and on the transportation sustainability program. the up date here is the state office of planning and research, which sets out the guidelines, has promulgated its draft making and identifying vmt or vehicle miles traveled is the preferred metric to replace the level of service and this is consistent with the prior work that san francisco and the ta have done in the area to better align the measures with the environmental and the city policy. and the transit first policy in particular. and the san francisco planning department are proposing to make this change at its march third, planning decision meeting and we encourage the folks to tend, but this is something that we have been working on for over a decade and we are pleased to see that the roll out is happening finally so that we can benefit from a more appropriate environmental review posses that is consistent with our city policy. updating you on the here on the real capacity strategy and i will hold off on that and the chair mentioned that he in his remarks and we hope to have

we need to address transportation in a different way. often we put the emphasis on consultants and as i look to the right here, i see a lot of change of faces. a lot of change of faces. i do not see a diversity. we need a diversity and we don't see it here. we are going to visit you all at your office and not a couple people but maybe 2, 300 people just like we did the other day. when we went to two supervisors they were missing in action and than were [inaudible] relevant pertinent questions they couldn't answer, so you know, i'm here to put the san francisco county transportation authority on notice and i can do that because i represent the first people of the area to mark malone and you all haven't been paying to that. a lot of your eir ceqa and so forth you came here 2 or 300 years ago and took things over you can do as you please. we really don't need to be building so much. we don't need congestion. thank you very much. >> any additional general public comment? seeing none public comment is closed. item number 13. >> item 13, adjou

for winning the california transportation award. we had the opening of the new presidio parkway replacing the doil drive with a safe, modern and beautiful facility. i like to applaud the organization for their work and thank for the recognition as we finalize dlinchy of the innovative project. speaking of invasion, i would like to thank u.s. transportation anthony foxx for making san francisco eligible to compete in the smart city challenge program. this is a way to show how vehicle technology can [inaudible] through partner shipwise the federal government. tim [inaudible] of sfmta is here and will give a overview the proposal. i'm hearing about san franciscos ideas and how the transportation authority and the office can support the effort. we are still at early stages there is great potential to incorporate new mobility to make the streets safeer and promote cycling [inaudible] with the bay area population expect to add 2 million people by 2040 we are working on transit expansion plans but we must make it easier for people to live

for winning the california transportation award. we had the opening of the new presidio parkway replacing the doil drive with a safe, modern and beautiful facility. i like to applaud the organization for their work and thank for the recognition as we finalize dlinchy of the innovative project. speaking of invasion, i would like to thank u.s. transportation anthony foxx for making san francisco eligible to compete in the smart city challenge program. this is a way to show how vehicle technology can [inaudible] through partner shipwise the federal government. tim [inaudible] of sfmta is here and will give a overview the proposal. i'm hearing about san franciscos ideas and how the transportation authority and the office can support the effort. we are still at early stages there is great potential to incorporate new mobility to make the streets safeer and promote cycling [inaudible] with the bay area population expect to add 2 million people by 2040 we are working on transit expansion plans but we must make it easier for people to live

transportation demand management which was the project of our informational hearing and shifts would apply citywide but we're more concerned about mobility overall in the city than looking at a project by project threshold basis so in recap that reform is a very positive exciting change for the city and environmental review and it will not effect the public's ability to weigh in on the review process or change the analysis and other topics including the others sub topics in transportation and jane will talk about >> good work commissioner i'm planning staff to follow up on reed's presentation in addition to the level of service to the new vehicles miles traveled the planning department is the process of updating it's impact analysis to see the shift in miles matrix and align in our environmental documents as before we'll continue to analyze the project transportation related impacts on riding transit and people walking and biking and other assess as well as construction impacts all the remaining ceqa environmental impact report that we touched on will continue to be analyzed with the

>> amen of the san francisco municipal transportation agency board of directors - thank you bob. >> i'm trying to get there. >> it says it's on but. >> let's try that one. >> does that work. >> good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco municipal transportation agency board of directors and parking authority commission call roll. >> director brinkman director borden director ramos director rubke chairman nolan mr. chairman we have quorum pier 70 great, thank you. >> please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, phones, devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room microphones set on vibrate caused interruption we respectfully ask they be turned off item 4 approval of the minutes. >> motion to approve. >> any further discussion? the i's have it. >> communications directors please be advised there will be no closed session today and also posted online an item are regarding 330 stockton it is not on the agenda today to we apologize for any confusion to the public 3 may have caused it will be brought to y

transportation demand management which was the project of our informational hearing and shifts would apply citywide but we're more concerned about mobility overall in the city than looking at a project by project threshold basis so in recap that reform is a very positive exciting change for the city and environmental review and it will not effect the public's ability to weigh in on the review process or change the analysis and other topics including the others sub topics in transportation and jane will talk about >> good work commissioner i'm planning staff to follow up on reed's presentation in addition to the level of service to the new vehicles miles traveled the planning department is the process of updating it's impact analysis to see the shift in miles matrix and align in our environmental documents as before we'll continue to analyze the project transportation related impacts on riding transit and people walking and biking and other assess as well as construction impacts all the remaining ceqa environmental impact report that we touched on will continue to be analyzed with the

leadership a and put together a transportation plan that was considered by many flawless it was something not been seen before across the country when it comes to super bowl but it sends a terrific model we come together and region can work to collaborate and in particular when it comes to transportation how to take care of our residents and the investors make sure they're safe they know how to get around and meets the transit transportation was amazing there were hundreds of people we had the honor and privilege to work with in this o i wish i could name them all but truly thank every single one of them for the hard work and it is hard work over a long period of time to pull off something of this nature and again, san francisco really shined so thank you, very much for the opportunity and congratulations to everyone and you're great partnership. >> so we wanted to recognize the employees dozens involved the planning and hundreds in the execution we're now going to bring up every single of these employees one by one no, we have a few folks to accept the acknowledge from transit operators

for winning the california transportation award. we had the opening of the new presidio parkway replacing the doil drive with a safe, modern and beautiful facility. i like to applaud the organization for their work and thank for the recognition as we finalize dlinchy of the innovative project. speaking of invasion, i would like to thank u.s. transportation anthony foxx for making san francisco eligible to compete in the smart city challenge program. this is a way to show how vehicle technology can [inaudible] through partner shipwise the federal government. tim [inaudible] of sfmta is here and will give a overview the proposal. i'm hearing about san franciscos ideas and how the transportation authority and the office can support the effort. we are still at early stages there is great potential to incorporate new mobility to make the streets safeer and promote cycling [inaudible] with the bay area population expect to add 2 million people by 2040 we are working on transit expansion plans but we must make it easier for people to live

transportation secretary anthony fox unveiled the seven finalist cities. competition to generate high-tech solutions for the future of transportation. >> this is not about just having one city win. this is about having our incubators of innovation, cities across the country actually thinking about the future, making plans for the future that can be actually done and although we only have one winner, we're going to work with all 77 of the other cities to give them a pathway to move forward as much as we can with what they have planned out. >> reporter: the winning city gets $40 million from the government, plus $10 million from paul allen to invest in a car infrastructure. austin, one of the finalists, would use the money to continue initiatives already under way to solve what the mayor call as seve severe mobility challenge. >> we are the only city outside of california that has autonomous vehicles being run and streets being tested. this is the way of the future. this is a city that owns its own electric utility. we have opportunities that exist there tha

so i get it; that we need more funding for our transportation system.ut to have a fight between $45 million and $47 million it is not about the money. that is about scoring political points vis-a-vis the mayor or whoever else. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. supervisor avalos. >> thank you. i have just wanted to have the last word. [laughter ] thank you supervisor. and with that, colleagues, madam clerk, can you please call the roll? >> on item 1, supervisor breed? >> no. >> breed no. supervisor campos? >> aye. >> campos aye. >> supervisor cohen? >> no. >> cohen no. >> supervisor kim? >> aye. >> kim, aye. >> supervisor mar? >> aye. >> supervisor peskin. >> a. >> supervisor tang? >> no. >> supervisor wiener? >> no. >> supervisor yee. >> yee aye. >> supervisors avalos. >> avalos aye. >> six ayes and four twos supervisors breed, cohen, tang and wiener in the dissent. >> the veto is sustained and the ordinance fails. [ gavel ] >> madam clerk, please call the next item. >> item 2 is an ordinance to suspend administrative code section 21.1. the competitive s

not just the shuttle. >> it is transportation. >> and then i have thank you in terms of the shuttles that are making the. >> the vehicle trips. >> vehicle trips. >> 84 percent intercity that's right. >> with the valuation shows in the pilot 75 percent of trips for the intercity 25 percent this ignores the intercity didn't fit the program so hospitals and things like that a lot of them are doing their own thing not reflected the numbers. >> the other issues we've talked about the program the issue of our prioritization of our non-private automobile use and the general plan that talks about the matter i don't know how i mean, i guess the challenge how do you measure that has not happened the harder thing to do like how could you measure whether or not it is relied to ridership or other things i mean it operationally is going to be interesting to determine you have to look at the other patterns we've seen to determine whether or not it is trouble able to the counterpart shuttles. >> that's right we'd like to be certain building on this evaluation it is important because of the evaluatio

>> does that refer to the transportation measure the mayor was repealing, if so i'll just ask you for point of clarification. >> i need a minute to find exactly where that is. >> madame president,, it looks like the board is not authorizing any opponent arguments for this palace so willie, you could strike all of the pages for and 5 in the first 6 lines of page 6 as well. which lists the measures but since you're not finding anyone to write arguments opposing those measures you don't need to list them in the resolution. in a somewhat related point on this resolution, i don't believe you stated who would write the proponents argument for the geo bond should >> so, let me go back and i'd like to entertain a motion to rescind the vote on item number 20. moved and seconded. without objection the vote has been rescinded >>[gavel] detect at this time, i will entertain and additional amendments. supervisor avalos >> yes, i would like to amend the resolution to strike language referring to the mayor's declaration of policy that was slated for the voters for june 7 entitled [inaudible] by prio

and on the transportation sustainability program. the up date here is the state office of planning and research, which sets out the guidelines, has promulgated its draft making and identifying vmt or vehicle miles traveled is the preferred metric to replace the level of service and this is consistent with the prior work that san francisco and the ta have done in the area to better align the measures with the environmental and the city policy. and the transit first policy in particular. and the san francisco planning department are proposing to make this change at its march third, planning decision meeting and we encourage the folks to tend, but this is something that we have been working on for over a decade and we are pleased to see that the roll out is happening finally so that we can benefit from a more appropriate environmental review posses that is consistent with our city policy. updating you on the here on the real capacity strategy and i will hold off on that and the chair mentioned that he in his remarks and we hope to have

at spur spur strongly supports this long overdue to the transportation impacts we commend the planning department, sfmta and ct and working together on those efforts to reform ceqa you've heard the problems and the number of projects the city and across the student los complicates that process that leads to us 234089 having some of the projects we need implemented transportation projects that drives up the cost of those projects we thank you for moving forward with implementing the measure to the los the bmt that aligns transit first and vision zero and environmental policies rather than working at cross purposes this is one of the most important and common sense transportation reforms we could ask for we're grateful you're doing this today thank you for your support. >> next speaker >> please. yeah. thank you. >> hello commissioners commissioner president fong my name is janice i am the advocacy director at the san francisco bicycle coalition and a outer sunset recipient i've attended some meetings and lucky to have options how i get around the city i live. >> the way 8 miles from her

[gavel] >> amen of the san francisco municipal transportation agency board of directors - thank you bob. >> i'm trying to get there. >> it says it's on but. >> let's try that one. >> does that work. >> good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco municipal transportation agency board of directors and parking authority commission call roll. >> director brinkman director borden director ramos director rubke chairman nolan mr. chairman we have quorum pier 70 great, thank you. >> please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, phones, devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room microphones set on vibrate caused interruption we respectfully ask they be turned off item 4 approval of the minutes. >> motion to approve. >> any further discussion? the i's have it. >> communications directors please be advised there will be no closed session today and also posted online an item are regarding 330 stockton it is not on the agenda today to we apologize for any confusion to the public 3 may have caused it will be brou

. >> amen of the san francisco municipal transportation agency board of directors - thank you bob. >> i'm trying to get there. >> it says it's on but. >> let's try that one. >> does that work. >> good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco municipal transportation agency board of directors and parking authority commission call roll. >> director brinkman director borden director ramos director rubke chairman nolan mr. chairman we have quorum pier 70 great, thank you. >> please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, phones, devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room microphones set on vibrate caused interruption we respectfully ask they be turned off item 4 approval of the minutes. >> motion to approve. >> any further discussion? the i's have it. >> communications directors please be advised there will be no closed session today and also posted online an item are regarding 330 stockton it is not on the agenda today to we apologize for any confusion to the public 3 may have caused it will be brought

and on the transportation sustainability program. the up date here is the state office of planning and research, which sets out the guidelines, has promulgated its draft making and identifying vmt or vehicle miles traveled is the preferred metric to replace the level of service and this is consistent with the prior work that san francisco and the ta have done in the area to better align the measures with the environmental and the city policy. and the transit first policy in particular. and the san francisco planning department are proposing to make this change at its march third, planning decision meeting and we encourage the folks to tend, but this is something that we have been working on for over a decade and we are pleased to see that the roll out is happening finally so that we can benefit from a more appropriate environmental review posses that is consistent with our city policy. updating you on the here on the real capacity strategy and i will hold off on that and the chair mentioned that he in his remarks and we hope to have

. >> for terrestrial transportation, this is pretty good. would you trusted at any moment? you said you got nervous. >> of course i trust my own instincts to control the car. they absolutely swear on a stack of bibles that as that car was accelerating into the turn it would have turned. [inaudible] i would trust my children, their their grown children. i would not trust a six-year-old. >> you would feel comfortable driving your family around. >> of course. it's very, very smooth. despite all of the washington potholes, it was still smooth. thanks guys. [inaudible] >> now, auto industry representatives and technology experts talk about the efforts to develop self driving cars. the hearing is about two hours. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [

a transportation fix? >> i hope so. we are still facing a huge backlog. this investigation doesn't negate that. hopefully we can move forward. >> i stories have already prompted public records and lobbying pyxis. check those out along with the uncut video from today's interview on the 10 investigates page. >>> taking a look at yuba county, polk county is in limbo when it comes to changing sundaes liquor hours. county commissioners discuss the topic today. liquor stores and bars start at noon on sunday but in some cases across the street in lakeland business starts selling before making changes. >>> trias -- dress for success made a stop in sarasota. the gain notoriety in the bay area when socialite joe kelly revelation of his affair with his biographer. >> i have said that i have have focused forward that obviously i have had made mistakes in life and what you do is what we do in the military which is conduct an action review. general david petraeus talked about the challenges we face today including inter

for winning the california transportation award.had the opening of the new presidio parkway replacing the doil drive with a safe, modern and beautiful facility. i like to applaud the organization for their work and thank for the recognition as we finalize dlinchy of the innovative project. speaking of invasion, i would like to thank u.s. transportation anthony foxx for making san francisco eligible to compete in the smart city challenge program. this is a way to show how vehicle technology can [inaudible] through partner shipwise the federal government. tim [inaudible] of sfmta is here and will give a overview the proposal. i'm hearing about san franciscos ideas and how the transportation authority and the office can support the effort. we are still at early stages there is great potential to incorporate new mobility to make the streets safeer and promote cycling [inaudible] with the bay area population expect to add 2 million people by 2040 we are working on transit expansion plans but we must make it easier for people to live with

citizens to avoid all public transportation.r days after the capture of salah abdeslam, a suspect in last year's paris terror attacks. >> and we are seeing a global market reaction to this developing story. european stocks took a leg lower as the headlines started coming out from brussels. we're not talking about an extreme selloff. less than 1% for the german dax. but we are seeing this rush into safe haven assets like german bonds, for instance, which got a bid during the headlines in the last hour. we are seeing red across the screen. we'll dive a little deeper into that through the hour because some of the selling is being done in the travel and leisure transportation stocks, which of course bear the brunt of the immediate fear of what's coming out of brussels. u.s. equity futures also took a leg lower. they're down but not as much as european equities. s&p futures down about 0.4%. dow futures down about 0.25%. we'll continue to watch that. nasdaq futures down 18, or 0.4%. some of the immediate reaction is happening in the c

centrales de transporte en el corazn de europa.sta noche, contina la bsqueda por los sospechosos, mientras que el estado islmico toma responsabilidad. zoom in camera blanca --- muy buenas tardes... blanca ---la historia se repite.... a esta hora toda europa se encuentra en alerta despues de una serie de explosiones que dejaron un gran numero de muertos y heridos en la ciudad de bruselas. ---el pais ha declarado 3 dias de luto nacional; ivette machin tiene los detalles. take pkg 0:01 0:15 0:47 1:43 el mundo entero esta consternado pero nada como lo que esta quien llor la muerte de al ica menos 34 personas y mas de 200 heridos, victimas de otro acto terrorista, mediante un comunicado el grupo estado islamico se adjudico el ataque. el caos y el panico fueron nuevamente los protagonista de otro ataque terrorista que baÑo de sangre este martes la capital de belgica. una de los artefactos exploto en una estacion de trenes muy cercana a la sede de la union europea. otra detono dentro del aeropuerto zavantem, en bruselas, estas imagenes mu

so i get it; that we need more funding for our transportation system. but to have a fight between $45 million and $47 million it is not about the money. that is about scoring political points vis-a-vis the mayor or whoever else. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. supervisor avalos. >> thank you. i have just wanted to have the last word. [laughter ] thank you supervisor. and with that, colleagues, madam clerk, can you please call the roll? >> on item 1, supervisor breed? >> no. >> breed no. supervisor campos? >> aye. >> campos aye. >> supervisor cohen? >> no. >> cohen no. >> supervisor kim? >> aye. >> kim, aye. >> supervisor mar? >> aye. >> supervisor peskin. >> a. >> supervisor tang? >> no. >> supervisor wiener? >> no. >> supervisor yee. >> yee aye. >> supervisors avalos. >> avalos aye. >> six ayes and four twos supervisors breed, cohen, tang and wiener in the dissent. >> the veto is sustained and the ordinance fails. [ gavel ] >> madam clerk, please call the next item. >> item 2 is an ordinance to suspend administrative code section 21.1. the competitive

total of seven people were hurt, four of whom were transported to the hospital by ambulance. a 51 year-old passenger is rear ended suv was trapped for 15 minutes. and rescuers had to use the jaws of life to cut her out. >>> needless to say, the accident is under investigation. >>> parents came to a philadelphia school tonight, to learn more about the tragic death of a student from bacterial meningitis. "action news" reporter chad pradelli is live at the george washington carver high school for engineering and science, chad, parents must have been enormously concerned. what did they learn tonight. >> reporter: jim, parent left tonight's meeting and said they were satisfied with what they heard from health and school official about that bacterial meningitis. they are confident that their children are safe and ready to move forward in light of this tragic death. outside of george washington carver high school of engineering and science, students and faculty released balloons into the a air, a a tribute to freshman jonathan briggs, who passed away from bacterial meningitis. a few

autoridades redoblaron vigilancia en medios de transporte pÚblico.en donde corre el tren ligero. flavio: buenas noches. la policÍa corroborÓ que san francisco no recibiÓ ninguna amenaza terrorista, sin embargo se aplicaron todas las medidas de seguridad. el sistema de trenes es el quinto mÁs importante de la naciÓn, donde viajan por semana unos 447.000 pasajeros convirtiÉndolo en un blanco de posibles ataques. por esta razÓn elevaron su nivel de alerta. >> al parecer no estÁ cerca lo que estÁ pasando pero tenemos esa preocupaciÓn. flavio: posiblemente miles de otros pasajeros se sienten de igual forma. para calmar este temor aumentaron presencia de uniformados en estaciones, en especial aquellas consideradas clave por su afluencia o cercanÍa a lugares de importancia. >> tengo que tomarlo para ir al trabajo. flavio: para muchos es el Único medio de transporte para desplazarse el Área de la bahÍa. >> no hay ninguna amenaza aquÍ en san francisco buena bahÍa. simplemente lo hacemos por precauciÓn. va a haber mÁs oficiales en las calles, en el aeropuerto

the transportation commission there, they are saying that all -- the brussel transport authority says they have closed all public transportation in brussel at this hour and the european commission they have locked down their staff after the explosions that we have mentioned going on at the airport possibly one or two metro stations close to the eastbounding u institution where you are located they confirmed that. spokesmen for officials in the parliament such as the legislature was working normally. people being told by the belgium crisis center to stay where you are and get off the streets. have you ever experienced anything like this? the airport shut down people told to stay inside? >> the last time i felt the sense of what was going on when i was in 9-11 in downtown washington working as a lawyer they said go pick up your kids from school. the last time i felt it and saw it, there's a sense of we don't know what's happening. the news trucks are on the street. the ooze sgli ze-- uzis are out there and security is coming from every way. a lot of those sirens either fire police or a

for winning the california transportation award. we had the opening of the new presidio parkway replacing the doil drive with a safe, modern and beautiful facility. i like to applaud the organization for their work and thank for the recognition as we finalize dlinchy of the innovative project. speaking of invasion, i would like to thank u.s. transportation anthony foxx for making san francisco eligible to compete in the smart city challenge program. this is a way to show how vehicle technology can [inaudible] through partner shipwise the federal government. tim [inaudible] of sfmta is here and will give a overview the proposal. i'm hearing about san franciscos ideas and how the transportation authority and the office can support the effort. we are still at early stages there is great potential to incorporate new mobility to make the streets safeer and promote cycling [inaudible] with the bay area population expect to add 2 million people by 2040 we are working on transit expansion plans but we must make it easier for people to live

haly from the municipal transportation agency will be presenting, mr. haily, welcome. by the way, muni was working well. i am sorry, commissioner avalos has the comment. >> and thank you, and before he gets started i would like to thank the mta for the work on the transit equity program and back in 2014, i introduced a charter amendment that looked into how muni could have an equity framework for how it allocates for ka p toll and that is something that we did not move forward on but we did have many meetings with the office and the stake holders from all over the city and the mta and at least, by john. batist and it has taken up by juliy and from that, muni come forward and was approved by the mta board to actually have a framework that they would put forward every year to address, some of the equities that we see in san francisco. and i would not even say that resources especially around the capitol, are delivered equally across san francisco, a little own, and i would say that is the case in point, and this is just two projects or one of the major in the area that i

and on the transportation sustainability program. the up date here is the state office of planning and research, which sets out the guidelines, has promulgated its draft making and identifying vmt or vehicle miles traveled is the preferred metric to replace the level of service and this is consistent with the prior work that san francisco and the ta have done in the area to better align the measures with the environmental and the city policy. and the transit first policy in particular. and the san francisco planning department are proposing to make this change at its march third, planning decision meeting and we encourage the folks to tend, but this is something that we have been working on for over a decade and we are pleased to see that the roll out is happening finally so that we can benefit from a more appropriate environmental review posses that is consistent with our city policy. updating you on the here on the real capacity strategy and i will hold off on that and the chair mentioned that he in his remarks and we hope to have

secondly, the significance is that, you know, if you can shut down the transportation infrastructure of a city you shut down the city. and there's no other way to have the most dramatic impact on a community or a city like brussels by shutting down its transportation systems. >> you know i first want to emphasize the possibility of a terrorist attack is being investigated, nothing has been confirmed. nothing been said beyond that officially by the prime minister, the word from the prime minister from a spokesperson this statement that was put out a little earlier. we know the threat level was raised to the highest level. we know before this, john, that the threat level was raised. it just wasn't at the highest level yet. given that context heading into this morning are you surprised at these -- if these were attacks that they were able to be carried out at an airport at >> yeah, i think, unfortunately, nothing much surprises me anymore. you know, we've been hearing through reports such as those on our network and others about the concerns that there was a much larger presence, a much

of transportation for the smarter project through the program the that i have are partner offers $50illion to the winning city and it is two this was a challenge that was put out to midsized cities we made it under the cap the purpose for the forward thinking plan to hanger technology and reimagine how people move we'll have a lot of temp that enables the services that come to our city witch largo have been racking to this is an opportunity to work with the neighborhood to proactively help to define how we want that to look rather than those things coming at us a lot more technology is that will be coming to us via vehicles and connected vehicles our feeling if we proactively work with san franciscans to help frame and shape how that comes to san francisco we'll get much better results 0 so as one of the winning cities they give us a one thousand dollars for to the grant two months to do it as sprint if we are successful then we would be in line for the $50 million grant 40 from the federal government and $10 million from the private sector the strategy is led by the new office innov

. >> the fact that now the city under the mayor de blasio's and the department of transportation has chosen not to respond to graffiti requests unless it's profane or racist is highly unacceptable. >> reporter: senator avella says department of transportation's commissioner told him the city couldn't respond to all the graffiti complaints because the agency was concentrating all its resources on the mayor's vision zero plan. the commissioner tells us that is not true. >> i don't understand that. they are unrelated. we have not had funds to clean the graffiti off every light post in new york city all the time. >> reporter: she sent a letter to avella responding to the concerns saying, it is difficult for d.o.t. resources for the removal of graffiti at the expense of

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embassy in brussels has ordered police not to use public transportation this morning. this happened days after salah abdeslam was arrested in brussels. let's go to alastair jamieson who has been following this as well. we talked about the first explosion at 8:00 a.m. followed by the second one at 8:30. besides the optics of a coordinated attack or coordinated explosions by whoever may have been responsible, have question gotten any indication from the federapolice or the belgium government they're labelling this as a multiple coordinated terrorist attack? >> reporter: nothing yet. the authorities haven't said that, we do expect them to be giving an update on the situation in the coming hour. but at the moment, nothing is confirmed about a link between these two. but, you know, very clearly, it follows the hallmarks of other similar coordinated attacks that have taken place, all were being prepared. we know from the intelligence gathered by authorities in brussels at these previous raids that this is -- that, you know, an attack in more than one place is exactly what te

in downtown brussels but has been raised to 4, its higigst alert level with an emphasis on transport hubs and nuclear plants as you just mentioned. confirmation at least one -- there was an explosion at one mqtro stop and there are reports from belgian media there were two others, as well. >> we'll give him a quick break and on the phone abc's consultant john cullen who is r terrorism consultant. john, can you hear us? >> yes, i can hear you. >> it would appear to be a worst nightmare playing out in belgium. >> yes, it appears things are not going in the ribht direction. if one explosion possibly could have been something that w un the reports are true, that there areultiple explosions, taking place in multiple transportation facilities, this would have the eaarks of a terrorist attack. >> john, can you give us a sense of your reaction to this in light of the recent events with thth recent arrest of salah abdeslam? >> well, we've been hearing warnings from law enforcement and intelligence authorities for months now about their concerns that there could be hundreds if not thousands of

>> for terrestrial transportation, this is pretty good. >> would you trust it at any moment? you said you got nervous. >> yeah. >> you trust it going down the highway. >> i trust my instincts to control the car. but they absolutely swore on a stack of bibles that as that car was accelerating into the turn, that it would have turned. that's for another day. driving? >> somebody else in control. >> what age children? my children are grown children. yes, i would trust them. i wouldn't trust a 6-year-old in here. >> you would feel comfortable driving your family around? >> of course. of course. and it's very, very smooth. and despite all the washington potholes, it was still smooth. thanks, guys. >>> now, auto industry experts talk about efforts to develop self-driving cars. this senate commerce science and transportation committee hearing is about two hours. [ no audio ] [ no audio ] [ no audio ] [ no audio ] [ no audio ] >> good afternoon, everyone. i want to thank everybody for coming today as we discuss automated vehicles and the bottomless opportunities that these technologi

--los sistemas de transporte en san francisco fueron parte de ello.ar niÑo nos cuenta de que forma, y que no todos los pasajeros se mostraron satisfechos. take pilar pkg 0:01 :08 brendali :26 juan medardo :42 milton 1:21 albie 1:51 pilarsindisimularlo, algnoy nerviosos de abordarlos.... brendali lopez paredes/pasajera de bart en daly city 1:41 me dio miedo pero hay que hacer porque hay que trabajar 1:46 los ataques terroristas en bruselas le costaron la vida a mas de 30 personas. y alrededor de una veintena de ellas estaba en la estacion del metro, un sistema de trenes donde se dio la tercera explosion... juan medardo contreras/usuario del bart 29:30 me pongo mas nervioso de andar en bart pero tengo que hacerlo todos los dias porque necesitamos el transporte 29:39 milton trabaja en el muni, y hoy ha tenido que calmar a mas de un pasajero. milton hernadez/trabaja en el muni 18:57 que porque no esta cerrado el muni que si no tenemos miedo de que puedan atacar 19;00 le dice si lo cerramos usted no va a poder llegar a su trabajo 19:04 sin mas opcion que c

secondly, the significance is that, you know, if you can shut down the transportation infrastructure of a city you shut down the city. and there's no other way to have the most dramatic impact on a community or a city like brussels by shutting down its transportation systems. >> you know i first want to emphasize the possibility of a terrorist attack is being investigated, nothing has been confirmed. nothing been said beyond that officially by the prime minister, the word from the prime minister from a spokesperson this statement that was put out a little earlier. we know the threat level was raised to the highest level. we know before this, john, that the threat level was raised. it just wasn't at the highest level yet. given that context heading into this morning are you surprised at these -- if these were attacks that they were able to this airport and at these subway stations? >> yeah, i think, unfortunately, nothing much surprises me anymore. you know, we've been hearing through reports such as those on our network and others about the concerns that there was a much larger prese

nc-dot says the secretary of transportation will head to texas on monday to meet with cintra. couldn't provide any other details on a time line or possible options moving forward. we have extensive coverage of the i-77 toll lane project from multiple investigations we've done. go to wbtv.com, that is where you can see all our investigative reports including the road in texas that went bankrupt. >>> the chesterfield county sheriff named the temporary chief law enforcement officer in pageland after an emergency town council session. this comes after nearly every police officer walked off the reinstatement of the police chief who is under a state investigation. chief larry brown will work under the direction of the sheriff and work with town officials to get the police staffing addressed. right now off duty chesterfield county deputies are helping to police pageland streets while the town figures out the police staffing controversy. >> some of the officers told us they left because they don't want to work, they have a vote off in confidence, what is going on? >> i will work with

transportation hub at the new world trade center is open to the public. it will be operational in the spring. providing access to path trains from new jersey and 11 subway lines that intersect in the area. >>> a litter of puppys is safe and sound, thanks to the work of the fresno, california fire department. firefighters rescued 3 puppies, their mother and another dog from an 8-foot deep space beneath the building. it's unclear how they ended up there and for how long. they rescued the moms and pups. one firefighter had to call 70 feet through a ton told retreef the other a adult -- retrieve the other adult dog. >>> sand storms caused issue in china. service stopped and visibility down to 100 yards or less as the storms blew through. the wind speed was measured at 67 miles an hour. >> that looks horrible. >> can you imagine it being sand blasted? >> we have that in arizona, they have sand storms there. we don't have a lot of that in the united states. don't have any of that around here. it's going to be breezy this afternoon and chilly, too. let's look at