Criticism for groups most reliant on the cash. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced up to days of heavy fighting between Government Troops and Taliban Forces in southern afghanistan its been happening in the province of helmand particularly around the regional capital lashkar gah it began on saturday when the taliban launched coordinated attacks on several areas fighting has flared up since with the u. S. Carrying out air strikes to defend Afghan Security forces dozens of taliban fighters are reported to been killed hospitals are overwhelmed its the 1st Major Taliban offensive since peace talks with the Afghan Government resumed last month remember too that president Donald Trumps promise to bring home u. S. Forces by christmas lets go live now to kabul. Culture for you is for us for you whats the latest on the price of. Ledger and like you mentioned the fighting began this weekend when the taliban launched an attack on how months provincial capital of scar got it has been i
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Night because i cant forget welcome to squawk alley for a wednesday morning im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt, Julia Boorstin joins us for the hour for which were appreciative interview with intel ceo bob swan later this hour later exclusive with nfl commissioner Roger Goodell a lot to get to. Well start with the s p and nasdaq notching another record intraday high. Got 12k on the comp. Former ceo of twitter now general parter in of owen advisers Dick Costello is with us great to kick off the morning with you. Great to hear you all i dont see you. Julia and i did our first live tv interview together back in 2009 when i joined twitter so to julia. Great to hear you. Thats worth celebrating, dick wow. Takes us all back. Youve had some i always tease you about Capital Management and you had some great tips in recent months that the mongo dbs of the world and theyve worked how long do you think theyre going to continue to work . Yeah. Its a great question. I got to tell you, when i was on
We have a quorum. Could you please read the announcement. Dont to you covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health regulars issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health, they have lifted restrictions. This meeting is held Via Teleconference and held by s sfg tv. Please be aware theres a brief lag time between what is being viewed on sfgtv. I would like to extend our thanks to the staff for the assistance of this meeting. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item dial 888 2733658, access code 3107452 and pound followed by pound again. Dial 10 to be added to the speaker line and you will hear an automated voice that when tell you when its your turn to speak and your twominute speaking time will begin. These instructions will be repeated. If they havent done so, ill ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones to minimize background noise. Your first order of business is approval of the minutes of may 26th, 2020. Commissioners, before you, you have the min
Fourstep process for the dental plans to determine the needed rate change factor in this case from 2020 to 2021. Next slide. So with that, well review ratings summary for the plan that well review today. Next slide. Next item, please. The covered populations for the sfhss dental plans as well as the member contributions are outlined on this page. The active employees of three employers are offered dental coverage throughout sfhss, and those are the city and county of San Francisco, the superior court, and the municipal executive employees. For the ccsf, ccsfmea, and meamta employees, they pay 10 a month for single tier and 15 a month for family tier in the p. P. O. These employees pay no contributions for the two dental h. M. O. S that are offered. The superior court and superior court m. E. A. Employees pay no contributions for dental coverage, and the active employees of the San Francisco Unified School District and city college of San Francisco do not elect to provide dental through