we work with sfcta executive director, tilly chang, and the san francisco controller's office to complete these two efforts as soon as possible so that funding can be reinstated and work on the downtown extension can resume. moving onto transit center operations, as you know, all bus operations continues to be conducted from the temporary terminal. since the transit center's temporarily closure, we took steps to reduce staffing levels on all our operational activities. we also developed a schedule of required ramp-up time so we can be ready to augment staff when the transit center is scheduled for reopening is developed. next month, we will present the board with impact the closure has had on our operational budget. we were working with pearl media, the advertising and social media time to rapidly start the social media and rapid response team once the park opens. we will be ready for a full schedule of park events as soon as the park reopens. later on today's agenda, we have another lease for your consideration. as you know, retail is one of the long-term strategies for generating revenu

from senator tom tillis but first coverage, catherine herridge surrounded the molar investigation but we go to late-breaking developments on all those key undecided midterm races and changing numbers. >> these numbers in arizona are updating almost every hour. 8:00 p.m. out there and there are still nearly half a million ballots to be counted. the lead keeps shifting between martha mcsally and kyrsten sinema. with one fourth of the boat is still out, kyrsten sinema up by about 9,000 votes. the lawyers, maybe even the guys with magnifying glasses, more on that in a minute. mick sally tweeted this picture this morning, woke up this morning dreading a long and painful process, i've been here before and now i'm here again in case you can't tell, she's in the dentist chair. we feel your pain. she has also been in close elections before, she won her first by 167 votes. it's not that close in florida yet. here is the race board for senate race. the sitting governor and sitting senator, less than a quarter percent between the two, 17,000 votes and that number keeps narrowing which triggers a manual recount. now we look to broward county, florida's second largest where there are a

>> unless we change some of the assumptions about resourcing -- >> current course. >> correct. >> thank you. >> thank you, senator tillis. senator blumenthal. >> thanks, mr. chairman. i wonder if you could indicate whether you think that the national defense strategy in our current path forward on undersea warfare in terms of construction of submarines, both the columbia class and the virginia class attack submarine, is likely to meet the needs that you think have to be met? >> senator, thank you for the question. i would say that the commission discussed, you know, what specific things should we recommend as far as increasing capability, capacity. we discussed would there be tables of various capabilities and we did not do that. however, one of the systems that is mentioned in the report is the need for submarines. undersea dominance, given how we will have to get to where we want to go, is absolutely key. and that is one of the areas where our adversaries have -- they know it's our strength and will go after that. so clearly the need to make sure that we have the required numbers of submarines is something that we hig