon. The lets hear about the snow. We will turn it over to meteorologist Justin Drabick. Fortunately you say it wont be too much. In the a bad thing, nothing is easy. First day of spring you think warm temperatures but not around here. But we have been spoiled. We have. Ill he just say it. Reminder it can still get cold. Talking about a nuisance snow coming at us tomorrow and should not be a big deal maybe accumulation mainly o
Discretionary review is proposed until april 28, 2016, item 2 29th street a discretionary review has been withdrawn commissioners further on our rentcontrolled or regular calendar items 11 ab forecast numbers. Do we have further agenda. I dont think we have agenda. You can have one of mine and unfortunately they are not included in our but on their way. Like. I have this one i printed that out. Go ahead. Sorry go ahead. We good now. I think so under your regular calendar items ab for a and b 11 ab 12 ab. Im sorry fulsome street. Probably ab 12 ab okay. Draft agenda . Okay sorry something was bundled around items 12 ab on fulsome the acting Zoning Administrator will consider the 2906 fulsome a reenforces those are proposed for indefinite dates i have no speaker cards any Public Comment . Regarding the continuances proposed . Welcome ms. Ram good afternoon thosecy with the charm as you may know a basic gilding planning principle is the scale and thats why we have limits for height. It is
Will be shot, but understand you may very well be back again and again as the documents that were requested finally come in. For that, i am truly sorry that you may have to come back here again and again, but if we do not receive documents that were requested in plenty of time, then many of your testimony today will be a first round and not in fact a definitive oversight that we expected to have. With that, i recognize the Ranking Member for his opening statement. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. Thank you for holding this very important hearing, and i thank you all of our witnesses for being with us today. The horrific bombings of our embassies in kenya and tanzania in 1998 were a watershed moment for our nation. Following those attacks, the state department reported that 80 of its overseas facilitiy i did not i repeat, did not meet Security Standards. Congress authorized billions of dollars to expedite Embassy Construction around the world. As part of this effort, the state Departm
Were doing. Could you comment, please, sir . Yes, sir. The observations that we made, and this is in the report and certainly not allconclusive. These werent six guys in the mess hall who dreamed these things up. These were based on comments we got from Security Experts who were with obo on a daily basis. I would tell you for one, if you can build a beautiful embassy under Design Excellence and you can do it as fast, and it doesnt cost any more, im all for it. I dont care. I dont care what we build. But what i am concerned with, its just not logical to the people we talk to and, frankly, to me that you can build under Design Excellence as quickly and as costeffectively as we did under standard Embassy Design. You pull a design off the shelf and build it and adopt the facade in a way that is fitting with the local the country as opposed to going through a design bid build with architects and builders, it just doesnt make sense. Now, if you can show me with facts and figures that it does
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