Nine days after typhoon haiyan left parts of the country in ruins. Tens of thousands of victims are starting to get medical care as food and water is being dropped to isolated areas. Lets bring in craig leeson who is in tacloban. Is International Aid finally getting to the hard to reach places. It is starting to trickle through. We are seeing a lot of aid come in here at the air force base in cebu. Its piling in and being distributed to areas in need particularly tacloban in leyte, the epicentre of this disaster. But the challenge has been getting it from tacloban out into the the regions from there that are hard to reach. Many of them are still cut off. There is only power to four of the 30 provinces hit by the typhoon. There are difficulties that aid workers are still seeing that were there from day one. We travelled up to bantayan yesterday with a cargo shift, one of the first aid relief and witnessed the hunger of people as they crowded around the trucks of rice, trying to get food
Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America, im morgan radford. Relief efforts are picking up nine days after typhoon haiyan struck the philippines. More than 3,600 died. Those who survived are finally getting the help that they need. Food, water and medical supplies have started getting to areas that were completely cut off by the storm. The u. S. Military is now dropping food and water to survivors in the area. But more than 1,000 people are still missing. Some 4 Million People are homeless. For the latest we are going to talk about talk to craig leeson, who is standing by in the philippines. First lets tell you about an attack in afghanistan where more than 2,000 afghan elders will meet in kabul. Theyll vote on the future of u. S. Troops in afghanistan. The u. S. Is trying to hammer out an agreement to keep forces on the ground beyond 2014. That effort was dealt a blow on saturday after suicide bomb attack killed six people. Jane ferguson reports from kabul. It was an attack on the
Things, we believe that, in essence, at least three of these projects will be able to continue into the spring past whatever was accomplished by december 9th. So, that concludes the information that i wanted to very quickly share with you. Im happy to respond to any questions you might have. Commissioner dooley. I just wanted to add my great thanks also for getting this going. Im seeing in my own neighborhood every day businesses leaving because theyre forced out. These are valuable neighborhood assets, successful businesses that just simply cant pay, you know, when their landlord quadruples their rent. And anything we can do in this area, i consider of great importance. Well, we he want to thank you for the opportunity to actually work ~ with the city on this program. I just wanted to share with you that our students conducted a studentled study on the ordinance as it is being proposed to make sure that they understood it as a prelude to even starting these projects. One of the conclu
Neighborhood every day businesses leaving because theyre forced out. These are valuable neighborhood assets, successful businesses that just simply cant pay, you know, when their landlord quadruples their rent. And anything we can do in this area, i consider of great importance. Well, we he want to thank you for the opportunity to actually work ~ with the city on this program. I just wanted to share with you that our students conducted a studentled study on the ordinance as it is being proposed to make sure that they understood it as a prelude to even starting these projects. One of the conclusionses of one of the students was, this is why i am here at this university because im actually starting to get my tuition worth by actually working on something thats real ~. So, i want to just say to you that this is a win win from our perspective. It is in line with the universitys mission, but its also very clearly in line with the desires of our students to have a real concrete impact. So, t
The legislation there is a requirement that the office of Small Business report back to this commission and the board of supervisors with further recommendations as to other substantive incentive and assistance that can be provided. Another important part of, we feel of the legislation is the recognition piece. And the other case studies that weve evaluated in places like london buenos aires, barcelona, part of the program is to promote these businesses he in the aggregate as part of the history of the city and their often Cultural Heritage destinationses and that has also been a part of the success of those programs. The legislation, of course, is also informed by our own legacy bars and Restaurants Program, and i think you have our pocket guide thats was handed out to the commissioners today. And it is really intended to be a Public Education program, to raise awareness about these places and how long theyve been in existence and its really had a phenomenal response by the public, bo