. >> thank you and sca can i have the slides please good afternoon commissioner stacy i'm katie miller director of capital programs i'll have combines of 6 ab with the capital improvement program as well the water system improvement program as the end of this 2024-2025 are the 52 project with $4.0 billion in the first quarter reporting updated budget from schedules were adopted by the commission in february of 24 the current approved capital improvement program includes 52 projects and increase of 14 projects in the previous fiscal year. 11 projects have not been initiated, 21 projects in the planning and design phases and 20 in the award or construction. about thirty percent of the project biscuit have been spent to date. there we go this is the summary of property expenditures and costs at the end of march i'm sorry at the end of sent by categories the right columns are the costs between the budget and forecast costs this table is the end of first quarter project budget are on track with only $3 million in cost increases forecasted at this time and this pie chart is the total for the

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katy. you tell me. >> yeah, i'm going to i'm going to have to leave it on that hopeful note. aaron david milleruch, ayman mohyeldin. thank you as well. again, a cease fire that starts as of now on sunday between israel and hamas. that's going israel and hamas. that's going to upset stomach iberogast indigestion iberogast bloating iberogast thanks to a unique combination of herbs, iberogast helps relieve six digestive symptoms to help you feel better. six digestive symptoms. the power of nature. iberogast. hi, my name is damian clark. and if you have both medicare and medicaid, i have some really encouraging news that you'll definitely want to hear. depending on the plans available in your area, you may be eligible to get extra benefits with a humana medicare advantage dual-eligible special needs plan. most plans include the humana healthy options allowance. get $1200 a year. that's $100 each month help pay for eligible groceries, utilities, rent, and over-the-counter items like vitamins, pain relievers, first-aid supplies and more. the healthy options allowance is loaded onto a prepaid card eac

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miller. all right. we've we've had this conversation before. does this time feel different? >> katie.mean, the signs and the signals i think are strong. >> the palestinians are sending their experts who deal with release of palestinian prisoners to doha. the israelis are sending signals to the ministries that deal with the absorption of hostages. so it feels as if it seems as if that this is the moment for an agreement. now what? it does not seem to me to be an agreement for is what i would call all for all. all of the remaining hostages freed according to a specific timetable in return for termination of the war and a permanent cessation of hostilities. that may be the language used in this agreement, but i think it's there's a long way to go before we see the end of the war in gaza. but for the 34 hostages, the israelis judge mostly are living in the initial humanitarian release, six week ceasefire, large numbers of palestinian prisoners, some of whom convicted of killing, charged with killing israelis and surging humanitarian assistance into gaza for those hostages, the hostage fam

miller yesterday if this time felt different. i'm going to ask you the same thing. you've been covering this since the beginning. does this time feel different? >> it does feel different. >> katiepresident elect trump has set january 20th, his inauguration. >> in his words, if there is not a deal by then, there is going to be, quote, hell to pay. he has never spelt out exactly what that means, but it has really focused minds of negotiators in the room in qatar, doha. and you are also seeing american officials from president biden on downwards, talking with a level of immediacy, a level of optimism that we have not heard before. but at the same time, katie, u.s. officials are really struggling to keep finding new ways of saying that this deal is incredibly close. and yet it is not yet over the line. you heard secretary blinken there describing it as being on the brink. an israeli official tells me that there is agreement now on the broad issues. the remaining questions are to do with implementation. so just to give you an example, there is a consensus that there will be 33 israeli hostages, living and dead, released in this first stage of the deal. the question, though, exactly