we'll start with marty. >> good afternoon, commissioners, executive director sesay. of course i've been before you on this issue a number of times over the grant extensions and the original planning. i'm here today to hopefully urge you to vote in favor of the m.o.u. as jonathan mentioned, it will benefit the artists by offering small businesses -- there are about roughly 150 artists in the building. there are about another 140 on parcel b, and those are all small businesses, those are all people trying to sell their artworks. this change will allow more flexible use of a space. right now, it has fixed seatings and is graded. this will add the space out and make some portable walls, maybe it great for viewing art, exhibiting art. the other thing it will do is provide an opportunity hopefully for shipyard trust of the arts to continue our programming where we can actually bring, whether it's children, adults or seniors onto the facility to hope classrooms-workshop training. we do have a program or have had a program for three or four years that's pretty strong, but on

we're going to have to leave it there dr sesay falls speaking to us from the world health organization in the d.r. c with an update on the call the situation thank you now the u.s. secretary of state says the trump administration is still working to identify who was responsible for the murder of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi i can't pay i made the comments at a congressional hearing while being questioned about foreign policy also in jordan has more from washington d.c. . u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o is on capitol hill on wednesday to argue for the upcoming years budget for the state department but it's not just a matter of deciding how many diplomats should be hired or how many facilities should be remodeled in the coming fiscal year the secretary of state also took questions on a number of foreign policy concerns including the investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi a saudi journalist who had been living and working in the united states this is what my pompei o told the committee on wednesday we are continuing all across the government certainly and overt mea

i want to thank you, community sesay, for making sure that they hire community members. again, our workforce director, joshua orce, apologizes he can't be here. he also wants to thank you for the support you've been providing to the program, and also we have our acting city build compliance manager here, chris begara, who's pushing behind the scenes working numbers, reports. i have a lot of points that i want to address with some of the questions and comments that was provided from commissioners. first is beyond construction, and we've been working with the team and ocii staff in looking at what are other opportunities because one construction is done, it's construction. we're going to begin piloting some of these programs for high school and college students. and not just in the professional services arena, in construct, right? also, we are -- in our office, we work on tech. we have three other sectors nod to construction. we have hospitality, tech, we have health care. so whatever building that happens in the mission bay or any of the redevelopment area, we have been w