phil vassar a moment ago.o be our summer performer during our all-american summer concert series brought to us by our friends at sandals. ainsley: sandals. pete: famous dave's barbecue. ainsley: ribs, chicken. come out there if you are in new york 48th and sixth avenue. free concert. phil vassar used to write songs for so many award singers. pete: award-winning. ainsley: he started singing himself. now he has all these top hits. his little girl was in one of the videos when she was it bitty. and now she is grown up. pete: i set my clock by friday summer concert series. otherwise i wouldn't know what day of the week. steve: goofed to have you here. brian is off today. pete just concluded one week in a small cabin with how many children. pete: seven kids in wisconsin. it was fantastic. upon to an, bonfire, water skiing, all that stuff. ton of fun. good to be back. ainsley: a lot of chaos. pete: a lot of news went on while i was gone. steve: no, slow news day. something happened yesterday. ainsley: that brings to

what happens when one of your famous brands of vassar those goes rolled on your own product. this is business as. well. plans for a new tax on plastic bags in indonesia looks set to be delayed lawmakers have decided to put back a decision to confirm government proposals and loses $700000.00 are thought to go through almost 10000000000 plastic bags each year making at the world's 2nd biggest contributor to plastic waste in the oceans the government is proposing an excise duty of just over $2.00 per kilo or less than $0.02 a bag it says legislation remains on track to be introduced this year despite the latest delay. let's go to asia finance correspondent. in a plastic is a global problem but also lots of it comes from the philippines vietnam china and conceptual other countries dumped more than half of the $8000000.00 tons of plastic ways that end up in the oceans every year according to a report from $22017.00 a is there enough awareness of void in plastics in the whole region. well there had at 1st the awareness has not been was not very wide particularly in developing count

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he you would be able to consider one vassar, which is lawrence louis' project on harrison street at 420,000, and then both seventy and mission rock would be able to move forward, as well under their agreement. as you know, you don't approve the prop m. for the port sites, the office space on the port property is comes out of the pool when they pull building permits. again, you would be able to consider four projects in the fall, and it includes all of the phase i phase i and all of the central soma projects that we have been talking to you about. you would be able to do that even if you chose to go ahead and approve the full project at 88 bluxome which is slightly reduced from the original proposal. if that all makes sense, i'll put this in the form of a memo, but i wanted to make sure that you and the project sponsors in the public all understood where we were headed on this. thank you. >> thank you, director. >> my apologies. the one thing i should add to all of that is that to actually capture this space that has been unused, you will have to take an action. we will likely bring that act

. >> you went to vassar. obviously you work hard and got good grades.folks who are against these schools and who say that it drains the public school system, we just heard from some people in the intro saying that, what do you say about that? >> all i know is that in the community where there are such low expectations, there is a bright spot. these kids are benefiting from this opportunity and because of our school, i know they are going to go on to have as many doors open for them as possible. i just don't know how you can be against our kids, our families when it's so positive. these kids believe in themselves. they can go out into the world and they are great at math. how many kids can say that? >> i know i can't but i'm glad they can. one last question to you with regard to the rest of the city. there are caps on how many charter schools can be in new york city. do you think that's a good thing or would you like to see more of these schools open? >> i know there are families want more schools. if there are families that want this, then i think we sh