Exchange. Its quiet in the markets. You are looking at euro sterling, how important those dynamics are. Are you making a prediction of parity . Francine we have a great story. This is not u. S. Versus europe, this is japan versus europe. David is in new york. David big job cuts are on the way at the british bank they will get 15,000 jobs after reporting a surprise loss. They will raise 5 billion in a write off. Reverseer is trying to costs. That russian plane that crashed in egypt had a prior damage linked to other crashes. In 2001, its great to its tail on a landing and needed to be repaired. It could lead to the sort of midair breakup that occurred on saturday. Part of the tail section was found away from the other wreckage, indicating that it had broken off. Bow tos refusing to pressure to shut the countrys borders. They are trying to figure what to do with refugees. They have taken up to one million refugees. She says closing the border with austria is not the issue. Oscar pistoriu
Thanksgiving game and all of a sudden they are everywhere. As a new yorker, it is hard to get the trees home. Greg yes, my brother and i baukt one the other day. Rosanna how big was the tree . Is it a Charlie Brown tree. Greg this tree is nice. We actually didnt get it from a corner, we got it from two guys. Rosanna it is called tylers trees. They are like the uber of Christmas Trees. Greg tyler and bryan. Rosanna hi, nice to see you. Greg hi, good to see you. Rosanna howd you get in the business . We started in the business 8 years ago and we were basically driving home from work and we saw a new yorker just drag a street, it was like you and your brother a couple of days ago. Greg yes. Wait a second, get your laundry, food delivered, everybody is delivered and we started 7 trees 8 years ago and now projected to do 1200 trees. An app or something . Yes, pick the size, the date, time, we come and delivery, set it up. Elves . No, they are called elves. Rosanna coming decorated . We offe
I guess maybe this is more a question to the mayors budget office. You may not know but in terms of facilities and wifi we purportedly have it in this building and its horrible and just like the Market Street wifi is horrible and so many of the city provided Wifi Networks are in inadequate and at least we have it and it works sometimes and i guess more of a question for d tbut a broader question. I mean city facilities we should have free Wifi Everywhere but particularly in city facilities. If we cant put it in our own facilities how do we roll it out to the whole city . I dont know if you can comment on that. Sorry to put you on the spot. I think thats why i am here. Thank you for the question. As i think the cao talked about last week dt and coit put together a connectivity plan that is part of the plan adopted by the board this week. The first issue is connectivity of the city buildings and the First Priority is the fire stations. The fire chief and i just spoke about this issue yes
Of paused . We have not been funded to keep up with that plan but we do have commitments from the Mayors Office that for example we have asked to play catch up and asked for 50 million to get to where we need to get. There are standards that we should adhere to that the National Fire Protection Agency calls for. And we have rigs on the streets beyond what the guidelines say should be used as a front line apparatus. We were given 50 million and we were given the information and only 17 million is in the budget for fleet so the 50 million request is unreasonable and we get that but the good news we will work with the Mayors Office to obviously not get it in one year but a phased approach to get us back on track because we did have years we had a lot of rigs coming in but they need to be retired at the same time so we want to get back to a plan where were able to make it reasonable year in and year out. Related to facilities and capital. The department operates 50 facilities and three at
Growth period and were currently at our highest day time work force population and night time resident population in the citys history which is a good thing but it presents challenges for all of us. It manifested in increased call volume for the department. This shows over the course of the last decade calls look like. The major driver is our increase in medical calls. If we project out the remainder of 2015 at current levels we would see a 9 over 2014. We have been busy in the First Quarter of the year and 15 increase in the last five years and means that our ems system has been strained both on the ambulance side and the suppression side and its not just an ambulance showing up but a Team Approach and a fire truck is dispatched to start the triage and the symptoms the patient is having. I would like to talk about our work group. I believe all are aware of it and in support of it and born out of the Mayors Office. Would like to credit kate howard for that. We received partial funding