It represents commerce, navigation, all of the things that San Francisco is famous for. The wood you see in the board of supervisors chambers is oak and all hand carved on site. Interesting thing about the oak is there isnt anymore in the entire world. The floors in china was cleard and never replanted. If you look up at the seceiling you would believe thats hand kof carved out of wood and it is a cast plaster sealing and the only spanish design in an arts building. There are no records about how many people worked on this building. The workman who worked on this building did not all speak the same language. And what happened was the person working next to the other person respected a skill a skill that was so wonderful that we have this masterpiece to show the world today. [roll call] item number two, pledge of allegiance. Item number three, approval of minutes for the june 9, 2020 Port Commission meeting. So moved. Second. All in favor. Aye. Sorry, roll call vote. [roll call] thank y
And expats back in and the trusted face of americas a virus crisis is in quarantine as infections hit the power base of the u. S. Politics. This is a very very scary virus you know that the people are going to go back to work and theyre getting worried about their eggs. Have you with us and welcome to the program saudi arabia has announced tough new austerity measures aimed at shoring up state finances which have been battered by low oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic from july the 1st it will raise a value added tax from 5 to 15 percent it will cut up to 26000000000. 00 from government infrastructure upgrades including crown Prince Mohammed bin still mans vision 2030 project and from the beginning of next month is the spending a cost of living allowance for workers. Is director of the institute for gulf affairs he says the announcement of the new measures was expected. Government qana mean saudi arabia has been under a lot of stress that thats why the government would drew 230000
Tourist attraction in china is back in business even as new coronavirus cases are reported in with her. Back into the program lets bring you this breaking news coming out of iran that in a rainy and naval ship has been mistakenly hit by a missile fired by another ship in its own fleet state television says that at least one person has been killed and several others have been injured in the incident it happened when the support fassel got too close to a target during naval exercises in the jasc region of southern iran on the gulf of oman. In other news saudi arabia has announced tough new austerity measures aimed at shoring up state finances which have been battered by Lower Oil Prices and the coronavirus pandemic from july the 1st it will raise value added tax from 5 to 15 percent it will cut up to 26000000000. 00 from government infrastructure upgrades sink looting crown prince mohammeds solve mans vision 2030 project from the beginning of next month is suspending a cost of living all
A director for the institute for gulf affairs he says the announcement of the new measures was expected. Government column in saudi arabia has been under a lot of stress that that is why the government would draw 23000000000. 00 from the reserves in march this is the largest withdrawal from from the reserves ever in the history of the country so and then moodys obviously dont grade it saudi just a few weeks ago so were looking at continuous bad in 0. Problems facing the economy and hurdles and hits not only corona has blocked or stopped ramadan you have but one and a half 1000000 people coming to america and medina during ramadan but also had been cancelled in addition obviously to the oil prices being decimated by saudi arabia itself and its policy i dont think the project will ever start that a little long completed because they cannot make realities have changed massively the oil prices about going to go back to where they were a year ago for a long time and that means that there ar
Mountain and pacific, thats 202 7488001. We welcome your comments by text. Thats 202 7488003. Nd on twitter we are cspanwj your Facebook Comments are welcome, journal cspan. Org facebook. Com cspan. Members of congress, as we know, saying that the house will be back until may 4. Our capitol hill producer theted yesterday about white house plans, a 10 00 a. M. Conversation with the members of the house. At 11 00 a. M. , president hosting a phone call with members of the senate. Cnbc posting yesterday about the president s briefing and his indication that the u. S. Has passed the pico coronavirus outbreak. Peak of coronavirus outbreak. Host the report says that President Trump says the u. S. Has passed the peak of the infected asich has we mentioned more than 632,000 people in america. We will update those numbers for you momentarily. Heres what the president said yesterday in his briefing. [video clip] American Society is engaged and mobilized in a war against a invisible enemy. We must