Ever wrote before he left office, 1984, in abortion and the conscience of a nation and he said, i would believe he would speak of the Stem Cell Research today in the same way, irrespective what his namesake says. That you can not diminish the value of any kind of human life without diminishing the value of all human life. And that the sanctity of human life and this debate over Stem Cell Research is fundamentally at the center of this political debate, make no mistake about it. Next week on capitol hill i will be privileged to be part of a team that brings to the floor another bill that i think is at the very center of our national life, and very heartbeat of your work in christian coalition, and that is, we will bring the marriage protection act to the floor of the house of representatives. And we will pass it in this congress. [applause] and i must tell you that there are those who would trivialize this debate, and to be perfectly candid, i believe this issue is of such enormous soci
Two people in the east village. Dave carlin is live in the news room with the story. Dave . Chris and mary this tragedy was foreseeable, preventible and avoidable so the charges are severe for the buildings owner and others. This is new from the fdny of firefighters trying to put out the flames that engulfed three buildings on Second Avenue on march 2015. The Building Owner the son who managed it the contractor and arrested accuseed illegally rigging a gas line and send a strong message that creating short cuts can have consequences and result in jail time. You have in effect weaponnized the building and you could be held here the blast injured more than a dozen people and killed restaurant worker israel and diner patron Nicholas Figueroa and also a fifth person faces less serious charges. Cbs 2 news. Dave thank you. Thousands of cruise passengers are thankful to be back on solid ground after their seven day cruise turned into a nightmare. Janelle is live where the ship is docked. The
Of snow, so light accumulation of snow, but then it changes over to heavy rain. Were watching area of low pressure, bring the snow into the philadelphia area, monday morning, getting heavy in the afternoon, and then the warm air surges to the north. So by dinnertime, around 6 00 p. M. , we see rain to the south, and some snow to the north. On the i95 corridor, little mix, then the warm air takes over and we see very heavy rain monday night, and even during the day on tuesday. So heres look at what to expect. A messy evening drive for monday, more snow, and little bit of ice to the north and west, heavy rain, tuesday, and heavy rain and potential flooding during the afternoon and evening on tuesday. Well break down the snow accumulations, and show you what to expect where you live, before the rain moves in on monday. For now, well send it back to the news desk. Kathy, thanks t has been one of the coldest valentines day on record, causing a lot of people to slightly alter their plans. To
Well ant they the different if you cannot fund phase a then it becomes phase two . Right. And i may need to revise that slightly but that is the direction that we are headings and it seems to get support and may be they are as confused as you were but. Okay. Well, hope ihopefully, we can get as much time as we can with what we have and hope for future funding but thank you so much and this is a great presentation and we are really happy about all of the oche space projects that we are working on and the wonderful park findings. Actually i had a couple of questions do we have any estimate of the costs you know you showed us the signage but i think that is along the pathway . Yes the cost that we have for that is 1. 1 million for the sign anal. And is that for all of the signage from mission bayyeah from Mission Creek to wrecken park and in a way that wrecken park and m ta can take our design and use it for portions that are off of our jurisdiction and. And then will there be other signa
Scene, 207 in the initial phase and its hard to tell now what the right mix of office vs. Residential is so the zone something proposed to be flexible to respond to different market conditions. This china basin park proposals is one of the reasons why the giants the sea well lot 337 llc. , proposal is receiving such positive tension its because of the attention they have given to the design of this water front open space. It would be 5acres the costs are high. We are looking at entirely newue tillity infrastructure new streets, sidewalks sidewalks and park locate and is improvements to pier 48 currently estimates at over 2 million in current 2,012 and this infrastructure is really needed to unlock the value of this site for the port and for development. Very significant this would be an entirely new city neighborhood with Significant Economic Development for the city as a whole and 5,000 construction jobs and over 7,000 permanent jobs on the site and 10,000 jobs regionally with up to 2