dan wade? >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm director of capital planning programs for water. i would like to give you an update on the third quarter for fiscal year 18-19 for the capital improvement projects. can you go to the slides? the highlights for this important period are as follows, and i won't read these to you, i have other slides that will hit each one of these, but they relate to the mountain tunnel repairs and improvements, the rehabilitation project, and the 2018 march storm damage emergency repairs and interim improvements. starting with the mountain tunnel intermittent repairs, and phase two, which started in phase one in 2017, phase two has successfully completed the 60 day tunnel shut down with no impact to water customers. the repairs, contact grouting, and paving that were completed as part of this repair project were all done on time, and the project did reach substantial completion. we anticipate closing this project out next month in june. that went very well. as you know, we are working on the larger mountain tunnel improvement project, which is in des

dan wade, director of water capital projects for sfpuc. >> good morning, supervisors. >> chair fewer: good morning. >> thank you for the opportunity to be here to present the mountain tunnel improvement management services. it's contract number pro-0096 with aecom technical services. may i have the slides, please. so the mountain tunnel is a 19-mile long tunnel that transmits water from hetch hetchy reservoir within yosemite national park, part of the system that transmits the water 167 miles across the state to 2.7 million users in san francisco and the bay area. this map shows the location of the tunnel circled in yellow, and again, it's a 19-mile long tunnel that takes water from early intake after the canyon power tunnel to priest reservoir prior to down through the valley. mountain tunnel was constructed in 1917 to -25, and it's been in service since that time. it transports water from early use to priest reservoir. there's about 12.5 miles that was lined with concrete lining that was installed when the original tunnel was constructed. over time, deterioration in the lining has b

. >> good afternoon, commissioners dan wade, director of water capital programs. is primarily related to the trends of the turnover of the old financial system to the new financial system and the challenges that we had been getting notices of these issued during the time period. is a time period where we needed to get the funds in place and we couldn't get them in place in time to get that notice. >> did the commissioner characterize it properly that it was because of the system error that it became so costly of a delay? >> so there is a delay -- the cost is not totally dependent upon the delay, there are other issues that are associated with it, there were other issues during construction that were encountered, but a portion of the cost is related to the delay i'm sorry? >> it looks like we lost a construction season. >> we did, but that's not, so we didn't lose a full construction season, what we lost was an outage that was scheduled, and so the work had to be done during that outage, and because we missed that outage, we had to wait for a future date, at which

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steve: dan, there was video released by border patrol, last thursday night, 10:30, over 115, 116 people were wadingts, a large group is considered a group of more than 100. they had 182 they have caught so far. >> the problem steve, people around the world gotten the message that central america and south america got a long time ago. this flores consent degree where we can only hold families with children for 20 days. it means effectively if you get to the united states with a child you will be released after 20 days. the chances of people showing up as we've seen by the numbers are very low. it really gives you a path into the united states. something has to be done. the message is getting around the world. something has to be done. we have no southern border right now. the southern border is nothing but a four-way stop sign nobody is paying attention to. brian: four out of five people are against catch-and-release. democrats in that too. president maybe has the public sentiment on his side. ainsley: thank you, dan. >> you got it. ainsley: turning to headlines for you, starting with a fox news ale