President announcement. Good morning and happy new year to everybody and id like to thank any fellow commissioner walker for chairing for me last year, i of the out but all good here Going Forward welcome to the wednesday, january 18, 2017, bic so a few announcements so start off the meeting wish everyone to a happy new year and welcome to the department of building inspection my announcements will be belief the commission wanted to acknowledge the staff over the last month, a big thank you to ed screening who helped to get a Construction Permit approved he said he was glad to know that San Francisco as a dedicated public to the citizens so thank you on that and thanks to joe duffy of Inspection Services that got a letter for taking the time with a complaint and that was actually forwarded to dpw regarding a wood playthings becoming dangerous during an upcoming storm the customer said that is an example of a apply employee going above and beyond and madam secretary thats the biggest se
Governor, jerome powell. Those stories and more in just a moment but first, we have breaking news on halliburton. Lets go to our chief market correspondent, scarlet fu. Halliburton, the Oil Services Company is cutting 6. 5 percent to eight percent of its workforce. No layoffs planned due to the baker hughes deal, but this is because of the Challenging Market environment. Those were the exact words used by the company. Total had come total headcount at halliburton is about 80,000. The Houston Business Journal reported halliburton would be cutting between 5000 and 6000 jobs. Oil prices have plunged from their highs of last year. If you look at how halliburton shares are performing, take a look at the bloomberg terminal. This is the intraday chart and you can see we opened lower and have been on a little bit of a recovery and yet when the news hit we had our lows of the day, down 2. 8 at the moment. Thank you. Lets return to washington and our chief washington correspondent, peter cook, w
In 2008. That would be hope. What we have to do in a sense is be a party of optimism and hope. I think part of what we have to do in the era of president obamas disasterer is we have to get beyond being antiobama, and we have to reconvince people you can have hope in america, that we can have a better future. Hope for republicans nationally is what the party clings to because at the moment its all theyve got. That much is evident if you read politico this morning which reported that the republican establishment sees the party on the National Level as veering toward destruction. They report that, quote, its almost impossible to find an establishment republican in town that is not downright morose about the 2013 that has been and is about to be. They see this year as a disaster in the making even if most elected republicans dont know the it or admit it, the partys wounds are many and theyre all selfinflicted. Threats of Government Shutdown and debt default have all ended hopes of proving
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