dan murphy is live in jeddah for us dan, what can you tell us about this emergency summit in saudi arabia >> hi, dom in just a few hours saudi arabia is set to host this emergency summit in mecca to discuss these rying tensions with iran this comes after the saudi foreign minister said iran's support nor houthi rebels was enough to destabilize the area this comes also after the u.s. national security adviser john bolton increased the temperature in the region yesterday directly blaming iran for a series of sabotage attacks on ships belonging to saudi arabia off the coast of the united arab emirates bolton said in a statement at a news briefing late yesterday that there is no doubt in anybody's mind in washington who is responsible for this but stopped short of providing evidence for his claim iran's deputy foreign minister also reacted in the last 24 hours to that comment. he described it as ludicrous and that iran is ready to come to the table and talk, but also says iran is ready to respond if necessary. president trump has said in the past that he does not want war or regime change wit

opec ministers and russia meeting this weekend in saudi arabia dan murphy is there live in jetta withan? >> reporter: brian, saudi energy minister giving oil markets a boost after he and other major producers here in jetta, saudi arabia, voted to possibly extend the production cuts into the second half of the year. it's giving oil markets a boost. well, that's what we could look like other major producers have been pushing for a volume distribution whether or not that eventuates is left to be seen just in the past 24 hours a new tweet from u.s. president donald trump vowing the end of iran if it continues with its rhetoric that's helped to support the market earlier we spoke with alexander novak about the rising tensions and i asked him about the strike attack on the oil pipeline and the attack on the vessels of the uae and how russia should respond to the situation as a friend of iran listen in. >> translator: but on the whole i would like to say that this is pretty negative for the market and we need to fine tune our relationships as fully as possible so the energy security is at th

measures themselves were, quote, illegitimate our colleague dan murphy joins us from dubai. can you give us more details about the additional measures the u.s. has now taken to clamp down on iran and how this fits into the context of recent relations between those two countries? >> willem, hi to you this is interesting because of the relationship in the past few hours we have seen the united states announce it will be deploying additional military resources into the region as it looks to further isolate iran as it sees as a regional aggressor at the same time it's attempting to bolster its relationships in the region with the likes of saudi arabia and the uae which the united states is relying on to make up for the oil short fall that is being created by the u.s. sanctions of iran and the cancellation of the recent export wavers. what we are seeing is the u.s. national security advisor john bolton saying this is going to send a clear and unmistakable message to the iranian regime that any attack on the u.s. interests or those of their allies will be met with, quote, unrelent

our colleague dan murphy joins us live in jetta was iran a big focus of this conversation >> reporterocus within these conversations. as you can see being reflected in the price of oil today, two key factors, renewed geopolitical tensions between the u.s. and iran but as you point out, number two, is this commentary that we've heard from the saudi ministry reaffirmed a commitment, a consensus among the major producers to extend the production cuts into the second half of the year. they said uncertainties remain and they are reducing global inventories. he's not fooled by global prices and the market remains fragile what the bigger uncertainty is is exactly what's going to happen at this juno peck meeting when it comes to volumes we don't know if these major producers are going to decide to pump more oil in order to make up for the loss of iranian barrels as a result of those u.s. sanctions so far saudi arabia and the uae have held off on the calls from the u.s. president, donald trump, to increase production so it's really going to be data dependent according to the ministers that we'

a spokesman for the iranian foreign ministry described the statement as ludicrous dan murphy joins usah it seems like the saudis have been broadening their invite list can you give us a few more details? >> that's right. by broadening the invite list, what we've seen is saudi arabia attempting to cooperate not just its friends but some of its perceived foes we are looking at an invitation to the qataris to attend this upcoming emergency summit. that's significant it's been more than two years since any representative from qatar stepped foot in saudi arabia you might recall since june of 2017, qatar has been cut off from the rest of the jcc amid an economic, social and political blockade it does seem now like saudi arabia is willing to open the door in the face of further -- in the hope of further isolating iran and in the face of these ongoing tensions between the u.s. and iran and saudi arabia and iran as well the inclusion of the qataris is significant. we're also looking at an emergency summit that is expected to be held in the coming hours hosted by saudi arabia bringing together

will result in greater service legibility, which is a term i learned from fellow council member, dan murphy i can't take credit, but it's a great way of putting it. so that's a good idea to move forward with. second motion is that sfmta cac recommends that in order to replace all vehicles by the end of 2025, instead of 2027, sfmta implement the accelerated replacement schedule of lrv vehicles regardless of potential for delay. so i should add to this that, for the benefit of the public's awareness, that a majority of the cac favored the double transverse seat configuration in the siemens street cars. we sent a letter to the board expressing that majority preference. number 3, we have here the sfmta cac recommends that the sfmta adopt the revised delegation policy as presented to the cac, provided that a list of approved contracts, purchases and contract modifications approved by the director of transportation, be included on the sfmta board meeting agenda as part of the director's report. so this was a policy change which sounded sensible enough to us, which allows for the director of trans