the port opened bids in 2017. three bids received auld exceeding the engineer's estimate. 2781 was sub packaged into smaller contracts. construction of the food contract 2740 and cytopreparation is now complete. 2810 is underway. i will talk more in a couple slides. it is to keep the budget in check under it is listed on the staff report and the slide. as david mentioned, based on feedback at the september 11th meeting the staff performed additional outreach to to advisory group and committee on the status of the park. they additionally brentted at dogpatch. the presentation included review of current design, cost control and establish future expectations regarding partly cloudy improvements. this slide -- i'm sorry. this slide compares bids for 2781 and it was $19.7 million. the lowest was $27.3 million that was 40% more than the estimate. for this contract 2812 the engineer estimated $17.5 million and lowest 17.8. that is within 2%. we can compare how close the bids were. first contract it was 40% over and this

, i am the ports contract. informational item to review the ports contract activity for fiscal year 17-18 from july 1st of 2017 to july 30 of 2018. with past presentations this is chapter 14b of the administrative code and talk about the city's local hire ordinance. i will review the numbers of certified lbe terms and custhe payments made during the reporting period. this istivtive tiffany the out reach cord natetor and -- coordinate to and jewel is here. albie is from the contracted office and we are happy to have him on board. the contract monitoring division classified minority business enterprises or other business enterprises and women enter prices or wbe. there are 1290 firms certified by the contract monitoring division. that is 146 firms or 11% increase over the last time i was here with this report six months ago. the contract monitoring division has expanded outreach. they expedited and automated the certification process resulting in the increase in lbes. we are happy with the work they are doing. 11

but not all port uses such as flight is service are more efficient. you get efficient service is now but besides that the do things without due cause there is for the other stakeholders in the industry. just. unpredictable every vessel entering or leaving nigerian waters is closely monitored here at the command and control center allowing for prompt response in times of distress or security breach up or is the busiest of nigeria sixty ports fifty ships berthier every day on average trying to support some of the last few years something creates revenue or the potential for further increases because of automation and other upgrades. despite presidential directives to ease the conduct of business in the ports some agency is accused of circumventing reforms. and that is diverting traffic to other countries but officials say with or without reforms such cargoes will still not come to the nigerian ports the needs of the center that's. actually come on or have. to the market and i've talked up to the neighboring countries. nigeria seaports account for eighty

it was a huge victory for the port, and the first of its kind in a port-only measure. so congratulations to everyone. now we have lots and lots of work to do to get our seawall safe for the public. my next item i would like to report the results, the initial results, of the historic pier's r.f.i. response, and i would like rebecca to do the honors. thank you, rebecca. >> thank you so much, director forbes. assistant deputy director of real estate and development at the port. very excited to present some of the results we have, or some of the initial results we have, from the request for interest. you'll recall the request for interest was issued earlier this summer. it's been open for about three months. what we were seeking in the request for interests are concepts that were public-oriented in nation within facilities of the embarcadero historic district. this included 13 piers and an agricultural building. we spent quite a lot of time over the summer promoting the r.f.i. and going directly to associations that represented industry types that we thought might be publi

we could always be better, but, you know, it is the port that has people that love the port and ar are good at what they do. >> mike, thank you so much for this report. this is very good. i think it is very insightful. i don't think there is anything lift to ask. (laughter). >> thank you very much. >> request approval for the document. work fours development. -- work force development. [ inaudible ] two approval of open space covenant regarding the india basin lands proposed to be exchanged into the public trust under a consequent trust agreement, and, three, delegation of authority to port's executive director to enter into one or more memoranda of understandings with various city agencies, including recpark, the san francisco public utilities commission and the san francisco public works department. >> good afternoon mike martin again. i want to say despite the positioning at the end of the agenda, there is good news. we are talking about the india basin project. we were here in september with an information item. i am joined by the representatives of the work force development and r

nigerian ports are operated under a concession agreement with the private sector where the ports authority supervising operations while ports around the world use advanced technology sudden cargo inspections are still carried out manually in some nigerian ports hardly encouraging enough to businesses looking for a quick turnaround i met you greece al-jazeera lagos. it was for the house and his fara laura thank you so much the couple were to doris finals a set to go ahead on sunday twenty four hours after kick off was delayed what's being dubbed the final to end all finals an argentine football history was called off when river plate fans attacked a boss carrying bucket junior players had into the match. or has more. there were sporadic clashes like this one between police and river plate fans around the ground before the scheduled kick off then this attack on the baka genius team bus that left two players injured by broken glass others coughing on east tear gas. the star player carlos tevez said they were in no fit state but we applied to play firstly the kickoff was delayed by two and a h

ports fifty berthier every day on average turned us in the ports about the last few years something creates revenue or the potential for further increases because of automation and other upgrades. despite presidential directives to ease the conduct of business in the ports some agency is accused of circumventing reforms. and that is diverting traffic to other countries but officials say with or without reforms such cargoes will still not come to the nigerian ports. the sentiment that's. actually come with or have. to the market and i've talked at the neighboring countries. nigeria seaports account for eighty percent of the country's international traffic over the last ten months the government generated nearly three billion dollars in duty but it also lost just much revenue in the same period to regional competition and smugglers nigerian ports are operated under a concession agreement with the private sector where the ports authority supervising operations while ports around the world use advanced technology sudden cargo inspections are still carried out manually in some nigerian ports har

not just the port, but a vast area of nearly six to seven square kilometers around it.r india, which is the single biggest critic of the belt and road project, it is also a question of national security. china's biggest project to date runs the length of neighboring pakistan to the port of gwadar on the indian ocean. >> when you talk about the maritime silk road, the fact that today, china has come to acquire control or controlling 75 ports in 35 countries. clearly, that is not being done just with commercial objectives in mind. >> if you are very close to china, then there is more nervousness. india was a great example. but some of the asean countries, they have to worry there is a strategic element to this. china is lending a lot of money to cambodia and laos. it is clearly buying friendship from those two countries. and they provide a kind of veto. asean operates on a consensus basis. so if you are worried about south china sea, for example, you can count on laos and cambodia sticking with china and preventing asean from doing anything which china might find objectio

dan with the port planning and environment division. i am here only to introduce the embarcadero enhancement project, a city effort to improve safety, mobility, and accessibility for all modes of movement along the embarcadero. the project is led by the san francisco municipal transportation agency, sfmta. on august 14th of this year, the sfmta provided a project update to the port commission, where the commission made requests to improve safety and further information on sfmta's work to advance the project. today casey hildrith will describe recently completed projects, public feedback from the recent project workshop held on october 25th, and we'll outline the expected timeline and next steps for the longer term enhancement project. enwith that, casey? >> thank you, dan. good afternoon, commissioners. i'm project manager for the embarcadero enhancement project. dan gave you a nice introduction. i'll add that i'm very fired up to be here, commissioner adams. and so with that, i'll just try and dive right into it. quickly a reminder, th

the ports of rotterdam and down to up and digital solutions a key. idea. what that means for that is a way to further increase competitiveness we have more technologies that will be implemented to make the poll more efficient this network will enable companies at the ports to further optimize their processes in the future. to. hamburg has already gathered a wealth of experience with five g. before it comes on the market in twenty twenty. well within the student tech and it tells an hour in the five g. is an important technological step why is there such a fuss about this well basically because five g. is really going to determine how manufacturing driving cars in all these technologies are constant talking about a rolled out to the german people the last generation of solar technology was introduced ten years ago and we're still living with the day we're going to have it for another four years so right now who gets the five g. rights and how they get them is really going to give them ten years of basically indefinite business that they can look forwa

yemeni forces attack key positions in a major port city. aid agencies say the increased fighting could trigger a famine. together in remembrance. the leaders of france and britain honour those killed in the great war. and a moving remembrance in london, marking 100 years since the end of the first world war. hello and welcome. wildfires in california have claimed the lives of nine people as they continue to burn out of control. officials say at least five people were found dead in their cars in butte county, where an 80 square kilometre blaze has devastated the town of paradise, leaving very few buildings standing. it's now threatening areas to the north of the town. further south, more than 150,000 people have been forced to leave their homes. residents of malibu, home to some of hollywood's biggest stars, have also been ordered to leave. one of the towns at risk is thousand oaks, the scene of a mass shooting on wednesday in which 12 people were killed. 0ur correspondent james cook has the latest from northern california. heavenly father,

the ports of rotterdam and antwerp and digital solutions a key. idea often what that means for the course is a way to further increase competitiveness we have more technologies that will be implemented to make the port more efficient this network will enable companies at the port to further optimize their processes in the future. to. hamburg has already gathered a wealth of experience with five g. before it comes on the market in twenty twenty. china's war on pollution is choking the economy as the government tries desperately to ditch the label worst polluted in the world this week the government in beijing promised to step up its war on climate change and in china's northern coal heartland dozens of chemical plants have already close the people there have been breathing a little easier the region has paid a high price. the city of gin chang has a poor reputation in china it's one of the most polluted cities in the country it's skyline peppered with mines coal processing facilities and heavy industry plants according to data from the ministry of

the signals that's why the port authority and i.t. company nokia a constantly checking jaring the test phase how fast the five g. signals are and how reliable and the experts also have to keep an eye on how secure the network is a little from this is gone missing to us from biofuels as that starts with physical security devices have to be integrated in such a way that no one can say go up to a traffic light with a flash drive and hack it that can't be allowed to happen and five g. has solutions for that and then says i.t. security for passwords to fire walls all of that's critical in five. for now this is just a large scale field test that many here hope that five g. intelligent traffic lights will make the next congestion in the port and depart from such a night house projects experts are calling for a well functioning nationwide wireless network if you want to she doesn't come view there is serious differences in some areas we can apply very sophisticated solutions in other areas we can't even say the network is slow everett's hardl

not all port uses such as flight is service are more efficient. if you get efficient service is now but besides that the do things without due cause there is something for the other stakeholders in the industry. just. unpredictable every vessel entering or leaving nigerian waters is closely monitored here at the command and control center allowing for prompt response in times of distress or security breach up what is the busiest of nigeria sixty ports fifty ships berthier every day on average changes in the ports about the last few years something creates revenue where the potential for further increases because of automation and other upgrades. despite presidential directives to ease the conduct of business in the ports some agency is accused of circumventing reforms and that is diverting traffic to other countries but officials say with or without reforms such cargoes will still not come to the nigerian ports that meet at the center of the. russian actually. all have. to the market and i've talked up to the neighboring countries. nigeria seaport

it's port remains the country's largest. it is also home to the indian navy's western command, looking west across the arabian sea to pakistan and the middle east, and to the east and the riches of southeast asia, and ultimately china. ♪ >> some of the defaults are not surprising. especially sri lanka. you look at the economy, the size of the investment and the project. the port gets one or two hips every week, so it is not surprising the project has gone under. >> if you are a recipient country in bri and china comes along and you negotiate appropriate terms for whatever the project happens to be, there aren't a lot of competitors beating down your door. this is to china's advantage. they bring the funding and expertise. that is a compelling package for a recipient country, but the recipients have to be careful of the financial terms. ♪ haslinda: so, from india to central asia, that is where we are traveling next as we continue to navigate china's belt and road initiative. ♪ ♪ haslinda: one of the countries that stands to g

but not all port users are satisfied your services are more efficient. you get efficient service now but besides that the do things without you cause there is something for the other stakeholders in the industry. just. every vessel entering or leaving nigerian waters is closely monitored here at the command and control center and are in for prompt response in times of distress or security breach. what is the busiest of nigeria sixty points fifty berthier every day on average trend is in the bottom of the last few years something creates revenue or the potential for father increases because of automation and other upgrades. despite presidential directives to use the conduct of business in the ports some agency is accused of circumventing reforms. and that is diverting traffic to other countries but officials say with or without reforms such cargoes will still not come to the nigerian ports that meet at the center that's. actually come with or have. to the market and i've talked up to the neighboring countries. nigeria seaports account for eighty percent o

mario cordero, port of long beach executive director.up, we will talk about one of the more controversial candidates for the congress up next tuesday. he is stephen king and we will talk about what his problems are in his race. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: congressman steve king is having a tough time in his race for congress to get reelected as an incumbent. he has republican from one of the most republican districts in the country yet he has his own chairman of campaign committee saying this. congressman steve king's recent actions and retweets or completely inappropriate. stand up against white supremacy in all its forms and i strongly condemn this behavior. this is a his own campaign chairman saying this. what does mr. king say about all of this? >> he does seem to be in a bit of trouble. it was a rare rebuke from the chairman of the republican house campaign committee that you do not see often just six or seven days before a midterm election. steve king remains defiant. he says he will settle that score after the election could he is

next few days will be able to storm the port. the u.n. secretary general and tony harris is warning against any disruption to the port operations. it is of what. i think that now all the powers agreed that it must be ended i think that circumstances will allow it i hope to direct actors in the conflict in the stand and i hope that it happens as quickly as possible because if for example the port of her died is destroyed that would be catastrophic for the whole of yemen please call son to for the safety of hundreds of thousands of civilians was to leave the city there now growing calls for a cease fire and peace talks between the warring parties in a sign the u.s. is finally losing patience with the war in the secretary of state mike pump created ated enough for all to the soda compris mohammed missile man i didn't need for cessation of hostilities pompei also i did all parties to come to the table to negotiate a peaceful solution to the conflict in a meeting in the city coupled with british foreign secretary jeremy hunt spoke of

it was a very important port. mitchell: did the french provide the port to the americans? was it used by them exclusively for their supplies and their troops? guillaume: i am not sure. but that was the main port where supplies would arrive. here is another boat coming. that is probably june of 1917. mitchell: the first combat contingent was the u.s. 1st division. this might be those troops who arrived in france with lots of fanfare. guillaume: bordeaux now. southwest france. very famous for wine. they are entering the river. you can see how many people are waiting for the american troops. hoping for liberation. bordeaux was not part of the front line. it was 500 miles from the front line. but all of these people are aware of what has been going on for the last three years and very hopeful to see their husbands and sons back home soon. mitchell: they were excited to have the american troops. and hoping they would go immediately in line and fight. but that did not happen. it would require several months of training. the french were hoping that the american troops would amalg

ysidro port of entry. i want to bring in cnn's raphael romo tracking every angle of this. what is the development there? >> reporter: the san ysidro port of entry remains closed, and we should add it's the busiest crossing point in the entire word. it is not yet clear, ana, if any immigrants made it to the u.s. at all. it all started several hours ago with a peaceful protest on the mexican side of the border. as the crowds grew larger they started slowly getting closer to a contingent of mexican federal police who were blocking access to the bridge connecting to the san ysidro port of entry. around 500 immigrants overwhelmed police and rushed towards the u.s. border. that's what prompted u.s. custom and border protection authorities to immediately close the border in both directions. first for pedestrian traffic and shortly thereafter for vehicles as well, ana.

agreement of the management of the port to talks about how the u.n. can get some sort of a role in the management of the port there seems to be consensus building all around within the international community for peace talks to behold it's the only way it's believed that yemen come to a ton to peace and also the humanitarian crisis in the country can be resolved these a lot of pressure on not only the fighters on the pro-government alliance but also the sodium supporting the government in yemen. door reporting there from djibouti let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world now this hour and the united arab emirates says it is reviewing a request for clemency from the family of a british academic jailed for life for spying the u.s. ambassador to the u.k. has defended the judge's decision matthew hedges was arrested at dubai airport in may while on a research trip for his university. says he was forced to sign a confession in arabic which he didn't understand mr hedges family have made a request for clemency and the

trump: people can come in but they have to come in through the ports of entry. to make, that is a very important thing. we're not leading them in, but they are trying to flood our country. amy: once again, a federal judge blocks a trump immigrant ban, this timtrump's asyluman weeks after the president announced new immigration les deny asylum to migrants who entered the country outside ports of entry. we will speak with one of the lawyers who sued the trump administration over the ban, baher azmy. then, less than a month after a gunman opened fire at a pittsburgh synagogue killing 11 jewish worshipers, we speak with investigative reporter a.c. thompson on the rise of neo-nazis in america. havee past few years, i been reporting on the resurgent of the white supremacist movement. i've seen its ideas migrated to the mainstream. i have seen violence in cities across the country, and now this. what looks to be the deadliest attack on the jewish community in american history. i fear there will be more to come. they make on the same day robert bowers opened fire in the

where we are, we are right on the west side of the san cede row port ce ysidr port of entry where going hours the border has been closed to vehicle and pedestrian traffic. what has happened here, this here is the border fence. let's show it to you one more time. this is the border fence. just to the west of the san ysidro port of entry, about an hour ago we saw probably close to about 100 people on the mexican side. those people believed to be part of the migrant caravan, those central americans who are in tijuana waiting to seek asylum into the united states. what we heard, we saw first of all men, women and children. what we heard, we heard a lot of the women yelling that they needed water, that they were hungry. they yelled this in spanish. but law enforcement out here making sure that everyone stayed safe and also encouraging those migrants to go back. what you need to keep in mind here at least on this section of the border there are actually two fences. this is one, and then you have another fence that is over closer to mexico. there is a river in between. so when those migrants w

the port itself. we have two of these compacters. we've done outreach to the tenants to let them know about the proposed ordinance and we're just starting to get feedback from folks. we had two suggestions we wanted to share with the committee for your considerations. and i want to preface the suggestions by saying this is not our area of expertise. this officexpertise is really t department of environment. recology. but we had two proposals. one is a public policy question and it's arising from think being our restaurants included on the list. if they fail an audit, is sorting the right remedy for this waste stream that is a very wet waste stream? primarily a food waste stream. we're wondering if it wouldn't be better to give the director of the department of environment the ability to impose a different enforcement action for certain unique generators? is sorting the right answer? maybe switching to compostable food wear is the right answer. we don't know. but we think that flexibility may be a good

fighting resumes in the key port city of the day after a brief pause. and one person killed hundreds injured in protests across france against fuel prices. the u.s. government is expected to give its conclusion on who killed jamal social g. in the next two days that's according to president trump himself who says he's awaiting a final report. a number of media outlets said the cia believes saudi crown prince mohammed and ordered the journalists killing in the kingdom's consulate in istanbul trump called that premature and the u.s. state department says it hasn't reached a conclusion chabris nancy has the latest from washington d.c. . while touring the devastation caused by the california wildfires donald trump claimed the cia had not assessed anything yet that it was too early but that a judgment would come soon we're going to come up with a report as to what we think the overall impact was and who caused it and who did it the state department earlier released this statement recent reports indicating that the u.s. government has made a final conclusion

sudan and that's been discussed but not here it's working there i want to see a revival of the port he and his ancestors grew up on so trade can resume instead of the old structures crumbling and becoming marriage symbols of the past people morgan al-jazeera so work in eastern sudan. it's peter now with sport thank you very much seventeen time grand slam champion rafa nadal has pulled out of next week's a.t.p. tour finals in london this paves the way for his rival novak djokovic is to be guaranteed the year end tennis world number one ranking now though if there is an injury will keep him from competing the spaniard also withdrew from the paris masters this week he tweeted saying unfortunately i had the abdominal problem in paris last week and i also have an issue in the angle joint that has to be removed in the operating room today this way i hope to be in full condition for next season into milan host barcelona on tuesday in the latest round of the u.a.e. for champions league into coach. said barcelona are what he's team hope to become in the future he is in the second season of a

after zion win was elected president in two thousand and sixteen her party supports independence the port city of couse shown is taiwan third largest city and was once popular with chinese tourists but operators say visitor numbers from the mainland of fallen by more than a million and a half in the past two years the faltering economy is one of the reasons why morris cho is considering looking for a job in china become tree many taiwanese consider as the enemy if we want god to china what our needs we won't talk about politics because the most important thing for us is to have a better career in the future. zeiss party has held for twenty years but recent poll shows the main opposition party gaining ground this city is a stronghold for the ruling democratic progressive party their supporters like the president's tough and the china stance but they worry about the impact it's having on the economy and if the d.p.p. were to lose this city it would represent a severe setback for the president or that will be a major blow for the ruling government and the wrong party because they have secure

skirts of the ukrainian port city of mariupol were five v.w. correspondent nick conley welcome nic so the u.s. and ukraine have named angle america as a possible a mediator is vladimir putin any more likely to listen to this time than before. good evening phil well whether or not he listens to her he certainly picks up the phone when she calls i think this idea comes from the weekend when petro poroshenko was trying to get through to the kremlin just off the seizure of those ukrainian ships and his call was not returned his solution was to call berlin to call engler merkel and she was then able to establish some communication i think it's important to remember here that even though anger merkel has is very. is known for her the actions she took over sanctions and was very key to making sure those sanctions on russia were put in place and kept up by the european union she was very fastidious about keeping those lines of communication open visiting let him eat food and even at the height of the crisis so given that the key of no moscow seems will