before we take questions, i think shane has to come back. >> good afternoon, commissioners, i am sarah graham. i am getting my slides up here. i am with strategic economics we were to provide the peer review that a grocery store is not feasible at the location. today i will provide an overview of our review, our peer review and dig deeper to the demographics and other conditions in the area that in the transbay area that relate to this. the developer sited three main issues that discouraged grocer operations from locating afternoon that is parking, site layout and the neighborhood or location. for parking, the developer claims most operators would require more than 10 on site parking spaces. we disagree this is a major impediment to locating a grocery store in the location. most patrons are not car dependent when grocery shopping. they offer valet parking at thelumina. very few patrons request the stickers for valet parking. it is not a big issue. of the our nearby grocery stores, two offer no parking at all. i will give you more information about that. we do agree with the claim that the lay

blockade related california and jonathan, the project manager will give a presentation, then we have sarah grahammicises a consultant we hired will give a presentation. >> the commission actions today are to find the developer made good faith efforts to lease the grocery space and to approve termination of the developer's obligation to provide a grocery store in transbay block 8. before we start, i want to step back a little bit. i want everyone to know that block 8 is one you have the cal tran's parcels that was a former embarcadero freeway parcel. the proceeds from the sale of that piece of land went to the funding of the transit center, and, you know, the goal of all negotiations and sales is to maximize the land price and get as much affordable housing as possible. for this project land price we were able to negotiate with $71 million and 70% of affordable housing. summary of the key findings. the developer and broker reached out to numerous grocers, too much grocery competition. ocii hired a consultant to review the grocery market. the developer met the dda conditions. block 8 is follow some

cheering sarah graham brady addressing them.correspondent vicki young joins us now from the house of commons. let's get immediate reaction, as you can hear the rock is cheering in the room there, but i think when the result came out 117 voting against the prime minister may be a surprise there that that was so high, let's get reaction from cabinet minister chris grayling ndt, what's your reaction to this i think surprising, one don't have confidence in her leadership. you have to look at lynn la ke leadership. you have to look at lynn lake that she had more support tonight that she had in the last mp vote in 2016. of course it's a difficult day for the conservative party, of course i would rather this had not happened but the reality is the party by a substantial margin tonight had said we want you to carry on and do the job. the problem is with 117 who don't have confidence how will she get the brexit deal through and get the legislation through that comes to at? she was clear on monday she has got to deliver a package that'll

it seems based on what lindsey graham said that maybe the president changed his mind. how should we interpret this, sarah? >> senator graham said he felt better than he has since president trump announced his decision to withdraw the troops from syria. graham was a vociferous critic of that decision. graham said the president relayed to him he would slow down the removal of troops from syria, even though the president said earlier in iraq that the generals had come to him and requested more time to prepare for the withdrawal and the president denied that request. graham also suggested that the president would be looking to maybe leave the troops in place until isis was defeated, even though president trump has cited the defeat of isis a at his reason for moving the troops in the first place. so not a lot of clarity about the president's position right now, ryan. >> sarah westwood live from the white house. thank you, sarah. >>> let's talk about this now. we have a great panel to discuss this. washington bureau chief for the associated press, julia pace, and olivia newsy. let's start with you. is it the w

senator lindsey graham who flew up from south carolina this morning to have hundred lunch at the white and ask the president to reconsider his plan to withdraw american forces from syria. sarah, did lindsey graham persuade the president to change his mind? >> reporter: senator graham said he felt much better about president trump's decision to remove the troops from syria after the conversation from president trump. graham said the president signalled he might be open to slowing things down when it comes to a troop withdrawal. one that critics feared could be too swift and leave a power vacuum. he said after his conversation he felt the president and his generals had settled on plan that made sense to him. take a listen. what graham said was that the president was putting a pause of some sort on the decision to pull the troops back. that's despite the fact that earlier this week president trump said any rock that the generals had come to him repeatedly to request more times to prepare for proposed troop withdrawal but the president turned down the requests. he said the president would be willing to look at slowing things down until i see is defe defeated. the reason to bring

. >> senator graham made news on another front as well today, sarah. he said he and the president spoke about the u.s. troop pullout from syria. this was something senator graham had been very critical of. early this morning, senator graham told cnn he wanted to change the president's mind. was he successful? >> reporter: graham seemed to suggest he might have been, despite the president promising what would be a swift withdrawal of the troops from syria. graham suggested perhaps the president would be willing to hit the pause button on the removal of troops while he assesses the situation, particularly with the islamic state, even though when the president was in iraq earlier this week, he said the generals had come to him to ask for more time in syria, and he had denied that request. graham saying the president might be willing to reconsider. take a listen. >> i think the president has come up with a plan with his generals that make sense to me. the goal is to make sure isis doesn't come back. we left iraq too soon. we had them on the ropes in iraq, l

graham after spending two hours with the president at the white house. there was a lot of what he had to say. let's begin to sort of digest this. sarah westwood joins us from the white house. graham saying the president is open minded to a compromise. you may not know that based on what we've heard from the white house so far though, right? >> reporter: that's right. senator lindsey graham pitching his idea for a potential deal as something of a breakthrough if it could gain traction. he said president trump didn't commit to the trade of some relief for the daca population in exchange for some wall funding. keep in mind, there very several attempts to put together support for these kinds of deals in the past. both times it's fallen apart, hasn't gotten enough support to get to president trump's desk. senator graham also blames democrats for furthering the stalemate by constantly saying what they're not going to fund and not saying enough about what they would support. take a listen. >> all i can say is that the democrats have said they're not going to give him a dime for a border wall. the house will change next week. they're going t

. >>> lindsey graham as he is better about where that u.s. is heading with sarah after meeting with donald trump. >> i like what i heard we have differences but i will tell you, the president is thinking long and hard about syria, how to withdraw the forces but at the same time achieve our national security interest here >> graham criticized the decision to withdraw troops out of syria saying isis is not fully defeated and removing personnel transduced and he make sure the president understands the need to finish that job. >>> lawmakers are promising to investigate of two children who died in the custody of border patrol agents. jane reports on the debate between the policy and the politics. >> reporter: republican senator lindsey graham promises congress will look into the death of migrant children who were in u.s. border patrol custody. one died from shock and dehydration and alonzo passed away after coming down trp says of children or others are the fault of the de the pathetic immigration policies. kellyanne conway says the death is a tragedy. so are the attem

sarah said things are at a standsti standstill. because we heard from senator grahamre, he is the only one talking about a middle ground. could there be negotiations or a bargain struck to include daca or do you think president trump will get hung up on that one figure, dollar amount, for border wall funding? >> i think the first thing that stands out about where we are about the impasse is we heard pretty much nothing from congressional leadership. lindsey graham is great. he has been in the senate for a while with. he is not congressional leadership. it is interesting to look into the upcoming week and year, there is no motivation quite like optics. nancy pelosi as speaker of the house, maybe with the optics of reopening the government in the first week of democrat controlled house may be appealing and find wiggle room. of course, you need the senate on board. back in february of this year, it's been a while, a deal tying daca to an even bigger border wall funding, $25 billion did not go through. that is why we are here. i don't think tying daca to the border wall h

sarah lacey. thank you for joining us tonight at the commonwealth club. have a great evening. [applause] >> just a few minutes ago, after having lunch with president trump, senator lindsey graham spoke to reporters outside of the white house about order while funding, the government shutdown, and isis. senator, how are you? what is the president's mood today? what is going to happen? and ahad a two hour lunch very enjoyable lunch. president's firm in his commitment to make sure we get the money for border security and there will never be a deal in the senate [indiscernible] i don't see democrats giving us more money unless they get something. so the one thing we talked about was making a deal. there is a lot of distrust and i guess you can blame both sides for that but after lunch, i have never been more encouraged that if we can get people talking, we can find our way out of this and that would include around $5 billion for border security/wall/fencing, whatever you want to call it, whatever it is that makes sense and deal with another problem that is looming. i think the president will eventually win his court case regarding daca. he has put on the table several times relief

lindsey graham to hold hearings on these deaths deaths, this comes as president trump continues to demand better border security in the form of a wall. here is white house press secretary sarahabsolutely tragic situation, something nobody ever wants to see happen. it's one of the reasons the president wants to fix one of or broken immigration system. we don't want to see people go that route, we want people to come through the legal process so they're not putting their lives on the line to do this. this is the very reason we have to take away incentives for people coming in the wrong way and making that treacherous journey and we need congress to help and do their jobs. >> julie: a family member said he did not leave guatemala seeking asylum and said he thought it would be easier to enter the u.s. accompanied by a child. there's been a lot of finger-pointing to u.s. border patrol agents, this little boy came here second was of a tool to get into this country to bys father. >> tyrus: as a father, that is gut wrenching. i think we're very lucky because -- that we are the united states and we've only had to go deaths. if you look at the means of the way they're getting here, th