The embattled singer accused of threatening a woman at gunpoint in his home. What the star is now saying about that incident. Fiery escape. The driver at a gas station backs into a pump, sparking a dangerous fire. The car behind him igniting with two children inside. How their mother sprang into action and helped save their lives. Today, wednesday, august 31, 2016. This is today from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. [ cheers ] good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on this wednesday morning. Big, surprising news from donald trump overnight coming on twitter. We knew he would give a big immigration speech today. Now we found out hes going to travel to mexico and meet with the president there. Donald trump sent out a tweet saying hes going to mexico to anticipated speech on immigration. That comes later on this evening. We are going to hear from his Campaign Manager about the surprise trip in a moment. Lets begin with nbcs Hallie Jackson. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning, matt
Off of the power procurement process and i think its key and critical and im not going to disagree with keeping the the 90 days in the timeline but be ready for it to to go quicker that way were getting everything done and i had two more comments making sure while staff is checking in, if theres a window where they are not checking in, we should make sure its being agendized and there will be regular questions that should be asked and regular times to check in and finally ensuring or engaging with labor as quickly as possible and those discussions and id encourage us to get those discussions going tomorrow but calling them tomorrow and saying can we get these meetings rolling again and starting that process again. Thank you. Thank you jason. Next speaker is eric brooks. Are you starting the clock already . Hi commissioners. Eric brooks San Francisco green party our city San Francisco and cocoordinator and first ill say the good part which is this is pretty goodlooking document. This is
Plan. Right. And weve been talking about how cca can play a role in that and so were going to plan on you know unveiling that when we talk about the Business Plan as we talk about the line of business cca well talk about you know how we phase it in because that goes to the risk and talk about what is the mix that that were recommending because with the additional head room that you have on the initial offering what we want to do do we want to make it more greener if possible or do you want to focus on local build out . Theres discussions to be had on that and if we had a second offering the opt in of a darker green we need to talk about that and what is that price what is the mix and how many projects do we want to be able to support so were going to have to have those conversations but what i think is really helpful this time is that were going to at least on the initial offering that people are automatically enrolled in, were going to lead with affordability and were going to set tha
Next item. Item 13 approve an increase in the construction contract cost contingency for contract no. Wd2641r in the amount of 522,328 and increase in the contract duration of up to 376 consecutive calendar days and authorize future modification to the contract. Emilio cruz, assistant general manager contractor. In this case we know we have an a15 tif delay. This is primarily because of the Drought Conditions and the need to bring in additional water. As part of the wisa program and part of our commitment to sustainability we committed to establish new watershed areas, new wetlands areas. And as part of that contract, the contractors responsible for developing the wetlands, bringing them to maturity and then once mature they have a 3 year maintenance requirement. Because of the Drought Conditions and because of some of the conditions with regard to some of the plantings that were outside the control of the contractor, we do anticipate the need for another year to further establish thes
Building. We actually just had to move back, firefighters just asked us to move back to make room for an engine coming through. Now, this fivealarm fire started at about 3 00 this afternoon, it grew from there. Mutual aid needed to be called in almost immediately. There is very heavy smoke making it very hard to breathe and there are ashes falling. Neighbors are concerned the wind might spark other fires. We are told there are a lot of abandoned homes in the area. Firefighters say they are watching, should any embers spark other fires, they are prepared to deal with that. There are dozens out here watching this fire. Firefighters keep asking as i mentioned people to move back. They just asked us to move back to allow for a truck to come through here. A fivealarm fire on montgomery and park in san jose. You can see theres still a lot of heavy smoke. It all appears white so they are getting the upper hand on this fire. The winds continue to shift so i cannot emphasize enough the need to