street promenade we've developed many of the corridors so at this time, i'd like to introduce gary it newland from may stretch and paul and him will be jerry handout our president regional president of lamar that will talk about the alfaro mixed use district thank you, mr. gale good afternoon madam chair and commissioners make director it's my pleasure to give a brief introduction this afternoon i'm gary it newland vice president of the development any partner is unskilled zip also development is here with me we look forward to getting to know you he the staff again brief introduction of our company bay switch for the capital of $10 billion real estate investment company in the u.s. we manage offer 55 million square feet of square footage those are regional shopping industries we have a major presence on the west coast and the east coast and then in the state of arizona we typically own and manage iconic retail properties just some works are scotts fashion scare in arrested arrests the queens center in new york and washington square in the pacific northwest a strong portfolio and babe baurgd

she knows that stor-- newland. she anyhows that story. -- knows that story. chinese children went to this school where they were taught in chinese. she had work to do inasmuch. >> i was only 9, 10 years old -- to do. >> i was only 9, 10 years old, i had to take care of my brother and sister. sometimes we don't have anything to eat. give them bread and sprinkle sugar on top. that is a sandwich. >> they came to america to build the rhode rhode -- railroads. hundreds came to pick fruit or pack fruit for shipping. they got her first pair of new shoes in the 7th grade. she got married but when she and her husband tried to buy a house they were told they couldn't because they were chinese. they had no choice but to move to locke. the law forbade chinese from owning land. they moved into a garage. they addedden to the building. made a -- they added on to the building and made a home. when the act was struck down in 1952 the chinese began moving away. after her husband died she stayed on. determined that someday she would own her little piece of land. by the time sac

ok, this is friends and newlands. -- francis newlands. he was a congressman and a senator, absolutely races, built chevy chase. mainly just out side, just north of chevy chase circle. other investors combined and bought a lot of ground in what is chevy chase d.c. he was progressive as a developer because he put something out to chevy chase. he had only two requirements for houses. one was that houses facing a main street could not be cost less than $5,000, and one on the side streets could not cost less than $3000. he was just as racist and exclusionary and his essential views as he was progressive and his development is. anyway, i should say that one of the most important changes they came out of the commissioner government in 1878 was that the federal government for the first time ever committed to paying 50% of basically the normal operating expenses of the district. this plan was in effect up until the 1920's, then it came unglued. that was a very important thing. shepherd and all the people that try to build the city, congress would

street promenade we've developed many of the corridors so at this time, i'd like to introduce gary it newland from may stretch and paul and him will be jerry handout our president regional president of lamar that will talk about the alfaro mixed use district thank you, mr. gale

being upset about the course angela merkel is taking and the deputy secretary of state, victoria newland obviously, talked about the merkel bull -- were referring to her journey in moscow in order to negotiate last friday. >> all right, okay. marcus, thank you very much, indeed, for joining us on the program. >>> well talks from afghanistan say a militant leader affiliated with the islamic state group is being killed in a drone strike. mullah abdul rauf defected from the taliban and pledged allegiance to islamic state last month. david loyn joins us live from kabul. this is a former inmate at guantanamo bay. what is the latest information you've got on this david? >> well he was the first confirmed commander of islamic state in afghanistan, and now the first that we know has been killed by a joint operation between afghan forces and nato forces. intriguing, this is actually the first known nato air strike under their new mandate, the beginning of this year you'll remember the combat operations ended at the end of last year but right at the last minute president obama said no nato forces