Sight to this problem in oakland. Todays paving project began at harold and champion streets. This area will soon be expanded all over the city. So what started today near fruitdale and mcarthur will encompass 100 miles over the next three years, a very ambitious project as you can imagine. Its one of the issues we often cover as part ofour focus on building a better bay area. Laura anthony is live in oakland with why the city is it finally tacking the one issue that iraq so many of us. Laura . Hi, crews just wrapped up their work for the day. As you can see behind me, harold street is open for business for the first time in a long time. It is a smooth street. It was one of the worst of the worst here in oakland. Its new surface represents the start of this citys wave of paving. What a difference a pave makes. Before the facelift, oaklands harold street was an anything but smooth. Just ask residents like meghan laday. I one day went out and counted over 237 potholes small and large. R
Where im standing is unacceptable. And that a proposed Navigation Center and increased Police Patrols just arent going to cut it. I dont live in the best neighborhood, but i feel safer over there than i do here. Reporter this is new video showing a man get punched in the face in the same area where a woman was attacked by a homeless man at her condo complex august 11. Do all the recent assaults in the area prevent you from wanting to come back . Well, i just i just work here. I feel fortunate i dont have to live here and i feel sorry for the residents that pay so much money to live here and they have to deal with this. Reporter San Francisco Police Confirm not only this august 20th incident, but tell us just 12 hours later, a few streets away, a third attack where the victim was also punched and knocked to the ground. We caught up with mayor london breed for comment. I will tell you that, you know, every time i see something that where there is an attack, you know, of course its upsett
Good morning welcome to breakfast withjon kay and steph mcgovern. Our headlines today. Showdown in downing street the chancellor confronts borisjohnson after his aide was sacked without his knowledge. £400 million for colleges offering vocational courses in england to support new technical qualifications. The common virus youve probably never heard of but can be dangerous for unborn babies. Well have a special report. Opening up the world of football for children with physical disabilities. Gives us a chance to be like the rest of us, however life set us back, we however life set us back, we can always play football. Johanna konta is the last brit standing in the us open singles draw. Shes on form and into the fourth round, but an unhappy dan evans is thrashed by Roger Federer. Good morning, its the last day of august. Some of us clinging on to a little bit of warmth and sunshine, but for most, were going to see some rain pushing eastwards, and it turns much coolerjust in time for tom
Level, i was president thinking about the fed like everybody else i was thinking that stel, yes, stel is a wonderful thing. Hallelujah. What do i mean by scale a company with scale is a company thats big enough and powerful enough to control its own destiny. A company that scales is one that survives and then thrives in even the toughest environment that a fed chief is worried about or anybody else. Just listen to nothing but washington scale, scale simply being bigger than the other guy, a lot bigger is an enormous advantage we saw the benefits play out today. Exhibit a, amazon. It crossed the trillion dollar threshold this morning amazon didnt become this unstoppable behemoth because jeff bezos is brilliant, which he is. It got here by leveraging scale. Amazon is dominant because its so big they use that scale to get better price from the suppliers to pass on to you. We have antitrust law because when you get big enough, well, no one can compete against you bezos saw how he could use
From his big superpower neighbours that he seeks, he wants technical help for his own weapons programme. North korea faces critical technological hurdles in its nuclear and missile development, and beyond that, it needs foreign currency and oil, all of which the russians can provide. It is not the first time the Us National Security council has declassified information to get ahead of russias plans. Two us sources say the Arms Negotiations between the two countries are actively advancing. And in recent weeks, mr kim has visited a series of his ammunition factories, exhorting key officials to step up production. Begs the question, why . Sergey radchenko is an expert on Russian Politics and a distinguished professor at the henry a Kissinger Center for global affairs. Thank you for being with us this evening. What does this tell us, then, about the russian State Of Affairs on the front line, if they need ammunition from north korea . The sin of affairs has not been great for russia for a