They outline what it takes for a city to be future ready. This is an hour and 25 minutes. All right, good afternoon and thank you for joining us for the event, local economies of the future and how cities thrive in the digital age. I am the Vice President of Global Innovation policy at the Information Technology and foundation. I will be your moderator. I should mention the twitter handle for this event is futurecities. Have become key economic units driving the modern global economy. It is expected that cities will account for 90 of global population growth in this century. The advent of many new , the internet of things, automation technology, big data techniques, and many others are opening up transformative possibilities to reimagine how cities developed deliver Public Services any and utilities and educate their citizens and improve quality of life. As we will here today, the leading cities are thinking deeply about their future readiness so they can remain vibrant in a competitiv
Estimated 5 of the fires at this hour. Right now, you are looking at the city of san marcos, worst of it you can see, uncontrol able blaze, what local officials call a fire nato. Firenado, city home to 10,000 student state university, 9 other other report that 15 of city has been evacuated. But the biggest of those fires, all good size fires, hitting Marine Corps Base at camp pendleton. Burning to 6,000 of the bases 125,000 acre area. Prompting an Evacuation Order for a naval web son station and nearby military housing units, bases daily population averages to 100,000 people, and the fire is only 20 contained. At this hour on the base. Local officials are confirms more than 20 homes have been destroyed by the fire, thousands in the potential path of all of the various fires, 3 thousand homes and businesses have lost power, fox news correspondent will carr on the ground in an marcos, and has the latest for us. Us. Well firefighter had hopeed that wins would be calm this afternoon, but t
Estimated 5 of the fires at this hour. Right now, you are looking at the city of san marcos, worst of it you can see, uncontrol able blaze, what local officials call a fire nato. Firenado, city home to 10,000 student state university, 9 other other report that 15 of city has been evacuated. But the biggest of those fires, all good size fires, hitting Marine Corps Base at camp pendleton. Burning to 6,000 of the bases 125,000 acre area. Prompting an Evacuation Order for a naval web son station and nearby military housing units, bases daily population averages to 100,000 people, and the fire is only 20 contained. At this hour on the base. Local officials are confirms more than 20 homes have been destroyed by the fire, thousands in the potential path of all of the various fires, 3 thousand homes and businesses have lost power, fox news correspondent will carr on the ground in an marcos, and has the latest for us. Us. Well firefighter had hopeed that wins would be calm this afternoon, but t
This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. The uk chancellor is expected to announce new support for businesses affected by coronavirus restrictions, after criticism that more needs to be done for those regions in the second highest level of meaures. Level of measures. People are filling mps inboxes with e mails of distress and concern, that is all being fed in, so, hopefully, this afternoon we will see the chancellor, as i say, tack a little bit, trim the sails, to make sure we are getting the right balance in terms of the support we are offering across the economy. A police chief in england is urging the government to make the three tier system easier to follow as more parts of the country prepare to enter the very high alert level. Geater manchester moves into tier 3 from midnight tonight. South yorkshire follows on saturday. The fbi says us Voter Registration
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