More than 20 allegations. Waterspouts and flooding in Louisiana Residents of new orleans are urged to leave the city or take shelter as a powerful Tropical Storm bears down on the coast. And englands commonwealth champion netballers start their World Cup Campaign tonight with a match against uganda in liverpool. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Im Rachel Schofield the American Military says its trying to put together a coalition to protect commercial shipping in the gulf after the royal navy had to intervene to help a british tanker which was being confronted by iranian vessels. The foreign secretaryjeremy hunt has promised to reverse cuts to the size of the royal navy if he becomes Prime Minister. Rising tensions with iran have led to uk merchant vessels being placed on the highest security alert near the strait of hormuz. ani on one side are the arab states including a number of key allies. On the other iran. Between them the strait of hormuz at its narrowest point its onl
All the work shown on december 9th, 2016. If you look at the one on the right, that was taken last week. Major differences such as the awning, and all the work thats up on the park. A lot of work has happened in 2017. What you cant tell is even the replacement of the temporary beale street bridge, as well. Going into some of the highlights of construction, all the topping slabs were completed, all by the third quarter. Doors, framing, hardware installings, all installed and for the most part. The bus stop, commuter island, all those coding systems completed. And especially the grand haul, raidi radiant heating was completed in 2017. Also, the exterior awning, the entire awning as perthis picture here is all installed. All the items, the vertical glass curtain wall, like around the grand haul or level two, all the sections west of first street are all installed. When you go up onto the roof, the w8, which is the glass canopy is also installed. And also the sky light and the glass floor
Call the roll. Clerk all right. I heard a first and a second. [ roll call. ] clerk thats five ayes, and items 8 and 9 are approved. Go ahead and call the next item . Item 10 this item will be presented by sarah dibord chief financial officer. Good afternoon, officers. Sarah dibord. For the benefit of our new director, this is a new director for us. Our usual policy calls for us to come to you with the fiscal year budget, a narrow in april, a final in may, and budget adoption in june. As were putting in agreements of leases, they call for the formation of a primary Tenants Committee and obligate us to provide us to the primary Tenants Committee in the fall and for the board to approve those projections by january of this year. So thats why this item is before you. Again its not a final fiscal year budget. But at this time, based on what we know, and again, very preliminary because lincoln is still in the process of bringing on Service Contractors for the Transit Center, so these are est
Raidi radiant heating was completed in 2017. Also, the exterior awning, the entire awning as perthis picture here is all installed. All the items, the vertical glass curtain wall, like around the grand haul or level two, all the sections west of first street are all installed. When you go up onto the roof, the w8, which is the glass canopy is also installed. And also the sky light and the glass floor up on the roof was all installed in 2017. The roof top landscaping commenced in earnest and worked hard in 2017. The trees. There are 76, over 75 of the trees installed. And Boston Properties started installing the major parts of their gondola. And the pathways, theyre almost done with that half mile pathway that goes around the entire park. Its almost completed and is going well. Onto other elements. Ac transit commenced their bus testing on the bus deck in december, and that will continue. And then, the bus plaza, we opened the 5 Fulton Service on december 26, and this picture was early
Test . At what point . Andre usually three months, roughly three months prior to the function itself. Depends on their ski squle and our schedule but we always work it out. Chef andre, you have 23,000 square feet of kitchen, the largest kitchen in washington, d. C. Does it get crowded on the night of the Correspondents Dinner . Andre it is crowded. Who is in here . Andre we have a lot of celebrities who want to be back of the house but at the same time weve got so many cooks and people working that evening, whether it be from the management teaming all the team members, were looking at roughly 400 people that are here to assist on that evening. Does that include servers . Andre that includes servers. How many people are out on the floor . Andre about 200 servers on the loor, then mate reds maitre ds that oversee the front of the house. And about 200 people back here then . Andre about that. Where are you that snevpk andre running around. We were just talking about how many steps i do a