Are a few places on the earth as enchanting as this incomparable Torres Strait islands rising like a series of stepping stones from the shallow arefu to see. Some of the tiny coal as hosts others remnants of a land bridge that once joined australia to cope with the submerged at the end of the last ice age. There were 274. 00 islands in total but only 21. 00 are inhabited these are home to some foreign to hog 1000 people. The majority of on indias are indigenous there migrants of european and asian origin have joined to. Everyone who lives here faces the challenge of staying connected across these beautiful but remote and widely scattered audience this is the story of how some of these people live out their everyday lives. Day island affectionately known as t. Ally is the Regions Administration for. All of the far flung island area. The local Radio Station keeps islanders up to date. Morning to our listeners were. From in here the beautiful carry. That weight and when its beautiful it i
We have been calling around the neighbors, family members, coworkers and they are in the same situation. Good morning and welcome to the Cross Connection. Im Tiffany Cross. We have a lot to get to today, including the latest on some accountability for the violent insurrection last month, but we begin todays show with this. Today marks one month since the Biden Administration took office, and the new administration is staring down major challenges this week, including an unprecedented winter storm thats caused widespread Power Outages in texas and claimed at least 30 lives this week, including an 11yearold boy who died in a mobile home that went unheated for days. Power is finally being restored to more and more homes across the state, but many are now facing Food Shortages and a mounting water crisis due to Bursting Pipes and freezing wells. Pyatt says he will ask fema to accelerate a request for a major Disaster Declaration for texas and he plans to visit the state next week if it doe
Against coronavirus restrictions including in the case finland poland and germany in the german city of costal demonstrators clashed with police who then used pepper spray and Water Cannons to disperse the crowds in fiction rights are spiking in europe and tougher restrictions expected. International fans will not be able to attend this summers Olympic Games in tokyo because of the pandemic the games were judah take place last year but were postponed due to the virus now and the japan by fans will be allowed to attend around 1000000. 00 of us a fans who have already brought tickets will now get wifi its ok. This is datable the news from berlin you can follow us on twitter and instagram at data bleed news or visit our website to be found at the w dot com. This week on the world stories. Searching for a missing activist in syria. A courageous musician in turkey but we begin in france where between the 1960 s. And 1980 s. About 2000 children from the island of crete uniacke were also bein
It looks like web ex just crashed. I will rejoin the meeting again. Do you want to send it to somebody else to share . Do you want to continue on with agenda item a . Yes, that is fine. We can do that. That is fine. Commissioner, agenda item a. Review and approval of fiscal year 2122 and fiscal year 2223 disability and aging services budget. Do we have director mcpad den and dan kaplan ready to present this item . Commissioners, we are bringing back to you today the description of the budget that we will need to propose by february 22. We will be asking you for your approval to do that. Bridgett or alex, do you have the powerpoint ready . This presentation describes differences in the coming year as we go forward. Ir will speak to my financial parts of this. Shireen will speak to the short presentation. When we get to the presentation our senior budget analysts can answer questions. The bottom line here before we get started is there is a big deficit. We talked about this a couple week
A sudden shift in the bay areas icus. We heard stories of beds fill would covid patients. With that, we say good evening and thank you so much for joining us. Im dion lim. The bay area is suddenly at 23. 4 . After spending a couple of weeks icu availability has become the number the state relies on, when it comes to issuing stayathome orders. But does this mean were turning the corner . And the stayathome order could be lifted . We havent heard a word from gavin newsome. Cornell, what are they saying . Doctors say they are seeing glimmers of hope. Theyre slowly going down. But its unclearthe bay area can leave the stay at home order. Could potentially be the beginning of the end. Reporter those encouraging words from epidemiologist, after the state reported the bay areas icu capacity saw an a dramatic improvement. All this suggests, strongly suggests that were on the down slope of this third wave of the epidemic, finally. Reporter they confirm covid19 hospitalizations have dropped at z